Ulaanbaatar and Vladivostok will become closer: V-ROX and Playtime Festivals will exchange artist

This year two of the most respected festivals in their regions will welcome Starcardigan (Russia) and Rec On (Mongolia).

V-ROX international team has once again struck a partnership agreement, this time with a leading festival in Mongolia. Over the past fourteen years, Playtime festival presented more than 500 music groups and drawn 40,000 people to the festival. The festival has grown its scale from a local live music festival to an international festival since 2013 and presented headliner international music groups at the festival including Peter Hook & The Light (UK), The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (USA), Mono (Japan), Envy (Japan) and V-ROX Festival curators Mumiy Troll (Russia).

Starcardigan from Vladivostok and V-ROX alumni, will take stage at Playtime Festival on 8th of July 2017. They are an electronic pop, nu-disco band, considered to be one of the best emerging talents in Russia among music lovers and industry insiders. In 2016 the band has become a true phenomenon after completing a tour of China which was deemed as the biggest tour in the history of Russian musicians who tour in that particular region. The band went on to find success and has performed on some of the biggest stages in China, including MIDI Festival, Nu Art Festival in Chengdu and City Park Festival Beijing. They have also performed on some of the biggest stages in their home region and supporting the biggest names in Russia such as Mumiy Troll.

Ivan Sosnovtsev, leader of Starcardigan says: “This kind of adventure is already becoming a bit of a habit, we write not only our musical history but also expand the musical history of Russia. Creating and opening new legends, new events, and new mythology is exactly the paradigm of Starcardigan. A trip to Mongolia is a challenge to ourselves. Given the distance from Vladivostok the journey is going to be an adventure, we will probably go via China, through its Western provinces. Steppe riders and their hand snow leopards go further into the unknown countries.”

Rec On is a Mongolian hard rock, blues rock band from Ulaanbaatar, formed in 2011. They draw its artistic influences from a wide range of artists and scenes, such as The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith and blues. Their long-awaited debut album “Rec One” is expected to be released later in Autumn of 2017. Catch RecOn performing at the biggest festival of the free port of Vladivostok, 4-6 August 2017.