Andrey Tropillo

Andrei Vladimirovich Tropillo (; 21 March 1951 – 28 April 2024) was a Soviet and Russian record producer, music publisher, sound engineer, founder of the label AnTrop (""), and rock musician.

Biography Tropillo first became involved in the Soviet rock scene in the 1970s. In 1976, he initially attempted to set up a small record factory in a room rented from his then-employer, the Geophysics department of Leningrad University. He also organized concerts for several bands, including Mashina Vremeni, and used the income to buy technical equipment for sound recording. Tropillo later started working part-time at the House of Pioneers in the Krasnogvardeysky District of Leningrad, teaching members of the Young Pioneers about sound recording and giving guitar lessons. This position afforded him better access to sound equipment and allowed him to develop a studio. He would make alterations to the record covers to circumvent copyright laws. On the sleeve of the AnTrop release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Karl Marx is replaced by the Russian Beatles fan Kolya Vasin and Tropillo's face is inserted in the top row. In his interview for the BBC Storyville documentary How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin, Tropillo stated: "I support not copyright but copyleft. Because I'm sure that in Russia we should support musical piracy, because musical piracy was the key to have freedom in Russia, to have free information."

Tropillo died on 28 April 2024 in Finland, at the age of 73. He had moved to Finland two years earlier.

Discography

(Note: concert recording of the festival in Shushary, different from the studio album published in 1991) DDT 1987 Sound engineer (mobile studio MCI) Glasnost' Ob'ekt Nasmeshek 1987 Sound engineer (mobile studio MCI) Reagan Provocateur Avtomaticheskie Udovletvoriteli 1987 Sound engineer (mobile studio MCI) Muzyka dlya mertvykh Televizor 1987 Sound engineer Kamni Sankt-Peterburga''

(Note: album finished at Andrei Sokolov’s home studio)Nikolai Korzinin

In addition to rock groups, Tropillo produced recordings of the following jazz musicians:

Sergey Kuryokhin Vladimir Chekasin Valentina Ponomaryova the duo Vladislav Makarov and Aleksandr Kondrashkin (1984)