Izhevsk Ambient guitar outfit PLASTICA was the first one to broaden the limits of the contemporary Russian misical video mainstream since the bands of the first Izhevsk wave - Stuk Bambuka v 11 chasov, Samtsy Dronta, Rhodesia, Krasivaya Prishla - had been sown on channel one of Soviet TV.
    We believe that in the realm of underground electronic music the accordance with MTV video standarts seems either deliberate or simply ( but what's the reason?) tasteless. But for this country the following these standards is being the indication of the most advanced ideas. A producer of the program must have been very suprised, because the band whose clip he had put on air turned out to be from a country town (General opinion conerning Izhevsk is that it'is situated somewhere in the depths of rhe country).
    MORZEFISH quickly reacted to this kind of sensation and interviewed the clipmakers. They are photographer and the clip producer ANDREY YUAKOVLEV, cameraman DMITRY LAPIN and Plastica's bass guitarist and videoeditor VLAD RIYULETZ. They had succefully found each other and relized their personal ideas, /icons/morzefish and and sounds in this clip. In the interview they shared their impressions and remembrances.



    MORZEFISH:  Dmitri, what did you start shooting the clip with?
    DMITRY LAPIN:  I happened to hear Plastica's records and was really amazed and thought I would be their fan. Later, I suggest the guys choosing a track for a clip.
    VLAD RIYULETZ:  Actually we started with quite different songs. But two days later we realized that we reached the deadlock. The pictures we had shot didn't match the atmosphere song. Then it dawned upon us to take absolutely different track. It was SILENCE SINCE. And the work processed at full speed.




    MORZEFISH:  You mean everything happened accidentaly?
    VLAD RIYULETZ:  Yes, we were doing everything spontaneously without having on idea of what it'd be like.
    MORZEFISH:  It must be interesting to work spontaneously when things come quite unexpectedly?
    DMITRY LAPIN:  Time was pressing us and that accounts spontaneity. However, it's more interesting and fruitful to work according the scheme you've thought out before.




    MORZEFISH:  Andrey, was there a certain background of this spontaneity?
    ANDREY YUAKOVLEV:  Yes, I'm always ready to produce ideas, especially wneh everybody are at a loss. There's no time to wait until they think over. It's boring. Everybody would argue and swear at each other. So you take it in your own hands and goes: You do this, and you that, and you guys go there and that'all.
    MORZEFISH:  How do you manage to cope with the younger? You yourself belong to different generation.
    ANDREY YUAKOVLEV:  For me it's easy to cope with everybody I give them no quarter.