The Mechanical Dog

Dolphin (Andrey Lysikov) has been a prominent figure in Russian music for more than 30 years, maintaining a willingness to constantly change the sound, style, and even the very form of artistic statement. His portfolio lists experiments with sound and words, concept albums, and projects that reveal themselves as sound worlds with their own atmosphere.

One of these parallel worlds is the electronic side project The Mechanical Dog. Here, Andrey Lysikov returned to the rhythms of electro, industrial, and early hip-hop music, to which he performed breakdance on the Arbat in the late 1980s and which was the beginning of his musical career. As part of this project, Dolphin has already released three full-scale albums of action-packed electronics with a cinematic atmosphere and dystopian overtones, and has also repeatedly become a headliner at major Russian electronic music festivals.