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Novi Sad Underground: 15 Essential Albums
Novi Sad gave Serbia its first-ever punk record, and, decades later, everything from gothic post-punk and hardcore to glitchy ambient electronica and a Brazilian downtempo masterpiece. Here are 15 essential albums tracing one of the region’s most underrated scenes.
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Oxajo – Još 9 sati do kao nekog mira
Oxajo’s long-awaited debut Još 9 sati do kao nekog mira shows real vision in flashes, especially on the excellent U sobi. But too often settles for style over substance. There’s a much better album hiding inside this one.
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Luna – Nestvarne stvari
Luna’s Nestvarne stvari (1984) is a rare, Joy Division-indebted post-punk gem from Novi Sad, pressed in just 920 copies.
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.
