Nighttime on the western border of the vast Russian Federation finds Sergey Barkalov eager to set his mind and machines adrift. His desire to recreate the deep dub climate keeps him awake after a day of work. He answers e-mails sent from across the world to his production alias Mr. Cloudy, who appears online as a series of guileless black and white photos and metaphysical phrases: "only that music which goes from soul instead of mind." Leave it to dub techno producers to make networking pages look tranquil.

"Bewitched" and "dissolved" in Rhythm & Sound and Deepchord, Mr. Cloudy produced his first self-titled EP for Kyoto_Digital in 2005. Under a Creative Commons license, the files were free, yet limited. The Denmark net-label was an important channel for Mr. Cloudy and Daniel Stefanik among others, but had a short life. And for three years after the release, Sergey was discouraged and somewhat inactive. At times he wonders what he did during those years. To answer, his sound developed "slowly and not forcedly." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.