Dolphin

Dolphin (rus. ‘Del’fin’, actual name Andrey Lysikov) is among the most respected titles on the modern Russian alternate hip-hop scene. Champion from the ‘Greatest Performer’ of “MTV Russia Music Honours”, he’s adored by both pop-music followers as well as the indie masses. Given birth to in 1971, Dolphin required his stage name as an associate of the hip-hop task Mal’chishnik (Bachelor Party), which because of its brief presence from 1991 to 1996 obtained wide recognition among younger target audience and scandalous status for his or her sex-heavy lyrics. In 1992-94 Dolphin done a side task known as Duboviy Guuy’ (loosely translated as ‘Oak Man’). The just two known produces by Dubovyi Guuy’ are designated by dark suicidal lyrics and weighty alternative guitar audio. After Mal’chishnik split up in 1996, Dolphin started focusing on two tasks — Mishiny del’finy (‘Misha’s Dolphins’), which continuing dark thematic of Dubovyi Guuy’ and ‘Dolphin’, where he departed from racy rap in to the darker underground hip-hop place. In 1997 Dolphin’s first single record Ne v fokuse (‘Out Of Concentrate’) premiered, causing several scandals and issues with media, pursuing occurrences like Dolphin using explicit vocabulary on Television or shedding his pants before upset biker mob at a concert. In 1999 Glubina rezkosti (‘Depth Of Field’) arrived, a record produced completely out of examples taken from songs by such music artists as Marilyn Manson, Tori Amos, Sonic Youngsters and many more, aswell as sampled recordings of live musical instruments. The effect was the building blocks from the questionable audio that Dolphin supplied since. Softer, even more emotional vocals, nearer to poetry than to hip-hop had been laid together with array of parts and samples, put together in a lovely and haunting mosaic. Two produces (Ya budu zhit'(‘I Will Live’) and an experimental task Plavniki (‘Fins’)) implemented in 2000. Dolphin became a significant body in Russian show-business, putting your signature on a agreement with General Music Russia in 2002 and starring in a significant film in 2003. Zvezda(‘Superstar’) arrived in 2004 and became a massive achievement, with four tracks from the disk getting in regular radio rotation. Yunost'(‘Youngsters’), released in 2007 demonstrated that Dolphin haven’t ceased searching for the brand new sound through the old resources, using archaic drum-machines and keyboards to generate, as Dolphin stated himself, “a nice discomfort”.