TB: Mike, you are curating Wunderblock on your own as a solo project now. What are your plans and hopes for the nearest future? Which places, events and projects are on your mind?
MT: Yes, last year I finally moved from Moscow to Berlin, my partners stayed in Russia and, unfortunately, the project can’t be called a band anymore. But I'm now working on two different new projects. One of them is a classic techno project, called Urstadt (“Proto-State”, ger.), together with my mate Nikita Melnikov, also known as Relic Radiation. The vinyl with the Developer remix will be released on WR later this year. The second project is still secret, and too early to introduce it).
Also, I hope, life will return to the Berlin and EU club scene soon, and we’ll be able to present our new projects live. Besides Europe, there are some plans for Russian and UK little tours.
TB: What are your personal highlights of the album and why?
MT: All the tracks have their own special taste and advantages, so it’s hard to choose one. The album is better perceived as a complex work.
TB: How does the current world situation impact the release of the album, in your opinion?
MT: In 2013 we launched Wunderblock Records as a techno label, it had a good development during the following years, and seems the label now has its own place on the techno scene. Though during last two “pandemic” years, the techno scene is slowly dying, and it was another reason for us to launch our new experimental sub-label Ibid., for research in the non-techno field. But this doesn’t mean that we will not continue our experiments in techno as well.
TB: What is your opinion on the current trends in modern electronic music, how does it influence the culture, and in which direction will it go?
MT: Well, this escalates quickly, the culture is mutating fast into the state of meta-modernism, and I have to say, that the future sound will be more complicated, hyperintensive, super-hybridical. Now the most promising are modern experiments in post-dub, IDM and hyper pop.
We are also glad to premiere one of the tracks of the album. Today, we present “Kinetika” - an atmospheric dub ambient composition, which will teleport you from wherever you are now to a dreamy summer jungle full of life or to a spaceship, travelling through the bright stars. Listen to the track now on The Brvtalist SoundCloud and YouTube channels, and follow the artist on social media.
