About
EX-YU Music is an English-language archive and publication dedicated to music from the region that comprises the former Yugoslavia, including both historic and modern releases.
We cover everything, ranging from the canonical records of the 1960s and 70s, the new wave explosion of the 1980s, the music that survived the collapse of the 1990s, and the contemporary artists carrying the tradition forward today. Album reviews, long-form essays, scene guides, interviews, and lists, all written with the belief that this music deserves the same serious attention given to any other great regional tradition in the world.
Who is behind it
EX-YU Music is managed, written, and edited by Cam, a music writer based in Zagreb. Originally from the UK, he arrived at this music primarily through record collecting, first pulling Yugoslav pressings from crates in London and on eBay, before tracing the history backwards and finding a body of work that was largely underrated in the English world.
Since launching in 2024, the site has grown into one of the few dedicated English-language resources on ex-Yugoslav music, covering artists from Azra, EKV and Haustor, to ล irom, Nemeฤek and Lufthansa, uncovering 70s Soviet Melodiya pressings as well as new Bandcamp releases.
Why this exists
Most of this music has never been written about in English. The documentation that does exist is scattered, incomplete, or locked in languages inaccessible to the majority of the world’s music listeners. The goal of EX-YU Music is to change that by building a readable and detailed archive that does justice to one of the most inventive and emotionally rich musical traditions of the last half-century.
Want to get involved?
You can find details on the Contact page.
