The roots of Sobaki Tabaka date to 1980s from a Moscow-based band CROWNEAR that later was dubbed "Russian Faith No More". CROWNEAR sold out stadiums zig-zaging all over Russia with Aria, Korroziya Metalla, Cherny Obelisk and others, opposing their archaisms with ideas of avant-garde and intellectual approach to heavy rock music. In 1993 the band broke up and Robert Ostrolutsy, who later went by the name Nekto Uroven Chernogo (Someone Level of Black), joined its pieces together forming Sobaki Tabaka. This project merged in the conceptual union Positively Arrogant Statement on a par with PURBA of Alexey Tegin and PROCK THEATER of Vladimir Epifantsev.
Live gigs of Sobaki Tabaka delivered an outstanding performance: dazzling blue-green afterworld lightning, unearthly din of breaking metal objects, and untuned bass guitar drones. Much of music luggage resulted in the first recording of the band – V Mozg! (Into the Brain). This 'opus to darkness' became one of the landmarks of 90s' sub-culture in no way inferior to sincerity and professionalism of Missing Foundation, Einsturzende Neubauten, Swans, and others.
Meanwhile the industrial culture widened and grew into fashion. In autumn 1997 Sobaki Tabaka played a gig with Einsturzende Neubauten in the Goethe Centre; in December the band made two music videos that could be seen on Russian TV. Vladimir Epifantsev launched a series of shows on the band in his TV projects Deconstructor and Dryoma. In March 1998 he promoted the Deconstructor Festival which gathered Sobaki Tabaka, PROCK THEATER, Alexey Tegin, Vladimir Ratskevich, Andrey Samsonov, BRUCE GILBERT and others.
Soon FEELEE Records proposed Robert Ostrolutsy to produce and take part in a commercial project Depesha dlya Depeche Mode that later was presented in DK Gorbunova in Moscow. At the same time he produced Olga Inber and Someone Level of Black projects. When an experimental recording Pesni Oborotnya (Lycanthrope Songs) was positively met by musical community, Robert and Vladimir Epifantsev started the Theatre of Cardinal Art in an abandoned factory in front of Kremlin. The theater homed noise music festivals, theatricals, performances, shootings of TV programmes…
In 2000, Moscow authorities decided to knock down the factory as well as the theater.
Sobaki Tabaka went on plying their industrial trade, and 2000 saw their new recording – Ten Sveta (Shadow of the Light) – a soundtrack to Faust theatricals. At the same time the band's style turned towards being softer and more atmospheric with a shift to electronic instruments. By that time the band had only two members: Robert Ostrolutsy and Irina Nazarova who lived in London and was the band's main vocalist. As a member of the London musical community she made UK producers set an eye on the project. They came to Moscow to audition Sobaki Tabaka what resulted in an offer to sign a long-term contract.
Moscow's total incomprehension and unwillingness to support this culture made Robert move to London. There he assumed a name Positive Arrogance and crafted Game of You recording at the Abbey Road Studios with English-speaking band members. Years passed but the producers were too slow in selling the rights on the album to major record labels – it forced Robert to get back to Russia where he gave Sobaki Tabaka new birth.
In Autumn 2006, an independent Moscow-based record label Q-Code Records issued the first and long-awaited V Mozg! album, which at that moment was timed to the 10th anniversary of the band. Today Sobaki Tabaka please their old and new fans playing gigs and working on new tracks. The record label plans to reissue the second album Ten Sveta with much of bonus materials, live DVD and music videos, and release a new LP in the year to come.

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