Alexej Borisov (born in Moscow in 1960)
In the eventful history of Russian underground music Alexei Borisov represents a prototype. At the beginning was "Centre", Russia's first new wave band. At the end of the 1980s Borisov, the "Centre"'s guitar player became the front man of the industrial electronic wave formation "Notchnoi Prospekt" (Night time Boulevard) and since 1992 together with Pavel Jagun he makes up F.R.U.I.T.S.
 


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"Notchnoi Prospekt"
won critical acclaim as an avant-garde, electronic oriented underground collective whose music ranged from new wave electro-pop to obscured experimental synthesizer soundscapes.

The band's origins date back to the beginning of 80s, when two students, Alexei Borisov (guitar & voice) and Ivan Sokolovsky (keyboards & other instruments) formed an amateurish group at the Moscow State University. Embracing the electronic textures and rock & roll beat of the underground culture years in advance of their contemporaries, the duo pioneered the new wave aesthetics in Russia and created a distinctively intelligent brand of synth-pop.

However, in the mid 80s with the appearance of Dmitry Kutergin (electric violin & keyboards) and Sergei Pavlov (drums & devices), the band first began adoring their sounds with synthesizers, sequencers and industrial-devices, inspired by the music coming up from European experimental electronic scene. 1987's program "New Physicists" consolidated the trend, and divorced even greater the band's music from the broad masses of listeners.

In 1989 Ivan Sokolovsky branched out as a solo artist. Alexei Soloviev (bass & keyboards) joined as a full-time member, and the music shifted towards more guitar oriented psychedelic sound. The band signed to the private SNC Records label, which eventually got them overseas exposure. The result was released in Sweden in 1990 as "Sugar" (Blue Fish Rec.), which followed 1989's domestic release of "Asbastos".

NIGHT PROSPEKT sought an international deal for their forthcoming English-language "Music For Dance"; it was eventually released in 1992 by BSA Rec. in Germany and became the band's final studio album, although Alexei Borisov used subsequently the name for his occasional solo-projects

Discography:

“Sugar” (LP, Accelerating Blue Fish, Sweden, 1990)
“Asbastos” (LP, SNC, Russia, 1992)
“Music for dance” (CD, BSA, Russia, 1993)
“Acids” (CD/MC, RDM, Russia, 1995)
“Humanitarian Life” (CD/MC, Electric, Russia, 1996)
“Koncert in Vilnuus 1988” (CD-R, Grief Recordings, Russia, 2000)
"New Physicists" (CD /live1987-88/, Random, Russia, 2004)
"MP3 Collection 1985-1988" (CD, Moroz records, Russia 2006)

Compilations:

Exotica vs.The Beatles "Black Album" (CD, Exotica, Russia, 2003)
Notchnoi Prospekt "Collection of 1985-88" (MP3 disk, Moroz records 2006)

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