R.A.I.G. or Russian Association of Independent Genres is a free union of independent musicians inspired to promote their works and to strengthen direct links between artists and their supporters worldwide.
Founded in 2002 inside the art community, RAIG provides activity coordination, profile web-hosting, album-production, design, publishing and distribution for its members. This is also the English-language web-journal of events inside the community which contains biographies, discographies, album-descriptions, links to personal web-pages, and etc.
RAIG provides a mail-order service as well: all overseas releases in web-shop are reviewed in Russian. It strives to advocate challenging music - experimental & instrumental rock, progressive, space & psychedelic, improvised music, ambient, noise and other obscure freakouts - anything which by its nature creatively approaches sound and form. To those connoisseurs who are bored with mainstream and eager to discover something new, it offers a catalog of limited collector's items by Russian music innovators. When you order from RAIG, you can take pride in the knowledge that you are investing in the creation of more new inventive works as your money are going directly to independent artists.