ʞık - Basement Classics (2024)

Alex Dubasov talks about him and this album

I am 43 years old. I have been involved in music since childhood. When I was 13 years old I organized a cyber-punk band in which I wrote music on the ZX spectrum computer. Further music studies have always been based on modern technologies, even if they were associated with playing musical instruments. Since 2015, I have become interested in modular synthesis, writing music, soundtracks for films and performances.

The work that I present to your attention consists of material recorded over 7 years (from 2015 to 2022), a reel-to-reel tape recorder and a large number of analog instruments were used for recording. The main idea with which I speak within the framework of this release is the loneliness of a person as an individual and the inability to assimilate into society, because personal loneliness is not a connecting factor. All activities in a person’s life concern only him; he sees and feels the world only while inside his cocoon.

The recordings were made from 2015 to 2021 in a studio with an analogue path and recorded on a reel-to-reel tape recorder without subsequent mixing.