putIN out
Finest Tunes from Saint Petersburg.
CD Compilation (Subetage rec. 07/Geco)
St. Petersburg, March 2000 Mastermind and label-boss
Robert Jelinek, on a winter's journey at -28° C
across Russia, breaks with his schedule and puts in an
extended layover in Saint Petersburg. Saint Petersburg
has always been considered the vanguard of innovative
music productions and the home of Russia's booming
music scene. In a joint venture with Interactive, the
city's most important record shop, Jelinek visits
numerous recording studios in turn, compiling sounds
and tunes particular to Saint Petersburg. The twelve
tracks selected for the CD include cuts by recognized
Russian acts like HipHop maestro DJ
108, the producer called KLEY
and the Drum & Bass wizards PCP.
All free of commercial contamination, the definitive
introduction to the post-Leningrad scene, these tunes
range widely from jazzy Abstract Beats and mellow Drum
& Bass to dancefloor Electro and HipHip. To protest
the Putin regime's most recent abuses of power, and in
the face of the music scene's political powerlessness,
the CD's cover is designed at least ironically to show
up Russia's present collective discontent. Na
zdorovie!
PCP / UDJIN / EU / THE LUNATIKS / DJ 108 / DJ
DEMIDOV / JAZZY PUZZLES / KLUTCH / IGOR VDOVIN / TEN
ZOR / KLEY