Tag: 1990s
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Jesus Christ Superstar
The rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar was banned, yet well known in the Soviet Union. It is no surprise that Tropillo — catholic himself, who began releasing records under the…
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Yasin Tropillo — Sound Engineer (AnTrop)
Yasin Tropillo is a St. Petersburg–based sound engineer. He’s best known for his work at AnTrop, the independent studio/label founded by his uncle, the pioneering producer Andrei Tropillo. Andrei was…
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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…
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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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History of Laser Discs in USSR
The Electronpribor plant in Fryazino made a batch in 1993, long after the Ministry and the USSR had gone out of business. With the Soviet production network gone, no manufacturer…
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Soviet CD Production on Melodiya in 1990s
One of the big pluses of making records at the All-Union Enterprise “Melodiya” was that they had their own master disc recording unit. A lot of plants didn’t have the…
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The First Compact Disc in the USSR — Part 2
In this series History of the first compact-disc in the USSR — Part 1 History of the first compact-disc in the USSR — Part 2 Prev part: Part 1 Back…