
Instrumental hip hop duo The Cancel is the fruit of a collaboration between Andrei Zelenskii and Dmitrii Fedusiv, two Ukrainian musicians with a common passion for jazz music and old vinyls. Their music finds its roots in the works of jazz maestros such as John Coltrane and Miles Davis passed through the filter of modern electronica-influenced hip hop (think Ninja Tune or Stones Throw). The Cancel - Summer Tape After a very well received debut LP released last year, The Cancel are back with Reply From Space , a [...]
Look at it this way - after you've seen this video, you'll know for sure that your Monday morning cannot possibly get any worse. Until we'd seen this video, we'd thought the garlic-stuffed lumps of bird flesh claiming to be "Chicken Kiev" that we purchased from the discount aisle in our local Tesco were the [...]

With The X Factor playing all over the world these days, Kylie Minogue was clearly feeling a jaunt to the Ukraine might do her some good. The sexy calendar girl hit up the Eastern European country's version of the televised singing talent competition over the weekend, where she belted out her classic "I Should Be So Lucky", the Aphrodite jams "All The Lovers" and "Get Outta My Way" , as well as her 2001 smash "Can't Get You Out Of My Head". That's right — that one came out 10 years [...]
It is about time that she retired this song from promo appearances. We are still bitter that she didn't release "Too Much" as a single, we don't know if we can recover from all the bad single choices Kylie has made across her career. But, we still love her to death. Filed under: Aussie , Beats , Clip Tagged: arts , kylie , kylie minogue , minogue , too much , video

The first split EP on T3K Recordings features two very interesting producers and their works. Impeh (Ukraine) has four tunes of a very special kind and brings heavy digital rampage to all lovers of midrange-based Neuro- Tech. These clean and sharp blades chop away every- thing in their way. Vidual (Estonia) is very young but also very talented and capable of creating very musical songs. This does not mean that he is making beats for the commercial radio stations but he is designing stingers to attack dancefloors in a drastic and [...]

Synchrodogs is a joined force created by the in-love boyfriend Roman Noven and girlfriend Tania Shcheglova . The two artists are currently living in Ukraine, where they collaborate on everything from fashion shoots [ recent spread for Harper's Bazaar ] to their own conceptualized photo-collage series [ underworld series ]. Synchrodogs' work rubs off a strong sense of emotion throughout each and every photograph, naturally leaving these image forever in our minds. [...]

Ukrainian artist Sasha Kurmaz changes the way that we view photography. Throughout his body of work, the artist emphasizes the human form through passion and mystery; bringing unfamiliar things into focus. Kurmaz is also a street artist, painting characteristic shapes with a colorful palette. How, why and when did photography begin for you? I started taking pictures somewhere in 2001 when I started to paint graffiti in the streets. Cameras allowed me to fixed my piece on walls and trains. [...]

We don't hear much music from The Ukraine here on The Network, but we recently came across Sample Rate from Lviv. This is a selection from their last full length album The Breath , released in 2008. The band have just released a new single, and you can find details in the links below. Download "Rescue My Life" Free Music, Every Day. Subscribe to [...]
Kazantip returns for 2011 and we can reveal the first acts announced for the lineup this year. It might be this year that I bite the bullet and go for a visit for a week or so during the duration of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
America's cultural ambassador, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis will join Russia's premier jazz musician, saxophonist Igor Butman in a concert that reaches across time and geopolitical borders. Jazz, America's model for collaboration and improvisation, is coming to you LIVE from Lviv, Ukraine's cultural center at the Alfa Jazz Festival in Boghdan Khmelnitsky Culture ...
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Given that she's one of our esteemed summer tour hotties, we already know plenty of people are looking forward to Rihanna's LOUD Tour with Cee Lo Green. And in case you can't wait until this summer to check out what the cranky tweeter has in store, the "Man Down" songbird unveiled some of what's to come last night when she treated Ukranian fans to performances of hits "Only Girl (In The World)," "Umbrella," "What's My Name," and "Love The Way You Lie" while headlining the FC Shaktar's 75th Anniversary. Take [...]

Not to be mistaken for the band from Barcelona we've featured previously - Singleton are an indie rock band out of Kiev, Ukraine, a fixture of the local indie music since 2004. The group has extensive touring experience with numerous shows in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, and even reaching out beyond to Germany. In 2009 the band had released its debut EP "Storms", followed with the long awaited debut release of "The High Seas", which came out online in December of last year. You can now download the release directly from their website, entirely for free at the link [...]

Heinali and Matt Finney // Conjoined EP One genre that I really love is doom, but I don't get to blog about it much. There is just a raw power that is harnessed within the genre. And there is also a certain amount of restraint in drawing out the release of that power. It's almost like the breathing of some heavy monster. So I was pretty surprised when I received an email from these two artists. Matt Finney is a spoken-word artist from Alabama who works with Ukranian composer Heinali [...]
Little is known about this Ukranian dance foursome, but this is some fierce stuff! Filed under: Beats , Clip , Eurobeat Tagged: album , download , interview , kazaky , kazakyd , leak , music , new , ukraine , video

Daria is a special person in many ways. Her illustrational work is beatifully intricate and detailed and done entirely by hand - which shows. There's a real craftmanship to be found throughout her pencil coloured drawings and I especially love how colourful they are. Not just that, Daria's work really seems to tell a story. I guess you should just get yourself over to her blog and have a look. I asked her a couple of questions, she picked 3 and made drawings to go with them. Yep, that's [...]
Click here to view the embedded video. Vika's version ov Sepultura's "Kaiowas" . . . My first encounter with Vika 's work was her piano arrangement of Carcass' "Corporal Jigsore Quandary". I was stoked that someone with chops was demonstrating what I'd always felt: metal has some GREAT composers. Bill Steer, James Hetfield, and Trey Azagthoth, to name but a few, all really dig under the fingernails of riff-writing to pull out strong themes, clever variations, and some truly [...]