Neither/Nor – Strana A / Against

Attack from former Yugoslavia! Already in the early and mid-80’s Yugoslavia has not been
dormant and brought forth quite famous and successful bands like Laibach and Borghesia.
Restricted to the country remained other bands like Beograd, Denis I Denis, or Data who were
pretty much working on electropop gems, but vanished into obscurity and were ed
only by a few. Anyway, in recent years a new generation of electronic musicians
their history and create a similar sound with analogue synths and drum machines. Sixth June
was already released by No Emb Blanc, and now two further acts are given a debut on vinyl
on Genetic Music: side A presents UMRIJETI ZA STROJEM who sound like a cross-bread
between Beograd and Borghesia, using an upbeat and rough 70’s drum machine, simple
analogue synth accompaniment and cold and harsh male vocals. Wow, that’s really sounding
like it comes from 1981! On side B, there is NEITHER NOR, and hell, this track is sooooo
awesome! A restrained but lovely programmed Roland TR-808 and then this wonderful
bass synth sequence/sound, but oh-well, every single sound and second here is just pure
synthesizer/analogue electropop bliss, so if you like the best stuff from Beograd, Linear
Movement, Autumn, Experimental Products, Rational Youth, don’t let it you by! It’s the
smash hit of the year!