![]() ![]() He is currently working with national DJs producing mix tapes and completing his new untitled independent album. "I will stay humble and I will always keep working hard," Page resolves. "Everything is about self-improvement and overcoming obstacles. It's not about what I want to achieve it's about how far I can go. But I'm going to ride this till the wheels fall off until that happens.The Dnipropetrovsk music band …I Drug Moi Gruzovik offers a rare combination of continuous artistic exploration and convincing results. ![]() The mere emergence of …I Drug Moi Gruzovik (…IDMG), which translates as…And My Friend Truck, looks like an effective experiment: when in August 1997 local enthusiasts decided to hold a rock festival Karier in the suburbs of Dnipropetrovsk, three musicians gathered to give a one-time performance exclusively for this festival. They had few chances for success: a scarcely known band with a strange core presented by a vocalist, a bass guitarist, and a drummer, and an awkward name. After all, it was …IDMG who came to be a real sensation and breakthrough of the Karier: the bass and drumbeat were weaving a refined and up-tempo rhythmic basis, whereas the charismatic and sprightly frontman Anton Sliepakov filled every composition with insane energy. This was the moment when one of Ukraine’s best music bands was born. The …IDMG members are a kind of rock alchemists. They have never sat still with the successful fusion of the core elements they created 12 years ago. ![]() Instead, they have been trying ever new combinations in every new album or project, which come as a surprise to both music critics and the band’s buffs. They combine funk with jazz, hard-core klezmer (this sort of thing does exist) with hip-hop, techno with bossa nova.Īnton’s lyrics – ironical, at times acrimonious, lyrical, or absurd – ideally embed in the refined ambience produced by the band’s composer, virtuoso bassist Rostyslav Chaban. Rostyslav and Anton are inventive enough to produce an alternative even to themselves. ![]()
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