Yeah, I heard about the ordeal with filming the vid in Tokyo. If I'm not mistaken, they wanted to film in one of the big shopping areas like Akihabara, but the police put a stop to it.

As for the group itself, I first heard of them a few years ago. I was looking up info on Russian trance act PPK as they had just had a big hit with their "Resurection" track. I came across an article about them, where I saw something along the lines of "PPK, the latest musical offering from Russia since Taty" ("Taty" being the way the group's name is spelled in Cyrillic, as mentioned earlier in this thread). Wondering what sort of music this Taty group made, I checked them out. Hearing "Ya Soshla S Uma" I became even more interested. I really liked the production on the track and the vocals were quite unique, as I had never really heard Russian singing before. I looked into some more of their music. "Nas Ne Dagoniat" was another that I quite enjoyed, as the breaks in that song are fairly pimp. I ended up buying a couple of their CDs on import.

I'm not all that keen on the english release of 200 Km/H in the Wrong Lane. Trevor Horn and Co. messed with some of the production. A little for the better; more for the worse, I thought. Backing up a point Delirium made, the Russian version "Malchik Gay" is some quality eurodance in my book, but the English one is just blah.