Category: Bootlegs
Unauthorized vinyl and CD issues of western rock albums that circulated in 1990s by Andrei Tropillo and other publishers
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LAD (Soviet Music Label)
LAD (Russian: Ладъ, often rendered “LAD’”) was a Moscow-based company connected to Melodiya—the USSR’s state record label—and its international broker Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga (“Mezhkniga,” literally International Book). Through Mezhkniga, Melodiya exchanged rights with Western labels and, by…
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SNC Records (USSR Music Label)
SNC Records was one of the first serious attempts to run a legal, private record label inside the late-Soviet system—and make it work at scale. The story centers on musician…
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AnTrop — Soviet Pirate Music Label
In 1978, Andrey Tropillo declared he wanted to build a vinyl plant and flood the USSR with Beatles LPs—an ambition friends wrote off as delusional. A decade later, as director of…