Typically Tuesdays playlist for 05/24/2021
| Artist | Title | Album | Label | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human Tetris | Melancholy | Memorabilia | ||
| Vesna Vesna | More komet (Sea of comets) | Peremeny Nastroyeniya (Mood Swings) | ||
| Motorama | Far Away from the City | Alps | ||
| Priroda | 8080 | Ada | ||
| Proton-4 | Polet Vo Sne (Flying in a Dream | Navstrechu Nebu (Towards Heaven) | ||
| Proton-4 | Na Kryl'yakh Mechty (On the wings of a dream) | Navstrechu Nebu (Towards Heaven) | ||
| Artek Electronica | Begi! (Run!) | SINGLE |
Rocket Race to the Sovietwave! Part II
Jade and Leslie continue their deep-dive into the EDM subgenre, Sovietwave. Playing new wave, post-punk Russian tunes and Sovietwave, the duo discuss why western youths love Sovietwave. They also have a discussion about the role that aesthetics and emotions play in the communitas of nostalgia.
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References and Further Reading
Bandcamp: A Guide to Sovietwave (2020)
Dmitriy Gruzdev in Peek-A-Boo Magazine (2017)
Highsnobiety: What Do Russian Insiders Think of the Post-Soviet Trend? (2017)
Highsnobiety: Why 2016 Was the Year of Post-Soviet Fashion (2017)
Music Moves Europe: Soviet-wave (2020)
Nostalgia Commodified: Towards the marketization of the post-communist past through the new media (Marek Jezinski & Lukasz Wojtkowski, 2016)
Phaser: Nostalgia for the future (2019)
Stranger Things, Vaporwave, and Nostalgia Culture (9-mins)
What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Media and Nostalgia? (Ekaterina Kalinina, 2016)