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Russendisko
Jamie Renton - FRoots
Earlier this year Germany's estimable Trikont label released Globalista, a compilation of fun, trashy 'local music from out there' type stuff from all around the globe. One of the highlights of that compilation came from Russian punky, shouty ska radicals Leningrad. Well here's a whole album of the stuff. Leningrad are joined by 14 other thrashy 100-mph Russian rockers. This is the pick of the music played at Russendisko, a Berlin club night popular with Russian immigrants and German locals alike.
"Weird, unpolished and sometimes awful sounding music which is, in the end, really good to dance to" is what the sleevenotes tell us they play and that's pretty much what we get here. Not just ska but all kinds of degenerate stylings: Spit&cslash;re combine a rockin' riff with a drunken Cossack dance, Sveta Kolibaba give things a Latin American twist and end up sounding like Ricky Martin smashed on pills and vodka (and none the worse for it), La Minor play in a local folk/ sleaze style called blatnjak which was banned under the Communist regime (as I'm sure all the music here would be).
What the Red Elvises and the St Petersburg Ska-Jazz Review get up to can be deduced from their names. Nothing on this CD possesses anything even vaguely related to concepts such as subtlety or grace. But it's brash, snotty, funny and in the end, really good to dance to.
(fRoots - Jamie Renton)
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