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Introducing Manchester based electronic band Rubika. Currently taken to heart by Manchester’s new music fanatics and club promoters, Rubika bring to the dancefloor echoes of Russian legends Kino and a love affair with contemporaries Magnetic Man and Das Pop. Irena (vocals) from Odessa swapped nights outs in Ukraine underground dance clubs Palladium & Moloko for Manchester, England to study fashion and search out a musical collaborator. Slava (synths) from Minsk arrived in Manchester accompanied solely by a battered Moog and his MicroKorg. Enrolment at the University of Salford, a chance encounter with Irena at Victoria Station and all night recording sessions in Slava’s bedroom studio joined by his DJ friend Luke on drums brings us up to date with Rubika.

Rubika say: “Our songs are a perfect balance between our Russian musical influences and our British tastes,” Slava pin-points. “There’s our love of European dance music, big electro tunes from the underground clubs. But the mood of our music is very inspired by Manchester. That sort of rainy, melancholic northern England romanticism”.

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