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Mikhail Antonov has followed Jungle and Drum & Bass since 1995 and has been buying the records since 1998. He plays vinyl only, and he describes himself as a collector rather than a DJ chasing a name — what he offers is a deliberately non-commercial view of 170 BPM culture: 90s classics, the technoid sound of the 2000s, Autonomic and post-drum & bass from the 2010s, and the current Jungle and Techstep revival.

In the early 2000s, living in St. Petersburg, he started the Archive of the 90s project and kept playing 90s Jungle and Drum & Bass at a time when the genre was out of fashion.

In 2013, no longer content to be an ordinary record buyer, he launched Burelom — a vinyl label focused on Jungle — and then two more. The three run together as the Vinyl Backers project: Audio Plants Recordings, BURELOM Music and Vinyl Backers. He also advises labels and artists on vinyl release production through Stride Grooves.

He left Russia in 2020 and now lives in Belgrade. His collection reaches well past drum & bass — 90s abstract hip-hop, downtempo, bleep techno, Dutch hardcore and goa trance, plus 80s freestyle and old techno.

For Sonic Shift #26 he played a vinyl-only history of the genre: 41 records from 1990 to 2018, running from 4 Hero and Shut Up And Dance through techstep and Autonomic to Skeptical. He wrote liner notes for every record in the set, published as a companion piece to the episode.