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St.Petersburg meets Bristol:
Adding flavour 'n spice - gathering critical acclaim by the likes of Fluxion, Andy Stott, Ms Hobbs, Martyn, Hessle Audio, to name a few... Kontext [a.k.a Stanislav Sevostyanikhin / Dissident] delivers the goods with 'Searching For Transcendental', taken from the new album 'Dissociate', released on the Immerse imprint [IME016], March 2010.
Originally uploaded on You Tube on my previous channel on 3rd April 2010.

Kontext:
Residing in St.Petersburg at the Baltic sea shore, he spends most of his time slicing beats, synthesizing sounds and creating trends in modern music culture. He is influenced by very different kinds of music that allowed him to produce such diverse and truly innovative tunes. Although his forte is primarily drum&bass, Stan has never restricted his music to one particular style or genre.
Stan started to produce electronic music in early 1998. After getting some experience he created his first drum&bass project called Dissonance (featuring his mates Aspekt, Nec and MC Akim). They had enough success in Russia, with many releases and performances. In 2001 he quit the project and went on to produce solo under the Dissident moniker.
The sound that he had polished was ready to be taken onto the world scene and his first 12" release "Technecium" (made with Paul B) was on the famous British label Renegade Hardware in 2002. Today Dissident's discography includes three albums on TAM Records, a label he co-owns; several 12" on Subvert Central, Counter Intelligence, Subtle Audio, Fear Red, Camino Blue and others. Forthcoming material is scheduled for a release on well known NYC imprint Offshore.
Under the guise of Kontext, he set out to write music with no genre classifications. This has become a project to show the diversity and extent of Stan's production skills and represent his experiments with glitches, spatial atmospherics, minimalism and that kind of things. This project is exclusively signed to Bristol-based label Immerse and plenty of new releases are expected in nearest future.
With his fresh and catchy sound, Stan has toured as a DJ across Russia, Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine and Latvia. If all this weren't enough to keep one busy, he also runs his own imprint Opposide and participates in well known in Russia scandal trashy hip-hop band "trash-chapiteau KACH".

Album Review:
Dubstep and D'n'B producer Kontext makes good on the promise of his 12"s for Immerse with an album proper for the Bristolian label. 'Dissociate' is a vividly coherent collection, including six brand new tracks of solemn, Russian spirited electronics pressed a track per side for the optimum listening experience. The flurry of excitement over his early tracks is entirely justified for lovers of the darkest and techiest ends of the dubstep electronica spectrum, hatching atmospheric IDM with the electronic dub sphere of Pole and a minimized version of T++ or Martyn's post-step flex. 'Dissociate' is ultimately a great headphone or armchair listen, the detailed production values intended for closer scrutiny, especially on the insectoid scuttle of 'Clinch' and the majestically synth-washed 'Searching For Transcendental'. But that's not to negate the finely tuned technoid rhyth(m)tor that keeps his music cruising like a gangsta's bimmer in the dance. If there was anyone from this end of the dubstep pool we'd expect to turn up an ace album, it's Kontext and he's surely proved the point here. Heavyweight darkness.
-Boomkat-

Related Links:
http://www.myspace.com/kontextkontext
http://www.myspace.com/standissident
http://www.myspace.com/immerserecordsuk

Video, imagery and morphology composed by Frobbz.