Biography
"Russian Size" - the team of the Russian pop scene, performing electronic dance music. The group is considered one of the pioneers of club parties.The history of creation and composition
When the biography of "Russian size" began, even its participants cannot answer. The founders of the group, friends from Kostanaya Viktor Bondaryuk and Dmitry Sopotilov, began in the mid-80s - mastered musical instruments, tried to write songs. The guys played in various teams - "Captain Cooper", "Oracle". When Pavel Kashin joined the musicians in 1988, who later became a fairly famous performer, called the "pathoanomatical department."
Under the name "Russian Size", the group began to perform since 1991, after moving Dmitry and Viktor to St. Petersburg. After the year of their songs, "the star melts", "I call you Joy", "Batman" sounded on all dance sites. The author of the music and texts of the initial period of the group was Scootilov.
The changes and the composition of the collective were undergoing: the Keyman Dmitry Khil and the guitarist Alexander Tyurin joined the keyboard player, but leaving Germany for a short time, but Bondaryuk returned. It appeared from the "Russian size" and dance accompaniment, from which, however, soon refused, but one girl was left - Angela Kuznetsova. So the sound of men's voices diluted female vocals. Later, Svetlana Kunitsyn came to shift.
In the nightclub in Novosibirsk, the performers got acquainted with Yulia Koshelevie. The girl put the choreographic bundles for the group between the rooms and soon became the face of the "Russian size". According to rumors, Julia gone, offended by the director Alexander Levin, who did not allow her to take her to the groom's concerts.
In 1995, the Soloist's place was taken by Professor Lebedinsky, the author of the hit "I will kill you, the boatman." Beginner DJ Dmitry Nagiyev and Sound Producer Svetlana Vladimir and Kar-Maine Group Vadim Volodin took up the promotion of an unusual creative association.
The songs of the group were popular, occupied the top positions of the charts, but the success of the Lebedinsky Album "Hellow-Goodba" pushed the more attention to the solo career. For other sources, Bondarchuk and Kopotilov tired, the mockery humor and the frank irony of professors and the cooperation with Lebedinsky came to the end.
Approlicable since 1999, women's vocal parties began to be executed by Eleanor Markova (Filimonova), in the record of the album "Dance?" It was then few people who famous Eva was participated.
In the 2000s, a group continued to perform, but disagreements between the founders did their job. As a result, Sopotilov and Bondarchuk unleashed the struggle for copyrights. Dmitry sued the right to perform under the "Russian Size" in Tandem with a new musician Igor Lutsenko.
The young man led the official website of the team, bought and sold tools and simply composed music. The compositions with which the group worked at concerts is redone with the situation, and where the back vocal batch is heard, and Igor froze.
Victor created a new team "Arina and the Project", although, according to the musician, the court admitted the authorship of the name "Russian Size" group.
Music
The first concerts of the newly present team gave in the Palace of Culture and Technology named after the first five-year plan, the monument of Soviet constructivism, destroyed as part of the project for the construction of the second scene of the Mariinsky Theater. With the appearance of the director of the director who have written on the Russian sized, the musicians organized the first major show, to participate in which the stars of the pop scene of the pop-scene - Lada Dance, Tatyana Ovsienko, Natalia Vottitskaya, the group "on-on" and " Little Prince".In 1995, there was a turn of the first magnetoalbom called "Yu-Aa". The clip on the title composition "Batman" was removed by Boris Dedenev, the author of the "Wind" of the DDT group, "Wings" of Vyacheslav Butusov.
With Professor, Lebedinsky "Russian Size" released a couple of albums with comic remakes of old Soviet and foreign hits, such as "blue-blue frost", "Souvenir", "last time".
Compositions for the album "Meow", as the performers say, composed and recorded at night. The record was released by the division of the concern "Soyuz Studio", one of the largest and oldest Russian labels.
The song "Satellite and Computers" is inspired by the legendary film of Andrei Tarkovsky "Solaris", "Friendship" was originally called "Love", and supposedly it is at the studio unknown what the frightened producers renamed the track. The composition "And in the sky of the Cashkin" the musicians recorded on May 9 and dedicated to the pilot-ACS of the Second World War Alexander Tishkin.
After the release of the album "Dance?" Russian-speaking residents of Europe, Israel and the United States learned about the Russian Size group. As music sites write, given the absence of the Internet in the post-Soviet space, the creation of the group "was delivered directly on the cassettes" to foreign fans. Alexander Soloha, who shot a video for Emin, Mikhail Shufutinsky, Vitas, worked on the clip "So".
The "Exit" album is recorded in collaboration with the participant of the Duet "Black and White" Rodion Chistyakov, "Rising air flows" - with guitarist Denis Afanasyev on nicknamed Baks, a member of the Kostanay rock band Orphan. In the album "Next" included Soundtracks to the popular Soviet kinocarty "Once again about love", "On June 31", "Princess Circus".
Over the years, the sound of "Russian sizes" changed, adjusting to fashion trends. In the songs and tool compositions, Trans, House and DownTempo are heard, as in the "Exit" album, "sausage" is executed in the Tribal House style. In early interviews, Dmitry and Victor said that they would like to be "synthetic, electronic, in the measure of pop," but to follow the genre was stupid.
In 2004, the Group decided to refine and celebrate the non-circular date - the 13th anniversary of the formation. In a festive concert, in addition to the old acquaintances of Nagiyev and Lebedinsky, already mastered the popularity of Eva Polna with "guests from the future", Sergey Chigerakov, Julia Savicheva, Roma Zhukov.
"Russian Size" recorded songs with Mike Naumenko, the group "Chizh & Co", Zhanna Aguzarova and Tatiana Bulanova, DJ Alexei Tsvetkov (DJ Flowerff) and Svetlana Koltunova, speaking under the pseudonym of the world. Something from the fruits of joint creativity is included in the album "TSYZAMEN".
In 2010, the most voluminous and until the last album "Russian size" is "! Listen." To attract the attention of fans, the musicians held a contest of remixes on the track "Plates". The compositions of the two winners are included in the official release of the album.
Russian Size Group now
The Russian size group is the desired guest at events of various scales with the prefix "Retro", carried out both in Russia and abroad. About the intense tour schedule of the team from the 90s show reports in the social networks "Instagram" and "VKontakte".
And let the team do not flash in television fleet, rarely sounds on the radio and has not been happy with new albums for a long time, the combination of vigorous melodies and lyrical poems likes the representatives of the Millennium generation, remember the songs and their parents.
Now the tracks of "Russian size" become the object of musical experiments. For example, Dip Project Duet made remixes on the composition "That's all", "Don't Leave Me."
The audience of the "Russian size" is extensive - from the women's correctional colony in Ulyanovsk to Diskotekaretrofestival in Estonia. The spring and summer of 2018 held a group in a "big disco" concert tour with the participation of Danko, "Virus" and Yulia Volkova (ex-participants of the "Tattoo" duet).
Hit "Angel of the Day" is often performed in the ensemble with Oxana Pokhaper, which is familiar to the audience on the scenic name of Shark. Speeches took place in St. Petersburg and the Irkutsk region, Krasnoyarsk and Altai Territories, Arkhangelsk and Moscow.
Clips
- "Angel of the Day"
- "Like this"
- "Fly"
- "Love"
- "Spring"
- "Before you"
Discography
- 1995 - "Yu-A,"
- 1996 - "Come on! Let's!"
- 1996 - "Meow"
- 1998 - "Dance?"
- 1999 - "650"
- 1999 - "650.2"
- 2000 - "Next"
- 2000 - "Boomz-BoomZ"
- 2001 - "Exit"
- 2002 - "Me sausage"
- 2003 - "Rising air flows"
- 2004 - "TsyZame"
- 2010 - "! Listen"