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Sobaki Tabaka is the brightest representative of the Moscow underground music considering the last 20 years. The group Sobaki Tabaka (formerly Crownear) took its roots from the Soviet era in the late 80-s. In the middle of the 90-s they emerged as the Russian industrial scene’s flagship out of a period of troubled times, and using provocative methods, they spread like a virus on TV, radio and even in the theaters, establishing the diversity of their creative ambitions. The team’s performances were always a vivid and poignant action which referred the audience to the classics of the genre, such as the Swans, Missing Foundation, Throbbling Gristle and others. In 1997, they recorded their first and legendary opus “In the Brain!”, and later on the band performed along with Einsturzende Neubauten at a festival organized by the Goethe Institute Moscow, hitting the audience with their otherworldly sound and appearance. In the end of the 90-s Sobaki Tabaka recorded the second album, "Shadow of Light", partly consisting of the music for the play "Faust".
In the early 2000-s, the group's leader, Robert Ostrolutsky moved to London, where he tried to materialize his English-language trip-hop project Positive Arrogance and record an album with British musicians at Abbey Road Studios. The album had been well met by the public, in sound having been put in a row with the English colleagues like Laika, Recoil and Massive Attack. But after a quarrel with producers, Robert left London and returned to Moscow.
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