> PUT CPU IN VAX

mm, maybe it's counterintuitive to make a playlist on a blogging site rather than a youtube playlist, buut i want to try making this a habit.

i have a stupid goal of coming up with 80s playlists for nearly every country, but i have to start small first. ehehehe.

gonna dump my findings of the month


Karvan - Səni Görəndə



Karvan - Bilərsən

I can't find any english articles on the group so I'll rely off poorly Google Translated content. Karvan (Caravan in english) was an Azerbaijani pop group led by Sevinj Karimova. It was founded in 1984 in Baku but was disbanded due to the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. Alas, I can't find anything on Discogs either... Will keep tabs and see if I can dig something up later.



黄敏华 - 过气晚装

Zeta Wong is a singer from Hong Kong who won several singing competitions and her song Challenge supposedly even became an official song for the Olympics in 88. There may be more discography info missing but I could at least scavenge up discogs pages with her names: https://www.discogs.com/master/1623683-Zeta-Wong-Korea-%E6%8C%91%E6%88%B0 and https://www.discogs.com/artist/6284569-%E9%BB%83%E6%95%8F%E8%8F%AF.



Динамик / Dynamic - Воздух Свеж

Dynamic is another Moscow-originated music group from the 80s. It was short lived, only existing in 1982, until it became rebranded as Vladimir Kuzmin and the Dynamic group. I haven't dug too deep into their music so perhaps I'll come back to writing more on them later.
There's a cool little article on their work here https://vk.com/wall-174586524_62.



Harun Kolçak & Nur Yengi - Yeniden Aşkın

Both are singers from Istanbul with fairly extensive discographies. Yengi in fact is an actress and one of the most popular Turkish singers from the 90s. I'm getting lazy now so I'm not sure if I'll investigate further.



Доктор - Я схожу с ума

Okay, this is a weird case. I genuinely cannot find any info on this band at all. I'm unsure if it's mislabeled or not, I've found another band with the same name and release date but the vocals and production sound nothing alike. Maybe I can ask around on VK or some leddit site later. For now they remain a mystery.

-UPDATE-
Thanks to my friend Ulysses, the actual song has been found. Календарь - Ты снишься мне. Unfortunately, I have just as little information on this group. Man...






Zdravko Čolić - Pusti Pusti Modu

"Dubbed the 'Tom Jones' of the Balkans." I think that's a good enough summary. I'm a fan. I can't outdo this. He's a Bosnian Serb from Sarajevo and one of the most popular singers of former Yugoslavia. God bless.



Дисплей - Иностранка

Okei, I'd recommend listening to the full set that's on Spotify, it's great. Back to artist descriptions, it's a Ukranian synth/rock band composed of Vadim Lachuk and his wife Ellen Kreis. Will have to dig into their other work but the album this song is from is great.



Форум - Белая ночь

Lastly, I gotta finish it up with a demo(?) of White Night from Forum. I was gonna talk about them in this article but I'm saving up my autism for perhaps a solo entry on their group. I'm genuinely surprised that I haven't heard this version until last week and I'm a bit obsessed with it.

Thanks for bearing with this week of my musical adventure. Peace.