Andrei Zakharov

Andrei Zakharov is the creative force behind An-2 and Amberflame.

He comes from Izhevsk, a place known for its vibrant electronic music scene phenomenon that emerged out of nowhere in the beginning of the 1990s. After moving to St. Petersburg in 2003 that coincided with his first vinyl records being released in Europe, he soon realized that own label is the only possible way to release exactly what and how you like it without being dependent on anybody else's taste, schedule and vision which ended up as founding of Theomatic Records in 2004, one of the very few Russian labels putting electronic music on vinyl at the time.

He has never been much for the public side of things: no self-promotion, few interviews, and a quiet preference for letting the records do the talking — which, after two decades, they manage quite well on their own.