MONOKLE

Monokle is an alias of Vlad Kudryavtsev based in the north of Russia. He combines a lot of styles presenting mainly electronic music with wide range of elements such as jazz, downtempo, electro and even rock, fusing live instruments with sharpness of synthetic realms. Monokle's sound always features many details and keeps the balance on the edges of psychedelic music and different entertaining genres.

After a couple of successful releases Monokle presented the debut album "Something About Frost" - and electro-acoustic experience in a wood of intelligent dance music. After that Monokle started to play live and continued music investigations in a vast field of eclectic sound design, resulting the second album named "Ideas Aloud". This work successfully established that Monokle went into the orbit of other emotional dimensions, where the structure and rules are less important than natural harmony.

http://www.myspace.com/monoklemuz

POLAR LIGHTS

Polar Lights is a project of Kirill Pavlyashik from Kaliningrad. Since 2000 Kirill is involved in creation of versatile electronic music. His first experiments with dictaphone records and classical music samples rose a keen response among the wide audience. With the lapse of time Polar Lights gets into modern deep, minimal and jazzy directions.

In 2009 Kirill's creative work drew the attention of some fairly respective record labels such as Multi Vitamins and Pro-Tez where he consequently released several excellent issues. His music is a perfect example of accurate studio work and live stage appearance combination. A handsome, tuneful and vigorous sonic space which every time puts the listener in good spirits and raises vitality.

http://www.myspace.com/polarlightsmusic

SLOW

Sergey Suokas was born in Petrozavodsk in the north of Russia. In solo he produces freaky minimal techno as Suokas, ear-friendly melodic electronica as Hot Arctic and atmospheric abstractionism as Slow. Soon after he started his own productions he hooked up with other likeminded people in Moscow, Saint Petersburg and many other cities eventually resulting a plenty of great musical connections.

Suokas composed music for silent movie "Mother" as Electron Hemisphere (with Mental Overdrive and Aggie Peterson), arranged ambient compositions with Feldmaus (also known as Modul) and produced vocal pop-electronica with Svea. He also participated in one-shot collaborations with dOP and AI (as Ritturbont). Working under many aliases Sergey always keeps atmospheric and glitchy mood full of smooth organic noises and pure life with a certain nothern touch in his music.

http://www.sergeysuokas.ru

GASTON AREVALO

Born in 1981 in Uruguay, Gastón Arévalo is a multidisciplinary artist focused on exploration of sound and visual art. He tries to recreate natural ambience by translating natural landscapes into digital environmental music forms. Aesthetic interest in nature is one of the fundamental elements of his inspiration and thereby he creates a profound and surrounding atmosphere with an actual approximation to sound sculptures.

Arévalo began learning traditional instruments at a very young age. Later he incorporated other tools and started to experiment with different ambient samples and field recording. On the visual side Gastón works with code sketches trying to find the most accurate frequency synchronization with his audio pieces. Gastón Arévalo participated in many international relevant events exhibiting his works and made a plenty of amazing releases on many well-known netlabels.

http://www.garevalo.info

DOYEQ

Doyeq project was formed in January 2009. Participants are Sergey Kulikov and Vitaly Bragin from Moscow. Sergey was born in 1985, graduated regular high school and entered the legal institute. Vitaly was born in 1983 and completed a similar social and education course. 

In parallel with the study Sergey created ambient music under Tutty moniker and Vitaly worked in conjunction with some local psychedelic band. Both guys appeared on different thematic activities in Moscow as solo artists and then together under Doyeq alias.

http://www.myspace.com/doyeq

LAZZICH

Sergey Lazarev was born in 1981 in Elektrostal near Moscow. He got his education at Moscow State technical university and became a nuclear generators and power installations engineer. Since 2000 he's been involved in experimenting with old analog synthesizers, natural noises and click sounds recorded at different places. Сonsequently Lazzich has built a specific sound concept that strictly defines his musical activity.

Bringing his talents across the scene Lazzich also started to operate with abstract ambient pieces. There are lots of great examples on his own releases and Leavemotte productions so far. Finally he decided to separate his flowing ambient works from proprietary deep techno and micro house tunes by creating Clouds In My Home side unit. Under this alias he acts on Passage and several other foundations.

http://www.myspace.com/lazzich

FELDMAUS

Feldmaus is a collaboration between Evgeny Shchukin and Alexander Tochilkin (both known as Modul). They collect different pieces of natural ambience, record live soundscapes using vintage analog machines and then cut, shape and mix everything up with some digital elements to create beautiful pieces of enchanting sound. To cut a long story short, classic ambient electronica in it's proper form and approach. 

The members consider this project as an open platform for new ideas and content, so the listener is able to find various features from other artists across the globe in certain albums and tunes. For example the first package called "Spaces" is half based on constructions by Sergey Suokas (also known as Slow). Japanese guitarist Imachi Akira has also joined his efforts with Feldmaus on this release.

http://www.myspace.com/feldband