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The Boombox group was formed around mid-2004. Then two musicians involved in well-known Ukrainian groups began to compose music together. And they did it more for themselves than with the expectation that something serious would come of it. When the question arose about attracting additional instruments, vocalist Andrei Khlyvnyuk and guitarist Andrei "Mukha" Samoilo did not gather a large line-up, suggesting that DJ, the famous scratch-master Valik Matiyuk, experiment with them. Already at the first rehearsal, Valik's beats and scratches became an integral part of Boombox's melodic and at the same time driving music. The group gathered in Kiev, but all its members come from different cities: Andrey Khlyvnyuk (vocals, lyrics) from Cherkassy, Andrey "Mukha" Samoilo (guitar) from Lutsk, Valentin "Valik" Matiyuk (DJ) from Novovolynsk. The musicians wrote and recorded the material for the first album rather quickly, but the group's managers were in no hurry to release the debut album. Instead, the "Boomboxes" decided to take an interesting step: they did not keep the unreleased album under lock and key, but, on the contrary, began to actively distribute "blanks" with the recording to all their friends. As a result, the songs of the group even sounded on many regional radio stations. Their music is a mixture of different musical styles. This is not pure funk or jazz, not hip-hop or pop music, or rock. This is something else.