The Industrial Twilight: БМ - "Конструкции Звуков" [1985]

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

БМ - "Конструкции Звуков" [1985]

Artist: БМ

Title: Конструкции Звуков

Genre: Minimal Electro, Synthpop, Experimental

Country: USSR

Release date: 1985 (2009 re-release)

Track List:

В Машинный Мир
Машинистка
Постамент
Деталь
Завтра
Автокоммутатор
Звуковые Конструкции

БМ/BM was a moniker of Alexander Somov, the pioneer of Izhevsk electronic music scene (which was an unique cultural phenomenon, quite strong during the 1990s but unfortunately dead by now). He never received any sort of musical education, but it didn't stop him from recording 3 tape albums with the help of his friends at the discotheque he worked in. His traces were lost in the chaos of the post-Soviet 90s (there are rumors that he was murdered), but one of his tapes was unearthed and re-released on CD in 2009.

Musically, it strongly reminds me of some works by Kraftwerk, and I'd say that the title of this release is quite appropriate - it's indeed "sound design" or 'sound constructions" rather than music in the traditional meaning of this word. Of course you shouldn't expect much from a guy that was recording it at his home in 1985, using only two cheap tape recorders, yet it still is a very interesting artifact from the early days of Izhevsk scene.

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