Borghesia is a Slovenia

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n electronic music

Electronic music

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 / rock music

Rock music

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 group, created in Ljubljana

Ljubljana

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 in 1982. The band was formed by members of the alternative theatre group Theatre FV-112/15. Borghesia created its aesthetics using the imagery of prohibited, tabooed and repressed. Their sound is often compared to that of other groups in the period such as D.A.F., Manufacture and more notably Front 242

Front 242

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, whom many cite as the chief instigators of the Electronic Body Music

Electronic body music

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 label used to describe such music. Borghesia went on several Europe-wide concert tours, mainly in 1988-91, which were reviewed in large music magazines in England, Germany etc., like NME

NME

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, Melody Maker

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, New Life

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, Zillo. They released four albums on Play It Again Sam

Play It Again Sam (record label)

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, one of the more important indie labels, which were also licensed to Wax Trax in the USA and Canada. Further interviews and articles in the magazines above. Aldo Ivancic later formed the band Bast, and is famous in the Slovenian music scene today as a producer. Borghesia together with Laibach

Laibach (band)

Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with industrial, martial, and neo-classical musical styles. Laibach formed June 1, 1980 in Trbovlje, Slovenia . Laibach represents the music wing of the Neue Slowenische Kunst art collective, of which it was a founding member in 1984...

 were prominent representatives of Slovenian alternative pop music, and topped the bill on the compilation albums Trans Slovenia Express, released on Mute Records

Mute Records

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. Borghesia live show in Gothenburg

Gothenburg

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, Sweden in October 1988 was the subject of an hour long broadcast on Swedish national radio network, on the show P3 Live.

Members

• Dario Seraval, vocals, programming (1982–1991, 2009-present)
• Aldo Ivančič, drums, programming (1982–1995, 2009-present)

Previous Members

• Zemira Alajbegović, video (1982–1989)
• Goran Devide, video (1982, died in Maribor in 1988)
• Neven Korda, video (1982–1989)

Performances

• Prisoners,
• Bodocniki,
• Lustmörder (Cankarjev dom, Ljubljana
  Ljubljana
  Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
  
  , 1984),
• Ogolelo mesto (1985),
• Borghesia (1988)

Discography

• Ljubav je hladnija od smrti (Zalozba FV, 1985, Italian Materiali Sonori 1985)
• Their Laws, Our Lives (Zalozba FV, 1986, Italian Materiali Sonori 1986)
• No Hope, No Fear
  No Hope, No Fear
  No Hope, No Fear is the third album by Borghesia, released in 1987 on Play It Again Sam Records.-Track listing:#"Ni Upanja, Ni Strahu - No Hope, No Fear" – 4:30#"Na Smrtno Kazen - Sentenced To Death" – 5:15#"133" – 4:15#"Blato - Mud" – 5:16...
  
  (PIAS, 1987)
• Escorts and Models (PIAS, 1988)
• Double Bill, split album with Click Click
  Click Click
  Click Click is a British electro-industrial music band.Click Click formed in 1982 by Adrian Smith, and Derek E. Smith, after the end of their previous rock project "Those Nervous Surgeons"...
  
   (PIAS, 1988)
• Naked, Uniformed, Dead (PIAS, 1988)
• Ogolelo mesto (Zalozba FV, 1988)
• Surveillance and Punishment (PIAS, 1989)
• She Is Not Alone (PIAS, 1989)
• Resistance (PIAS, 1989, Jugoton
  Jugoton
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   1989)
• Message (PIAS, 1990)
• 4x12 (Blind Dog Records, 1991)
• Dreamers in Colour (PIAS, 1992)
• Pro Choice (Zalozba FV, 1995)
• 20th Century - Selected Works (double CD) (FV Music, 2009)

Compilations

• This Is Electronic Body Music (SPV, 1988)
• Out of Nowhere (Out of Nowhere, 1990)
• Trans Slovenia Express (Mute, 1994)
• Borghesia mfl (Zalozba FV, 1996)
• Tistega lepega dne.../On that beautiful day... (Zalozba FV, 1996)

Video

• Tako mladi/So young (Zalozba FV, 1984),
• Ogolelo mesto/Naked city (1985),
• Triumf zelje/Triumph of the wish (Zalozba FV, 1990),
• Nestrpnost/Intolerance (1992),

External links

• All of Borghesia's videos can be found here