Summer 1995 – the Closing of LSDance

DJ Digger:
«By the start of 1995 an outright decline had set in, and there were objective reasons for it. First, the club was far away. By that time venues with similar music had already opened in Moscow, and significantly closer to the centre.
Then an unpleasant story happened at the club. Polyakov's partner — let's not name him — started skimming money. No investment was being put into the club at all, a lot of it was going past the till. He managed to talk the gangsters round, to tell them everything was going fine. In the end he gathered up all the remaining money and cleared off. Polyakov had to take the flak. The whole thing shut down — and that was that.
Everyone scattered. Kompas joined «Ptuch SoundSystem». I, with my hardcore, was left in proud solitude. Only the «Discoxide lot» treated me with respect; the rest said: «Listen, you've done our heads in with your heavy stuff». For some reason I was considered a radical. But for me it was kitsch, it was a kind of game and fun. Actually, calling all of it hardcore would be a real stretch. It was «rave», the hard sound that Westbam championed. But it was taken completely seriously! A crowd gathered around me, real sixteen-year-old kids who looked on me as their dad. They still treat me that way to this day».