Moscow Grooves Institute
Encyclopedia
The Moscow Grooves Institute is a Russia
n electronic musical project.
musicians Arkady Martinenko of Megapolis, Heat of the Earth and the Eject Project, and Boris Nazarov. Together with the "Ministry of Psycho" project, MGI played a number of live electronic concerts for the independent experimental radio station "Substation". These concerts paved the way for the project's first studio album, Surround Wednesday, released by independent label Citadel Records
in 1997.
Over the next fourteen years, the band performed in France
, Germany
, Monaco
, Poland
, Romania
, Ukraine
, Lithuania
, Latvia
, and Japan
. They also took part in a number of international music festivals, including Kazantip (Ukraine), Subtropique (Georgia), Popkomm (Germany), Grimaldi Forum (France), Nu Jazz, NOKIA Lab (Russia), and MIDEM (France).
The band's third member, Sergei Belyaev joined in late 1998. He participated in the recording of MGI's second album, Pizza. The musical style of this album was funk
with elements of drum-n-base and ethnic trip-hop. The Moscow Grooves Institute also invited Sergei Klevensky and the members of the Detsky Panadol project to take part in the recording of the album.
In 2000, MGI released a new album, Commercial and also filmed four videos for the compositions “Stereophonique”, “Voyage”, “2 professors”, and “Dancing”. Later videos included “Les Chrysanthemes” (2001) and “Na Zare” (2003). The videos have been shown on MTV Russia
, Muz-TV, Music Box, A One, and O2TV as well as on Ukrainian and Belorussian musical channels. In 2001, MGI joined with the Mummy Troll» to record a version of Victor Zoy’s song “Malysh”, which remained at number one on Radio Maximum's music chart for several months.
In June 2002, MGI released their new album Tangibility. Such well known foreign labels as Netlmage Foundation (Great Britain) and MPLS. Ltd (USA) released vinyl
singles from the album.
The project's fifth studio album, Les Etoiles Sont Plus Proches Avec Les Yeux Fermes was released in April 2006, although it had been in preparation since 2003. Olga Noel contributed to the backing vocals on this album, along with MC Chevy of German rap band N.O.H.A, and Daria Rodcher.
The MGI project reached the finals of several international electronic music contests. Their tracks are often included in music compilations issued by such foreign record companies as Pork Recordings, George V, Les Maquis, Pschent, and Petrol Records.
Arkady Martinenko and Boris Nazarov wrote the musical scores to the films Native and IDtimate (2007) and Dance, Don’t Stop (2007), directed by E. Lavrentiev. They have worked on the remixes of compositions by t.A.T.u.
, Vitas, Mummy Troll, Enrique Iglesias
, and Alsou, and have composed music for TV advertisements.
In 2007, Citadel Records released a multi-color version of the Moscow Grooves Institute's debut album Surround Wednesday, partly rearranged by sound producer Sofia Kruglikova. In 2009 a performance by Moscow Grooves Institute and Olga Noel opened the concert program of the forty third MIDEM. They are currently working on a sixth studio album.
, writing music for Andrei Platonov’s play Musical Box, when it was performed at Moscow's Sovremennik Theatre
. He was has also worked with the "Levitation" program, with Tony Levin and members of the Goatika Creative Laboratory).
. Between 1991 and 1995, he participated in the project MD&C Pavlov, the winners of “Generation 94” contest. From 1996–1997, he was an art director for the “Water Area” club. In 1998, he was a musical co-producer of Cosmos Production label, and from 1996 till 2004 was also a participant in the "Tetris" electronic project, whose albums were related by British label Pork Recordings
. Since 2005, Khotin has played in the group "Reunion Nikolai Kopernik", and more recently, he has also collaborated with Papa Z–Trio, released by New York label Bagpak Music.
DJ at the international festival “Doors to the summer”, held in Yaroslavl. Shulgin combines jazz
, funk, hip-hop, and turntablism
in his music.
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n electronic musical project.
History
MGI was created in 1995 by MoscowMoscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
musicians Arkady Martinenko of Megapolis, Heat of the Earth and the Eject Project, and Boris Nazarov. Together with the "Ministry of Psycho" project, MGI played a number of live electronic concerts for the independent experimental radio station "Substation". These concerts paved the way for the project's first studio album, Surround Wednesday, released by independent label Citadel Records
Citadel records (Russia)
Citadel records - an independent record company founded in Moscow in 1997.-Mission:Citadel records became the first publisher to inform music community about the existence of united Russian electronic music scene. One of the main aims of the company is to promote creative works by original and...
in 1997.
Over the next fourteen years, the band performed in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Monaco
Monaco
Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, Romania
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...
, Ukraine
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
, Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
, Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
, and Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
. They also took part in a number of international music festivals, including Kazantip (Ukraine), Subtropique (Georgia), Popkomm (Germany), Grimaldi Forum (France), Nu Jazz, NOKIA Lab (Russia), and MIDEM (France).
The band's third member, Sergei Belyaev joined in late 1998. He participated in the recording of MGI's second album, Pizza. The musical style of this album was funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
with elements of drum-n-base and ethnic trip-hop. The Moscow Grooves Institute also invited Sergei Klevensky and the members of the Detsky Panadol project to take part in the recording of the album.
In 2000, MGI released a new album, Commercial and also filmed four videos for the compositions “Stereophonique”, “Voyage”, “2 professors”, and “Dancing”. Later videos included “Les Chrysanthemes” (2001) and “Na Zare” (2003). The videos have been shown on MTV Russia
MTV Russia
MTV Russia is a Russian language free-to-air 24 hour entertainment and music service seen in 22 million households in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Omsk, Voronezh, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg, among other cities.-History:...
, Muz-TV, Music Box, A One, and O2TV as well as on Ukrainian and Belorussian musical channels. In 2001, MGI joined with the Mummy Troll» to record a version of Victor Zoy’s song “Malysh”, which remained at number one on Radio Maximum's music chart for several months.
In June 2002, MGI released their new album Tangibility. Such well known foreign labels as Netlmage Foundation (Great Britain) and MPLS. Ltd (USA) released vinyl
Vinyl
A vinyl compound is any organic compound that contains a vinyl group ,which are derivatives of ethene, CH2=CH2, with one hydrogen atom replaced with some other group...
singles from the album.
The project's fifth studio album, Les Etoiles Sont Plus Proches Avec Les Yeux Fermes was released in April 2006, although it had been in preparation since 2003. Olga Noel contributed to the backing vocals on this album, along with MC Chevy of German rap band N.O.H.A, and Daria Rodcher.
The MGI project reached the finals of several international electronic music contests. Their tracks are often included in music compilations issued by such foreign record companies as Pork Recordings, George V, Les Maquis, Pschent, and Petrol Records.
Arkady Martinenko and Boris Nazarov wrote the musical scores to the films Native and IDtimate (2007) and Dance, Don’t Stop (2007), directed by E. Lavrentiev. They have worked on the remixes of compositions by t.A.T.u.
T.A.T.u.
t.A.T.u. was a duo formed in Moscow, Russia in 1999 by Ivan Shapovalov. The group consisted of Lena Katina and Yulia Volkova.Their debut single "Ya Soshla S Uma" was released in December 2000. The single had a huge success in Russia and Eastern Europe...
, Vitas, Mummy Troll, Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias
Enrique Iglesias is a Spanish pop music singer, a son of singer Julio Iglesias.Enrique started his musical career on Mexican label Fonovisa...
, and Alsou, and have composed music for TV advertisements.
In 2007, Citadel Records released a multi-color version of the Moscow Grooves Institute's debut album Surround Wednesday, partly rearranged by sound producer Sofia Kruglikova. In 2009 a performance by Moscow Grooves Institute and Olga Noel opened the concert program of the forty third MIDEM. They are currently working on a sixth studio album.
Boris Nazarov
Nazarov is one of founders, and the only constant member, of the Moscow Grooves Institute. He has collaborated with actor and director Mikhail EfremovMikhail Olegovich Yefremov
Mikhail Olegovich Yefremov is a Russian film and stage actor, Meritorious Artist of Russian Federation ....
, writing music for Andrei Platonov’s play Musical Box, when it was performed at Moscow's Sovremennik Theatre
Sovremennik Theatre
Moscow Sovremennik Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow founded in 1956. "Sovremennik" means "Contemporary".-History:Sovremennik Theatre was founded by a group of young Soviet actors during Khrushchev Thaw...
. He was has also worked with the "Levitation" program, with Tony Levin and members of the Goatika Creative Laboratory).
Pavel Khotin
Khotin is the group's keyboard player. From 1984-1990, he was a member of underground art-punk group “Sounds MU”, produced by Brian EnoBrian Eno
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno , commonly known as Brian Eno or simply as Eno , is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex,...
. Between 1991 and 1995, he participated in the project MD&C Pavlov, the winners of “Generation 94” contest. From 1996–1997, he was an art director for the “Water Area” club. In 1998, he was a musical co-producer of Cosmos Production label, and from 1996 till 2004 was also a participant in the "Tetris" electronic project, whose albums were related by British label Pork Recordings
Pork Recordings
Pork Recordings is a record label based in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire, England, that specialises in electronica, mostly in the downtempo or chill-out styles....
. Since 2005, Khotin has played in the group "Reunion Nikolai Kopernik", and more recently, he has also collaborated with Papa Z–Trio, released by New York label Bagpak Music.
Yuri Shulgin
Shulgin is a disk jockey, musician, and bass guitar player. He performed his first DJ set in 2004 and, as a bass guitar player, became the member of Papa Z–Trio. Yuri later collaborated with Iscra Disco. In 2008, he was heralded as the best scratchScratching
Scratching is a DJ or turntablist technique used to produce distinctive sounds by moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable while optionally manipulating the crossfader on a DJ mixer. While scratching is most commonly associated with hip hop music, since the late 1980s, it has been used...
DJ at the international festival “Doors to the summer”, held in Yaroslavl. Shulgin combines jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
, funk, hip-hop, and turntablism
Turntablism
Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ mixer.The word 'turntablist' was coined in 1995 by DJ Babu to describe the difference between a DJ who just plays records, and one who performs by touching and moving the records, stylus and mixer...
in his music.
Discography
- 2007 - Surround Wednesday, multicolor version (Citadel Records)
- 2006 - Les Etoiles Sont Plus Proches Avec Les Yeux Fermes (Citadel Records)
- 2002 - Tangibility (Citadel Records)
- 2001 - Pizza (Citadel Records)
- 2000 - Commercial - limited edition (Citadel Records)
- 2001 - Commercial - unlimited edition (Citadel Records)
- 2000 - Surround Wednesday, сolour version (Citadel Records)
- 1997 - Surround Wednesday (demo tape)
With Olga Rozdestvenskaya
- 2004 - Na Zare (Citadel Records)
- 2003 - OLF - Les Chrisanthemes (Citadel Records)