DF Music Organization
DF Music Organization is a cross functional company which deals in different aspects in the field of music. DF Music Organization was founded in autumn 2004 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The staff of this company contains of people who took the responsibilities of promoting and developing qualitative music not only in Russia but even abroad.
DF Music Organization includes: concert agency, booking agency, commercial agency, record label and DFMO.NET magazine AbOUT alternative music life in Russia and in the whole world.
Russian Alternative Project
The brand, that DF Music Organization started with. It consists of Annual CD-compilation & Festival. Compilation gathers the best and interesting Russian Alternative artists and supported by the festival with the same name. However festival is always hold in St-Petersburg, the CD-compilation is well-known all over Russia.
The first compilation was released on September 2004. It included the most interesting Russian alternative artists. This CD was never re-released, that's why only collectors and greatest alternative fans have it now. The festival was held on 19 September, 2004 in Saint Petersburg. It included #####, eSKIMO, Aytside & SpOiLed as the headliners. The second Russian Alternative project also consisted of festival and compilation.
Russian Alternative 2005 festival was divided into several gigs, with final festival on the . Russian alternative 2005 Final Festival included Amatory, Apshell, Aytside, Skunk as the performing artists.
In spite of that Russian alternative 2005 Final Festival was planned to be presentation of the CD, release date was delayed to May 2006, because of the negotitations with Sony/BMG about track On ne changera Rien by Pleymo.
Due to that international bands were included in 2005's compilation, the official name was changed to RA2005. The third compilation Russian Alternative 2006 was released in December 2006. It was not supported by festival on that year. Alexey Vlasov - editor-in-chief of DFMO.NET Magazine commented: "Russian Alternative 2006 festival is not planned, beacause DF Music Organization is now working on 2007's festival, which will blow your mind" Everything concerning Russian Alternative 2007 project is yet TBA.
Record label
Record label was launched along with company in 2004. The success started with its first release Russian Alternative 2004. Now label is focused not only on rock and metall, but also on house and R'n'B music.
Available releases
Russian Alternative compilations
- Russian Altermative 2004 (2004)
- RA 2005 (2006)
- Russian Alternative 2006 (2006)
- Russian Alternative 2007 (TBA)
Artists albums
- Grenouer "+-Try" (2006). New album of heavy tech-metal band from Saint-Petersburg
- AytSide EP "Bolshe Smisla/net" (2006). First EP album of young punk\emo band
- Apshell EP "Nichto Ne Vechno" (2006). Debute EP album of the band Apshell, playing in unique MusicAL style teen-core.
Concert agency
DF Music Organization works as with club gigs and also with famous artists on big stages.
With Moscow concert agency "TCI", DF Music Organization took part in organizing concerts of such bands as Rammstein, Prodigy, Accept and others.
Main performance projects
- Russian Alternative Festivals
- Hard & Beauty
- R&B Sessions
DFMO.NET
DFMO.NET is the first magazine, focused on alternative music in Russian Federation.
Magazine was founded on the September 2006. The first issue was released 1 November, 2006. It was supported by the presentation on 19 November 2006. Since that magazine is released 4 times in year. It features not only bands & gigs, but also usual problems of young people, such as [...] addiction, Russian Chanson, "Internet overdose".
The original editor-in-chief Roman Pitehov was fired after the first issue. Now magazine is fully lead by Alexey Vlasov.
DFMO.NET also bases in St-Petersburg.
The name DF
There were many rumours and versions of the meaning of DF. But founders of organization commented that it means nothing, until in Summer 2006 STi publicly and officially revealed that DF is short for "DreamFate".
That's why slogan of DF Music Organization is: "Your Dream - is your Fate".
Also business cards of DF employers are signed with the word "DreamFate". So the full name of organization is DreamFate Music Organization.