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Naive. Super! Supermayer!

Танцпол · 02.06.2009

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Ahead of Supermayer's Friday gig - that is, Superpitcher (Axel Schaufler) and Michael Mayer - at Arma 09, the people from the Casa agency putting on this party gathered 10 of their favourite, hated, revered and simply noteworthy video clips from the Russian segment of YouTube and asked Axel and Michael to give their brief comments on them. In the clip headings we give the titles as they appear on the hosting site, with a one-line preface for the guys, so they'd understand just what horror they were being asked to comment on.

Airat Naryshkin "Seaplane Pilots"
Russian no-wave from the early 90s.

Supermayer: Great clip, great fellow, and the music too... we could have written something like that ourselves. We like it. We believe it was once in the top ten of your national charts. Pity we can't understand the words.

Mikhail Boyarsky "Only Once"
Electro-funk performed by a popular actor from a certain Soviet film for children

Supermayer: What a moustachioed fellow! So that's who Sebastien Tellier nicked his current look from. And musically, too, he clearly drew his inspiration from right here. A wildly funky little song. Definitely - we like it.

Kino "Changes"
Post-punk Soviet classic from the perestroika era (the version from the closing credits of the film "Dust")

Supermayer: This is obviously the Russian James Murphy... wait a moment, he looks a lot better than James! (Casa's note - the guys think the actor is Viktor Tsoi himself). I'm trying to imagine the song without the sign-language interpretation. It'll be much better that way.

"Fantik"
Soviet cartoon psychedelia

Supermayer: We both can't help crying when the little elephant gives the bananas to the little monkey. Very touching stuff... Was this even meant for children, or for an after-party?

Very Bad Music
A scene from some provincial Russian club

Supermayer: Right, put this dude on the guest list, please

Yuri Saprykin "Umbrella" (Rihanna cover)
The editor-in-chief of "Afisha" magazine covers a hit

Supermayer: A magnificent version. He sings and looks considerably more pleasant than Rihanna. We like his Totoro costume, the little cat in the frame and everything else going on around him.

Dsh-Dsh "Cosmos"
A pleasant, if not the best, Russian indie-pop group

Supermayer: Naah... This isn't our cup of tea. After all those great clips we've just watched, it's hard to concentrate on anything serious.

Final scene from the film "O Lyubvi"
A scene from a film representing the Soviet cinematic "new wave". Axel should especially like it.

Supermayer: It took our breath away. We can't watch and talk at once. Definitely, you have to see the whole film to the end. And Axel needs the phone number and the name of the actress.

Mujuice "The Tear of a Deer That Thinks Itself the Northern Lights"
The Russian IDM miracle Roma Litvinov. You know him, of course.

Supermayer: We repeat: we need the actress's phone number. We prefer the Mujuice works that came out on the wonderful label Pro-Tez. This one has some sort of wrong beat. It just doesn't suit us.

Nikolai Voronov "White Dragonfly of Love"
A nerd who in a short time turned into a superhero of the Russian internet

Supermayer: For this we have a video reply. Here's a bonus track from us to you. See you on the 5th, Friday!

Deep Casa,
5 June, Arma 09,
Nizhny Susalny per., 3/5
700 rub. at the club box office

Main area: Supermayer, DJs Ata (both - Germany), Sergey A.M., Ylotana Project (live)
Masha (mezzanine studio): DJs Sestra, Pirumov, Sandra, Vinilkin
Arma@Casa (ground floor): DJs Sapunov, Abelle&BKPR
Arma Afterparty (mezzanine studio, from 6:00): Arma DJs

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