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Собаки Табака

Band, *1993
Electronic and Rock
A.k.a. Robert Ostrolutskiy, Alexei Mostiev, Sergey Ulyanov, Valentina Vekshina, Patrick Pidoux, Andrey Turin, Roman Sukov

Sobaki Tabaka is the brightest representative of the Moscow underground music considering the last 20 years. The group Sobaki Tabaka (formerly Crownear) took its roots from the Soviet era in the late 80-s. In the middle of the 90-s they emerged as the Russian industrial scene’s flagship out of a period of troubled times, and using provocative methods, they spread like a virus on TV, radio and even in the theaters, establishing the diversity of their creative ambitions. The team’s performances were always a vivid and poignant action which referred the audience to the classics of the genre, such as the Swans, Missing Foundation, Throbbling Gristle and others. In 1997, they recorded their first and legendary opus “In the Brain!”, and later on the band performed along with Einsturzende Neubauten at a festival organized by the Goethe Institute Moscow, hitting the audience with their otherworldly sound and appearance. In the end of the 90-s Sobaki Tabaka recorded the second album, "Shadow of Light", partly consisting of the music for the play "Faust". In the early 2000-s, the group's leader, Robert Ostrolutsky moved to London, where he tried to materialize his English-language trip-hop project Positive Arrogance and record an album with British musicians at Abbey Road Studios. The album had been well met by the public, in sound having been put in a row with the English colleagues like Laika, Recoil and Massive Attack. But after a quarrel with producers, Robert left London and returned to Moscow. In 2005, along with the bassist Alexei Mostiyev they revived the group. The Moscow label Q-Code rec. reissued the first two albums of Sobaki Tabaka. The Rolling Stone Magazine published a vast article about the group while the musicians, in the meantime, took a super tour around the former Soviet Republics. In 2007, after the joint show with American group Dalek, the musicians began writing a new album dubbed "I find, I kill!" and subsequently released on the label Soyuz Music rec. The album received a lot of high marks among the music press and listeners. It revealed many new aspects of the band’s creativeness, consonant with the modern trends of noise-rock and sludge, keeping the same atmosphere, recognizable from the very first minutes of listening. In 2011, having played a joint concert with the iconic project Scorn the musicians plunged into the studio work, the result of which was their fourth release, "New Body". In January 2012, the group went on a music tour with the assistance of their colleagues, Swiss musicians of Sludge and Rorcal and a hip hop singer, La Gale. Then Sobaki Tabaka supported Samael in Lausanne, and upon their return to Moscow they opened up for the cult Swans. In the next few years the group gave concerts with the legends like Godflesh and The Young Gods, and during the same period, the vocalist Robert Ostrolutsky became a superstar of the Russian Musical "Todd". As the climax, there was a jubilee concert that took place in May 2016 with Christoph Hahn (SWANS) where the musicians brought down on their listeners the power to 7 people on stage. Sobaki Tabaka has been a leading group of the Russian underground scene for over 20 years, on which music grew more than one generation. This year the band is preparing to release a special tribute edition with the versions of songs featured by the underground world stars, such as Dave Phillips [Fear Of God, Dead Peni], Alan Dubin [Khanate, GNAW, OLD], BKGD audio [Oktopus from dälek], Gnaw Their Tongues, Oddateee, Skye Klein [HALO, Terminal sound System], Christian Garcia [Velma, Meril Wubslin], The Austrasian Goat, Kristof Hahn [ Swans], Khost, Jérome Doudet [KNUT], Bull Of Heaven, John 3:15, Vanessa Van Basten and many others. Current members are Robert Ostrolutskiy, Alexei Mostiev, Sergey "Ulik" Ulyanov,Patrick "Pud" Pidoux - West side Robert Ostrolutskiy, Alexei Mostiev, Andrey Turin,Roman Sukov, Valentina Vekshina - East side.

Members

	Роберт Остролуцкий g, voc
	Alexei Mostiev voc