Do you believe in love of techno music at a first loop? Everything's possible, when it's 1995, you're 16, and this is your first visit to a nightclub in the capital of wild and rollicking Russia, where outrageous luxury goes hand in hand with poverty, where 99% of the population listens to songs you'd better off not knowing about, and where fans of electronic music are chased in dark alleys by drunken yobbos in knicks. It was on that day Andrey fell in love with techno. Although he had to wait for long 12 years before the music reciprocated his feelings. He didn't become a musician overnight, that's for sure.
Andrey grew up in the outskirts of Sergiev Posad, an old Russian city. Before coming of age, he never left the closed presidio with a population of 12000, where military specialists and their families lived in an ideal, refined environment which had nothing in common with the harsh reality that reigned behind the wall. Andrey received education in classical music. At the early age, he began playing piano and guitar, while his peers outside were learning to smoke and knocking each other out in street brawls.
Perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Empire destroyed the idyllic world. Power of money took over the communist ideology; Andrey's parents put music aside and sent him to Moscow to study at the prestigious Finance Academy. It is here, in the megalopolis of 14 million people, the place where the trendiest Western concepts go together with Eastern wildness and Soviet past, Andrey found club culture and techno music. It was probably the most exciting discovery of his life.
Since that day, Andrey is two different persons. Every morning, the first one puts on a white shirt, ties a tie, and goes to shuffle papers at the bank. The second one sits at the computer in his home studio all nights long. But the expensive silk tie tightens with each passing month, until one day it strangles like a slipknot, drawing away from the real passion - music.
Andrey forfeits the career of a banker in favor of what he really deems interesting. To make a living, he becomes sound supervisor at a radio station. His career skyrockets several years later, when he is invited to work at the largest Russian film company which produces the most popular movies and TV series. But that old flame, Andrey's love for techno music, doesn't want him to stay put. Andrey pours the years of experience of working with sound into his musical projects.
His experiments with interactive installations evolve into the live techno project Bip Soup. At the end of 2007, Andrey locks himself in a studio and dives into independent production of techno music. His dreams finally come true. His first tracks draw attention of well-known European labels, and this is just a beginning. The future promises new records, live performances, and… who knows what's waiting for us 'round the corner? After all, this is techno…
