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From the ashes of the Soviet empire, from the flames of history, rises PROXY. Post 9/11 rave vibes cloaked in Muscovite angst. A line drawn in smoking rubble along the border dividing East and West, Stüssy and Stasi. Beware of the Russian Bear! For the past 3 years his tracks have dominated dance-floors all across the globe, right now there's nothing out that can really keep up with his dark, massive sound. With huge hits "Raven" and "Dancing In The Dark" being dropped by the likes of Moby, Justice, Boys Noize, The Bloody Beetroots, Felix Da Housecat, Les Petits Pilous and Vitalic, he has the whole electro scene behind him.
1997. The Year of Tar and Horses. The Prodigy plays Red Square in Moscow. Hundreds of thousands of people attend the show, but only one is truly changed. By the crushing sound. By people absolutely losing their shit to synths and sustained aggression. In a decade’s time, The Proxy would be remixing Prodigy and opening for them on a massive tour of Russia.
2004. The Proxy grows interested in the increasingly punishing sounds of the electro scene, as he hears Tiga sing “Hey You Little Children of Glasnost” at the W Hotel in Anzhero-Sudzhensk.
2006. The Proxy reaches out to Tiga via his MySpace page. Thomas Von Party intercepts the message and is stunned by fully formed landmines like “Destroy”. Masquerading as Tiga, he signs The Proxy to Turbo Recordings, beginning his own deceit-fueled ascent up the biz-ladder of the music ladder-business.
2007 to present, The Proxy has earned the respect and awe from such heavyweights as Justice, Soulwax, Boys Noize, Erol Alkan and Mr. Oizo with astonishing, severe tracks like “Decoy”, “Dance in Dark” and the massive “Raven”, which merits special mention not just because of its ubiquity, but because it illustrates in full the singular power of Proxy Music.
The Russian heavy-weight has also produced remixes for Peaches, Prodigy, Tiga, Boys Noize, Chromeo, Digitalism, Moby and a host of others willing to pay him in Kocmoc cigarettes. In recent years The Proxy has co-headlined a huge show with Soulwax in Australia while headlining at the world's major festivals including I Love Techno, Creamfields, Coachella and Dour just to name a few. |
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