Pop Not Pop (Songs for New Europe 1983-1989), by NEP

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1.	Novi poredak (Auguri) feat. Alexx Kovacs 05:52		buy track
2.	Velika magija feat. Alexx Kovacs & Anja Rupel 03:48		buy track
3.	Novi poredak (Metal Mix) feat. Alexx Kovacs 05:34		buy track
4.	How Do I Dance To This Music? 06:25		buy track
5.	Decadance (Album Version) feat. Linda Cooper 04:22		buy track
6.	Transcendance 06:41	info	buy track
7.	Radical Chic feat. Anja Rupel 05:05		buy track
8.	Proljetna pjesma feat. Natalija 04:26		buy track

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Artist: NEP * Title: Pop Not Pop (Songs For New Europe 1985-1989) * Label: Fox & His Friends * Cat no: FOX005LP * Format: Gatefold Vinyl LP *Distribution: Clone NL * File under: Electronic, Synth-Pop, New Wave, Pop

NEP was a loose multimedia collective formed in 1982 Zagreb, ex-Yugoslavia. The founder Dejan Krsic collaborated with various artists in a quest of re-thinking the stale concepts of art history, position of the author and the barriers between pop and elitist high culture. Heavily influenced by Walter Benjamin and Andy Warhol in theory and Brian Eno and Kraftwerk in music, Krsic created NEP as an umbrella term (NEP meaning Nova Evropa or New Europe) of diverse rule-breaking activities, covering graphic design, music, photography, video, news-media and theoretical work.

Musically NEP focused on experiments in ambient and tape-music, self-released and hard to find compilation tapes like “The Cassette Played Poptones” (1988). Deeply immersed in pop-culture, politics and art theory Dejan Krsic’s search for perfect pop music with cutting critical edge peaked in 1989, the year 'Decadance' track was conceived in studio. Fox & His Friends team (Leri Ahel & Zeljko Luketic) published the extended 12” single in 2017 with Snuffo Remix on B-side. It received rave reviews in music media like MixMag and DJ Mag and it is still played on dance-floors around the world. But the story around the NEP is musically (as well as artistically) much wider: for the first time Fox & His Friends team compiles best cuts from unreleased and rare NEP self-released tapes, covering the period from 1985 to 1989 on seminal POP NOT POP abum.

Dejan Krsic is now famous graphic designer and art historian in Croatia. Other collaborators include Laibach and Borghesia photographer Jane Stravs, artist and TV director Gordana Brzovic, Jovan Culibrk, now Bishop at The Serbian Orthodox Church and Anja Rupel, singer of cult Yugoslavian synth-pop group Videosex as well as the other members of Videosex, Iztok Turk and Janez Krizaj who produced some of the tracks. Other collaborators were talented producers Robert Logozar and Davor Daga Devcic, singers Linda Cooper, Natalija, Alexx Kovacs, Goran Vejvoda... The list of collaborations is long.

Some of the memorable moments on POP NOT POP album are early demo version of Decadance track 'How Do I Dance To This Music?' with porn samples and drum machine experiments in the spirit of cut’n’paste early Cabaret Voltaire, then Krsic's reinterpretation of legendary Kraftwerk’s Trans Europe Express anthem as 'Transcendance', or 'Radical Chic', where Dejan himself and Anja Rupel from Videosex make lovely couple of dandy-esque fashionistas, singing chart-friendly radio synthpop tune that contrasts the A-side (The 'NOT POP' side) - full of experiments, dark wave and industrial nods to Test Department and low-fi period of Cabs. B-side is 'THE POP' side that will surprise most of the NEP followers from their early experimental cassette days. Sunny, danceable, joyful pop that reveals the many unknown faces of NEP.

As Kraftwerk today is more of a concept than a band, NEP does the same by re-writing its products (musical, graphical, theoretical, activist) and constantly puts them in permanent state of change or re-mix. In the future, only NEP logo will be enough to consider something an art piece, and NEP will be everybody who wants to, as their Art Manifest (parts of it cited on the gatefold cover) claims. Until that day comes, ‘POP NOT POP’ is a document of how the vivid and creative were underground art scenes in socialist Yugoslavia. Some of the graphic work, cut-ups from theory and Manifesto are also included on this LP, designed by Dejan Krsic himself. This release is made from the original master tapes and published for the first time on vinyl.

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released November 23, 2020

THE TRACKS:

A1 Novi Poredak (Auguri) Feat. Alexx Kovacs
A2 Velika Magija Feat. Alexx Kovacs & Anja Rupel
A3 Novi Poredak (Metal Mix) Feat. Alexx Kovacs
A4 How Do I Dance To This Music?

B1 Decadance (Album Version) Feat. Linda Cooper
B2 Transcendance
B3 Radical Chic Feat. Anja Rupel
B5 Proljetna Pjesma Feat. Natalija

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Fox & His Friends releases music without genre boundaries, tends to discover rare, obscure and forgotten stuff, the sounds that have timeless value, both contemporary and vintage. All releases are made from original master tapes, carefully remastered and pressed to please the smartest of music connoisseurs. The label is run by Leri Ahel and Zeljko Luketic, long time professionals in the field. ... more

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