HIDE-AND-SEEK WITH FOXES

Soft Blade’s mix brings together tracks from cult films and games about graffiti and street art with Russian hip hop of the 1990s and 2000s.

«I chose tracks that can call up associations with graffiti even among people who know little about the subculture, for instance from the soundtrack of the cult street art film Exit Through the Gift Shop or music from the popular game about graffiti Getting Up, and also tracks that I associate with the atmosphere of hip culture in Russia in the 1990s and 2000s. I included excerpts from the popular (within a narrow circle) podcast G-Spot, guests of which had a major influence on the development of graffiti in Russia.»

Sof Blade worked with the street art archive.

Cover: Courtesy VolodimEr, 2009

BIO

Soft Blade is an experimental audio-visual project by Violetta S. in which she searches for herself, truth, beauty, and unexpected meetings along the way. Sof Blade’s multi-genre compositions are inspired by Russian-language folk music and British electronica. She has performed at the Signal and Fields festivals and sung in church choirs in Moscow and St. Petersburg.