current_members associated_acts years_active label article_title past_members background genre img origin name
fagot fozzi kotya yarik oleksandr shymansʹkyy vitolʹd tonik apollo kikabidze mgzavrebi 440 albina dzhanabaeva nu virgos ivan dorn vakhtang 1989 -- present moon records records lavina music nova records astra rekords volya tnmk
 dilya group_or_band hip hop , alternative hip hop , jazz Танок на Майдані Конґо.jpg kharkiv , ukraine tnmk
tnmk

tnmk or tanok na maidani kongo -lrb- ; literally `` dance at the congo square '' -rrb- - is the most successful ukrainian hip-hop group .
they are known for clever , yet often tongue-in-cheek , lyrics ; mixing hip-hop with rock , funk and jazz music and playing real instruments on their albums and live shows , rather than using samples and drum machines .
tnmk performed at many festivals as : sziget fest , zakhid , tavria games , chervona ruta , faine misto and bandershtat .
the group was formed in kharkiv in the early 1990s and released its first album , `` zroby meni hip-hop '' , in 1998 .
the title track became an underground hit in ukraine , but it was only with the release of neformat in 2001 that they rose to mainstream popularity .
`` pozhezhi mista vavilon '' , released in 2004 , had a harder sound , while `` jazzy '' , released in the same year , was a live album recorded with a ukrainian jazz band , skhid-side , and featured tnmk songs re-arranged in a jazz and funk style .
in the same year , the group toured france and recorded french versions of some of their songs .
their album `` syla '' was voted the best album of 2005 by the most popular ukrainian music portal music.com.ua .
their 2008 album , `` reformattsia vol .2 '' , is a compilation of remixes of their songs sung by them and other singers such as oleh skrypka , mariya burmaka and greatfruit .
the album also includes a remix of the song `` chervona ruta '' featuring sofia rotaru .
in 2014 they realised their last album - `` dzerkalo '' .
