our podcast came out on day one of the channel, 2 january 2023: fyodor khodnev and ivan kislenko on new wave and post-punk. four days later: "they turned over in their graves at such a small number of plays." (23, 53)

in april 2023 we recorded a live episode on the origins of psychedelia at клуб клуб in moscow — one of our first events. getting on yandex music took "a very long time going through these stupid checks". (266, 399)

in november 2023 it came back as a series: "alphabet of genres", one genre per letter, and listeners choose the next one in polls. 12 episodes so far: art rock, blues, witch house, gothic rock, drum'n'bass, eurodance, zef, industrial, krautrock, lo-fi, midwest emo, new wave. (923, 3763)

i co-hosted at first, then produced it: topics, recordings, editing, publishing and the posts around every episode. the host is fyodor khodnev.

small things

• zef, in yolandi visser's words: "when you're poor but fashionable and sexy" (2313)
• the new wave episode was recorded "almost without a script" (3723)

links all episodes