2nd SORT - the group has existed since 2015 until now. The number and composition of the members changed. Nevertheless, it had little effect on the sound and general message of the collective. Tense electronics, sharp and at first glance pessimistic lyrics cause a feeling of discomfort and often force the listener to rethink what they so diligently avoid. Despite this, or maybe even because of it, the events organized by the musicians of the band have a therapeutic effect, as well as regular listening to their compositions individually, which has been noticed more than once by their regular listeners. During this time more than ten albums have been released, as well as many joint works with different musicians. The band regularly performs in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

A Bit Advanced Music A collective from the capital of the Black Earth region, Voronezh. The guys experiment with trip-hop and art-pop sound, perform songs in English and Russian. Thin, warm, almost watercolour soundscape, synthetic basses, atonal transitions, noise of waves, and in some places dance rhythms surprisingly add up to a fresh, but at the same time chamber sound. The music plunges into kind and pleasant nostalgic feelings with noir atmospheres, unhurried melody development and synthesiser pads, as well as sensual vocals and slow drums. "The last few years we've had a pretty loose format of working on releases. People have come and gone: vocalists, musicians, beatmakers. Everyone's stretched out in different cities. But on the other hand, it's also interesting, more contacts and collaborations, more different visions, and something new is born out of that," Pavel Karmazin, leader of A Bit Advanced Music.

Ada D’Arte — pop / indie project. Songs are rotated on Bridge TV and Dipol Fm. Sensual vocals, dancing rythm, thoughtful texts. The duet gets the inspiration from fine arts, and also create music for the theatre and cinema.

An international musical art project with roots in Russia, founded in 2012. A kaleidoscope of styles from impressionism to crunchy dance electronics and chillout vibes from distant tropical countries.

AkMD (Absolutely kinetic Mass Death) - Experimental / Electro / Industrial project of Alexander Kirdyashov from Novokuznetsk. Actually the project was created in 2001 in Mordovia (Russia) under the name Massive Death, absolutely for self pleasure and amateur listening. Later the project was renamed to AkMD. Over the years, the project has taken on a more competent sound using more professional music programmes. The project has recorded over 12 albums / compilations including Merciless Executions (2022) and Mechanical & Spiritual Compression Of Consciousness (2023), with remixes from dark electronic music masters such as Jihad, Object and Brain Leisure! In May 2023, AkMD was included in the compilation V. A. - Industrial Sounds From Underground by popular Slovakian label Aliens Production On 10th October 2023 a new album "Abstract Concept Of Mind" was released with very brilliant remixes by END-TEK, Index AI (Eric Chamberlain) , bent, M Slagle (Side 3) and Darktron

Mokhort Aleksandr is a composer, arranger, mix engineer from Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region. Graduated from music school in piano class, since 2017 I have been creating tracks, arrangements, full mixing, mastering. I also do author projects. Since 2020, it has been published on audio drains.

Alexandr Stroganov Started relationship with music as DJ in 2002. Since 2015, I got into creating music for advertising, background music for different video projects, etc. For several years I managed to appear with my music in various advertising, corporate and informational videos of such brands and companies as: Gazprom, Sibur, Tinkoff, Panasonic, Microsoft, IBM, Disney, National Geographics, Seagate, Adidas, TEZ Tour, KIA Motors, Ray Ban, Jim Beam, Delta Airlines, Ryanair, Vodafone, UPC, Rolling Stone (magazine), Sony, Hublot and many others. Since 2019th, has been involved in the creation of trailer music for the libraries of companies such as Frontier Trailer Music, Phantom Power, Empire Of Excellence and several others. Since 2022nd has been developing several of his creative music projects in different genres, releasing music on his own label, as well as on various foreign and domestic labels. Main musical projects to date are: Aleksandr Stroganov - house music Red Nuts - bass, breakbeat music Scabrous Cat - lounge, lofi hip hop music Invisible Warrior - trailer and atmospheric ambient music

Aleksei Artishevski - music composer for films, tv series, animations, documentaries, theatrical performances, computer/mobile games and other media. Was born in Kaliningrad and worked there in a studio as a composer and sound producer for over 12 years. After moving to Moscow, he’s composing music for films and other visual media. Also works on my personal projects in various genres, from classical opuses to modern/hybrid styles of music.

Aleksey Chistilin is a composer from Rostov-on-Don. He has more than fifteen years of experience in creating and arranging music. He is inspired by the great composers of cinema. His portfolio includes two full-fledged film soundtracks, as well as a wide range of music applications in trailers, multimedia exhibitions and commercials, including luxury brands.

Ryazantsev Alexey Petrovich was born on 23 September 1975 in Izvestkovy settlement, Amur district, Khabarovsk region. Since 1980 he lived in Elban settlement, in 1990 he graduated from the music school in accordion class, teacher Nazarov Sergey Nikitovich. Entered the Khabarovsk College of Arts in the folk department, class of accordion, lecturer Teterkin L.S., studied composition with Moskaev S.P. In 1994 graduated from college and worked at the music school in Elban settlement. Composed many works for piano, bayan, suites "Tsar Pea", "Laziness" and others. In 1998 he moved to Chaplygin, Lipetsk region, worked as a concertmaster of the district house of culture, concertmaster of the folk ensemble "Orange City". Since 2000 writes music in a home studio. Arrangements, audio advertising, music for performances, recording of songs. In 2007 was engaged in musical design of the opening of BMW salon in Lipetsk, from "Pride Media". 2019 Worked in a recording studio, Chaplygin. Wrote music for the feature film "Starets Paisiy and I, standing upside down", channel "Kultura" 2012, r documentary film "Mikhail Zhvanetsky. Za Word - In Portfolio" (TVC). Engaged in the development of microphones for binaural recording.

Alexander Shwarzborg - aka Alex Borg Alex Borg is an accomplished composer and sound designer from Latvia who writes music for TV, Film, and Commercials. With a focus on simple, yet catchy melodies and high-quality production, he creates in a wide range of genres, including Ambient, Acoustic, Blues, Rock, New Age, Chillout, Dub, Reggae, and Easy Listening, among many others. Alex worked as a Sound Engineer for several prominent studios, and his versatile compositions reflect the influence of groups like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, and Yes.

Alex Mason is a project by Alexey Maslov: a composer and sound producer from Ulyanovsk. Alexey has been writing music in the cinematic genre for over ten years and has worked on several film projects, advertisements and many commercial videos. He have always dreamed of writing music for various kinds of video materials. Currently he is writing soundtracks for films, games, and TV series.

Alex Melodic is a media composer and arranger. 1998 musical accompaniment of a retrospective screening dedicated to the eightieth anniversary of the Lenfilm Film Studio as part of the International Film Festival of Festivals. 2000 – 2011 Author's music and arrangement for performances of St. Petersburg drama theaters Theater On Liteyny, TYUZ named after Bryantseva, the Potudan Theater, The Comedian's Shelter, the Baltic House, etc. Arrangements for the musical design of the solemn ceremonies of awarding the theater awards "Golden Mask" (2003) and "Golden Spotlight" (2008), for television projects on the channels Culture, 100 TV. 2011 to the present Composing music and developing music content for production libraries, advertising agencies, video studios and music companies in different countries. The main stylistic directions are children's music, smooth jazz, ethnic music, music, music for production and background music of various genres. The author's works are used in business facilities, video blogs and advertising, as well as presented on streaming services

Alexander Cherevkov is a composer, arranger, musician and professional guitarist from Moscow. He has been composing music for cinema and advertising for more than 10 years. Alexander's works represent a wide palette of genres and styles. From hard rock and hip-hop to electronic and orchestral music. Extensive experience working with such large companies as Universal Production Music, Warner Chappell, BMG and many others.

Alexander Borisovich Goldstein was born in Moscow in the family of a musician of the Bolshoi Theater orchestra. At the age of 6, he began studying at the Gnessin School and 16 years later graduated from the Gnessin Institute (now the Academy) in French horn and conducting classes. Soon he began working as a film composer. Alexander Goldstein has composed music for 27 feature films, more than 300 documentaries and animations. His works include instrumental music, compositions for various ensembles and orchestras, songs, music for theatrical productions and circus performances. Since 1991, Alexander Goldstein has been living in the USA and Russia and continues to compose music. Among his recent works are "The Neapolitan Symphony", the symphonic poem "To Be Or Not To Be", "Rotissimo" suite for violin, clarinet and string orchestra, "Rhapsody on a theme of Albinoni" for violin, cello, harpsichord and string orchestra, "The Beauty Of Ostinato" for string orchestra and bassguitars, "Forward To The Past" for organ and two violins, "Trio on the roof" for piano, violin and clarinet, a cycle of romances "One-sided correspondence", a multimedia project "Introspective trio" and compositions for sports performances. Chamber and symphonic works by Alexander Borisovich Goldstein are constantly performed in Russia, the USA, Canada, Spain, Finland, Switzerland, Turkey and other countries of the world.

Alexander Goncharenko is a music composer and multi-instrumentalist. He worked as a guitarist with such singers and bands as: Irina Krug, “Krematorij” and other musicians. Also, he was a member of music production team in Russian TV shows “Artist“ and Toch-v-toch. He writes music for children animated series “Fixies” and many other projects

Alexander Mayev is a composer. He was born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg). He received a musical education in piano and clarinet classes. Later, having changed his professional direction, he graduated from the Baltic State Technical University. In 1998, he released his first album as part of the Aurora group, recorded at the Melody studio. Colleagues in the workshop characterize Mayev as a musician of the Western mindset: combining and developing different creative directions, he is engaged in sound production, writes music for theatrical productions and films. Intensio and "Jan" are the first one-act ballets created in close collaboration with choreographer Yuri Smekalov. The performance of Intensio took place at the Mariinsky Theatre in 2013, the production of "Jan" was presented as part of the project of Vladimir Vasiliev's creative workshop "Andrey Platonov and Ballet" (Voronezh Opera and Ballet Theater, 2013). In August 2013, the premiere of the two-act ballet Infinita Frida to the music of Alexander Maev (choreography by Yuri Smekalov) took place at the Eliza Cabrera Theater and Concert Hall in Texcoco (Mexico). In 2013 and 2014, Forest's music from the symphonic suite Intensio was performed at the Kremlin Gala finale in Moscow. In March 2014, the Mariinsky Theatre premiered the one-act ballet "Camera Obscura" to the music of Alexander Maev. In 2014, he participated in writing the music for the musical The Master and Margarita. Since 2012, music has been written for more than 90 feature films and TV series. Recent works in cinema: SKY, GOLDEN BRONZE, THE FIRST DEPARTMENT, RUSALKA – LAKE OF THE DEAD, RZHEV.

Alexander Sokolov is a saxophonist, sound engineer, arranger, conductor and composer from Moscow, releasing music under the pseudonyms Nargo, Amber Bright and Nargo Music. He started his musical career by working in a brass band, where he first played flute and saxophone and later became the leader of the band. Parallel to brass music he was also interested in recording and arranging. Now he has a large amount of instrumental music produced especially for video and media production.

ALEXEY BATYCHENKO A bright representative of smooth jazz, Lounge style. The composer and performer's work can be characterised as "Night music of the big city". Alexey's musical biography amazes with the richness of famous names in the world of Russian music. He is a solo performer and leader of the studio brass section of Studio Transit, as well as one of the main musicians of Leonid Agutin's concert line-up. Alexey has recorded the vast majority of brass tracks with almost all representatives of Russian show business: Sergey Zhilin (Phonograph Jazz Band), Alla Pugacheva, Philip Kirkorov, Uma Thurman, Andrey Gubin, Tatiana Ovsienko, Mikhail Shufutinsky, Alyona Ivantsova, Laima Vaikule, Igor Kruty, Anatoly Kroll (MKS Band). Batychenko also took part in the project "Leonid & Friends" with tracks that exploded the Internet, gaining 5 million views in a week. Singles: MAMA, OBSESSION were in rotation of radio "Jazz 89,1" for a long time. His biography includes extensive work on soundtracks for Russian TV series and films, such as "LIFE THAT DIDN'T HAVE BEEN", "NOTARIUS NEGLINTSEV'S GOOD LIFE COURSE", "A Short Course in Happy Life", "THE TIME MAN", "Pregnancy Test" (the play "Lullaby") and others. Films: "PUSTYNIA", "MAJOR SOKOLOV'S HETERS", "THE BLACK SEA". In 1998 Alexey creates his own small recording studio on the basis of which his solo project "Dreams" is born. A project which is not bound by any commercial, contractual and other obligations. The music of "Dreams" is a sincere personal mood of the musician.

Alex Labuzhsky aka Alex Slime, is a musician and composer whose versatility puts him at the forefront of contemporary music and whose thirst for knowledge helps him rethink the world at large, combining mastery of studio engineering, classical music training and an innate sense of curiosity, also adept in the studio, playing the piano or at the DJ desk. Alex - Creates futuristic ultra-modern epic music, a practitioner at every stage of the composition process, always advocating pushing boundaries.... His spirit and love for music is a source of inspiration from deep in the cosmos to create intelligent epic sounds filled with groove, deep atmospheric vibes and constant energy. Like an exceptional stellar phenomenon, Alexey tries to do something different; experimenting with melodies, groove and atmosphere, blending sounds to create music for any day.