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Anarchy in the Adriatic: Rijeka’s Punk Scene
Emerging in the late 1970s, Rijeka’s punk scene evolved from raw rebellion into a diverse and enduring alternative movement that reshaped Yugoslav rock through experimentation, dissent, and cultural defiance.
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Rok Zalokar Zhlehtet – Intention, Intensity, Shuffle
A ‘meditative, playful, and unpredictable sonic journey’, Zhlehtet draw from their spiritual jazz, improv and electronic music backgrounds to craft a musical diary spanning years of concerts, performances and shared creativity.
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TBF – Ping-pong (Umjetnost zdravog đira)
TBF’s 1997 debut is widely considered the first complete hip-hop album in Croatia; dark, abstract, and nothing like the crowd-pleasing band they’d later become. A necessary entry point into a side of ex-YU music that doesn’t get nearly enough attention.
Cam
Cam is a music writer and the founder of EX-YU Music: the English-language home for music from the former Yugoslavia and the modern Balkan region. Based in Zagreb.
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