NSRD or Nebijušu Sajūtu Restaurēšanas Darbnīca (Latvian: "Restoration Workshop of Unprecedented Feelings") was a musical group from Latvia

Latvia

Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

. They played experimental

Experimental music

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/electronic music

Electronic music

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 with influences of New Wave

New Wave music

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 and New Age

New Age music

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The band was formed in 1982 by Hardijs Lediņš, architect and DJ, and Juris Boiko, universal artist. In the early years they played electronic avant-garde. They were pioneers of this kind of music in Latvia. Along with their fellow musicians Dzeltenie Pastnieki

Dzeltenie Pastnieki

Dzeltenie Pastnieki are a Latvian band formed in 1981 in Riga, Latvia. Their name means "the yellow postmen" in Latvian, and is sometimes abbreviated to DzP. They were among the pioneers of new wave as well as reggae in the former Soviet Union...

 (who were more popular than NSRD), they were the first New Wave

New Wave music

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 musicians in the Latvian SSR

Latvian SSR

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. Their records were available only on magnetic tape

Magnetic tape

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As they were so untraditional in the Latvian music scene, they didn't gain a lot of popularity in the 1980s. Nowadays their music is popular among collectors and music fans.

Discography

• Invalīdu tramvajs (1983)
• Medicīna un māksla (1985)
• Kuncendorfs un Osendovskis (1984)
• Vējš vītolos (music for performance) (1986)
• Faktu vispār nav (1987)
• Dr. Enesera binokulāro deju kursi (1987)
• 30/15 (1988)
• Neskaties (1988)
• Ieva Akurātere un NSRD (1989)
• Sarkanie rakordi (1989)
• Viegli 3 mana sirds (1992, unreleased)
• NSRD labākās dziesmas (1982–2002) (2002)
• Dziesmas neuzrakstītai lugai (2003, posthumously released in 2006)