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НОМ (NOM)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzO0nfXuO8s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8SK6FYWp6o

Ночной Проспект (Notchnoi Prospekt, Night Avenue)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw2YDPsEAgQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8SK6FYWp6o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lV0FpAw2Go

Биоконструктор (Biokonstruktor)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAtVBIUnUqI
the first big electropop act

Дурное Влияние (Durnoye Vliyaniye, Bad Influence)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLXbJBDAx4c
naive, but pretty good post-punk
the singer lives now in Manchester

Агата Кристи (Agata Kristi, Agatha Christie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aESZST_BcvA
kinda post-hard-rock, later turned to synth-post-punk

to be continued
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Can't put my speakers on at the minute but as you might expect, I will be trying them out 8)

I am nothing if not predictable! :lol: :oops:
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boudicca wrote:I am nothing if not predictable! :lol: :oops:
I knew you were going to say that. :roll:
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:eek:

What no Khno? :(
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Big Si wrote::eek:

What no Khno? :(
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they need the special uploading ritual and link sharing :von:
soon
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ormfdmrush wrote:
Big Si wrote::eek:

What no Khno? :(
Kino
they need the special uploading ritual and link sharing :von:
soon
Ah, now I was alerted to them already, some time ago...
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ormfdmrush wrote:
Big Si wrote::eek:

What no Khno? :(
Kino
they need the special uploading ritual and link sharing :von:
soon
:notworthy: :D

<--- Fan of 14 years! :D
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Liked all of them except the first. 8)
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ormfdmrush wrote:&#1053;&#1086;&#1095;&#1085;&#1086;&#1081; &#1055;&#1088;&#1086;&#1089;&#1087;&#1077;&#1082;&#1090; (Notchnoi Prospekt, Night Avenue)
My favourite Russian singer Xanna Aguzarova guested on one of their albums.
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Big Si wrote:<--- Fan of 14 years! :D
do you mean you know them since 1992? :eek:
nick the stripper wrote:Liked all of them except the first. 8)
don't you like The Residents? :roll:
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ormfdmrush wrote:&#1053;&#1086;&#1095;&#1085;&#1086;&#1081; &#1055;&#1088;&#1086;&#1089;&#1087;&#1077;&#1082;&#1090; (Notchnoi Prospekt, Night Avenue)
My favourite Russian singer Xanna Aguzarova guested on one of their albums.
you know her??? :eek:
&#1046;&#1072;&#1085;&#1085;&#1072; = Janna, known French name
this one -> "Humanitarian Life" (1986)
enter 4 digits, press &#1044;&#1072;&#1083;&#1077;&#1077;, then press long weird link :notworthy:
she sang on tracks 2 and 9
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ormfdmrush wrote:you know her??? :eek:
&#1046;&#1072;&#1085;&#1085;&#1072; = Janna, known French name
this one -> "Humanitarian Life" (1986)
enter 4 digits, press &#1044;&#1072;&#1083;&#1077;&#1077;, then press long weird link :notworthy:
she sang on tracks 2 and 9
Yeah, I've liked her music since I saw a couple of her songs on BBC2 about 18 years ago, then a year or 2 later a friend gave me a load of albums he didn't want and among them was Bravo - "Ensemble". (There was another Russian album among them by Janna Bichevskaya, no title but it was released in 1974, I really like that one too). When I got on the net in 2000 I downloaded every Aguzarova song I could find.

I already have those 2 songs, but I might as well download the full album to hear what Noshnoy Prospect sound like.

I don't suppose you have a link to her 1993 "Nineteen Ninety's" album?, that's one that never seemed to appear anywhere online. All I could find was 30 second samples of each song. Apart from that one I think I have a full set of everything up to 1999. Since then I believe she's had one more album in 2003 called "Back2Future" which I've only been able to find one song from.

Another Russian singer I like is Tatiana Bulanova. She has loads of albums.
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Russian metal is a particular favourite of mine at the moment :notworthy: , and Russian books too! :notworthy:
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Brideoffrankenstein wrote:Russian metal is a particular favourite of mine at the moment :notworthy: , and Russian books too! :notworthy:
Russian coats for me! :lol:

And hats.

And folk / punk throat singing.
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Brideoffrankenstein wrote:Russian metal is a particular favourite of mine at the moment :notworthy: , and Russian books too! :notworthy:
Russian coats for me! :lol:

And hats.

And folk / punk throat singing.
Yeah! Hats and coats for me too :notworthy:

What a fantastic country.

I have been obsessed with it since I had a Russian penfriend in Moscow at primary school.

I regularly fantasise about going on the Trans-Siberian Express all the way from St Petersburg to Vladivostock :D
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Brideoffrankenstein wrote: I regularly fantasise about going on the Trans-Siberian Express all the way from St Petersburg to Vladivostock :D
Me too! We should make a HL invasion of it! :twisted:

My dad did it when he was in his mid-20's (though the opposite way, Vladivostock to the-then Leningrad)... I never stop asking him about it.
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Dan wrote:Another Russian singer I like is Tatiana Bulanova. She has loads of albums.
haha, perestroika-pop (here's some stuff)
so you should like these :lol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c42zYT4SyE4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ660q3YK8o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCd1cYnG4LI (!!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRwPVbWM-fA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbxauawXEIA

Notchnoi Prospekt played diverse music
electro-pop/new wave (1985-1987)
ambient (1987)
industrial/kraut rock (1987-1988)
'Swans' rock (1989-1990)
Manchester rock (1991-1993)
noise, industrial trip-hop (1994 - present)
here's their full studio collection - http://ifolder.ru/f16274
plus few videos and concerts
highly recommended

if you want, i can find all Aguzarova's albums on CD-R

here's Nineteen Nineties
all songs were composed by Vasily Shumov of Center
and they recorded the album together
they both lived in LA then, as i recall
all those songs were played by Center in 80s - in electro-pop/post-punk vibe
Shumov moved to Los Angeles in 1991 and still lives there
sometimes (1996, 1997, 2006) he visits Russia with concerts
i was lucky to attend at two concerts that year (filmed 8) )
now he plays eclectic electro
and 90s were weird - he played from awful rock-n-roll to trance
and such is this album
http://www.centromania.com/
http://www.centromania.com/english/eng.html
http://www.centromania.com/mp3_albums.html
some info for you
all stuff is highly recommended, but 1987-1989, i think, is the best
3 post-punk albums and 1 is first Soviet EBM 8)
smiscandlon wrote:And hats.
here's the one
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ormfdmrush wrote:
smiscandlon wrote:And hats.
here's the one
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Here's mine. ;D

Actually, thanks for starting this topic. Russian music is probably still poorly represented in the West.

Reminds me, years ago I used to have some Gorky Park tapes...



(Edited to add the :oops: that Gorky Park probably deserve.)
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ormfdmrush wrote:
Big Si wrote:<--- Fan of 14 years! :D
do you mean you know them since 1992? :eek:
1993 :wink:

An old mate of mine got a job teaching english over in moscow and came back to yorkshire for a week (renew his visa, etc) and brought some tapes back with him and gave me a couple as a present. His old boss used to be involved in the liverpool punk scene (Frankie Goes to Hollywood :lol: ), but then she moved to Leningrad in the early 1980's, met the fledgling band (Khno) and ended up being good mates and a big fan of them. He told me a few stories, that she told him, about what the band used to get upto! :D :lol:
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Ah, there's more Tatiana Bulanova on youtube since I last looked (I found a few more when I searched for her name in English too).

Is that ifolder site searchable?
ormfdmrush wrote:if you want, i can find all Aguzarova's albums on CD-R
Thanks, I'd love to get any more recent ones, or any older ones I've overlooked.
I think I have most of them though...

1986 Bravo - Ensemble
1986 Notchnoi Prospekt - Gumanitarnaya Zhizn
1988 Bravo 1983-1988 (Ensemble + 4 extra songs)
1991 Russian Album
1993 Bravo - Live In Moscow
1993 Nineteen Ninety's (thanks for the link!)
1995 Bravo - Pesni Rasnix Let
1998 Bravo - Hity Pro Lubov' (only 1 song features Aguzarova)
1998 Lychie Pesni (compilation of previously released with 2 new songs)
1999 Avtochit (1 song on a cassette compilation)
1999 The Best (best-of with 7 new songs, although 4 of the 6 are tiny realaudio files)

Are you able to get hold of any videos? All I've got is the stuff on youtube (3 of which I uploaded myself) and a bunch of tiny low quality files on aguzarova.com (the site seems to be broken right now, the menu has vanished and I've no idea why).
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Big Si wrote:about what the band used to get upto! :D :lol:
umm... what?

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smiscandlon wrote:Gorky Park
ah, sucks
but they're a stupid part of my childhood, anyway

2 Dan
ifolder is not searchable, as i know
actually, only a little people bothers to describe the files
OK, i'll try to find some stuff from Janna
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