And meanwhile..

Here are the promised Marzidovsek tapes, carefully collected from all four corners of the globe :




Mario Marzidovsek - (1984) I [mc,Marzidovshek Minimal Laboratorium,320kbs] - HERE [thanks to anonymous hero pop3 from Osijek,Croatia]

Mario Marzidovsek - (1985) II [mc,Marzidovhsek Minimal Laboratorium,320kbs] - HERE [pop3]




















Mario Marzidovsek - (1985) 3 - Reincarnation Tetralogy (Dedicated to Klaus Schulze) [mc,MML,320kbs] - HERE [originally published by noisepress blog, should be Swiss if my memory serves me well]






















Mario Marzidovsek - (1985) 4 - Reincarnation Tetralogy (Dedicated to Klaus Schulze) [mc,MML,320kbs] - HERE [again pop3]

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[NO SCAN, SORRY,HELP PLEASE]

Mario Marzidovsek - (1985) Brutal-Minimal [mc,Marzidovshek Minimal Laboratorium,128kbs rip] - HERE [thanks to Atrax Morgue,Venezuela]

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[take notice: this is an actual picture of the city Maribor in Slovenia or 'Marburg am Drau' as Germans call it, which was in a folder containing Marzidovsek's Marburg album when i downloaded it, but as a cover its a fake which i just happened to like]


Mario Marzidovsek - (1986) Marburg [mc,?,256kbs] - HERE [kindly donated from an excellent Slovak blog - Dualtrack]

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[NO SCAN, SORRY, mr. De Waard, can you fill us in ?]

Mario Marzidovsek - (1987) Live On The Air - Nijmegen 17.09.1987 [mc,Art & Noise Editions,128kbs rip] - HERE [thanks to Atrax Morgue,Venezuela]

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Merzdow Shek - (1987) Suicide In America & Bavarian Aquarels [mc,Staalplaat,256kbs rip] - HERE



+ bonus:



















Various Artists - (1985) Steyer [mc,Marzidovshek Minimal Laboratorium,256kbs rip] - HERE [pop3]

Also i owe a big thanks to Gramofonije Plocanovic for the info and huge one to Rajko Muršič for the precious article. Needless to say, if somebody would like to contribute with more Marzidovsek or MML tapes - I'd be more than happy to put them on my blog.

presenting Mario Marzidovsek

Mario Marzidovsek, slovenian oldschool industrial/noise artist & yugoslav tape culture pioneer came from sedate and colorful little town of Slovenska Bistrica. He started releasing tapes in 1984, previously being a productive member of the mail art network. He released a tape for Staalplaat in 1987 under the pseudonym "Merzdow Shek" and appeared in various nowadays-legendary industrial compilations like those of Alain Neffe's Insane Music or Karsten Rodemann's Graf Haufen Tapes. Extremely prolific, besides his musical activities [and he did release an amount of some 50-60 cassettes on his own independent Marzidovsek Minimal Laboratorium label, thus encouraging the development of local scene] - he was also a visual artist, with a interest in painting as well as collaging and xerox-art and a performance artist, organizing a number of happenings and actions. He was also into visual and concrete poetry and wrote numerous essays on music and avant-garde art. A real allrounder.

In 1988-89 he aborted all his activities and moved to Netherlands and later Germany, where he even performed a couple of times, finally returning in 1991 in Slovenska Bistrica where he remained silent. Here's a shortened version of Rajko Muršič's excellent article on him:

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"Mario Marzidovšek was a unique musician, artist, producer and organiser from the north-east Slovenia. In the eighties he was engaged in numerous alternative activities, including mail art and establishing of a first private - then illegal - and non-commercial label in the former Yugoslavia. From 1984 till 1988 he released more than 50 cassettes with various kinds of music, predominately electronic and alternative rock music. He established a mail network and communicated with numerous artists and producers from all around the world.

Although his work was partly influenced by the activities of the Neue Slowenische Kunst and other alternative groups and producers in Slovenia, his work was original and unique. His musical activities in producing electronic music were influenced by German Kraut Rock and various modern experimental composers. However, he supported activities of punk and hardcore groups in the region by his label and organised several important concerts in Maribor. In 1985, he released two compilation cassettes presenting alternative punk and hardcore groups from the region.

His electronic performances were noisy and radical. Although his cassettes were of bad reproductive quality, due to the poor technical possibilities, he was sending them to different addresses in the former Yugoslavia, Eastern and Western Europe, United States and elsewhere. He released many recordings of his music and collaborations with different musicians from Europe and the United States. He combined received tapes with his music or sent his tapes to his collaborates who released their home-made cassettes. One of his major successes was releasing of a cassette compilation entitled Third Generation Serious Music with compositions, collected by the concourse.

Living in a small town of Slovenska Bistrica was not a handicap for Mario Marzidovšek. On the contrary. His personal experience (he worked in a chemical factory) was the essential "input" of his creativeness and radicalism. His work was to prove that local and global productions nowadays may not be in contradiction. If anyone wants it, s/he can communicate without limits. The local productions are not necessarily derivations or echoes of the fashionable trends from the centres."

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You can read the entire essay here

Hope i'll soon have some of his publications that i could share. Meanwhile, i'll post some of his tapes.

Abbildungen Variete - (1983) Abbildungen Varieté [Galerija ŠKUC]

Abbildungen Varieté is the second most important name in Yugoslav/Slovenian oldschool industrial scene of the 80s, besides Laibach. They hailed from Slovenia's second largest city Maribor in the northeasternmost part of Slovenia, then one of the biggest Yugoslav heavy industry centres. Unfortunately, little is known about this project that existed in the short period between 1982-1983 - besides this eponymous cassette-release and the "Novi Rock" compilation contribution with the track "Ishodisce subjekta". The cassete, which is a live-recording, came out in the edition of Ljubljana's ŠKUC label/organisation. What we know about Abbildungen Varieté is that it was close to the NSK [Neue Slowenische Kunst] movement and that Igor Zupe, nowadays a famous slovenian video-artist and a director, was a member. Due to the nature of music, it is highly unlikely that he was the only member and there are also some indications that Mario Ornik of Maribor's KIBLA art group was involved too.

When compared to the rest of industrial scene back then, Abbildungen Varieté was a rare bird and defining them is certainly not an easy task. They had a strong smack of ritual-music, which is also present with Laibach and Strukturne Ptice as an inkling and played a vital role in early Autopsia. So the only bands we can draw paralels to would be from that milleu: Last Few Days, Ain Soph, maybe even Het Zweet. Soundwise it's quite diverse: a bit of sinister tribal drumming with frantic clamor, a bit of solemn ceremonial chanting and a bit of ominous funeral dirges for the banishing of the Dead.

Download it HERE

introductory note

this blog will hopefully be an interesting place for all those on lookout for rare 80ies cassette culture gems, experimental music (and film !) aficionados and proto&oldschool industrial listeners. i personally don't have any tapes and wouldn't know how to rip them but am just driven with a feeling of what could be important. also, i'm into categorization & careful listening so that might be helpful.

hope i'll soon change this obnoxiously boring blog title.


welcome everybody :)