Roman Belavkin aka Solar X emerged from the Russian post-Perestroika underground with his special brand of multi-faceted low-tech electronic music. His first whirls with techno used the simplest analogue keyboards to generate a sound that caught the fancy of both West and East, spurring electronic activity on the home front, and raising foreign interest in the Russian scene. Belavkin himself is a Renaissance man, versed not only in music, but in martial arts and cognitive science. His probes into electronic music share purposes with his scientific queries into structure, chaos...