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[pyani]

Well, a year on and we're winding down this project. I wish I'd come up with a clever name for it, like the guys at the AV Club did with Popless or My Year of Flops. However, I didn't really know what I was gonna do or for how long it would remain interesting. Anyway, I will have more comments on all of that after I finish this for good next week, I guess. For now, let's talk about Нож Для Frau Müller - Мечты - Третий Сорт, which I picked up in the y2k while doing study abroad in Moscow. I suppose my first introctuion to the band, also known as Messer für Frau Müller, came while hanging out in the dorm room shared by malevich and tomatos, where we used to hang out, drink beer and vodka, and listen to all sorts of music. We would all be pleasantly surprised that we knew Fugazi, for example, and that was the basis of our friendship. I think the one gig I went to that semester (with those two guys and also with qlcha if memory serves) was Frau's, at Moscow's venerable Proekt OGI club. Anyway, the music is some boppy electronic stuff. Lounge music, I guess, but with lots of kitschy samples from Soviet movies. It's pretty good stuff, and I used to always get high to it back in the day. I would probably do the same now, if I had a consistent weed supply.

As always, if you decide to download the record from the link above, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.