4. Katarina II - Kad Krenem Ka, taken from "Katarina II" (ZKP RTVL, 1984)

5. Laboratorija - Devica, taken from "Nevinost" (Jugoton, 1986)

6. Kozmetika - Jedne Noći Na Terasi Na Moru, taken from "Kozmetika" (ZKP RTVL, 1983)

7. Slađana & Neutral Design - Neko Je Tu (Sa Mnom U Sobi), taken from "Neutral Design" (Jugoton, 1983)

8. Idoli - Amerika, taken from "Paket Aranžman" (Jugoton, 1981)

9. Električni Orgazam - Ja Želim Promene (Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby), taken from "Kako Bubanj Kaže" (Jugoton, 1984)

10. Miladojka Youneed - Reel Love, taken from "Bloodylon" (Helidon & Založba Obzorja Maribor, 1990)

11. The Master Scratch Band - Break War, taken from "Dégout" (Jugoton, 1984)

12. U Škripcu - Noć Ča, Ča, Ča, taken from "O Je!" (Jugoton, 1983)

13. Jakarta - Spiritus, taken from "Maske Za Dvoje" (PGP RTB, 1984)

14. Boban Petrović - Zajedno Srećni, taken from "Zora" (Diskos, 1984)

29:T567,

For the first of a three-part series, London-via-Zagreb based collective Nebo Arts invite Peđa Radović - the internet’s authority on rare music from Yugoslavia and one of the most extensive archivists of records from the former region, for an hour selection of finds from the second-hand shops, records stores and classified ads of the area.

Peđa's online music uploads have caught the attention of not just Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro and Macedonia’s youth, but also diggers and producers worldwide. Some of these unearthed jazz/funk records have ended up as samples on projects from the likes of Madlib, Kendrick Lamar, Earl Sweatshirt, The Alchemist, and Lord Apex.

To put it in Peđa’s own words -

“The circle has closed: The Yugoslavian jazz scene came to fruition when Bojan Adamič, through Tito, fought for the establishing of so called ‘big bands’ on national radio-television platforms, formed at the end of the 1940’s in each of the republics. These bands played jazz standards from across the ocean in the USA - only for those same recordings to now be used by American producers, to create new music from ours.”

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