Soviet Bootlegs Of Banned Records Printed On Discarded X-Ray Plates

[Treacle Toes]

Ooh! You've turned it round and now I look mean. Well, fair enough. x

Baila conmigo hermano!

 

[seventh bullet]

Unfortunately, thanks to an error by GOSPLAN there is a shortage of thread.

The wreckers will be found.

 

[Idris2002]

The wreckers will be found.

 

[Treacle Toes]

 

[Idris2002]

We old people are more into hard bop and cool jazz than you funkateers. This seems a credible addition to the genre:

 

[ViolentPanda]

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Wonder what the residual radiation level on the plates was?
Hope it wasn't high. That would bring a whole new meaning to "killing me softly with his song"!!!

 

[Ron Merlin]

I love this thread. It's taken me back 30 years to a school trip to the USSR and a visit to a Komsomol club that played Russian jazz-funk. At one point we all sat on the floor and did the Oops Upside Your Head dance. Fair baffled them.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Some fucking tunes on this thread, sadly my Russian language skills don't extend to finding places where I might buy some physical copies...

 

[Ron Merlin]

Have a scour of Russiandvd.com. You can search in English and the results are partly in English too. Bit tricky mind.

 

[Ron Merlin]

Eolika on Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/artist/1589926-Eolika

220 CDs for sale!

Loads on eBay too: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_t...RC0.H0.Xeolika&_nkw=eolika&_sacat=0&_from=R40

 

[ska invita]

I've got a load of 70's Russian jazz LPs in the loft I got from a car boot years ago. They all look a bit like these two so might be on Leo, but I think mine are Russian, not English in manufacture:

look cheery

 

[ska invita]

Yeah I guess.

Well bang goes that idea..... I'd been toying with doing something with xrays for a while aswell

you should do it - i really cant see why a cutting house would mind....it cant be any different from cutting to flexi discs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc

In fact, reading that wiki page this is relevant:
Flexi disk technology in Soviet Union[edit]
Flexi disks were mass-produced from 1964 to 1991 by the Soviet government as inserts in the super-popular Krugozor magazine for teens. The appearance of the Soviet flexi disk was always the same - vividly blue - and the disks are familiar to virtually anyone who grew up in the Soviet Union and even the post-Soviet era. In 1969 in addition to the successful audio-magazine Krugozor, the government also launched the audio-magazine for kids Kolobok, which also consisted of flexi disks.

 

[ringo]

look cheery

They all have that desolate concrete grey look to them

 

[Treacle Toes]

Oh man this is great, tune and video superb!

 

[Treacle Toes]

Igor disco!



I can't stop!

 

[Treacle Toes]

Another great YT channel
Soviet funk & electro
https://www.youtube.com/user/MrGulpereel

 

[elbows]

Apparently there was an interesting synth made in the USSR in the early 80's, I'm very interested to know what music was made with it.

 

[ska invita]

Oh man this is great, tune and video superb!

bad. original "flying cymbal" at 0.36

 

[Treacle Toes]

MY word.... Soviet Brazilian-esque psych-funk!!! I am in love

 

[ska invita]

love the drumming on that one Ruti - firing. Thanks for digging through these - i had a go but theres a lot of crappier ones too

 

[Treacle Toes]

 

[Favelado]

 

[elbows]

Here is the soviet funk crew from the tune earlier btw

Oh cripes there is actual video of them!

 

[elbows]

 

[not-bono-ever]

oh fuck, there is some great stuff here, I will have to get these on CD for this summers family road trip - it was going to be Kraftwerk for 1000 miles , but I think I have found a new love in life....

 

[elbows]

Now this performance, well, what can I say?

 

[elbows]

Finally found something where the audience are alive, some fascinating moments as I skimmed through this. Do not ask me what is going on here, as we repeatedly flip between forum and someone singing and playing piano in a much older style.

 

[sim667]

I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this but I'm in GRAD in little Portland street they've got an exhibition on called "work and play behind the iron curtain" looking at consumerism in the state

Anyway they've got three of these X-ray bootleg records on display

Edit: apparently a bunch of guys called "xray audio" have got a fuckton of them and there will be a big exhibition of them in October according to one of the people working in the gallery here.

 

[Favelado]

Nice diggin sim667

 

[ska invita]

It might be good not to conflate the Soviet Union with the European 'People's Democracies.'

was speaking to someone who was there at the time and supposedly although poland only had the one state record label, Polskie Nagrania (polish recordings) and the state radio didnt really play any western music but rarely, censorship was relatively minor and you could buy western records in second hand shops that only sold things from abroad...and listen to radio luxemburg...they also backed up that the signal could only really be heard at night time

across the border in Czechoslovakia was another thing entirely, post 1968 Prague Spring there was a serious crack down and censorship levels were very high...though again radio luxemburg could be picked up. I think there was a similarly strict post 68 crack down under Ceaușescu in Romania

heres a great bit of jazz funk on Polskie Nagranie from 1981
Krzysztof Zgraja ‎- Laokoon