# Tantsi

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***Tantsi*** (Ukrainian: Танці, English: *Dances*) is an album by the band [Vopli Vidopliassova](/source/Vopli_Vidopliassova). It was originally released on 29 March 1989 on Fonograf, the house record label of the newspaper *Young Guard* (Ukrainian: Молода Гвардія, *Moloda Gvardia*). Thirteen of the fourteen tracks were recorded in one night at the Institute of Metallurgy in the Akademmistechko neighborhood of Kyiv; "Mahatma" was recorded live at a show at the Institute of Foreign Languages.

## Re-release in the West

The album was featured in the book *[100 magnitoalbomov sovetskogo roka](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%B2_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0)*. In 2023, [a book about the *Tantsi* recording and the late Soviet Kyiv Underground](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/vopli-vidopliassovas-tantsi-9781501363115/), written by Maria Sonevytsky, was published in Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 Europe series. The book discusses the context of the Kyiv Underground; the ingenious circular economy devised to release the cassette album in the first place; the role of satire and humor in the band's songs; the relationship of the band to the [Komsomol](/source/Komsomol) (Communist Youth League); and the enduring meaning of the song "Tantsi" in the aftermath of Russia's [full-scale invasion of Ukraine](/source/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine) in 2022.[1]

A remastered version of the original *Tantsi* session was released on vinyl [on Org Music for Record Store Day 2023](https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/15935). The vinyl release was named "[new and notable" in Paste Magazine](https://www.pastemagazine.com/record-time-new-and-notable-vinyl-releases-record-store-day-2023-edition).[2]

## Future releases of tracks from the album

Tracks 2 and 11 later became [Borshch](/source/Borshch_(band)) songs, being released on that band's self-titled EP in 2002. Track 1 was later released on *[Kraina Mriy](/source/Kraina_Mriy)*. Tracks 3, 4 and 6 ended up on *[Hvyli Amura](/source/Hvyli_Amura)*. Tracks 5, 10 and 14 were released on *[Muzika](/source/Muzika_(album))*. Tracks 7, 9, 12 and 13 were released on *[Buly denky](/source/Buly_denky)*. Track 8 made its way to *[Fayno](/source/Fayno)*.

"Banka", an outtake from the sessions, was re-titled "Laznya" and released as a single in early 2019.[3]

## References

1. ["Vopli Vidopliassova's Tantsi"](https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/vopli-vidopliassovas-tantsi-9781501363115/)

1. ["Record Time: New and Notable Vinyl Releases (Record Store Day 2023 Edition)"](https://www.pastemagazine.com/record-time-new-and-notable-vinyl-releases-record-store-day-2023-edition)

1. Archived at [Ghostarchive](https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211209/F93I61oz5h8) and the [Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/web/20200117101320/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F93I61oz5h8): ["Лазня"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F93I61oz5h8). *[YouTube](/source/YouTube)*

## External links

- [*Tantsi*](http://www.discogs.com/%D0%92%D0%92-%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%86%D1%96/release/1403348) at [Discogs](/source/Discogs)

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