Electroshock Records

The XX century took a special, unique place in the history of the world's music. On the one hand the art of musical improvisation takes its final shape and reaches artistic heights at that time. Music is born spontaneously in the listeners' presence, omitting the stage of preliminary writing. On the other hand, classical musicians turned their attention to the millennial heritage of non-european musical cultures. It enabled them to enrich traditional music with new uncommon harmonies and timbres of various ethnic instruments unheard of before.

Still the most revolutionary breakthrough in the world's music evolution was done because of the active involvement of modern recording and electronic technologies in the process of creating the music. If musicians or composers had to operate with ready-made, fixed timbres of musical instruments - sometimes uncommon ones, but invariable - before, but now they have got really god's power not only over the combinations of ready-made sounds, but over the sound itself. Because of the modern technology composer is able to not only create and reproduce any sound required, he is able to change and convert it as he wants, to decelerate or fasten, to compress or stretch, to decompose it into elementary components. The modern composer prepares a live and trembling sound like a biologist, bending over the microscope, comprehending an amazing mystery and perfection of a live organism's structure.

Composers have been able to master the whole world of sounds existing both in nature and in their imagination. The answers have been found to the questions: what does the sound consist of? What is the difference between musical timbre and noise? Is it possible to make noises sound and make music of them?

The distinction between the "ordinary" sound and the sound of "noble" musical instrument disappeared. It's possible to record the sound of a raindrop falling into a puddle, to lay it on the notes and play your favorite tune with the raindrops. Music of the rain... The world that surrounds us is full of sounds and any of them is ready to transform into music if you wish. And the form it's going to take - would it be European sonnet classic, jazz improvisation or meditative Indian raga - depends on you only.

That is how "the XXI century classic", the modern electronic and electroacoustic music was born. It encompasses the whole world of sound with all its modern finds in the field of harmony and composition, improvisation and exotic musical cultures. That is the kind of music, music of all imaginable and non-imaginable sounds and their incredible transformation and adventure, entirely submitted to the artist's idea, the production of the record label "Electroshock" presented on this site is dedicated to. You can find out more about the history of creating and developing electronic and electroacoustic music in the articles; get to know composers working in these astonishing genres through the numerous and extensive interviews. At last you can choose and order the music itself - unique, the author's editions of CDs with the highest sound quality.

Welcome to the mysterious world of sound!