| MESCHERIN (by BBC WORLD on 5/8/2003) |
CHARLES MAYNES: Sometime in the late 1950's, a state radio engineer named Vachaslav Mescherin got an idea: he'd introduce new sounds to Soviet music. Soon he and his cohorts were slapping microphones on accordions, violins, and Russian balalaikas. They pioneered new instruments such as the early Soviet synthesizer the Ekvadin 10. The resulting mix says Russian pop music historian Arteom Troitsky was the soundtrack for the coming generation of Soviet swingers.
ARTEOM TROITSKY: Each person who was privileged to live in the Soviet Union in the 60's and 70's, they've got Mescherin's music soaked by their skin because it was everywhere. it was all the music on the radio. it was all the ambient music on the tv. it was all the muzak in convention halls and so on. I mean it was everywhere, including the cosmos.
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