An-2 is Andrei Zakharov. He was born at the year of Moscow Olympic Games in the small Soviet industrial town of Izhevsk - one of many small towns like this in USSR mainly known for it's military manufacturing. But under some strange circumstances Izhevsk is renowned as the place of abnormal musical activity and often called the Russia’s home of electronic music. The situation was like this yet before the spreading of easy-to-get computer-based musical technologies and remain the same at present days. Izhevsk environs are also known as P.I.Tchaikovsky's place of birth. Andrei grew up listening to his parents’ disco tapes, but he could never think of being involved into electronic music. At the age of 9 he was sent to a music school to take piano lessons, but disliking its academic programme, he was turned out of it a year later (there were also 4 months of classic guitar which finished in the same manner – Andrei didn’t want to be an educated musician under any circumstances). Several years later, after the collapse of USSR, studying at school, Andrei started to collect various electronic music and during his last school years was engaged in organizing disco parties in his school. In 1996 Andrei started his own experiments with music using sample-based programs for DOS that just started to appear. After finishing the school and entering the university in 97 he began to build up his vinyl collection and play as a DJ in local clubs. By the next year Andrei had some of his fir