26 Jul 2012 — Henning Lahmann
As you might already have read somewhere else last week, Russian culture magazine
Look At Me put on a competition, asking more than six hundred young and local musicians to hand in examples of their work. Subsequently, ten finalists were picked who produced as many tracks for the concluding compilation, each of them having one "Western" artist to help out in terms of song production. The result,
Look At Me 10, is probably one of the most unexpected and thoroughly fascinating projects in recent years. It sheds some seriously needed and overdue light on the obviously rich Russian underground pop scene. Together with some of the most exciting contemporary artists of the so-called Western hemisphere, including NFOP favs such as Nite Jewel, Dent May, Digits, Maria Minerva, and Teengirl Fantasy, the ten tracks offer a dazzling variety of pop, from straight-up dance to noise-infused experimentalism. Take a listen to the whole record below.
