Thursday, February 14, 2008

A PRIMER ON UNDERGROUND MUSIC FROM THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA

In the spirit of Jim's occasional pointers toward blogs whose contents blow him away, I feel compelled to point you all toward the mindblowing Najpogodnije Mesto blog (well...except for one link below, which is at a higher bitrate elsewhere...). Covering a huge swath of worthy music from the former Yugoslavia (as well as just about everything else released there over the last 40 years), their link has been on our sidebar from nearly the beginning. That said, for anyone with no former knowledge of the scene, sifting through the description-free Najpogodnije Mesto and separating the wheat from the chaff can be a daunting and confusing task. Thus, I've compiled the following set of pointers toward the creme de la creme of the Yugo scene circa 1972-1980. This stuff has held my imagination in a death grip for the better part of a year now and far more folks need to be hepped to this glorious stuff.

HOBO-S/T-1975

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S VREMENA NA VREME-S/T-1975

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SMAK-CRNA DAMA-1977

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KORNI GRUPA-S/T-1972

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MAJA DE RADO & PORODICNA MANUFAKTURA CRNOG HLEBA-1974

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TAKO-S/T-1978

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DEN ZA DEN-S/T-1980

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GORDI-COVEK-1978

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IGRA STAKLENIH PERLI-VRT SVETLOSTI-1980

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SEPTEMBER-ZADNJA AVANTURA-1976

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BOOMERANG-S/T-1979

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IPE E LAZA-STIZEMO-1977

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OPUS-OPUS 1-1975

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8 comments:

  1. Igra Staklenih Perli is my favorite group! You can find other albums of theirs here:
    http://yurock.blogspot.com/search?q=Igra+Staklenih+Perli

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  2. I would appreciate a password to unlock these. Usually its stated somewhere, perhaps I overlooked it. Thanks

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  3. Found the password. I needed to scroll down a little. Please excuse my posts. sorry

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  4. for all friends of igra staklenih perli - both their classic albums were re-released on one cd last year in their homeland, remastered & with enhanced sound:
    http://tinyurl.com/26l4k6
    http://tinyurl.com/2ery87
    pass: sa-x
    thanks to the original uploader!
    peace

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  5. lets not forget this gent:
    http://yurock.blogspot.com/search?q=tomaz+pengov
    especially 'odpotovanja', don't miss it!

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  6. >"for all friends of igra staklenih perli - both their classic albums were re-released on one cd last year in their homeland, remastered & with enhanced sound"

    Don't know about this particular case, but usually (or very often) 'remastered' just means compressed sound that sounds awful.

    I might check those links anyway.

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  7. Igra is really a mutant sound: a real experimental music full of the strange atmosfere of the ending of seventies. Thanks forpost.

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