DJ Vadim

如果你听过过去15年的音乐，你一定知道有三个dj是其中最出色的，dj shadow, dj krush 和 dj vadim。在他们之中，dj vadim扮演着一个调动情绪，掌控全球性音乐的技巧大师的角色，就像一个执行任务的音乐先锋。爱和事业伙伴， Yarah Bravo，换句话说就是他的街头智慧mc女神，音乐系统和华丽呼吸中的灵魂之心。作为个人，他们都是重要的人物，但是数学对他们更有用，他们决定一加上一成为一个组合，为了是你们在那个晚上的全新派对上尽情狂欢…
史上最忙碌的俄罗斯籍DJ/製作人DJ Vadim在万眾瞩目之下推出新专辑。DJ Vadim (aka VadiDJ Vadimm Peare)本名Andrey Gurov，人称hip hop界的John Coltrane，1992年被Ninja Tune签下，1995年创立自己的厂牌Jazz Fudge。他不仅多产，除了DJ/製作人之外还身兼多样职务，合作过的对象更是不计其数，而且都大有来头。像是日本抽象hip hop大师DJ Krush、纽约underground hip hop名团Company Flow、来自费城的jazz hip hop巨星The Roots、LA的The Pharcyde与Dilated People、美国东岸hardcore/political rap沙场老将Public Enemy、由一群菲律宾裔的美国DJ组成的Beat Junkies等。他的才华不只在hip hop圈中受重视，包括drum n' bass名製作人Ed Rush、德国电子音乐先驱Kraftwerk、英国trip hop团Morcheeba、英国摇滚大团Super Furry Animal以及The Jam与The Style Council首脑Paul Weller等，都曾经合作过，可见DJ Vadim的才华洋溢。
除了以DJ Vadim的名字发行专辑之外，有时也会用本名或是艺名Little Aida发表作品。DJ Vadim在99年发行专辑USSR: Life from the Other Side不只卡司坚强 (Scratch Perverts、Blade、Dilated People的Iriscience等)。他还特别组了个团The Russian Percussions巡迴演出，阵容也是不能小看，包括Scratch Perverts的Mr. Thing (唱盘)、Killa Kela (beatbox)、Blue Rum 13 (MC)以及John Ellis (keyboard)。这个团总共巡迴了200场，足迹遍佈欧州各国与美国，真吓人。他同时也是西班牙一个hip hop团7 Notas 7 Colores的DJ/製作人，参加过一个许多艺术家组成的团队The Isolationist。2005-2006年间则忙著与老婆MC Yarah Bravo组的One Self，另一个团员是MC Blue Rum 13。One Self的首张专辑Children of Possibility在2005年9月发行。
这样的经历够丰富了吧，他会这么忙碌也不是没有原因的，他的取样技巧可是首屈一指的。他的音乐结合了hip hop与电子，还加入了许多元素，像是reggae/soul/R&B/disco/dub等，还有世界音乐。作品中有纯音乐的抽象hip hop，也有饶舌，所以他的作品可想而知的具有多样的面貌。在这张新专辑The Soundcatcher就可以见识到他的真功夫，距离上一张个人专辑USSR:The Art of Listening已经有5年的时间了。新专辑中，抽象hip hop的部份减少了，简单来说是以歌曲/饶舌为走向，跟以往的作品比起来较为商业，但却又不失个人风格。soul的部份相对增多，也让这张专辑更增添旋律性，在一些歌曲中加入了dub的delay技巧，让歌曲充满空间感。另外他还玩了当今英国相当走红的grime，专辑中有几首充满雷鬼味的歌曲，可见 reggae/dub/dancehall对他的影响之深。找来跨刀的MC也都是狠角色，有英国当红的Skinnyman、来自美国西岸的Abtract Rude等。听完之后发现，DJ Vadim还真不是省油的灯，个人对这张专辑的评价很高，每首歌的製作水準都非常的高，尤其把他擅长的取样发挥到淋漓尽致，每首歌的感觉也相当的到味。这张专辑肯定会成为今年音乐圈的一个大事件，真的有这么棒吗？有待听众自己发觉吧！
Hip-hops influence spread far and wide during the 80s, as witnessed by the growth of the international scene during the following decade. Standing beside brilliant DJs from Japan (Krush) and France (Cam), Russias DJ Vadim has proved to be the most popular advocate of hip-hop to come out of the former Soviet bloc, triggered mostly by the fact that he moved to Britain early in life. Upon arrival, he set up his own Jazz Fudge Records later that year to issue a demo he called Derelicts of Conformity (by Son of Seth). He finally released the recordings early in 1995, as DJ Vadims Abstract Hallucinating Gasses EP.
Britains top hip-hop and acid jazz DJs began playing the record and, after being scouted by several labels, Vadim signed a contract with Ninja Tune. Several EPs released during 1995-1996 showed him to be quite an experimentalist, working heavily with static and noise, never content to let his ideas meander past the two- or three-minute point. His first LP, U.S.S.R. Repertoire (The Theory of Verticality), was released in late 1996. The following year, Vadim began working on acts for Jazz Fudge; he issued the compilation Sculpture & Broken Sound, then debuted his own Andre Gurov project with the album A New Rap Language. His next project, the highly touted remix album U.S.S.R. Reconstruction, appeared in 1998, and was followed a year later by U.S.S.R.: Life from the Other Side. His third U.S.S.R. record, The Art of Listening, dropped in 2002. Relatively quiet during the early 2000s — his only full-length release was a mix album, Stereo Pictures, Vol. 3 — Vadim nevertheless reappeared in 2007 on BBE, with a production album titled The Soundcatcher. Vadim has also worked as the Bug, with Kevin Martin, Dave Cochran, and Alex Buess.