Borghesia

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Borghesia

http://www.ljudmila.org/scca/ip/zanka/borghesia.html

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Past Events

• 22 Jun 2019

  Croatia Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art

  
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  A concert by Borghesia in the frame of Summer at MCA

  
  

  
  

  
  

• 20 Nov 2015

  Croatia Split Club Kocka

  
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  A concert by Borghesia at the Nema labavo Street Art Festival

  
  

  
  

  
  

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Borghesia (Italian for bourgeoisie) is a legendary electronic body music (EBM) band, formed in Ljubljana in 1982. The band consisted of the members of the alternative theatre group Theatre FV-112/15. The group's aesthetics – lyrics, visual performance, video production – used the imagery and themes of surveillance, prohibition, sexual taboos, and repression. In equal part they were influenced by Chris & Cosey,Cabaret Voltaire, Art of Noise and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.

Borghesia were along Laibach the most eminent representatives of the Slovene alternative scene of the 1980s. The process of creating music was also very unconventional. They used early sampling techniques to cut up radio and movie sounds and form new songs out of them. They managed to create their own brand of EBM (electronic body music), although they weren’t trying to be the part of the EBM movement, but their music became well-known and, with similarities to it, connected to the EBM.

The bands resurrection

Of the five original members, two Aldo Ivančič and Dario Sereval still continue to work under the same name. They began working again in 2012 after a 20 year hiatus and went to the label Metropolis Records.

Performances

The band went on several European tours in from 1988 to 1991 and were reviewed by large music magazines in many foreign countries such as NME, Melody Maker, New Life and Zillo. Band member, music producer, activist, and DJ Aldo Ivančić later formed the music collective Bast.

Releases

They released 4 albums on the well-known international indie label Play It Again Sam/Wax Trax. In 2009 FV Music label (founded by Borghesia members in 1985) released the double CD, 20th Century – Selected Works, an anthology of Borghesia's most dangerous, dancing-in-underground and ambiental songs and instrumentals.

See also

• FV Music
• Bast

External links

• Borghesia on Myspace
• Borghesia on Wikipedia
• Videos by Borghesia (1983–1989) on the Zank website
• Interview with Aldo Ivančić (1995) on Rockobrobje.com (in Slovenian)