Night of Independence

Initially, the JagerMeister award ceremony Indie Awards wanted to spend the Solyanka club, however, a few days before the ceremony, the Department of Property evicted it from the premises, motivating it with a five millionth debt for rent - the sudden speed with which this was done, reminded of the raider seizure and instantly provoked commentators in social networks for hundreds of sad statuses about the importance of this important Moscow club and about how everything is in all in the way. The country is bad. Indeed, the problems of the “Solyanka”, one of the few Moscow clubs, regularly arranged concerts of non-election artists, is a solid spoon of tar in honey of optimists who believe that Russian indie musicians will soon heal the same worthy life as the similar groups in Britain or America. But “a person suggests, but the country has,” as Roman Burtsev, Roman Burtsev, accurately noticed at the ceremony. The organizers must pay tribute: despite the difficulties that suddenly fell, the award ceremony was held at a decent level, transferring it to a huge workshop on the seventh floor of one of the buildings of the Trekhgorenaya Manufactory. But here, among the tall tanned walls, it was not necessary to specifically create an underground atmosphere - the entourage and so reminded of the fashionable underground Berlin party.

Winners JagerMeister Indie Awards were determined by folk vote on the Internet; The obvious advantage of this method is its democracy, the main drawback is the predictability of the results. Therefore, in the list of winners there were actually no surprises. The group of the year deservedly became the duet "The largest simple number." After ten years of work and five released albums, the favorite of the editorial offices of the progressive mass media Kirill Ivanov and his partner Ilya Baray finally came to a serious success: this year they released a non-resistant dance plate “I think they didn’t come up with a word” and collected two thousand people with a new concert program on the open area of ​​the Strelka Institute. The most serious competitor in this nomination “SBPC” was the NAADA group, whose debut album, some media called the “best Russian record of the year”-the Internet public, apparently, considered it differently.

The best video was shot by Mikhail Lokshin, known for the wide audience for viral advertising of one Russian beer brand with David Dutins. He illustrated the Aisid House Track of the Electron Muscuator of the Mujuice of Litvinov “Dirty” by the clip about the crash-fluids; As one viewer commented on the video on You T Ube - "[this] is disgusting in terms of what is shown, but it is impossible to take his eyes off."

Roman Litvinov had to go on stage one more time: the quadrocopter that had ascended over the hall brought him the news that he became the best electrician, bypassing the very active Pixelord musician this year. Mujuice was on stage in a white T -shirt with the inscription “Free VTGNIKE” , expressing support for another prize nominee - Daniil Avramov , who fell into a difficult situation with law enforcement agencies this year.

The best hip-hop artist steel veterans of the RAP ANDEGUNE "Khotozokost" . In the nomination "Rock/Metal Artist" Arseniy Morozov won with his garage group Sonic Death . Some intrigue was in who would receive a prize for the best single, where all the same SBPC and Naada entered the final. But Nadi Gritskevich and her group again got only the warm words of Kirill Ivanov, who received the second award - to look at the musicians “Naadi” that evening was sad.

“Thanks to my mother, although she heard my tracks, said:“ Tie! ””

Between the announcements of the winners of those present, Anton Maskeliade , who was conquering over the laptop, was entertained by the performances, singer Yana Drinder, who was paired with producer Andrei Ryzhkov, and the Petersburg Oligarkh producer with his wild batch of Orthodox chants and trapp. “Thanks to my mother, although when she heard my tracks, she said:“ Tie! ”” - an electrician announced from the scene, who won the Young Blood nomination for the youngest musicians and will go to the organized JagerMeister in Russia. Another laureate, which received funds to record the single, was the pretty brass band 1/2 Orchestra , which this year played at the Sziget festival in Budapest. Sympathy of Internet users in Young nomination Blood found themselves on the side of the Sounds of Sputnik project, performing English-speaking noise-pop with elements. Construction and shugaiz. In the final of the ceremony, the audience was waiting for a full -fledged concert performance by one of the members of the Expert Council of the Prize - Dolphin, who recently released a poetic collection and is preparing for the release of a new album.

Despite organizational difficulties and lack of intrigue, the first presentation of the JagerMeister award Indie Awards have passed successfully, easily in the atmosphere of a friendly party. It is worth noting the non -banal scenario of the ceremony, which was led by the former Pompeya drummer Nari Simonyan, - the organizers of the award concentrated to deliver the envelope with the name of the laureate as sophisticated. What the ceremony was not enough for sure is at least a short story about the heroes of the award and their achievements - let the vast majority of those who came and knew them very well. Here, the organizers should take an example with another independent musical prize “The Steppe Wolf” -heroically sacrificing dynamism (the ceremony can last five to six hours), its ideologist Artemy Kivovich Troitsky does everything so that even a random person who came to the event received a complete picture of the state of affairs in Russian independent music. For which, despite its cellularity, it becomes more and more interesting to observe - heroes for the following JagerMeister awards Indie Awards will certainly be found.