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Gazgolder (also Creative Association "Gazgolder") — Russian record label, club, production center, Agency for management, promotion and booking of artists. It produces music, video and film production, organizes concerts, festivals, performances, exhibitions and other cultural events. The owners are Vasily Vakulenko, Evgeny Antimony and others.

The company also has its own art-bureau, a tea room, an Asian restaurant, a network of beer sports bars, a chain of stores of branded products, a network of vape shops and a jewelry company.

History
The creative Association arose around the closed club "gasgolder", founded by Ruslan Tarkinsky in March 2005 in an empty building of the former Moscow gas plant "ARMA", built in the middle of the 19th century. The opening of the club and the creation of the Association was related to Bogdan Titomir, who noticed rapper Basta, invited to the party and began to produce it. Owner was (and continues to be in share with Basta to this day) Yevgeny Antimony.

In 2006, there was the recording studio and label, which released the first album of Basta. Co-founders of the label are Denis Kryuchkov and Yuri "Jora" Bulavin

In 2007 Basta became a co-owner of the music label "Gazgolder". Also in 2007, was opened teahouse of Andrew Zuckerberg

In 2008, the club held a private screening of the films "Tea drinker" and "Moats".

Since 2009, the "gasgolder " begins to operate a Chinese restaurant

Since 2010, every year in mid-July, the creative Association holds large concerts. The first years the green theater in Gorky Park in Moscow acted as a platform, and joint performances were given by Basta and Guf. The first event was held on July 21. A year later, the performers gathered 8 thousand people in the pouring rain, and in 2012 the concert was held on July 19.

In 2011, the composition of the "gasgolder" joined the team "Triagrutrika" and rapper Smokey Mo. The Agency engaged in booking artists.

Gazgolder from July 27, 2012 to February 5, 2013 released from 9 to 15 issues of "Vestirep" — the author's Internet project on YouTube, which later grew into Russia's largest YouTube channel about rap — "VSRAP".

In 2013, the "Basta / Guf" event changed its format and became known as the " Basta+" festival, where other representatives of the label performed together with Basta. On 18 July in the Park was made by Tati Slovetskiy, smoky Mo, the group "AK-47" and "Triagrutrika" without the participation of the Guf. In 2014, July 17 at the festival under the open sky was made by Basta, Guf, smoky Mo, "AK-47", Tati, Slovetsky, "Triagrutrika", and Tony Tonite. The last festival "Basta+" in the Green theater was held on July 16, 2015 and brought together not only rap artists, but also rock. With Basta made Tachi, "AK-47", smoky Mo, "Triagrutrika", "Nerve", Scriptonite, QP, Noggano, Slovetskii, Tony Tonite and Nel. The same year the collection "Basta+ 2015" was released, in the tracklist of which the songs of the artists of the label.

In February 2014, Scriptonite became a new resident of the label

On April 24, 2014, the full-length film "gasgolder", which collected 37 million rubles for the first week of screenings was released

In 2015, "gasgolder" moved to another building.

In February 2016, the club "Gasgolder" held a closed screening of the film "Ke-dy" directed by Sergei Solovyov, in which Vakulenko participated as a military. For the film Basta was recorded three songs and filmed two clips.

Since July 7, 2016 at the radio station DFM, the Association has its own program "Gazgolder Live", on which Vasily Vakulenko, Vadim Karpenko and Sergey Mezentsev interviewed musicians and other prominent persons. The program was completed in 2017.

The annual July open-air festival with the new name "Gazgolder Live" has been held on the territory of the "ARMA" since 2016. This year Basta, Tati, Scriptonite, Smokey Mo, ATL, Tony Tonite, NEL, QP, Charusha, Slovetskiy, group "Triagrutrika", "AK-47", "Nerves", Era Cannes, Lil Kate, DJ Minimi and DJ Mixoid performed on the stage. After the rapper Decl complained to the network on loud music at late hours. Basta ridiculed Cyril Tolmatsky, after which it all grew into several court cases. In September 2016, the singer Tati left Gazgolder and continued her solo career

In March 2017, the participants of the Association were Ukrainian rapper T-Fest and Moscow artist Sasha Chest. Ukrainian rock band "Nerves" and Belarusian musician Tony Tonite left the label, but cooperation with them in the framework of the projects will continue.

The next Gazgolder Live festival in 2017 was held on July 21. On its stage were not only residents of the label Basta, smoky Mo, Scriptonite, T-Fest, Slovenian and Sasha Chest, but also ATL, Husky, MiyaGi and Endgame, Jillzay and Cvpellv.

Hoster Zloi Negr on August 7, 2017 released a 30-minute longmix Zloi Gaz Mix. According to him, the work was done with the approval of Basta. The tracklist of the release contains the latest hits of the artists of "Gasholder" — Scriptonite, Noggano, smoky Mo, T-Fest, Slovetsky, as well as other artists, some verses of which have not been published previously.

On August 11 along with a music video on YouTube "Iloveu" the new resident "gasgolder" was presented. — a group of MODI from Nizhny Novgorod. Their works combine trap-soul, funk, rhythm and Blues, rap, pop music of the new wave. At the end of the year, another member of the Association was the performer Matrang.