{"product_id":"borghesia-resistance-remastered-purple-white-2lp-vinyl-lp-pre-order","title":"Borghesia - Resistance \/ Remastered PURPLE \u0026 WHITE 2LP (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER","description":"\u003cp\u003eExpected Release Date: 28-August-2026 - This Pre-order will be shipped on or just before this date. Release dates are subject to alteration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMatrix Music Arhiv (MMA) are proud to announce a re-release of the highly sought-after album ‘Resistance’ by the seminal Yugoslavian electronic rock band Borghesia, originally released in 1989 on Play It Again Sam\/PIAS (Europe), Wax Trax (USA) and Jugoton (former Yugoslavia).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe carefully remastered album includes an exclusive bonus live album ‘Dal Vivo A El Paso’, recorded in December 1988 at their gig in Torino (Italy) during one of their European tours. The recording features very different, raw and at times ‘dubbed up’ versions of their early tracks such as ‘Naked, Uniformed, Dead’, Am I? and Him (On). The historical perfectly captures the atmosphere and energy of their live appearances at the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorghesia (Italian for ‘bourgeoisie’), who were formed in Ljubljana (Slovenia) in 1982, had always considered its art to be far broader than just sonic. Borghesia’s transgressive, transdisciplinary alloy of film expression, distinctively physical performative practices, usage of new technology and conveniently abrasive EBM (electronic body music) musical production hasn’t only been ground-breaking in terms of the holistic, visual\/sonic presence of an art collective, but had a rather decisive influence on the general aesthetics of the immensely important Yugoslav subcultural landscape of the 1980s. Borghesia was one of the first bands from the East of the Iron Curtain who used the VHS video medium to distribute their art and was also one of few projects from socialist Yugoslavia to successfully penetrate the curtain itself, reaching international audiences. A series of their releases in the fruitful period between the years 1987 and 1991, including the Resistance album itself, was released by the legendary Belgian label Play It Again Sam (PIAS). The band dissolved in the mid-1990s and then continued their work in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn line with Borghesia’s unique social engagement, progressiveness and political criticism, Resistance is one of their most powerful statements. It's the ultimate fight the power manifesto, which makes punk and hip-hop albums of the time sound like children's songs. Released during the last stages of socialist Yugoslavia, and in the last sighs of the original Borghesia line-up, the album's sole sonic character anticipated the oncoming atrocities of the civil wars in the region.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not music for nodding your head to; it's tactical broadcast for the nocturnal resistance to this very day. Borghesia didn’t address control only - they sampled the political top, the secret police and explicitly connected authority with dominance. They offer the tendency for liberation as the only appropriate exit. The production of the album isn’t clean or polished. On the contrary - Resistance sounds like it was created in a bunker, using stolen military equipment and synthesisers. Borghesia’s genius lies in their understanding that the relentless, mechanical EBM beat was the sound of the State - and by hijacking it, turning the system’s own rhythm against itself they created the most powerful form of sonic insurgency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd since history repeats itself while the little man learns slowly, the re-release of ‘Resistance’ comes at the right time. The dark clouds of violence are already looming over Europe, they’ve never really left the Middle East, and the levers of power and capital ever so louder, not even covertly at all incite: war, war, war! In these times the only appropriate answer is: revolt, rebel, Resistance!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eText by: Dusan Bulajich\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTRACKLIST :  \u003cbr\u003e\nA1 Theme One (Resistance Mix)\u003cbr\u003e\nA2 Message\u003cbr\u003e\nA3 If\u003cbr\u003e\nA4 Konflikt (Conflict)\u003cbr\u003e\nA5 October\u003cbr\u003e\nA6 Rumours\u003cbr\u003e\nB1 Young Prisoners\u003cbr\u003e\nB2 Discipline\u003cbr\u003e\nB3 Mali Čovek (The Little Man)\u003cbr\u003e\nB4 PIAS\u003cbr\u003e\nB5 Police Hour\u003cbr\u003e\nB6 More Resistance\u003cbr\u003e\nC1 Hunters (Lovci)\u003cbr\u003e\nC2 Am I?\u003cbr\u003e\nC3 Sentenced To Death (Na smrtno kazen)\u003cbr\u003e\nC4 Who Turned Off the Light? (Kdo je ugasnil luč?)\u003cbr\u003e\nC5 Him (On)\u003cbr\u003e\nD1 Naked Lunch (Pasto nudo)\u003cbr\u003e\nD2 So Young (Tako mladi)\u003cbr\u003e\nD3 Rugged City (Ogolelo mesto)\u003cbr\u003e\nD4 Mud (Blato)\u003cbr\u003e\nD5 Naked, Uniformed, Dead (Goli, uniformirani, mrtvi)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Matrix Music Arhiv","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57346215870839,"sku":"MMA05Y","price":31.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/0956\/1910\/files\/large_00178343_0e574c5b-a0e7-4fb8-a074-977857843249.jpg?v=1785581074","url":"https:\/\/thejazzvault.com\/products\/borghesia-resistance-remastered-purple-white-2lp-vinyl-lp-pre-order","provider":"The Jazz Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}