Tagged: Slava
FADER Mix: Slava
This is a great FADER mix. Following Slava’s flutteringly percussive 2012 EP Soft Control, and an ensuing GEN F profile, he recently released his debut LP Raw Solutions, a hard-hitting record that sticks boldly tight … read more »
Video: Slava, “Werk”
In the eye-popping video for “Werk,” Slava Balasanov walks into a swanky modern office, looking fly in a baseball jacket with the word RUSSIA across the back. A secretary ready with a hundred come-hither glances … read more »
Stream: Slava, “On It”
One curious detail in the story of Slava Balasanov, as chronicled in our GEN F profile on the New York-based producer last year, is that he became really obsessed with free jazz for a time … read more »
FADER/MoMA PS1 Warm Up Mixes: Slava
Every Saturday every summer, MoMA PS1 presents Warm Up, a event series taking place in their enormous courtyard. The museum—MoMA’s longstanding sister site in Long Island City, Queens—is a lightning rod for new and exciting … read more »
MoMA PS1′s Warm Up 2012 Lineup
Judging from MoMA PS1’s Warm Up lineup, we will once again be spending our summer Saturdays sweaty and stoked in the courtyard of MoMA PS1. This year we’ll be shaded (and the air will be … read more »
GEN F: Slava
Slava Balasanov is 30, with a precise bowl cut and a surprising fondness for the plain black dress shoes of a bank teller. The son of two mathematicians, he spent his first 12 years in … read more »
The FADER #79 Podcast
Philip Glass is an icon of the avant-garde, which more or less means the star of FADER #79 is a weirdo of mythic proportions. In that spirit, and in his honor, we’ve crafted one of … read more »
World Premiere! The FADER #79 Featuring Philip Glass
The most famous, absurd anecdote about Philip Glass, the subject of our annual Icon Issue this year, is that around the time Einstein on the Beach was performed at the Metropolitan Opera in 1976, he … read more »
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Recently, I watched Xavier Beauvois’ very good movie, Of Gods and Men. It’s a narrative film based on a true story about nine Trappist monks living in Tibhirine, Algeria during the mid-’90s, when radical Islamists … read more »
Stream: Slava’s Soft Control EP
New York artist Slava Balasanov goes mononym for his very good EP on Software, Soft Control. (For full first and last name action, watch our piece about his just-closed art show at Eye Beam.) He … read more »
