electrokids:electronic.music.belarus

Stone People are the Belarussian answer to Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, The Prodigy and FatBoy Slim. You know the drill: you get breakbeats (lots of them), of the dirty, explosive, and, yes, unforgettable variety. Of course, their music is extremely danceable. And they even manage to pull it off without sampling obsolete guitar music simply for novelty’s sake — make no mistake, Stone People are about as real as you’re going to get.
If you’re interested to learn which acts are going to storm a large venue near you in the future before they actually do so ( when breakbeat makes a come-back during the inevitable 90s revival that’s bound to happen sometime in the near future), you should definitely check out Stone People.
Stone People are: Eugene «Masik»: designs web sites by day. At night, he’s the driving force behind Stone People, supremely cool during live shows with a cigarette dangling from his lips, one eye on the dance floor and another one on his computer screen, intensely serious working on one of a myriad of musical projects in his home studio.
Andrey: runs a furniture business. You may also be interested to know he’s Stone People’s guitarist. He started out his musical career as a punk rock guitarist, but we’ll forgive him for that.
«Rupert»: the only member of the band with a formal music education, plus servers as a source for most of the vocal samples the band uses in their tracks.
The band have already achieved legendary status in clubbing world of the Belarussian capital Minsk. Before the first 100 copies of their album (distributed as self-produced CDrs) were sold, Minsk CD vendors felt the need to pirate their material. Stone People’s music has also been featured in TV commercials (without, it must be said, the band being informed of this or receiving royalties — copyrights are quite the alien concept in Belarus) and on compilation CDs with MP3 files, where they were featured alongside Crystal Method and the Chemical brothers. An animated music video to their first major hit, TGB, was not just a great scandal on local TV, but also a great hit in the Internet, links to download it still appear on sites all over the planet recomending it as the sickest animation ever.

Synthetic Dreams is actually a band that never existed. The people behind it, Pavel Bertosh and Andery Slonchinsky have been in a band together, but that was many years ago and the band had another name, Mad About Sound. No matter how big they was, the whole story ended, Pavel has graduated from his university and started working in the Minsk Executive Council, and Andrey moved to Moscow and started producing commercial pop music for big Russian pop acts. Definitely, for most of English-speaking people out there these names would not say anything, but the list is really impressing.
What is known as Synthetic Dreams now appeared back in 2000, when Pavel found a compact cassette with their old music, remastered it and uploaded to mp3.com. The page turned into one of the most successful projects form ex-USSR on the site, but considering that the music was produced back in 1996 and Pavel did not have time for extensive promotion it did not turn into another PPK.

The main force of Dreamlin, hailing from Minsk, Belarus is Egor Kunovsky, who is always teamworking with someone. The first and the most important collaborator with Egor, who had long been involved with music software and computers, was Denis «C4» Korabkov, who used to play guitar with a local cult, psychedelic reggae band at the time. In 2000, they teamed together as Dreamlin and had their music used in several underground and noncommercial films and videos worldwide as well hitting the #1 artist spot at Ampcast in summer 2001. In 2002 they started playing live and soon became the most requested electronic act in the country. Their constant love to mixing electronic and live instruments brought on stage a vocalist and several other people who played guitars, drums and electronic drums, flute and all kinds of percussion. By 2004 Egor plays most of the gigs together with multyinstrumentalist Andrey Karpovich, while Denis prefers studio work, now not only with Dreamlin project. Collaborate tracks do not include just local live musicians, geography of people who worked with Dreamlin spreads from Finland to Hawaii. Egor's activity also is not limited to recording and playing his own music, he also DJs, organizes and promotes parties, festivals and bookings of live acts and DJs in Minsk, runs a CDr label, Gizmo Lab and several music-related websites, writes lyrics, and does his best to promote electronic music from his country. We still have not touched on one of the main questions that a listener would ask: the style of the music that Dreamlin produces. We have a reason for that as the style is not limited to a genre or two, no matter that on most flyers Dreamlin is listed as downtempo, you can hear almost any kind of electronic music except trance in their sets. All kinds of broken beats are preferred, but some mellow chill-out house tune is also quite likely to be heard.

One of the reasons to invent new words or misspell existing ones when you name something, is to make people who search the internet for information about your creation find just the relevant data and nothing else. Perhaps this is the case with Koordinate of Wonders. The original name of the band is in Russian, named after a short story by science fiction writer, Robert Scheckley.
Koordinate of Wonders is a two person project with Yuri creating most of the music and Anton focused on promotion. They first started their music making experiments together back in 1998. The results were and still are highly melodic and tending toward the IDM flavour.
Koordinate of Wonders have played together with some of Russia’s top electronic acts including EU and Klutch. Labels taking notice of Koordinate of Wonders include Gizmo Lab (Belarus), SHUM (Russia), Toytronic (UK) and a netlabel pleasedosomething.com