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Artist

semmi — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:03:58 -0800

Wladimir Kaminer represents an emerging Russo-German culture. He is a DJ spinning Russian wild ska-punk club music, he is a radio talk-show host, the author of several best-selling books depicting the life of Russian immigrants in Germany, and a sort of good-humored emblem of the emerging hybrid culture of Berlin. In a fascinating interview, he reveals post Soviet Russia, and Russian lives and literature in the West; you can read his stories, Paris Lost, and Animal Transport, and the usual overview of his works and of his significance, in the NYT Books section.

By: foxy_hedgehog

foxy_hedgehog — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 20:15:29 -0800

Kaminer's musical and cultural sensibility reminds me of the electronic-gypsy-punk-dancehall-disco-radical-transglobal spinnings of DJ Hutz (sorry, don't know how to do the ASCII umlaut), also known as the lead man in NY-based Gogol Bordello. There's got to be a name for the genre. I just don't know what it is yet.

By: Alt F4

Alt F4 — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:58:29 -0800

There's got to be a name for the genre. I just don't know what it is yet. How 'bout "Teutonica"? /as you were

By: Tomatillo

Tomatillo — Fri, 24 Dec 2004 23:00:14 -0800

Ain't it called russendisko?

By: small_ruminant

small_ruminant — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 00:50:25 -0800

Tomatillo, that's a cool site- thanks!

By: euphorb

euphorb — Sat, 25 Dec 2004 18:36:21 -0800

The Soul of Black Country? Well shit man, I'll be darned.