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Go With the Beat

Darya Cherkashina — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:04:17 +0000

In 1986, “New Composers” took part in the recording of Sergey Kuryokhin’s album “Insect Culture”, and in 1987 registered the creative association “Science Fiction Club” at the Planetarium, where they
held the first techno parties, laying the foundation for techno culture. The interiors of the Planetarium and the “unearthly” nature of the synthesized music inspired the “New Composers” to emphasize cosmic themes: this led to the Soviet space program becoming fashionable in Petersburg, and later in Moscow, that found its culmination in the famous “Gagarin Party” at the VDNKh exhibition venue.

“New Composers” worked with the “Kino” band towards the end of the 1980s. At the height of Perestroika, one of the first clips by “New Composers”, “Today and Right Now” (directed by Oleg Akhmetgaliev, 1989) was regularly shown on television.

In 1987, Alakhov and Verichev met Brian Eno, and in 1989 they were invited to the UK, where they recorded material for the album “Sputnik of Life” in 1990. Throughout the 1990s they toured the world, and
on one tour they met Peter “Namlook” Kuhlmann, one of the most memorable figures they worked with. Kuhlmann was the founder of the “Electronic Music Center” in Frankfurt-on-Main and the Fax label, on which their joint album “Planetarium” was released.

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