Tag: 1980s
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Avtomaticheskie Udovletvoriteli (AU)
In the summer of 1979, Andrei Panov — quickly nicknamed Svin’ — gathered a circle of bored, restless young people who were fed up with Soviet monotony and uninspired rock. Panov had decent…
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Aquarium (Soviet Rock Band)
Aquarium was created in Leningrad in July 1972, when Boris Grebenshchikov, a university math student and budding songwriter, teamed up with playwright-in-training Anatoly “George” Gunitsky. BG was already in a…
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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…
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Andrey Tropillo — The First Soviet Rock Producer
Tropillo grew up in a household with a musical and technical background, and he got into foreign records through his brother-in-law. He also got into electronic music in school. In…
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Sad Story of Soviet Compact Disc Players
Back in April of 1983, readers of the Soviet magazine Radio might’ve been intrigued by a small photograph on the back page: a futuristic rainbow-colored disc standing upright beside a…
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Kino — 45 (1982)
The debut Kino’s album was recorded at the Pioneers’ Palace, which later became the AnTrop studio, assembled by Andrei Tropillo from equipment collected from various organizations. Tropillo had already seen Tsoi and Rybin at an apartment concert,…
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Kino (Cinema) Soviet Rock Band
Why they matter Kino moved from Leningrad’s underground music scene to the center of Soviet popular culture in less than a decade. The band came together around Viktor Tsoi, who…
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Mify (Myths) — The Way Home (1980)
Mify’s hiatus lasted until 1980. A year earlier, Andrei Tropillo had set up what soon became the famed underground recording studio AnTrop and—after a year of experimenting with live tapes…