Hai! Zdob si Zdub!

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I can't think of enough good things to say about these guys. If I didn't know better and someone told me to check out this hot new metal/folk/gypsy/ska band who sang mostly in Romanian I think I'd tell them to play tig with buses. But a more scintillating band I can't remember hearing for a long time. Any other closet fans willing to give me a wave?

― Johnboy, Monday, 14 April 2003 21:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah they are pretty rude. i remember theyre tunes being massive on russian telly/radio 24/7. i was reading about this club night in berlin called 'russendisko' where they just play loads of russian/ east european stuff like this.
shoukld have got some more stuff of theirs. might be able to fins some cds from a friend, if anyone want to hear. or go to here. never have i seen an ad for air moldova?!!! theres some stuff coming out of moldova actually, ive heard of some moldovan garage djs about.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 07:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hey Ambrose, were you a student out in Russia or working?

― Johnboy, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 08:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

yay, Johnboy!!
*waves frantically*
yes-yes-yes, Zdob si Zdub r GR8. i used to play tunes from their Tabera Noastra and REMIXbI albums quite a lot on the radio.
there are (or were) a coupla more ZsZ-heads round here on ILM, i think.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 10:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've never heard of them, but they sound hella intriguing.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 10:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah i was studying there from 2000-2001. i lived in moscow then st petersburg.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 10:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

hey johnboy - you rocking the spitfire?

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 10:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

ok i need this stuff. for my work. no, seriously.

― gaz (gaz), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 10:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

ambrose -- i studied in Moscow from 1980-83. it sure must look rather different round there by now, obv...
(haven't been to Russia at all for at least a dozen years, methinks)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 10:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

yeah moscow is mental to the maXor
dont think you'd recognise the business plazas, clubs that cost $3 mill to kit out etc etc etc opulent piece of crap
go back there to freak yourself out. having seen it in its present incarnation, and got to know it fairly well, i cant even imagine what it must have been like when you were there.
did you enjoy it?

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 12:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

did you enjoy it?
-- ambrose

ho-ho...! there's a short answer. and a longish answer. to that question.
(i'll scrap, mercifully, the long one)
the shorter dub 'd run smth like this: enjoyed just some of it; kind of "enjoyed" a few other bits; was driven nearly nuts by most of it; found some of the best friends i've ever had. ;-)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 13:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I did the 1999-2000 stint on Grazhdanskii Prospekt in SPb, never made it to Spitfire, that sounds like a Moscow den. I saw ZsZ in Spartak in Petersburg, and they utterly blew me away, around the time of Òû ìåíÿ îñòàâèëà but LONG before they hit the big time with Âèäåëè íî÷ü. Good to have some russophiles on board!

― Johnboy, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 22:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

Òû ìåíÿ îñòàâèëà... Âèäåëè íî÷ü...Good to have some russophiles on board! -- YOU BET!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

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