Vinyl Nostalgia Archive // Iron curtain
Iron curtain
The Beatles (AMIGA 8 50 040)
The Beatles on Amiga 8 50 040 — released in January 1965 — is one…
Rare gems from behind the Iron Curtain
Some records you don’t find — they find you. They turn up in a vodka…
Inside Balkanton, the State Label That Let the West In — Barely
There’s a grey concrete building at 6 Haidushka Polyana Street in Sofia that, for roughly…
How Supraphon Smuggled the Beatles into the Eastern Bloc
It is December 1968. Tanks from five Warsaw Pact armies have been stationed in Prague…
The Soviet vinyl record industry
One monopoly, many factories For millions of Soviet citizens, the word Melodiya wasn’t just a…
The true story of the Antrop label
ANTROP is a Soviet (later Russian) music label created in Leningrad in 1979, originally as…
