Interesting music from Eastern Europe before the wall fell

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I love this Ewa Bem track, but sadly it never got a vinyl release.

Sorry to be a pedant (or pednat for Bill), but NOVI Singers were Polish, not Yugoslavian.

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More Polish stuff…

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A personal Polish favourite,

Classic cheapie on 7"

Another cheap as chips 7"

Pretty obvious stuff, but a great track.

This was a big hit when it was released. It has a slightly corny vibe I really like. Sadly the singer was shot dead in 1991 by his lover’s husband.

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Thanks for the correction! :+1:

Now, having looked at their Discogs entry I also see that ‘Novi’ is an acronym for ‘New Original Vocal Instruments’.

Well, I found it interesting! :smiley::upside_down_face:

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Calling themselves NOVI is interesting as there is no V in the Polish alphabet, so I suppose they were trying to show the western influence? In Polish it would be NOWI, but that’s a rather mute point given it’s an acronym.

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Yes, also the word ‘Singers’ in English rather than Polish. Clearly intended as a nod towards Western modernity.

Edit: And I suspect that the letters of a Polish translation of ‘New Original Vocal Instruments’ would be in a different order.

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It would be NOIW Piosenkarze (I think). NOVI Singers trips off the tongue a bit better!

That’s the end of my pedantry. I’ll try and post some more music up.

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One of my regular listeners is from Poland and quite knowledgeable on Polish music (jazz, orchestral/film, funk and rock for sure) if anyone had specific questions.

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Here’s a nice heavy bit of funky Ost-rock, recorded in the former DDR in 1972. Has a couple of interesting breaks, too.

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And a bit of East German Philly-inspired disco. Sounds better on vinyl, though the production does sound a bit thin overall.

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Don’t know if Michal Urbaniak is considered obvious or not since the Beasties sampled him at least a couple times. I was in Paul’s Boutique in Krakow recently but they only had one or two of his albums.

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This track by Hungarian AE Bizottsag was on a B-Music comp and I’ve played it out a couple times

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This made me think about the eastern European hip-hop scene.

I’m pretty sure that there was a reasonably large rap/hip-hop scene in East Berlin in the late 80’s.

Does anyone here have any knowledge of it?

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Sounding like the Yugoslavian Police

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Ja, ein bisschen…

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SEHR interessant…!! Ich muß dieses dokumentar außuchen!

Vielen dank! :+1:

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