OK I may be jumping into my favorites a little bit soon here, but I just can't resist. The lovely Katya, born Katya Chekhova (Катя Чехова), is my absolute all-time favorite contemporary Russian artist. She's signed to the Russian label Uplifto, which is reponsible for a lot of the most exciting dance music coming out of Russia right now.
She started making music in 2005, and her first release, I - Robot (Я-Робот) is OFF THE HOOK. When I was studying abroad in 2006 my best friend and co-author of this blog Megan found her CD in a tiny music store in Vladimir, Russia and bought it because of the robot on the cover. It ended up being my favorite purchase either of us ever made that whole time.
Here is a remix of her song "I - Robot," my favorite off her first album - I'll post more recent tracks later, but this is a great introduction to her work.
Make sure you visit her website here, where you can download all of her albums - that is, if you can figure out where to find them.
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