New Releases. Presentation of 'Xpom' by Mendelayev

In the table of D.I. Mendeleev, all the necessary elements for the emergence and continuation of life are located. This is the basic matrix upon which living matter builds its existence. We are part of it, we interact with its elements, and as a result, we change, mutate, move forward, and live. Chemistry is life, and all life is chemistry. We were taught this as children; you remember.

Mendelayev remembers this too – the chemical sound experimenter, a fan of change, a lab technician in a burnt lab coat, combining elements and parts of music in test tubes, an amusing young chemist who melds thoughts, samples, and harmonies to get burned a thousand times. And on the thousand and first try, get what he wanted. A mad young scientist of electronic sound, he seeks the necessary connections, sometimes finds them, and his music resembles these connectable-unconnectable (atypical?) reagents. He himself says: "I am not a fan of D.M. Mendeleev, but I respect certain elements."

And it’s not just about chemistry.

Although chemistry is directly related to our album. "Chrome" is one of the most beautiful and pure metals: the chemist Vokelen, who isolated it, was struck by the variety of colors formed by its various compounds (by the way, "chrome" from Greek means color, paint). Like real chrome, the album is varied and multicolored; like real chrome, the musical samples and innovations of Mendelayev are distinguished by "resistance to external irritants and ease of forming compounds with other elements." He likes to search in music for what no one has heard or suspected before and connect it with already proven materials. Mendelayev constantly experiments in "Chrome": sometimes he adds broken IDM, electronic brain dance, or drum and bass, but not the kind with a straight kick that European amphetamine teens dance to, but his own, new kind, which includes both a broken beat, provocation, and even sampled sounds of real scissors, pencils, or needles. Sometimes he makes a lecture on chemistry, downloaded from the Internet, the title track of which he didn’t like at first listen due to its "balalaikas," and literally within a few hours made a new version of it, so he wouldn’t suffer. And his very name – Mendelayev – suggests that this guy loves to use various special effects to enhance life and sound. Or to make it different, at least.

Perhaps it’s because he spent a year and a half in the army practically underground, serving as a radio operator, and still recalls that strange and mysterious atmosphere of the bunker, where at night under a restless electric light four radios crackle, some sending Morse code, some encrypted data, some a distant female voice, and some simply noise and crackle. It was then that Mendelayev brought an old synthesizer from home, and became fascinated with strange sounds, trying to write electronic music using two tape recorders and this synthesizer. The atmosphere of the bunker and the distant sensation of mystery from electronic signals and a sense of loneliness has remained in his tracks.

Currently, Mendelayev works as an arranger in two studios, performs, and engages in parallel projects, one of which is the hip-hop project Djajda (mc dark). This versatile provocateur attempts to meld his music with many elements, and we are glad that you will be the first to appreciate the results of his search.

On November 13 at the "16 Tons" club, the presentation of the debut album of MENDELAYEV "XPOM" will take place. Club "16 Tons": Presnensky Val 6., bld. 1., m. Ulica 1905 goda.

Program:

MENDELAYEV (supported by MC Dark and Sky Residents)
Compass-Vrubell
Solar X (especially from the UK)
Yura Moorush
Lazyfish
Chemist

Additionally: visual experiments from Katya Efimova.