Journey Without Maps brings you vintage, rare, and underground global music from uncharted sonic territories. Every week, I unearth a new musical landscape: African soul & funk, Latin rhythms, eastern European electronica, Middle East psychedelic, Asian surf rock ⦠and more.
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Behind the Iron Curtain in 1980s Eastern Europe, a group of avant-garde musicians discovered the synthesizer. These unlikely and unsung synth pioneers from Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union created a futuristic and sometimes grey, dystopian landscape.
Beograd "Ulice Su NoÄas" from "Remek Depo" Videosex "Neonska reklama" from "Videosex84" Propaganda "18. Novembar" from "Apatija Javnosti" Data "Video Heroj" from "Neka Ti Se Dese Prave Stvari" Rodion G.A. "Citadela" from "The Lost Tapes" P.R. Computer "Chase" from "P.R. Computer" László Benkö "Jaguár" from "Lexikon A-Z" Petr & Pavel ORM "Kouzelný let (Magic Fly)" from "Discofil" Marek Bilinski "Ucieczka z Tropiku" from "Ucieczka z Tropiku - Single" WÅadysÅaw Komendarek "Kroply Rosy" from "WÅadysÅaw Komendarek" Stern Combo Meissen "In den Kosmos" from "Kosmos: Soundtracks of Eastern Germany's Adventures in Space" Dzeltenie Pastnieki "KÄpÄc tu mani negribi?" from "Man Ä»oti PatÄ«k Jaunais Vilnis" Kofe "Monument" from "Balance" Forum "Davaite Sozvonimsya" from "Belaya Noch"