Past
: The group targeting production of funky intellectual
hip-hop was started sometime early in 1995 in Brooklyn by Mike
Mutantoff. The first studio recording took place sometime in Spring
of 1995, in Arlette's and Luigi Scapino's studio in Staten Island,
New York. 2 tracks were recorded, however, having no capability
of producing our own music at that time, pieces of the instrumental
phonogram from Dr.Dre's album "Chronic" were used to
lay raps over. The result was completely unexpected. People just
loved the first version of what now is known as "Gangsta
Fairytale" for the originality of the lyrics ( "Nuthing
but a G-thang " instrumental was used for that ). That gave
the band an immense boost to keep doing what they wanted.
The initial crew was comprised of: Mike, Maria
Malyk, Yulchitai, Áóäĺíűé (who tragically died in the subway,
the same summer), Arlette Roxburgh (R&B vocals, she is pursuing
her own R&B career now, one of her recent projects involves
making music for New Jersey Devils NHL club) and Leo (aka Chaos).
After recording our album “Uletnii” (a play of two Russian words
“summer” and “blown away”) in 2001, a gigantic effort was undertaken
by Mike to get some exposure to the tracks recorded, in Russia.
Mike is known to get what he wants – so results did not take long
: several tracks were featured on a major Russian Hip-Hop compilations
released, Mike visited and performed at Adidas Streetball Challenge
Festival in Moscow (a major alternative and rap concert event
in Russia), a video-klip “Gangsta Fairytale (a Parody on Gangsta
Rap)” was shown several times on Russian MTV and finally the “Uletnii”
album was released on “Zvezda Records” label in St.Petersburg
on May 15th, 2002.
Since that time the band enjoyed an increasing recognition and
success and a new album “Not For Amerika” is to be released on
a major rap label “S3Tproduction” (Moscow) in May-June 2003.
That album is a compilation of the band’s favorite tracks that
were recorded in 2000-2002 period. A new video-klip “Pornuha-Lottereya”
(“Porno-Lotto”) was shot recently for Russian MTV in collaboration
with Igor Nurgaliev (known for his work with “WU Tang Clan”, “Ruff
Ryders”, “DMX” and “Space Girl”).
Present:
A new project, album “Trancezit Passenger” was launched on May
2003. The album will
stick to the groovy aspects of our projects, at the same time
exploring electronics and rap symbiosis. The current
band members :
Mike- currently residing in Philadelphia, Maria Malyk - New
Brunswick, NJ, Yulchitai - Brooklyn , NY, DJ Android – Brooklyn,
NY.
Future
: Goalz and Aspirations : The band is ready to collaborate
with any serious, energetic people,
in any music style. Mike Mutantoff and The Killektive are now
expanding beyond strictly hip-hop/rap music. They are especially
interested in bringing electronic music into the mix with rap
elements.
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