July 29, 2013 at 19:31
A curator of the electronic scene at the main music festival of the summer Vladivostok Rocks (22nd-25th of August) is Sasha Kholenko. He is a founder of the indie label “how2make records”. Performances of russian and asian dj’s and producers will be held at the Red Bull Music Academy Stage (RBMA). It is an international creative workshop which is run in various countries throughout the world. Besides that, region artists can take part in a workshop of RBMA, to find out more about the experience of working in a studio and creating new tracks, to get answers to any questions and to get updated on the latest news in the music world.
Sasha Kholenko, “how2make label”:
When Ilya Lagutenko offered me to manage the electronic scene at V-ROX, I accepted this offer with lots of enthusiasm. It was decided that the program turns out to be in a way when well-known and expected artists perform with young and perspective ones.
The program was chosen very carefully and as a result it was transformed into a showcase of the how2make label. Residents of the label NVG and Mujuice will perform their new tracks and Nocow, Kulakostas and Hmot will perform in Vladivostok for the first time. These artists have been quite interesting for foreign journalists for a while. Since the festival plans to cover Asian Pacific Region, guests from Japan would be a must to have. They are the students of Red Bull Music Academy – Daisuke Tanabe и Emufucka
Daisuke Tanabe
Daisuke Tanabe’s last visit to Russia was described as follows: “He starts up with some slow glitch electronics but than he speeds up to hip hop and than IDM. Audience starts bowing their heads until they get up and start dancing. The Japanese guy does it well: cold electro is mixed up with funny samples like ‘Yo! Bitch!’ and than he performs some fun remixes of soul reggie with typically Jamaican vocals. Anyways, his music is great.” In both capitals Japanese geeks are in an honorable place. Vladivostok just starts to get to know them.
Emufucka
Under a great moniker there is a shy guy wearing huge glasses. He worked with Submerse, Quarta330, Coco Bryce, My Dry Wet Mess, Djemba Djemba and Count Bass D; released five successful singles and few mixtapes. He got lots of credit from Japanese and western music media. At the roots of this music there is hip hop but one can see lots of other genres in his powerful music. It’s enough to listen to any of his mixes to understand that he isn’t called a wizard in vein.
NVG
One of the most mysterious electro producers in Russia describes his working process like that: “Creating a track is divided in two parts – musical and technical. Melody and freshness is important in the musical part but mastering and mixing quality is important for the technical part. There are lots of different tracks which are written a while ago and they are still good. I can prefer music idea to quality when music is not recorded in the best way but one get positive emotions from it. I’ll keep it as it is.”
July 24, 2013 at 22:05
We remind you that it is necessary to check in to take part in festival educational activities which will be held on the 23rd – 25th of August. Participants from other countries will be able to check in during the festival, right before workshops and panel discussions start. Detailed information about speakers can be seen here. Detailed schedule and locations will be announced later. Entrance is free of charge.
July 23, 2013 at 21:39
Geek Model, Krypton’s Sons, «2MANный 100н», Crossparty и Herzog — organizers have named musicians who will perform at V-ROX 22-25 August in Vladivostok.
Geek Model is Andrey Marchenko’s electro brainchild in minimal-techno style. Producer continues experiments with techno sound, which he started in Love Options project.
Krypton’s Sons — a young band is called “space rockers” for strident, deep sound and reference to science fiction, cosmic theme in images and lyrics. Musicians belong to Moscow label FBITS, they have recently released their first album.
«2MANный 100н» is the most experienced band among local participants. They play seaport rock’n'roll practicing cheerful carelessness. They were first to invent new form of punk rock, which became famous throughout the World due to their colleagues from Green Day. «2MANный 100н» is loved for their live performances.
Crossparty, witch-house/acid-rave duet with dark, rough electro with wild histerycal female vocal. The band released its debut album at a European label Phantasma Disques. They prefer working in a home studio to performing concerts.
Herzog is a band which history started in 2002 from performing british-styled guitar rock. After linup changing musicians got attracted by explosive mix of boogie rock, rhythm&Blues, country rock, hard-rock and psychedelic rock. The band is now performing actively in clubs.
July 20, 2013 at 21:00
One of the festival headliners, an Korean band No Brain answers quick-fire questions.
Have you been to Russia before? Why did you accept the invitation to the V-rox? Why is it interesting for you?
It is our first time visiting Russia and we’ve always wanted to visit. We know the country of Russia is famous for Kettlebell, vodka, beautiful ladies and tough men.Therefore we are absolutely looking forward to participating at V-ROX festival.
What russian bands do you know besides “MT” and what music do they perform?
We’ve seen Russian bands through youtube. They left us with strong impression and we feel honored being able to perform with them.
Which of your songs should people listen to before your performance at the festival?
Including our representative song called, “Heartstrings”, we would like to perform our other great songs to the audience.
How do you promote yourselves to the music market? What resources and mechanisms do you use?
We come to touch with the public through our live performances. We believe nothing is needed except our rock spirit.
What’s the uniqueness of your band? How are you different from other bands and singers?
As we are Korean punk rock band, there is Korean traditional elements included into our music.
Also until today we have performed over 3000 live performances. Through our experience we would like to show how we are different with other bands.
July 18, 2013 at 12:31