MACHINE WOMAN EXPLORES THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE ON NEW TRACK

“You know it’s so strange how sounds become music And you can turn somethin’ so simple into somethin’ so beautiful” “(And I wanna) see how everyone dances…” Leticia Trandifir (softcoresoft) /Anastasia Vtorova (Machine Woman) Berlin based Russian DJ/Producer Anastasia Vtorova aka Machine Woman has released a brand new track she made using samples contained in the […]
TRACKING THE ULTRA-PROLIFIC OPTIMUSS

Despite the fact we’re only 50 odd days into it, the delivery of the new collaborative EP Black Cube on Monday made it the seventh release in 2018 already for Techno DJ/Producer and Nizhny Novgorod native Alexander Zhikharev, aka Optimuss, It comes hot on the heels of EP’s Florian Park and Frozen and the three together […]
KEDR LIVANSKIY VIDEO FOR YOUR NAME

Despite her affecting electronically driven music swirling around here albeit at arms length for the past year and a half, this is Indie30’s first post about Kedr Livanskiy, the project of Moscow musician and producer Yana Kedrina. She released her sprawlingly bittersweet debut album Ariadna in September on the back of her EP January Sun […]
ENCOUNTERS WITH LIFE ON VENUS

Totally missed the debut album ‘Encounters’ by Moscow dream pop shoegazers Life On Venus upon its initial release back in March and overlooked it again when Portland label Shelflife reissued it physically to the world. It sports ten tracks full of hazy distortion, widescreen melodies and joyous reverb drenched vocals all ably supported by a […]
BLANKENBERGE BLAST FORTH WITH RADIOGAZE

Recently St. Petersburg post rock/shoegaze pop quintet Blankenberge released their killer debut album Radiogaze. It builds nicely on their self titled EP from March last year both in production and ambition. Simultaneously full of dissonant power and ethereal beauty, its layered guitars positively radiate across blissed out, affecting vocals and rounded, muscular rhythms. Listen to […]