{"product_id":"gorizont-sobytiy-pankratov-step-printed-sleeve","title":"Gorizont Sobytiy - Pankratov Step [printed sleeve]","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 12\" Vinyl\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: MEM02\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 26 Jun 2026\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Electronic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGorizont Sobytiy (Event Horizon), the duo of veteran electronic musician Nocow and his wife, DJ Designer, mark the project's debut with an album worth of material of 'frogg-step' \/ Pankratov Step. It's safe to say this is an intriguing proposition for even those well-initiated into the world of the contemporary Russian underground. What is perhaps most immediately obvious across the 11 tracks is a clear appreciation for golden-era Rephlex records, as if the duo are reflecting on how the iconic label was perceived in the Eastern bloc at the time. There's a nostalgic touch tugging at the heart strings with the warm ambient tones of 'Bananoivy Twist' or even the ballroom-esque organ melodies of follow up 'Chacha', both swiftly followed by a switch back into frantic gabber style kicks that recur across the album.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo give a little more away in terms of a background story, Nocow and DJ Designer draw influence from a film called Winter Evening in Gagra, a somewhat distant feeling artefact of late-Soviet cinema about a tap dancing champion's late nights spent gallivanting across the glitz of Moscow's pop music scene in the 1980s. Maximalist in its sound design, Pankratov Step draws its name from actor-protagonist Pankratov, not quite an out-of-time soundtrack as such but at the least a wry nod to the former world in which the film takes place. The cascading, brittle synthesis of 'Cemetry's Boss' forms an icy cinematic fusion again with a gabber influence at play whilst a fierce acid line works alongside myriad glitch rhythms and repeating keys on 'Octopus Werk'. Influenced by the local humour and sentimentality surrounding the film, a melodrama with themes of lost art and a kind of old-world transcendence the young circus performer yearns for, the duo use it as a vessel to describe the projects sound - a coalescing of vintage Soviet soundtracks, early IDM, Jake Slazenger and Expert Knob Twiddlers album. 'Pankratov-Step' becoming their own fictional genre. The LP marks another avant-garde chapter in Nocow's long back catalogue, as well as a fully formed collaborative debut for the currently enigmatic DJ Designer. Pankratov Step is the second release on GOST ZVUK sub-label MEMONT, curated by Kuzma Palkin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTracks\u003cbr\u003eA1 FROGGY FROGG\u003cbr\u003eA2 MARXIST\u003cbr\u003eA3 BANANOVIY TWIST\u003cbr\u003eA4 CHACHA\u003cbr\u003eA5 FLYBY\u003cbr\u003eB1 KATANIA\u003cbr\u003eB2 PANKRATOV STEP\u003cbr\u003eB3 CEMETERY'S BOSS\u003cbr\u003eB4 OCTOPUS WERK\u003cbr\u003eB5 HELLO JOHNNY\u003cbr\u003eB6 PEREDUMAL\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gost Zvuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47096247451804,"sku":"MEM02","price":14.83,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/files\/MEM02_front.jpg?v=1782059105","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/gorizont-sobytiy-pankratov-step-printed-sleeve","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}