Mario Marzidovšek

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Mario Marzidovšek Mario Marzidovšek was a unique musician, artist, producer and organizer from north-east Slovenia. In the eighties he was engaged in numerous alternative activities, including mail art and establishing of a first private - then illegal - and non-commercial label in the former Yugoslavia. From 1984 till 1988 he released more than 50 cassettes with various kinds of music, predominately electronic and alternative rock music. He established a mail network and communicated with numerous artists and producers from all around the world. Although his work was partly influenced by the activities of the Neue Slowenische Kunst and other alternative groups and producers in Slovenia, his work was original and unique. His musical activities in producing electronic music were influenced by German Kraut Rock and various modern experimental composers. However, he supported activities of punk and hardcore groups in the region by his label and organised several important concerts in Maribor. In 1985, he released two compilation cassettes presenting alternative punk and hardcore groups from the region. His electronic performances were noisy and radical. Although his cassettes were of bad reproductive quality, due to the poor technical possibilities, he was sending them to different addresses in the former Yugoslavia, Eastern and Western Europe, United States and elsewhere. He released many recordings of his music and collaborations with different musicians from Europe and the

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1 - Alter-Minimal Sound 001

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EX YU ELECTRONICA VOL I: Hometaping In Self-Management

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Close To The Noise Floor Presents... Noise Reduction System (Formative European Electronica 1974-1984)

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Brutal Alter Minimal

III - Reincarnation Tetralogy (Dedicated To Klaus Schulze)

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Rituals

Marburg

Steyer

Brutal/Minimal

Noise Reduction System: Formative European Electronica 1974-1984

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