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Nikolaienko — Love-Fidelity or Hiss Goodbye
Muscut 34 (C-40, CASS/DL)

BUYMoiré patterns are peculiar optical effects that occur when similar sets of lines or patterns are superposed onto each other. The same process is behind the wavy rainbow patterns that appear in photos sometimes. Relatedly, moiré is a term applied in textiles to describe rippled finishes. The word originates in the French for “watered”. The suggestion that something fixed is starting to behave like a liquid. - The Quietus

Recorded at Telemaja, Tallinn, Summer 2023
Composed, produced, metallophone, xylophone, bongos, tape loops, artwork: Dmytro Nikolaienko 
Bass by Bryozone 
Saxophone by Mykola Lebed 
Flute, clarinet by Memotone 
Mastered by Hennadii Boichenko
Design by Day Night 
Typeface by KTF
Catalog: Muscut 34C
Format: Cassette, C40, Digital
File under: krautrock, experimental, lo-fi
Release date: March 7, 2025

Nikolaienko — Meta
Muscut 33 (C-40, VINYL/CASS/DL)
BUYMeta is a syllabic abbreviation of two words: "Metallophone" and "Tape."
Metallophone and tape music by Nikolaienko.

"It’s an album where I’ve limited myself to using only two instruments—a metallophone and a four-track tape recorder. Explorations of the metallophone and tape sounds are deconstructed and reintegrated into tracks with cassette loops. This release is part of this year’s Muscut label series, dedicated not to electronic but to electro-acoustic music focusing on analog recording and production." Taken from the Shape platform interview (March 2024)  

Recorded at Telemaja, Tallinn, Summer 2023
Composed, produced, metallophone, tape loops, artwork: Dmytro Nikolaienko 
Saxophone on A3 by Mykola Lebed
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi 
Design by Day Night 
Typeface by KTF
Catalog: Muscut 33C
Format: Cassette, C40, Digital
File under: ambient, experimental, acoustic
Release date: June 21, 2024

V/A Muscut Test Pressing IV
Muscut 30 (Vinyl/DL)

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Muscut celebrate thirty releases with another fab comp, this time featuring Jake Muir, Felicity Mangan, Nikolaienko, Andrew Pekler, Felix Kubin, and plenty more. — Boomkat

Mastering by: Giuseppe Ielasi 
Graphic design by: (DN) daynight.info
Distribution by: N.E.W.S. (BE)
Edition: 300 (hand-stamped, hand-numbered)
File under: Ambient, Experimental, Electronic
Release date: August 4, 2023


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Ukrainian Muscut & Estonian Mida team up for “Воля x Rahu” compilation (Ukr: Volition x Est: Peace) with 100% of label profits donated to “Livyj Bereh” – a volunteer group based in Kyiv & working in regions affected by the war. 
The A–side is curated by Muscut & holds only Ukrainian artists: Kavkazka Sound, Radiant Futur, Mlin Patz, Iury Lech & Ihor Okuniev. The B–side by Mida has Portuguese trio Niagara stuck in between Estonians Maarja Nuut, Rotrum, Luurel Varas & Terry Long Hermy. 

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Format: 12” LP, 300 copies, numbered, hand-stamped / Digital
Release date: December 11, 2020






Nikolaienko ‎– Blue Soup №2, 2010
Muscut 17 (Vinyl/DL)

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The first time on vinyl reissue of Nikolaienko's four tracks from his debut album "Loops & Cuts Soup," originally released as a digital download on Nexsound Records in 2010.

Restored from the single copy of the dubplate record.

Recorded in Dnipro, 2006—2010
Format: 7”
Edition: 100, numbered
Release date: September 4, 2020
Drums - Oleg Books
Bass - Anton Coky
Remastered by Flaty

Nikolaienko — Nostalgia Por Mesozóica
Muscut 16/16LP/16C (Vinyl/Cassette/DL)

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On the label founder’s upcoming record, due out in May, he extends his archaeological obsession to the natural history museum. Nostalgia por Mesozócia is framed as an imaginary soundtrack for fossil exhibitions and dinosaur dioramas. Its nostalgia is many-layered: Analog chirps and liquid gurgles summon images of 200-million-year-old rainforests, while wheezing organs and clanking marimbas evoke the easy-listening exotica made popular in the ’50s by artists like Arthur Lyman. Mingling kitsch with surrealism, it makes for a fanciful and engrossing trip into the past. — Pitchfork
Format: 12” LP (300), Cas (50), DL
Release date: March 4 2020 (7”) June 2022 (12” vinyl), March 4 2022 (cassette)
Catalog Nr: Muscut 16 / 16LP (vinyl) / Muscut 16C (cassette)
File under: Experimental, Easy Listening
Mastering by Flaty
Cover artwork / photos by Dmytro Nikolaienko

V/A Muscut Test Pressing II
Muscut 10 (Vinyl/DL)

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Ukrainian Muscut & Estonian Mida team up for “Воля x Rahu” compilation (Ukr: Volition x Est: Peace) with 100% of label profits donated to “Livyj Bereh” – a volunteer group based in Kyiv & working in regions affected by the war. 
The A–side is curated by Muscut & holds only Ukrainian artists: Kavkazka Sound, Radiant Futur, Mlin Patz, Iury Lech & Ihor Okuniev. The B–side by Mida has Portuguese trio Niagara stuck in between Estonians Maarja Nuut, Rotrum, Luurel Varas & Terry Long Hermy. 

Design by Jugoceania 
Mastered By Giuseppe Ielasi
Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Numbered
Country: Europe
Released: 10 Nov 2018
File under: Experimental, Ambient, House, Dub




Indirect Meets Nikolaienko — Ode To The Sea
Muscut 6 (Vinyl/Cassette/DL)

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Odesan Kraut band Indirect teamed up with Nikolaienko's tape loops from Kyiv to pay homage to French library music and Soviet time Ukraine soundtracks (Odesa Film Studio in particular).

Gennadiy Boychenko: comp., programming, keyboards, organs, synths, electric guitar
Anton Ostrometsky: comp., drums (A1—A3, B2—B4)
Emil Asadov: bass guitar (A2, B3)
Alexey Volusunov: comp., electric guitar (A1—A5, B1, B5), saxophone (A2)
Ganna Brizhata: vocalese (A2, B2)
Dmytro Nikolaienko: comp., programming, synths, tape loops and manipulations, sound effects, percussions
Recorded in Odesa and Kyiv
Additional mix and mastering by Kassian Troyer in Berlin
Produced by Dmytro Nikolaienko and Gennadiy Boychenko
Artwork:
Mosaic work "Blink" (2011) by Anatoly Gankevich
Photo collage, graphic design by Dmytro Nikolaienko
Background photo by Natasha Masharova

Nikolaienko — The Sounds of Pseudoscience
Muscut 3 (Vinyl/Cassette/DL)

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"Four years in the making, Nikolaienko’s retrogarde take on mid-20th century tape music is a loping, whirling fuzzy felt oscillator odyssey. If Louis and Bebe Barron had been asked to create electronic tonalities for a Czech animation based on EM Forster’s The Machine Stops, the results may have turned out like this. Only, for all its nods to Parmegiani and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, one can’t quite see this album coming out in 1956 – or even 1976. Something about the slightly off kilter rhythms, the loose feel and wheezing sound effects make this very much a post-Dilla take on Raymond Scott and his successors." — The Wire

Mastered By Giuseppe Ielasi Recorded By Labyrinth Of Echoes Studio
Format: 12", LP
Release date: 26 June 2015




V/A Muscut Test Pressing
Muscut 1 (Vinyl)

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Muscut's debut release – 7'' white vinyl, limited edition of 100 copies, Various Artists compilation, which was created to declare the label's musical direction.
At the start, we collected participants who share similar musical aesthetics, scene, or taste (moreover, all the artists were born in the USSR).

Released March 1, 2012
Mastered by Edward Sol
Pressed in Hamburg, Germany




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