Long before it became a radio stream, Супердискотека 90-х was a live event, a retro mega-dance that packed thousands of fans into venues across Saint Petersburg and Moscow to hear the songs that soundtracked their teenage years. Radio Record, the station behind it, built the stream to capture that same feeling every day of the year, not just on festival nights.
Russia's First Dance Station
Radio Record went on air on August 22, 1995, founded and still owned by Lyudmila Reznikova, widow of the Soviet-era composer and producer Viktor Reznikov. What made the station notable from the start was its format decision: it became the first Russian radio station to fully commit to dance music, a switch reportedly driven by listener demand rather than a top-down programming call. That willingness to follow the audience rather than lead it has stayed part of the station's identity ever since, and by 2004 the signal had expanded via satellite across the European part of Russia, turning a Saint Petersburg station into a nationwide presence.
From Nightclub Anthem to Annual Festival
The Супердискотека 90-х brand began as an offshoot project tied to the station's retro programming and grew into one of Radio Record's flagship live events, running annually in Saint Petersburg since 2003 and expanding to Moscow in 2010. The concerts function as reunion tours for an entire genre, bringing back acts that defined Russian and international dance-pop in the 90s, from Ruki Vverh and Natasha Oreiro to Eurodance names like Real 2 Real. Over time the format loosened its own rules, letting hits from the 70s and 80s creep in alongside the core 90s catalog, which is part of why the stream now carries the broader "70-90-х, ретро" tag rather than sticking to a single decade.
What the Stream Sounds Like
Turn it on and you get a steady rotation of Europop, Eurodance, and disco-inflected dance tracks built for a crowd rather than a quiet evening, the same energy that fills the festival's arenas translated into a 24-hour broadcast. It is programming built around a very specific memory: the version of dance music that dominated Russian club culture and radio charts through the 90s, before EDM or Eurotrance fully took over.
A Festival That Keeps Growing
What started as a themed club night has become a touring institution with more than two decades behind it, still selling out arenas and still drawing a crowd that spans multiple generations of listeners who grew up with the music. The radio stream is the version of that party you can carry with you between festival dates, a constant reminder of why Супердискотека 90-х became a fixture of Russian nightlife in the first place.