Tag: Antrop
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Aquarium — 10 Arrows (1986)
The studio went under renovation (as it turned out later—forever), but the songs demanded immediate recording. (Maybe I’m wrong, but it always seemed to me that if a song is…
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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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Aquarium — Blue Album (1981)
In the summer of 1980, a barely familiar figure named Andrey Tropillo appeared out of nowhere and said, “I’ll help you.” The first sign of that help was a homemade…
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Andrey Usov: Photographer and Cover Designer of Soviet Rock
In the Soviet underground, album art wasn’t just for show—it was a key part of getting music out there. Striking covers and band portraits helped bootleg reels travel, stick in…
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Zoopark (The Zoo)
Zoopark was one of the most influential bands to come out of the Soviet rock underground, and its leader, singer-songwriter Mike Naumenko, is still a huge figure in Russian rock…
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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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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…