DJ SLON и Жуткий Лазер - "Album No. 1" 2xLPDJ Slon Album No. 1 2xLP (Gost Zvuk, 2022) "For Oleg Azelitskiy, known as DJ Slon, the nineties and the first half of the aughts were an era of firsts. First squat parties on the banks of the Obvodny Canal and more legitimate ones at Tunnel, first proper techno club in Russia. First DJ sets, first vinyl records in his collection, first radio shows at Port FM. He is a true veteran of the Russian techno movement, who carried his love for the genre

Optimo Music and Multi Culti

and three covers

Following previous work for entities such as Black Acre

with frayed edges

rescued and compiled for this release

without ever sounding like a knowingly retro homage – and the overall mood has turned from sorrow and soothing to empowerment and resistance

but with all new flyers documenting an extended window of history

to look at

"There are many ways to imagine the future

if it ever existed

alone in a empty church with nothing but his vivid and endless imagination to co-pilot

blurred guitar line