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Dissident - Spare Sense5 Mix - Dec 2006
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Biography of Dissident
Dissident is the production name of Russian based Stanislaw Sevostyanikhin. Residing in St.Petersburg at the Baltic sea shore, he spends most of his time slicing beats, sampling street and industrial sounds and creating trends in modern music culture. He is influenced by very different kinds of music that allowed him to produce such diverse and truly innovative tunes.
Stas started to produce electronic music in early 1996. He was influenced by techno & breakbeat in general. Shortly after he turned to dark-side and created his first drum’n’bass project called T.Step Collective (featuring Aspekt, Nec and MC Akim) who in 1999 renamed themselves to Dissonance. They had enough success in Russia, with many releases and performances.
After gaining some experience in the industry, he quit the project and went on to produce solo in 2001. Dissident collaborated with different artists, such as Sta & Paul B, Ruffen, Bes, Uzhas and many others. The sound that he had polished was ready to be taken onto the world scene and his first release “Technecium” (made with Paul B) abroad Russia was on the famous British label Renegade Hardware in 2002. Dissident then signed up to a new American imprint called Fear Red with his innovative tune “Fuji” / 'Last DNA Donor'.
Eventually Stas started to get bored of strictly techno sound and began to research other sides of drum&bass for more depth and detail. These days he finds himself using more acoustic instruments, deep ambient atmospheres, glitches and virtuously chopped drum breaks. His sound is always surprising, spanking fresh and catchy. Tunes that you can dance to and also listen to.
Today Stanislaw has released three long player albums on TAM Records, a label he co-owns with Bes; a couple of 12” on Subvert Central and Counter Intelligence. Forthcoming material is scheduled for a release on different labels – Gamma Ray (3x12” LP called “Escapism”), Vibez and Exegene. As a dj, Dissident performed alongside LTJ Bukem, Paradox, Nookie, Seba, Goldie, Bad Company, Fabio, Grooverider, Matrix, Ill.skillz, Cause4Concern and many many others.
In the studios, Dissident lists the Soviet synthesizer 'Polyvox' as his favorite tool to create the unique sounds he's become known for. Legendary Polyvox is the portable analog synthesizer which is designed for playing different musical compositions of any genre. It is also intended for creating musical effects in cinema and play scoring in the studio.
Also there are some side-projects: Kontext with some minimal techno bleeps; “Трэш-Шапито КАЧ“ – abstract hip-hop with provocative Russian lyrics; La Dissidence with downtempo beats; Fluter and Dissident – the mystical drumfunk band. Duo performs their music live and preparing a full album for Opposide Records, an independent record label that was initially created in 2006 by Dissident himself and DJ Gvozd to provide the outlet for music in its most experimental and expressive forms.
