Archive for August, 2007

H 36th BD Liam!

Yeah, I thought there will be a present, and *yeah, the present will be out next year!”. Now I’m gone to search for some money for the prodigyremix site. Cheers motherfuckers!

Thrillabeats rocks!

Just stumbled across Thrillabeats myspace, one of the most perspective Russian break/big-beat electronic bands. The band is from Novosibirsk, one of the greatest Siberian cities. Actually, I’m quite proud I know the man behind all Thrillabeats fat sounds - Nik. He’s the one who helped me with midi-adaptation of my Ritm-2, soviet analogue synth which is very similar to Moog Prodigy. Novosibirsk is a kind of scientific centre in Russia, so, there are a lot of people familiar with micro-electronic and all this stuff. So, it was no surprise I found Nik who’s actually genius in sound technologies and fat beats. Also Nik is an old Prodigy fan, and it was no problem to be in touch. He’s damn interested in sampling and recreating. And I’m quite jealous he’s got a huge hip-hop/funk/beat records collection. For example, it’s a piece of cake to recreate some Girls, VooDoo People or Firestarter to him, he’s all the knowledge about synths and he’s got all the samples. I’ve got his Girls remix track he’s done within a couple of minutes, and I know the you’ve got to have some real skilled balls to be able make stuff like that. I’m glad Thrillabeats seems to be a very successful project nowadays, they tour, they do some real shows around Russia and UK clubs.

UK residents under mass delusion

Hey guys. Usually I stay away from politics, at least within my internet projects. But after reading some of UK papers (The Times, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Daily Mail, The Independent and others) I feel that’s my civil duty to make some notes about it. First of all, let’s note that I’m 26, and I’m Russian. I live in deep Russia all my life, so, I can clearly see what’s actually happening in Russia.

It’s quite sad to see/read that UK mass media put some serious delusions about Russia to UK residents minds. Some of “authors” (Rod Liddle, Edward Lucas and others) write totally ludicrous facts about Russia. Of course I’ve had enough of laugh during reading the crap. But the thing is that you’re (UK residents) in serious danger. I don’t really care what do they write about Russia, we’ve been never respected by other world. But since *some people* do big money of these cheap articles you (UK residents) became a bunch of doll’s.

Actually, UK mass media and UK officials make me laugh of their attempts to harm Russia with saying that “Russian governments are criminal”, “Putin is fascist”, “Change your constitution” and etc. UK is full of stereotypes and lies about Russia and it’s culture, economic and social aspects. And since UK is full of delusions UK isn’t a politics player anymore, at least for Russia, and that’s not just my opinion. UK is probably some playing card for *someone else* now. Yes, the whole country is a playing card.

I know some people from UK, they are great guys, and the notes above are not related toward them. But I’d recommend all UK residents to think about near/far future of the UK and try to find actual enemies instead reading about “angry bears” before your country become a terrorist resort.

P.S. And I’m sorry, I’m not a victim of *Putin rhetoric propaganda*, LOL!