Russian Space by Oldschool_Dubtechno .Producer, Chain Selector
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[PIRANHA SIBERIA DUB] is proud to present its 89th release — the long-awaited collaborative album by Oldschool_Dubtechno .Producer x Chain Selector: Russian Space.
This 18-track album, created across Novosibirsk, Moscow, and a circle of outstanding Russian musicians, transforms the country’s cosmic heritage into a living sonic universe. Each composition is named after a celestial body discovered by Russian scientists — turning dub techno into a language of astronomy reimagined through live instruments, voice, and improvisation. Real bass, live guitars, percussion, saxophone, and vocals turn dub techno into a research mission aimed at exploring the very objects Russian astronomers once revealed to the world.
Every track here is a celestial body marked on the map thanks to Russian researchers. Russian Space becomes a sonic catalogue of national discoveries — not in the form of a textbook, but as a pulsating odyssey where deep rhythm intertwines with live improvisation, and digital precision coexists with human breath. This is not just dub techno — it is a study in motion, where each composition bears the name of a celestial object found by Russian scientists. The result is a sonic atlas of domestic discoveries, rendered in a deep, fluid, and organically cosmic sound.
I. Mission Launch: a guitar opens the stellar corridor.
:::The journey begins with Ad Astra (Intro) by Chain Selector, Nebula Alchemists, and guitarist Mikhail Medvedev. His live guitar sounds like the source of a primordial impulse: shimmering notes evoke magnetic oscillations, and subtle reverberations glow like heated cosmic dust. The launch is intimate yet monumental — as if the ship pushes off not from Earth, but from its own memory of the Sun.
:::In 1648/Shajna, created by Chain Selector, PashtetGuitar, and Oldschool_Dubtechno .Producer, you hear what could be called guitar astronomy: vibrating strings draw lines across the sky, while deep dub rhythms and chords form the very trajectory through space.
II. Bass as gravity. Saxophone as the breath of the void.
:::A powerful presence emerges with Real Bassist, whose live bass fills 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko and 10711/Pskov with a grounded, bodily depth — turning dub textures into gravitational fields. His tone is dense, flexible, unmistakably “earth-like”, as if holding the listener in the orbital layer of each track.
:::One of the album’s most striking moments is 26087/Zhuravleva, featuring saxophonist Andrew Krasilnikov. His saxophone moves like the radio noise of a distant nebula: at times a sharp plasma burst, at times a gentle exhalation of gas. The electronic structure of the track gains a breathing, living texture of space itself.
III. Vocoder transmissions and the voice as a particle of light.
:::A special place belongs to 951/Gaspra, created by Oldschool_Dubtechno .Producer, Chain Selector, and Kostya Grim of “Bratya Grim”. He recorded several vocoder phrases that sound like encrypted messages from the asteroid’s surface. Processed through digital modulation, his voice resembles research-station radio traffic—human yet subtly alien.
:::Another dimension opens through the voice of Seraphin Selenge Makangila, known as Simba Vibration, whose timbre appears in two tracks:
::C’est La Danse Cosmique — his vocal becomes a ritual movement of light, a dance of photons, turning dub into something almost shamanic;
::Dub Poetry — a deep voice reciting lines like poetry of the Universe itself, spoken in dub rhythm, as if the cosmos were reading its own verses.
:::Tenor Love on I Need Your Company creates an emotional apex: the human voice emerges like a distant signal — warm, vital, and unmistakably alive, cutting through the dense interstellar noise.
IV. Orbital strikes and strings of light.
:::Collaborations with An.drums on 2388/Gase and 74P/Smirnova–Chernykh bring tactile percussion: sharp overtones and the sense of physical space. Each hit feels like a micrometeorite tapping against the hull of a spacecraft.
:::A phenomenal highlight is 2720/Pyotr Pervyj, featuring guitarist Feodor Dosumov. His playing is pure plasma: swift runs, resonant articulation, and a rich, full tone creating the impression of a luminous arc sweeping over the track — an energetic storm captured in sound.
V. Solar strokes and asteroid trails.
:::3063/Μαχάων, a collaboration between Chain Selector and TIMONIN, moves like a ship through a dense asteroid belt. TIMONIN reveals himself here through synth accents that form an astrophysical structure — cold, crystalline, yet filled with inner light. His synth blends into the dub flow like impulse lights of a station flickering as the ship passes an asteroid field.
:::The collaboration with Kostya Grim on 2374/Vladvysotskij showcases his natural ability to merge electronic and human textures. His vocal manipulations create an airy spectrum where every inflection feels like a celestial body being viewed through a spectrograph.
:::Two tracks with bassist Anton Davidyants — 7320/Potter and 3036/Krat — deepen the architecture of the album. His signature technique shapes the terrain of the compositions, turning them into an engineering analysis of a planet’s surface: the living bass vibrates like geological layers, forming a shifting topography. His lines act like deep-scan instruments — precise, flexible, expressive.
:::“3054/Strugatskia,” created by Chain Selector, becomes one of the album’s most atmospheric points. It is a track-vision, a track-landscape: its structure unfolds like a journey through the reddish clouds of a distant world, as if taken straight from the pages of the Strugatsky brothers.
VI. A luminous ending: guitar as the final orbit.
:::The expedition concludes with 1855/Korolev (Outro) — once again Chain Selector, Nebula Alchemists, and guitarist Mikhail Medvedev, who closes the album the same way he opens it: with the soft radiance of live guitar. This is not an ending but a transition — as if the ship disappears beyond the horizon of the next star.
VII. The man who ignited the mission engine.
At the heart of this project is Chain Selector, also known as Denis Popov. Quietly and without ceremony, he became the one who connected the entire ensemble. What began as a simple idea — to make a joint album — he transformed into an orbital station where more than ten of Russia’s finest musicians converged. And that is how Russian Space was born.
Denis is a drummer, composer, and educator whose career spans theatre, jazz, rock, electronic projects, and studio work. His true gift is the ability to bring people together — professionals, experimenters, and those eager to explore new forms of sound. In Russian Space, Denis became not just a participant but the navigator: assembling the team, shaping the creative environment, and guiding the album’s trajectory. We brought him an idea. He turned it into a universe.
“Russian Space” is an album where dub techno, live vocals, and acoustic instruments transform Russia’s scientific heritage into an emotional stellar trajectory.
Every track is a celestial body.
Every musician is an explorer.
Every sound is a step into infinity.
Yours in sound and spirit,
The [PIRANHA SIBERIA DUB] Crew.
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Tracks crafted and produced by: Denis Popov, Oleg Nabivachev, Alexander Kotlov, Paul Martynenko, Dmitry Maximov, Andrew Krasilnikov, Konstantin Burdaev, Seraphin Selenge Makangila, Sergey Koreshkov, Anastasia Sereda, Anton Davidyants and Mikhail Medvedev.
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Mastering by Piranha Bros.
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Catalog number: [PSD089]
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