Acropolis  (Russia) EuroDance group Added : 10/11/2003 Viewed 2282 times       94 1995 1996 1997 1998

 

Acropolis albums

	Technotango	1995
	Koma	1997
	History	1998

 

 

Acropolis biography

Acropolis is a Russian project featuring Grigory Bunkov, Vladislav Levchenko and the vocalist Emma Novikova. They were based in Ekaterinburg. They released 3 albums. The first one, released in 1995, was called Technotango, and it was a classic eurodance album. The second album Koma was an mix of eurodance and hardcore, and the last one History had turned into progressive house (in a style reminding Brooklyn Bounce or Red 5).

It all started back in 1990 when Grigory Bunkov decided to create a pop-music project, but with real and serious texts. He liked progressive electronic music but also had contacts with rock bands from Sverdlovsk. He met the DJ Vladislav Levchenko (who had already created some tracks for different music groups). Together they recorded 3 songs in Techno, but they did not have any success. However they continued their collaboration, and in 1993 they were joined by Emma Novikova. In this time eurodance was beginning to be popular in Russia.

First album was recorded in 27 days & nights only during the year 1993. But it was finally released in only in 1995, and had great success in discos in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk).

In the middle of 1995 they started to work on their second album Koma. But it was only in Autumn 1996 that they finally started the recording of new songs in Ekaterinburg's studio "Tutti record". Koma took auditory by surprise, since they were not ready to welcome dance music with serious texts. Anyway some tracks became hits in Russian housemusic clubs.

Third album History was also recorded on Tutti Records and completed in April 1998. Some tracks had pop-house influence but elements of eurodance were also included. They also shot their first video, for the song History. The CD was available in shops only in February 1999.

A 4th album called Cyngalai was started, but unfortuntaly it was never released. Some tracks were recorded in 2000, such as I Love When You...

Vlad Levchenko has since left the band and he started a new project with the singer Olga Lebedeva from Ekaterinburg. The style was hard rock music with dance motives.

Thanks to D-man '94 and AlexuS

The biography was last updated Mon, June 15th 2009

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