Mujuice is justifiably regarded as a major hope for Russian electronic music and, undoubtedly, its most promising talent. This guy was a main hero in the extensive coverage of Russian scene on Pitchfork web site. He was a distinguished scholar of international Red Bull Music Academy and already a big star at Transmusicales and Sonar festivals. Sum it up and you get a strong reason to pay special attention to his debut vocal album Downshifting.
Downshifting would tell a lot to anybody familiar with the roots of Russian experimental music dating back to the mid-1980s. Mujuice somehow caught and sold (with the whole range of contemporary sound technologies) the essence of Russian melodism, which was typical for such local icons as Ilya Lagutenko from Mumiy-Trol and Viktor Tsoi from cult Soviet band Kino. For the first time in his life Mujuice put his heart and soul not only in dramatic kinky melodies but in words which are the most powerful thing about this electronic masterpiece.