Borghesia - Resistance

 

This 1989 album was Borghesia's widest-release and highest profile album to date. Released in for former Yugoslavia by Jugoton and the rest of the world by Play It Again Sam and Play It Again Sam USA, "Resistance" tackled the band's favorite themes of state oppression and popular solidarity. Holds up well in 2021. 

resist!

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Borghesia - Ogolelo Mesto

 

Yugoslavia-only LP from 1988, featuring songs that appeared in different versions on their "Escorts & Models" album.

mesto

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Borghesia - Ljubav Je Hladnija Od Smrti

 

The first LP by Borghesia, released in the former Yugoslavia in 1985 and reissued by Dark Entries in 2010.  

colder

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Borghesia - Clones

 

Second album by the former-Yugoslavian electronic duo, released as a cassette by Galerija ŠKUC Izdaja in 1984 then reissued on LP by Dark Entries in 2012. There was one self-titled cassette before "Clones" but it remains unheard by me. While lacking the irony and confrontational humor of that other Ljubljana band you know, Borghesia were still pretty great. They deal with some of the same themes as Laibach (as any artist living in that part of the world in the early 1980s surely had to) but wouldn't be so explicit about it until the decade's end. 

clones

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