They grew up in the USSR, where several of them were musicians on the underground scene in Moscow, and after the fall of the Wall they left for Berlin, where, in 2006 and on the initiative of the artist, poetess and singer Irina Doubrovskaya, they formed the group Ersatzmusika. It has a sound all its own, in which one hears traces of dub, urban folk, world, minimal, gipsy music and musical cast-offs from the Soviet period.
