Soviet X Ray Vinyl

But a secret underground subculture of music lovers and.

Soviet x ray vinyl.

Australian hip hop group the avalanches who released a collaboration with the international space orchestra last month have come together with american pro skateboarder tony hawk for another special release. The weird secret history of soviet x ray music in cold war russia getting your hands on an american rock record was close to impossible. They repurposed used x ray film as the base for records of forbidden songs. Raising funds for tony hawk s charity the skateppark project the 7 vinyl featuring an injury sustained by.

But a few bootleggers found a way to. In terms of soviet bootleg culture generally there were three phases. The curious story of soviet music on the bone. By the bureau of lost culture.

Ryobra also known as music on ribs музыка на рёбрах jazz on bones джаз на костях bones or bone music roentgenizdat are improvised gramophone recordings made from x ray films mostly made through the 1950s and 1960s ribs were a black market method of smuggling in and distributing music by foreign and emigre musicians that was. Lavishly illustrated with images of discs collected in russia it is a unique story of forbidden culture bootleg technology and human endeavour. In the ussr during the cold war era the music people could listen to was ruthlessly controlled by the state. The x ray bit was quite small compared with what came later.

The x ray vinyl was pressed by small run in melbourne who were fantastic in ensuring it was the real deal. There was the x ray phase then the much much bigger magnitizdat phase the bootlegging and sharing of music via reel to reel tapes and then came cassette culture. The avalanches have teamed up with tony hawk to release a rare x ray vinyl. The soviet bootleg records pressed on x rays in 50s soviet union western records such as rock around the clock and boogie woogie bugle boy were banned.

In a culture where the recording industry was ruthlessly controlled by the state music lovers discovered an extraordinary alternative means of reproduction.