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Audiosapr is one of the most consistent albums you’re likely to come across in Russia’s GOST ZVUK entire back catalogue. Surprisingly, the full-length by Saint Petersburg’s scene veteran Kuzma Palkin is a compilation of random jams and studio recordings he made in the period of 2014-2015, carefully pieced together by label’s masterminds. SAPR stands for the System of Automatic Projection (a Russian term for Computer-Aided Design, CAD) which defines the album’s experimental yet complex and interlocking heart. Based around a central theme of immediacy and spontaneity, Audiosapr builds upon the foundations of early, pre-Detroit era of electro and techno, and then progresses the wispy entrails of analogue gear in a contemporary dancefloor direction. It’s clearly music that can be attributed as hybrid, however it’s not you re going to think about while listening to “Audiosapr”, Palkin’s definitely most inspiring work to date.