Beginning in 1997, he took an active part in the Israeli indie music scene under the nickname Igor18 as a composer, bass player, vocalist and an album cover designer.

Krutogolov collaborated with a number of Israeli musicians including Ruslan Gross, Vadim Gusis, Vera Agnivolok, Slava Smelovsky, and Anton Weiss.

In 2005, Krutogolov participated in The Crossfishes' live performance, recorded at the Vortex club in Tel Aviv and released on the collection album Noisemass 2005 in 2006 by Topheth Prophet.

In 2006, Igor Krutogolov released the album Festivemood on the German label Apocalyptic Radio, recorded at the live performance with Ruslan Gross and Anton Weiss in Tel Aviv.

Igor Krutogolov closely collaborated with Israeli musician Vadim Gusis (Chaos As Shelter) on a number of electronic projects.

In July 2003, Krutogolov and Gusis collaborated with Eric Wood (Bastard Noise) and recorded the album The Geometry of Soul, released by Topheth Prophet.

[6][7] Krutogolov and Gusis also appeared together on electronic collections Infernal Proteus (2002) and Tonal Destruction [II] (2003), both released on American labels.

[4] Krutogolov also took part in a recorded jazz concert Live at Levontin 07.04.2008 (2009) with Grundik Kasyansky and Slava Smelovsky (Grundik+Slava).

In 2009, Krutogolov joined Vadim Gusis's new electronic project, Thunderwheel, and recorded two albums: Credo (2009) and Lumberjack Blues (2010).

Igor Krutogolov played at numerous avant-rock and jazz festivals and venues in collaboration with Japanese and Israeli jazz musicians: Kazuyuki Kishino (KK Null),[9] Kazutoki Umezu,[10] Tatsuya Yoshida,[11] Assif Tsahar, Haggai Fershtman (Monotonix), Daniel Sarid, Ariel Armoni, and Ariel Shiboleth.

Krutogolov recorded several albums with the Japanese writer and experimentalist Kenji Siratori: Chaos Cell, Ancient Device (2009), Archaic Sky (2009), and WHNZ:15:KATER/Dark Water (2010).

The albums are the stories narrated by Kenji Siratori to Krutogolov's electronic dark-ambient music (organ, acoustic guitar, strings, percussion, sound effects).

[19] Igor Krutogolov closely collaborated with the Russian performative narrator and musician Psoy Korolenko in a number of projects.

[20] Krutogolov also joined the project Psoy & The Israelifts, on saw and bass, to record the albums Goy Hands (2017) and Equine Canine Soldier Whore (2017).

[23] Krutogolov also collaborated with Psoy Korolenko, Oy Division and the German klezmer band Daniel Kahn & the Painted Bird on the album The Unternationale: The Fourth Unternational (2020).

Krutogolov has released three solo albums: the experimental noise Muzika Elektronika (2005) issued four times on different labels (Esc.rec., Netherlands, T'an!Kaven!!Ash!!

[33] A joint live performance and a presentation of the split album took place in November 2006 at the Levontin 7 club in Tel Aviv.

[35] The record also featured Ruslan Gross (Kruzenshtern & Parohod) and the accordionist Boris Marzinovsky (Charming Hostess, Panic Ensemble).

[37] The album booklet included a detailed description of Zelig Rabichnyak's life and career, a special addition created by Igor Krutogolov.

[39][40] In 2012, the band Kruzenshtern & Parohod united with Marlise Freshville and Eric Borosh from Vialka duet to form a collaboration project KIV Orchestra.

The band launched a European tour (France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Czechia, Switzerland) and recorded three consecutive albums: La Roue (2012), Extension (2013) and Whole (2013).

[41] As part of the European tour, the band members participated in the recording of a short film about the 22nd Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków created by the Israeli musician Ophir Kutiel (Kutiman) for his "Thru The City" project.

[66] The band's first performance took place on April 7, 2005, at the Green Racoon club in Tel Aviv following the literary evening of the Russian postmodern writer Vladimir Sorokin.

[70] The band recorded original songs to the gibberish lyrics written by Igor Krutogolov under the nickname Mursulik.

The group performed live as part of the cultural and educational project "Eshkolot", supported by the Embassy of Israel in Russia.

Krutogolov first appeared in Roee Rosen's short film Out (2010) as an actor performing a song to Sergei Yesenin's poem ‘’Pismo materi’’ (‘’A Letter to Mother’’) and playing the saw accompanied by Boris Marzinovsky on accordion.

The opera excerpts were presented to the audience preceding the screening of The Buried Alive Videos as part of the 3d Berlin Documentary Forum at the House of World Cultures in Berlin on June 1, 2014[91] and before the screening of The Buried Alive Videos at the Pompidou Centre in Paris on June 29, 2018.

[105] In 2021, Igor Krutogolov and his toy orchestra joined a multi-genre theatrical project TOYZZZ in collaboration with the Israeli dance theatre group led by Or Marin and Oran Nahum.

The band's musicians performed and interacted with nine theatre-group dancers in what was described as "a combination of a party, a circus, an orgy and a closed ward".

[110] In 2016, Krutogolov collaborated with Leonid Fedorov to compose music for theatrical performances of a multidisciplinary art & cinema project DAU by the Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky.