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Ц is for Центр (Tsentr / Centre)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cELuIu_toZM
I haven't posted much Russian rap music, largely because not much of it is any good. Domestic hip-hop is very popular though - it used to take up as much space as Russian rock in record shops, back in the days when there were still record shops to take up space in. Центр are fairly typical - nothing special, quite dated from an international perspective, but definitely listenable.
Ч is for Чика из Перми (Chika Iz Permi / Chick From Perm)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK0xcXDMmV8
"Мои пророки - это нации клубов, Диджеи, геи и Паша Дуров"
With no official singles or albums, Чика из Перми exist pretty much exclusively through occasional Youtube clips and club appearances but they're probably my favourite Russian pop group in a decade. As far as i can tell, they were initially formed when the lead singer, Alice, asked one of her friends to help her record an electro-pop song to promote the sushi bar she's a waitress at. The excellent Роллы (Rolls) was the result. With a variety of different women fronting the videos, most of the songs are semi-affectionate, semi-vicious parodies of Permian party girls and their home town's culture of weekend nihilism. The closest they've come to crossover success was causing a minor moral panic with я каждый день бухаю, a cover of a punk song about youth alcoholism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJpP3fp4uvE
Катя Чехова (Katya Chekhova)
The recent Nyusha material, with more of a trance / house feel than the R'n'B pop of her debut, reminds me a little of Катя Чехова at times. There's a similar combination of dancefloor focus and a strange sense of detachment. Крылья (Wings) is particularly good. idek what's going on with the dancers in the clip above.
чичерина (Chicherina)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VattDdtdafQ
One of the best pop-rock stars to break through in the late 90s / early 00s Yulia Chicherina's debut album Сны (Dreams) still stands up really well today.
Katya Chilly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9M_rqFEzv0
'Electro versions of traditional Ukrainian folks songs' doesn't necessarily sound like a winning concept but in the hands of Katya Chilly something that could have sounded quite crass and gimmicky becomes absolutely remarkable. Her 2006 album я молодая (Ya Molodaya / I'm Young) is a classic.
two years pass...
two years pass...