n e w c o m p o s e r s
"... it's hard to pick a standout track because each of their 17 tracks are uniformly excellent" tony marcus - mixmag, 1996
The New Composers are Valera Alakhov and Igor Veritchev from St. Petersburg. 1983 they started to combine music, words and sounds by using the material of Soviet mass culture: radio, propaganda films and TV. Because this was a new way to make music in Soviet Union, Timur Novikov - who is still one of the leading figures of underground and avantgarde circles in St. Petersburg - called their project Novi Compositori, "New Composers".
In 1989 the New Composers started to set up with their friends the first Russian techno rave parties in squatted buildings and later on in the Leningrad Planetarium. Valera and Igor have produced, since they started to collaborate with each other, many musical projects in and outside Russia; for example in Liverpool, Rotterdam and Helsinki. Their music combines easy listening, ambient, techno and drum'n'bass par excellence.
releases:
NEW COMPOSERS
Insect Culture CD (featuring Sergey Kuriokhin & Popular Mechanics)
1986
NEW COMPOSERS
Tanz Tanzevat (12")
1993NEW COMPOSERS
White Island (12")
1993
ARK RECORDS (United Kingdom)
NEW COMPOSERS
Sputnik (12")
1989
IMC RECORDS (The Netherlands)
NEW COMPOSERS
Sputnik CD
1993PARABOLA RECORDS / BMG (Belgium)
NEW COMPOSERS
Magnitola CD
1995AQUARIAN PUBLICATIONS (Helsinki, Finland)
NEW COMPOSERS
Astra CD
1996
FAX (USA)
NEW COMPOSERS / Sp. Guest Brian Eno
Smart CD
1999
compilations:DIVERSE TRACKS ON SEVERAL RUSSIAN LABELS
SAUNA CONNECTIONS (Helsinki, Finland)
VARIOUS
Sauna Connections
006666-2 sauna cd
1997
* 1. New Composers: Onion Pizza
* 5. New Composers: Zuda
* 8. New Composers: Robot Adept
contact: Sauna Connections Oy Ltd.
P.O. Box 417
00121 Helsinki
e-mail: sauna_con@yahoo.com (this address not in existence any more)
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