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Arty

Artem Stolyarov, or Arty for short, is one of a rising breed of Russian trance producers now starting to make their mark on the scene.
The Moscow-based producer's tracks pop up all over the place, although it's probably with the succession of vinyl he's delivered on the Anjunabeats label that he's most closely associated.
This year, his clean, uplifting sound has made him new friends in both the pure trance and house fanbases, no small part of which was down to another fan, one Ferry Corsten, picking up on a track he made under another of his alter egos, Alpha 9.

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Fiend

1) Fiend is a melodic death metal band from Moscow, Russia. The band was formed in December 2007, its members are:
Leos - vocals, guitars
Glum - guitars
Podpol - bass
DW - drums
On the 30th of January, 2009 the first album "The Blooming Tremble" was released. Its style may be determined as modern melodic death metal reminiscent of later In Flames works.
Even though the band is young, Fiend has already managed to perform on one stage with such famous band as Pain.

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Stigmata

There are at least 7 bands with the name Stigmata: 1) A heavy metal band from Sri Lanka 2) a metallic hardcore band from Troy New York; 3) Russian deathcore band; 4) a hard rock band from Nebraska; 5) one of Benn Jordan's pseudonyms; 6) an alias of German techno producer Chris Liebing; and 7) an Austrian power metal band now known as Stygma IV: 1Metal metalcore/alternative metal band, formed in 2003 in Saint Petersburg.

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Dmitri Shostakovich

See also original artist name in Russian: Дмитрий Дмитриевич Шостакович. Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Russian: Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич, Dmitrij Dmitrievič Šostakovič) (September 25 [O.S. September 12] 1906, (St Petersburg, Russia) – August 9, 1975) was a Russian composer of the Soviet period. Shostakovich had a complex and difficult relationship with the Soviet government, suffering two official denunciations of his music, in 1936 and 1948, and the periodic banning of his work.

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Vladimir Ashkenazy

Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy (sometimes transliterated Ashkenazi) (Russian: Влади́мир Дави́дович А́шкенази) (born July 6, 1937) is a Russian conductor and, more notably, a pianist. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Ashkenazy began his studies at the age of 6 and showing prodigious talent, was accepted at the Central Music School at 8. A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, he won second prize in the prestigious International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1955 and shared first prize in the 1962 International Tchaikovsky Competition with English pianist John Ogdon.

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