Diskoteka Avariya

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Дискотека Авария Diskoteka Avariya
Diskoteka Avaria's CD, Maniaki (Маньяки)
Background information
Origin	Ivanovo, Russia
Genre(s)	Rock, hip-hop, rap
Website	http://www.avariya.ru
Members
Nikolay Stagoranovich Timofeev: singer (band creator) Aleksey Borisovich Serov: singer (joined in 1997) Aleksey Olegovich Ryzhov: writer and composer, musician, DJ, occasional singer (band creator)
Former members
Oleg Zhukov: rapper (1997-2002, deceased)

Diskoteka Avaria (Russian: Дискотека Авария - Disaster Disco) are a Russian hip-hop, rap group from Ivanovo, Russia. They currently consist of three members: Nikolay Stagoranovich Timofeev (Тимофеев Николай Стагоранович), Aleksey Borisovich Serov (Серов Алексей Борисович) and Aleksey Olegovich Ryzhov (Рыжов Алексей Олегович). The group originally contained four members but the fourth member, Oleg Zhukov (Олег Жуков), died on February 9, 2002 of cancer.

Contents 1 History 1.1 The origins 1.2 From two to four 1.3 First success 1.4 Back to three 2 Honors 3 Discography 4 Singles 5 References 6 External links

[edit] History

[edit] The origins

Towards the end of the eighties Nikolay Timofeev and Alexey Ryzhov met in high school. Both being creative minds with good sense of humor, they started creating humorous material. After being noticed at a KVN (Клуб Весёлых и Находчивых, Klub Vesyolyh i Nahodchivyh, Club of Funny and Smart, is a Russian TV show, a humor contest, which indirectly spanned similar contests in schools, independent from the show), they started receiving invitations for animating parties. Timofeev and Ryzhov's first intended musical direction was rock. At a summer camp, they created a very short lived rock band called "Огнетушитель" (Ognetushitel, "Fire extinguisher"). But both of them lacked money to buy instruments and various equipment to play rock professionally, so they had to make some money. The duo started emceeing at local clubs and liked it. During college years, the duo was involved with another short lived band called "Interview". Also, Timofeev and Ryzhov were invited to a local radio station to make their own radioshow. During that period of time, the duo started putting sketches in some songs: whenever a famous song had a part void of lyrics, they put some of their own rap into it. This was later to become their trademark in their early songs. Meanwhile, the band was asked to perform in a local club called "Электрон" ("Electron"). Noticing the bad state of their club, they dubbed it "Disaster Disco". After a few fixing, the rating of their club went uphill as it became more and more famous.

[edit] From two to four

A childhood acquaintance of Timofeev and Ryzhov, Oleg Zhukov, was amongst the biggest and most loyal fans of "Disaster Disco", and soon joined the duo's closest circle of friends. One night, they took him with them to a soirée organized by a company called "Kranek", and all Zhukov did was repeating the company's name during one song. As Timofeev recalls: "And during one of our song, Zhukov repeated the company's name, Kranek, with such a voice, that the audience and us fell for his charm, and since then, he joined us for good". This happened in 1991. Around that time, the band was invited to Moscow for a trial studio record, resulting in their first album "Танцуй со мной" (Tantsuy so mnoy", Dance with me), but it wasn't what the band expected. Some of its songs were later reused in their first official album. Towards 1997, the trio noticed their club was losing their popularity. They found out that a rival disco opened in town, and people there were charged twice as less. They discovered that disco had only one MC, young and motivated, close in style to Timofeev. They decided that it was the best to join forces with him. That's how Alexey Serov joined the band. His first contribution to the band was recording a skit where he asked to turn the music off using lots of expletives (used later in the song "Заколебал Ты!" but with expletives covered by radio parasite sounds), and his second contribution was recording vocals for the second and final version of the song "Двигай-двигай" ("Dvigay-dvigay", Move it-move it).

[edit] First success

Towards 1998, while Russia was in crisis, the band decided to record their second album (considered by many to be their first), but for the lack of money, they had to make a trade with the recording studio "Soyuz". During that time, the studio was working on a remix album for the Belorussian band Lyapis Trubetskoy called "Lyapis-Dance", and Diskoteka Avariya was asked to make four remixes for the album, which they did: three of them were pure remixes, and one was a comic rap song using Lyapis Trubetskoy's chorus. The latter, called "Ты кинула" ("Ty kinula", You dumped) soon became their first single and their first music video was made for it. The band was at last able to record their first official album "Песня про тебя и меня" ("Pesnya pro tebya i menya", Song about you and me). It was composed of three of Lyapis Trubetskoy remixes the band has made, some songs from "Танцуй со мной", and some brand new. Soon other albums were released and the band became of the most known Russian bands. Alexey Serov's law education allowed the band to stay producer-free until nowadays. Their work with only producer they ever had, Peter Volkov, was short-lived.

[edit] Back to three

After their album "Маньяки"("Manyaki", Maniacs) was released in 2001, Oleg Zhukov fell ill, and the band had to perform without him. 9th of February, 2002, Zhukov died of brain cancer. After Zhukov's death and a period of pause, the band decided to go on as a trio. They released their first music videos without Zhukov: "ХХХиРНР" (acronym for "Hip-Hop, House and Rock'N'Roll") and "Небо" ("Nebo",Sky). These videos featured new versions of songs from the album "Маньяки", with different music, and Zhukov's lyrics either sang by Ryzhov, or dropped out. After releases of some famous singles, the band released in 2006, their last album to date (as of March 2008), "Четверо Парней" ("Chetvero Parney", Four guys). It featured the song of the same name (although listed in the song list as an acronym of its title) which was recorded prior to the release of "Маньяки", but the band lacked time to put it in the album. This song was the last new song released to feature Oleg Zhukov's vocals. The band is currently active.^[1][2][3][4]

[edit] Honors

In 2002 the group received the award for Best Russian Act in MTV's Europe Music Awards of 2002. Diskoteka Avariya have also received the "Golden Gramaphone" (Золотой Граммофон) in 2001, 2002, and 2005.

[edit] Discography

• Четверо парней (Four Guys) (2006)
• Х.Х.Х.И.Р.Н.Р. (H.H.H.I.R.N.R) (2002)
• Маньяки (Maniacs) (2001)
• Все Хиты: Авария Против! (All Hits: Avariya Against) (2000)
• Авария Против! (Avariya Against) (2000)
• Марафон (Marathon) (1999)
• Песня Про Тебя и Меня (Song About You and Me) (1999)
• Танцуй со мной (Dance with Me) (1997)

[edit] Singles

• Серенада (2007)
• Зло (2007)
• Малинки (2006)
• Опа (2006)
• Песенка Разбойников (2005)
• Если хочешь остаться (2005)
• Суровый рэп (2004)
• Небо Ремикс (2003)
• Небо (2003)
• Х.Х.Х.И.Р.Н.Р. (2002)
• Disco Superstar (2002)
• Яйца (2001)
• На Острие Атаки (2001)
• Заколебал Ты! (2001)
• Влечение (2000)
• некуда деватся (2000)
• Новогодняя (1999)
• Пей Пиво (1999)
• Ты Кинула (1998)
• Давай, Авария (1998)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Diskoteka Avariya's website (Russian)
• Avariya on RussMus.Net with English translations of lyrics

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