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A5, Udacha 8

March 6, 2014 – 12:01 AM

The five tracks of A5’s Udacha 8 are lacking not in drive but in much else to offer the listener trying to parse a groove from it.

Talking Shopcast with Udacha

December 9, 2013 – 12:01 AM

Talking Shopcast 19 from A5 collects music from as far back as the ’60s, and mixing it with his label’s latest records via non-beatmatched fades and other unconventional devices. He doesn’t always program and mix this way, but he says, “I just wanted to record something which tells the weird story that I associate with our label.”

Various Artists, Udacha 6

June 11, 2013 – 12:01 AM

True to the label’s ideals, parts of Udacha 6 feel genuinely improvised — a nice change to the rigidly-structured pieces we mostly hear.

Various Artists, Udacha 5

March 7, 2013 – 1:01 AM

Udacha’s fifth release, like the four before it, shines the spotlight on a handful of unknown producers whose sounds slot handily into the Russian label’s catalog.

A5, Udacha 1

May 2, 2012 – 12:01 AM

Udacha 1, the Udacha label’s inaugural release, finds A5 in as fresh a form as ever, following up those Rawax records with four abstract cuts.