The discovery of one old record is breathing new life into a genre of Soviet-era music that hasn't been widely heard overseas for decades.

This rarely heard music - including loads of funk and Moroder-adjacent disco - is out digitally this ... allowing black market trading to fester. ‘Western clothes and other hard-to-get items ...

It was heavily influenced by the Western music. The era experimented with a fusion of music genres with rock, pop, and disco and blended with traditional melodies. Not just Western fever ...