stanislav tolkachev: champions breakfast

Haiku’s Raw Waxes label is delighted to welcome the famously unconventional Stanislav Tolkachev with a new track EP of experimental techno and IDM sounds. Entitled Champions Breakfast and with brilliant artwork from German Benedikt Rugar, the release features six cuts, one of which, ‘Negative Space’, is a previously digital-only track landing here on vinyl for the very first time. Haiku has long been a fan of Ukrainian Tolkachev having previously collaborated on a remix for the label, while Tolkachev has also released on Haiku’s other label Inkblots. This new EP is one that not only shows off the label’s willingness to take risks and put out diverse and interesting electronic music, but also one that proves Tolkachev is a truly unique artist with his own musical voice. He has been that way for more than a decade now, and has put out three long players as well as countless EPs that get heavy support from the tastemakers of the day. This latest offering contains his take on the essentialness of groove, enriched by his use of atonality, dissonance and acid-not-acid textures, all in a minimal style. This is a varied and vital EP that oozes essential electronic invention.