Discrete Encounter

Discrete Encounter, the electroclashesque collaboration between vocalist Natasha Romanova and Taras Mashtalir, make music that would work well as the soundtrack of a Liquid Sky remake. - Time Out NY

If you have not heard of Discrete Encounter, you soon will. And if you have not caught their live stage show, you are missing out. The band’s unique blend of rock ’n’ roll and electronica is about to be unleashed with their latest CD, "2B1," which will be released in early 2008. Hopefully a concert tour will follow soon after.
Discrete Encounter’s new album mixes elements of rock, dance, and alternative music. Founded by composer-performer Taras Mashtalir and lead vocalist-lyricist Natasha Romanova, the talented duo boasts the added hip quotient of playing live with both a deejay and a visual projectionist. - New York Cool

Discrete Encounter creates crisp, chic electronic music, merging glam rock with electronica in a serious and sexy direction that picks up where electroclash's ironic 80's stunts paused the genre a couple of years ago. Discrete Encounter maintains
the technoid melodiousness of groups like Lamb and Olive while releasing the sweaty, kinetic, rock n' roll energy of other rockers like the YeahYeahYeah's and The White Stripes. Intriguing, subtle, yet entirely accessible, Discrete Encounter sounds like everything the right downtown night is all about. - Etomie Entertainment

"Discrete Encounter is a NY based trio (music duo + visual projection person) who play some kick-ass female-fronted aggro-electronica, or whatever else you might want to call a powerful mixture of electronic music with heavy scratching distorted metal guitar riffs: industrial metal? electro metal? It doesn't matter really, the point is, it is good and it is hard!
I've always been a fan of bands that mix pounding EBM/industrial rhythms & sequences and mash them up with distorted power chords and screaming guitars. Band leader Taras Mashtalir (who wrote all the material and also occasionally sings in his low growly voice) plays guitar with the impact and sonic assault of, say, Zakk Wylde but makes sure to let the music be beat-driven and electronic to the core. However all this vengeance's counter-part is the beautiful and soothing voice of Natasha Romanova, whose contribution will make "2B1" interesting and approchable even to fans of synth-pop and some darker music. Definitely right up the alley of fans of bands like Rammstein, Die Krupps, FLA, F242, Killing Joke, Strapping Young Lad, Oomph!, Clawfinger, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM and so on and so forth.
Their newly released CD comes in a beautiful digipack art work and contains eleven tracks." - Marc Urselli-Schaerer, Chain D.L.K.