Alexander Zaloopin & Uvazhaemiy

Alexander Zaloopin is a masked statement singer and performer who emerged in the mid-2000s as a provocative response to the dominance of prison chanson culture in Russia, developing a radical take on the genre often described as "queer chanson." Blending post-punk, breakbeat, dub, witch house, IDM, minimal wave, and house with a brutal voice and extravagant costumes, Zaloopin offers a unique theatrical performance. Uvazhaemiy is the solo experimental music project of Vitalii Zimin, a Berlin-based musician and founder of Crunch Tapes. The project blends sharp irony with raw emotional honesty, moving freely across genres from naive electropop to happy hardcore using distorted guitars, funky beats, minimal electronics, and absurdist vocals.