Electro Music Coalition Russia レコード& CD

Review: Serge Geyzel continues to merge and solidify musical political power by way of the esteemed Russian Electro Music Coalition, bringing four electro dark fresh'uns to our collective cochlear foreground. The 'Memorize' EP both uplifts and broods through tense melodics and inverse acid cascades, evocatively painting an emotional picture of a waste-lain future technoscape, in which some humanity still manages to peek through the cracks.

Review: This is the first solo release by Sinitsin, producer, DJ and one part of the duo Formally Unknown. Six tracks of electro with a clippy and dystopian edge come amid the theme of a psyop radio transmitter; a radio tower parasitised by a giant squidlike alien with many grotesque eyes, hijacking our human broadcasts with its own alien agenda. As if to question the popular belief that such a thing has never happened before, each track is hyper-orderly and mega-sequenced, challenging the listener to give over their connotations of humanity with rhythmic imperfection. This is subliminal broadcast electro, bypassing all media and eerily working its way straight to the dome.

Review: Electro tastemaker Konerytmi is a busy man with a high rate of output on labels like Infiltrate, Eudemonia in Germany and Russia's Electro Music Coalition, which is where he appears again now with his Astrodanssi EP. As always, this is sci-fi styled sound with clean synth lines and celestial melodies. 'Kukka' opens up with a shiny and reflective hall of synths that glisten and gleam. 'Fantomi' brings rubbery acid elasticity to deep cosmic electro and 'Astrofyysikko' is another one powered by a bulbous, busy bassline and snappy snares. Three further cuts get increasingly mystic and turbulent on the flip.

Review: Russia's Electro Music Coalition serve up this six track electro excursion from Konerytmi. It comes on white vinyl and is all silky and laced out sounds and timeless analogue production. There is the icy pop and deeply thoughtful pads of opener 'Ajastin' to get you going before acid wonk defines 'Ajaton' and 'Aivosolu' trips you out on far-sighted pads and lush harmonics. The flip side is more perfectly designed cyborg funk with wiggling bass and glassy cowbells on 'Lokakuu' making it impossible not to move your butt. Two more subtle variations close out this stylish EP of pensive electro.