Yoko Absorbing -- Roughly & Gently (2008)

Microbit/PROC-REC/Kubotrop

• Noise rock 
• Lobit 
• Avant-rock 
• Experimental rock 
• Lo-fi 
• Electronic 
• Jungle 
• Chopped and screwed 
• Neo-psychedelia 
• Krautrock 
• DIY 
• Dark ambient 
• Dub 
• Musique concrète 
• Alternative dance

Ei meeldi reeglina siinkirjutajale Vene rokkmuusika -- isegi (või iseäranis siis) kui seda nimetatakse mittemidagiütlevalt alternatiivseks. Põhjus on pompöösses tühisuses, millest kumab läbi epigoonlus ning hea ja halva maitse eristamatus. Näiteks Bi-2 (nagu-päris!) koostöö sümfooniaorkestriga (see ideena on juba rõlge) ning teisalt meenub filmi "Leto" järelpeo käigus tõlgendatud muusikalood, mille versioonid olid lihtsalt piinlikud (eeldades, et andsid edasi nõukaaja muusikalist tühisust, siis järelikult käis kah!). Ka Kino tagantjärele vaadates on praeguseks hetkeks tühjaks jooksnud kumm (ei saa seda tasemelt võrrelda Tsoi eeskujude Joy Division'i, The Cure'i ja The Smiths'iga). Ent Yoko Absorbing on teine tera -- Jevgeni V. Haritonov'i (EugeneKha) ning kunstnik-poeedi Mihhail Lezin'i muusika on sõltumatu eksperimentaarium, mille keskmes on rokkmuusika, ent millega kompleksivabalt ja oskuslikult tehakse kõiksugu trikke. Poogitakse jungle'it ja tehnorütme külge, kiirendatakse-aeglustatakse linte, konkreethelidega avardatakse heliruumi; kanaliseeritakse-filtreeritakse helisid laulude struktuure muutval viisil. Diip öeldi sellise asja kohta näiteks 27 aastat tagasi. Suurepärane kosutav vastumürk kunstilisele steriilsusele ning loomingulisele aneemiale. Väljaandjaks legendaarsed netiplaadifirmad Microbit, Kubotrop ja PROC-REC.

Lust - Schastie (2007)

Microbit

• Punk
• Avant-garde
• Lo-fi
• Primitive pop
• No Wave

Outstanding tracks: 

Laureat Bez Vnutrimozga
Slulptura Malyh Form

Marasmatronics Projet - M (2011)

Microbit

• DIY
• Lo-fi
• Lobit
• Abstract
• Experimental electronica
• Primitronica
• Improvised noise

Bezizgiba - Cold Gray Color (2008)

Microbit

9.5

/Dark ambient, Psycho-acoustic, Improvised music, Ambient drone, Avant-garde, Experimentalism/

Comment: Bezizgiba is Roman Dobroradnykh whose one-track aural outing (it will be ended up at 4.08) is an impressive, tweaky one comprising the elements of blood-rich drone, abrasive ambient washes, trance-y didgeridoo-sampled flutters and hazy microtonal noises and hisses everywhere around it. Actually at the time of this quite short course there will be happening quite much with regard to exuberant and logic progressions. The issue is released on a Russian avant-garde imprint, Microbit-Records.

Mikhail Lezin - Oil Pastel (2008)

Microbit

9.3

/Abstract, Experimental rock, Noise, Avant-garde, Acousmatics, DIY, Lo-fi, Experimentalism/

Comment: Mikhail Lezin (1974, Togliatti, Russia) is an experienced artist who started off with his sonic proceeding at the beginning of the 90s. Later on, he is known to have been a member of an experimental rock combo, Yoko Absorbing which mixed up avant-rock with innovative electronica, morbid ambient, and non music effects. However, his 8-track publication is a retrospective publication chiming in an organic way - it straddles the borders between monotonous post-rock, blissed-out indie/dream pop appearances, childish yet eargasmic space pop motives and clattery toytronic interludes, weird even abstract sonic explorations, however, all these stylistic elements are inseparably related to a distinguishable DIY adrift. Wondrous and a little bit otherworldly.

Astral Vomit - Test EP (2008)

Microbit

5.5

/Drone, Minimalism, Lo-fi, Noise, Dark ambient, Experimentalism, Ambient drone/

Comment: actually there is a few to talk this 45-minute album about. Just one composition of brooding ambient/drone which is heavily buried under crackling hisses and resonating noises. Of course, it would be much better if the album were more elaborated thereby giving opportunity to enjoy the album`s fruits. In fact, in the middle section of it there is one short-running span being polished from disturbing crackling. But it is all but enough.

C4 - Coffee (2008)

Microbit

8.0

/Techno, Industrial, DIY, Dance, Lobit, Alternative, Chill out/

Comment: in the first track of this set of a pair of compositions dirty sequences and oscillations are being pushed to the forefront. Indeed, it centres around heavily punching, shattering rhythms and bubbling synthetic hisses. By listening to another track on it you can infer this issue does have two divergent sides to its nature. If the starting track Cheggit is an abrasive, industrial-oriented outburst then Troxium keeps gliding in DIY-tinged, muddy ambiance filled with vague chill out tendencies.    

Yar Marginalov - Bossa Saaka Remix (2008)

Microbit

• Conceptual
• Remixes
• Breaks
• Electronic pop
• Conceptual