Supernaut (Serbian band)
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Supernaut is a Serbia
n alternative rock
band from Belgrade
.
member Ivan Vdović "VD"
(drums, rhythm machine), with Srđan Marković "Đile" (vocals) and Miodrag Stojanović "Čeza" (rhythm machine), the band changed the name to Supernaut, after Vdović's death in 1992. Influenced by the band Suicide
, the rest of the band continued working in the same musical direction as on their previous efforts with DDT, explained by the band members as the "social art and its reflections on theatre
, painting
, film
, and rock music
". At the time, the band became a support for the Sonja Savić
alternative theatre
troupe, performing at various alternative theater festivals.
The debut studio album, Budućnost sada
(The Future Now), released in 1993 by the independent record label
Zvono Records, featured an experimental form of industrial rock
, crossed with diverse musical influences, including the 1960s acid rock
acts such as the 13th Floor Elevators
. The album, available on compact cassette
only, featuring the prominent tracks "Ja sam jedini" ("I Am The Only One") and "Čaj" ("Tea"), provided the band with the title "the most non-commercial band in Belgrade
". The cover for the album was designed by Marković, which was also the case with all their later releases.
The next release was the Live in Zombietown
, a live album released in 1995 and recorded at the BITEF theatre
on September 7, 1995, during the Zombietown movie premier, in a new lineup, featuring the new bassist Saša Radić, who previously worked with Kazimirov Kazneni Korpus, presenting the band's minimalist music
live intensity. The album was released by the independent record label Urbazona Trotorock, founded by the Belgrade underground painter Momir Grujić "Fleka", in collaboration with Radio B92 in 300 copies only, but free of copyright limitations, thus available for free copying and broadcasting. After the album release, Stojanović left the band.
On mid-1997, the band changed the lineup which, beside Marković (guitar, vocals) and Radić (bass), featured Svetolik Trifunović "Trule" (rhythm machine). Together, they recorded Niže nego ljudski
(Less Than Human), recorded at the Tref studio during the Summer of 1997, and released in 1998. The album featured the band's first hit song "Tata Roll" ("Papa Roll"). Most of the tracks from the album already appeared on Live in Zombietown
, however, the song arrangements were changed with the inclusion of Marković's guitar sections, moving towards psychobilly
, blues
and hard rock
, making a fusion of rock & roll and electronic music
. Having left the band, Trifunović formed the experimental music duo Tron, with the Presing
frontman Zoran Radović "Kiza", performing improvised instrumental music.
(Heaven in the Sky, Hell on Earth), released by the independent record label Beograund in 2000. The album featured cover versions of the Kraftwerk
single "Das Model
", with lyrics in Serbian language
entitled "Model", for which a promotional video was recorded, and Dr. Feelgood
song "Because You're Mine
". The song "Superzao" ("Superevil"), which appeared on the album, was written and performed by Marković during the period with DDT. After the album release, the band went on hiatus, reactivating in 2005, in the lineup Srđan Marković (vocals, guitar, sequencing) and Saša Radić (bass, rhythm machine).
After a six-year discography break, the band recorded the album Eli
(short for Eli Eli lama sabachthani, trans. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?), released by Automatik Records in 2006. The album, featuring guest appearance by the former Urbana Gerila
and Laibach
drummer Dragoslav Radojković "Draža", included cover versions of Atomsko Sklonište
song "Pakleni vozači" ("Hell Drivers
"), The Stooges
song "No Fun
", and The Cramps
' "Human Fly". The album appeared on the fifth place on the annual webzine Popboks list of the best albums released in 2006. Promotional videos were recorded for the tracks "Šifra" ("Password") and "Oh mili (Neupokojeni)" ("Oh, Dear Ones (The Undead)"), both directed by Joca Backulja. After the album release, the band lineup had included an additional guitar player, Vlada Burić, with whom the band appeared on the RTS 2 television show Bunt (Rebellion), and performed at the 2006 Jelen Pivo Live
festival on December 16, 2006, however, the lineup did not last long and the band remained a duo.
In 2008, the band finished the recording sessions for the new studio album, with the working title Supernaut 6. Announcing the album, recorded at the Master Blaster studio, Marković stated that it was musically a followup of the previous two albums, but with more complex guitar arrangements and production. In order to retain an authentic sound, the material, written and arranged by Marković and Radić, featured a fifteen-year old rhythm machine and twice as older guitar and bass guitar. Despite the announcement that Automatik Records was to release the album, the band was looking for a record label to release the new album for the following two years. Also, bassist Radić announced that the band was looking for the original tapes from the first three albums, available only on compact cassette
, in order to rerelease them on CD
.
(Rebellion of the Machines), thus completing the trilogy of albums which started with Raj na nebu, pakao na Zemlji
and Eli
. The album, consisting of ten songs, presented the band's final collaboration with the deceased producer Goran Živković, who also produced Budućnost sada and Eli. The album featured two previously released songs, "Đavo pod maskom" ("Devil in Disguise"), originally recorded and released in 1987 on the various artists compilation Beogradski grafiti - Bad Boy Rock (Belgrade Graffiti - Bad Boy Rock) by Marković with his former band Plaćenici, also featuring Partibrejkers
guitarist Nebojša Antonijević "Anton" and Miodrag Stojanović "Čeza", and the title track, first released on Live in Zombietown
, as well as the cover version of the Roky Erickson
track "Nothing In Return", with lyrics in Serbian language
entitled "Ništa zauzvrat". After the album release, on July 18, 2010, the band performed on BELEF, the Belgrade Summer festival.
The following year, on January 28, Pobuna mašina appeared on the 13th place of the Popboks list for the best domestic album in 2010. The following month, the critics of Popboks made a list of the best domestic albums released in the previous decade on which the album Eli appeared on the 41st place. At the time, Vujičić Kolekcija released the monograph Niže nego ljudski: Srđan Đile Marković i andergraund figuracija (Less Than Human: Srđan Đile Marković and the Underground Figuration) by Nikola Dedić, featuring Marković's works from 1987 until 2011, promoted with an exhibition of Marković's works as well as the projection of the film Superstvarnost (Superreality), recorded by Supernaut and Sonja Savić
, and Supernaut music videos. In May of the same year, at the Belgrade Mixer festival, the Serbia
n alternative rock
band Neočekivana Sila Koja Se Iznenada Pojavljuje i Rešava Stvar
performed the album Live in Zombietown
in its entirety, with the whole performance being broadcast on Radio B92.
, the band worked on the theater pieces Ubistvo na ivici grada (A Murder on the Edge of Town), Superstvarnost (Superreality) and Play, for the former two the band recorded alternative film versions, directed by Sonja Savić. The latter two were turned into films, Superstvarnost, a 55-minute film, dealing with 300,000 intellectuals who had left Yugoslavia in order avoid the Yugoslav wars
, and Play, a computer animated movie featuring Marković's animations, dealing with the 1997 student protests in Belgrade.
Beside the two films, the troupe appeared in a musical semi-documentary Filmska akademija SuperNaut-BelgradeUnderground (The SuperNaut-BelgradeUndergound Movie Academy). The film soundtracks were entirely recorded by the band themselves. The three plays were also presented to the London
audience at the Tate Gallery
. After the performance of the piece Play, in 1997, the band stopped collaborating with Sonja Savić.
On March 1996, the band participated the International Alternative Theatre Festival FIAT, and the following year, at the Novi Sad
Spens Sports Center
organized the Veče Supernauta (A Supernaut Evening), which featured a rock concert, a theater play, and an art exhibition. During the same year, the band appeared as performers in the film Geto (Ghetto), starring the Električni Orgazam
drummer Goran Čavajda "Čavke". They also wrote the plays Masovna narkomanija (Massive Drug Addiction), Superstvarnost II (Kosmogonija) (Superreality II (Cosmogony
)), and Pobuna mašina (Rebellion of the Machines), the later being co-written with the painter Miomir Grujić "Fleka".
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band from Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
.
1990s
Having performed as DDT, formed in 1989 by former Šarlo AkrobataŠarlo Akrobata
Šarlo Akrobata were a seminal Yugoslav rock band often categorized as late punk or New Wave, particularly art-oriented. Short-lived but extremely influential, in addition to being one of the most important acts of the Yugoslav New Wave scene, the three piece left an indelible mark on the entire...
member Ivan Vdović "VD"
Ivan Vdovic
Ivan "Ivica" Vdović also known as VD was Yugoslavian musician, drummer of Yugoslav rock bands such as Suncokret, Šarlo Akrobata and Katarina II....
(drums, rhythm machine), with Srđan Marković "Đile" (vocals) and Miodrag Stojanović "Čeza" (rhythm machine), the band changed the name to Supernaut, after Vdović's death in 1992. Influenced by the band Suicide
Suicide (band)
Suicide is an American electronic protopunk musical duo, intermittently active since 1970 and composed of vocalist Alan Vega and Martin Rev on synthesizers and drum machines. They are an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo....
, the rest of the band continued working in the same musical direction as on their previous efforts with DDT, explained by the band members as the "social art and its reflections on theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, painting
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, film
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, and rock music
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
". At the time, the band became a support for the Sonja Savić
Sonja Savic
Sonja Savić was a cult Serbian actress, famous for her husky voice and series of impressive roles in some of the more memorable 1980s films made in former Yugoslavia. Sonja appeared in Miroslav Ilić video Voleo sam devojku iz grada...
alternative theatre
Alternative theatre
Alternative theatre is a term used to describe fringe theatre, or entertainment not of the mainstream. The term comes from the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which name comes from Robert Kemp, who described the unofficial companies performing at the same time as the second Edinburgh International...
troupe, performing at various alternative theater festivals.
The debut studio album, Budućnost sada
Budućnost sada
- Personnel :* Srđan Marković "Đile" * Miodrag Stojanović "Čeza" - References :* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4* *...
(The Future Now), released in 1993 by the independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
Zvono Records, featured an experimental form of industrial rock
Industrial rock
Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres. Industrial rock spawned industrial metal, with which it is often confused...
, crossed with diverse musical influences, including the 1960s acid rock
Acid rock
Acid rock is a form of psychedelic rock, which is characterized with long instrumental solos, few lyrics and musical improvisation. Tom Wolfe describes the LSD-influenced music of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Iron Butterfly, Big Brother & The Holding Company, Cream,...
acts such as the 13th Floor Elevators
13th Floor Elevators
The 13th Floor Elevators were an American rock band from Austin, Texas formed by guitarist and vocalist Roky Erickson, electric jug player Tommy Hall, and guitarist Stacy Sutherland, which existed from 1965 to 1969...
. The album, available on compact cassette
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
only, featuring the prominent tracks "Ja sam jedini" ("I Am The Only One") and "Čaj" ("Tea"), provided the band with the title "the most non-commercial band in Belgrade
Belgrade
Belgrade is the capital and largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. According to official results of Census 2011, the city has a population of 1,639,121. It is one of the 15 largest cities in Europe...
". The cover for the album was designed by Marković, which was also the case with all their later releases.
The next release was the Live in Zombietown
Live in Zombietown
- Supernaut :* Saša Radić * Čeza * Đile - References :* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4...
, a live album released in 1995 and recorded at the BITEF theatre
Bitef
BITEF, Belgrade International Theatre Festival, is one of the theatre festival that takes place in Belgrade, Serbia, each year.Founded in 1967, BITEF has continually followed and supported the latest theater trends...
on September 7, 1995, during the Zombietown movie premier, in a new lineup, featuring the new bassist Saša Radić, who previously worked with Kazimirov Kazneni Korpus, presenting the band's minimalist music
Minimalist music
Minimal music is a style of music associated with the work of American composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. It originated in the New York Downtown scene of the 1960s and was initially viewed as a form of experimental music called the New York Hypnotic School....
live intensity. The album was released by the independent record label Urbazona Trotorock, founded by the Belgrade underground painter Momir Grujić "Fleka", in collaboration with Radio B92 in 300 copies only, but free of copyright limitations, thus available for free copying and broadcasting. After the album release, Stojanović left the band.
On mid-1997, the band changed the lineup which, beside Marković (guitar, vocals) and Radić (bass), featured Svetolik Trifunović "Trule" (rhythm machine). Together, they recorded Niže nego ljudski
Niže nego ljudski
- Personnel :* Srđan Marković "Đile" * Saša Radić * Svetolik Trifunović "Trule" - References :* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4* *...
(Less Than Human), recorded at the Tref studio during the Summer of 1997, and released in 1998. The album featured the band's first hit song "Tata Roll" ("Papa Roll"). Most of the tracks from the album already appeared on Live in Zombietown
Live in Zombietown
- Supernaut :* Saša Radić * Čeza * Đile - References :* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4...
, however, the song arrangements were changed with the inclusion of Marković's guitar sections, moving towards psychobilly
Psychobilly
Psychobilly is a fusion genre of rock music that mixes elements of punk rock, rockabilly, and other genres. It is one of several subgenres of rockabilly which also include thrashabilly, trashabilly, punkabilly, surfabilly and gothabilly...
, blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
and hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
, making a fusion of rock & roll and electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
. Having left the band, Trifunović formed the experimental music duo Tron, with the Presing
Presing
Presing is a Serbian alternative rock band from Belgrade. Formed in 1990 and named after pressure defense in basketball , Presing were, together with Darkwood Dub and Kanda, Kodža i Nebojša, representatives of the so-called NeoBeo sound, alternative, guitar-based rock music produced in Belgrade in...
frontman Zoran Radović "Kiza", performing improvised instrumental music.
2000s
The new lineup, featuring backing vocalists Aleksandra Arizanović and Dejana Jovanović, recorded the album Raj na nebu, pakao na ZemljiRaj na nebu, pakao na Zemlji
- Personnel :* Srđan Marković "Đile" * Saša Radić * Aleksandra Arizanović * Dejana Jovanović - References :* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4*...
(Heaven in the Sky, Hell on Earth), released by the independent record label Beograund in 2000. The album featured cover versions of the Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008...
single "Das Model
Das Model
"Das Model" is a song recorded by the electro-pop group Kraftwerk in 1978; written by musicians Ralf Hütter and Karl Bartos, with artist Emil Schult collaborating on the lyrics. It is featured on the album, Die Mensch-Maschine; English version title: The Man-Machine...
", with lyrics in Serbian language
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
entitled "Model", for which a promotional video was recorded, and Dr. Feelgood
Dr. Feelgood (band)
Dr. Feelgood are a British pub rock band formed in 1971. The band's name derives from a slang term for heroin or for a doctor who is willing to overprescribe drugs. It is also a reference to a 1962 record by the American blues pianist and singer Willie Perryman called "Dr Feel-Good", which...
song "Because You're Mine
Malpractice (Dr. Feelgood album)
Malpractice was the second Dr. Feelgood album, released in October 1975.The album reached number 17 in the UK Albums Chart in November 1975, and remained in that chart for six weeks...
". The song "Superzao" ("Superevil"), which appeared on the album, was written and performed by Marković during the period with DDT. After the album release, the band went on hiatus, reactivating in 2005, in the lineup Srđan Marković (vocals, guitar, sequencing) and Saša Radić (bass, rhythm machine).
After a six-year discography break, the band recorded the album Eli
Eli (Supernaut album)
- Personnel :* Srđan Marković "Đile" * Saša Radić * Dragoslav Radojković - References :* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4* *...
(short for Eli Eli lama sabachthani, trans. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?), released by Automatik Records in 2006. The album, featuring guest appearance by the former Urbana Gerila
Urbana gerila
Urbana Gerila was a former Yugoslav punk rock and New Wave band from Belgrade. The band is notable as the participant of the Artistička radna akcija project in 1981...
and 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...
drummer Dragoslav Radojković "Draža", included cover versions of Atomsko Sklonište
Atomsko sklonište
Atomsko sklonište is a Croatian and former Yugoslav hard rock band, formed in Pula in 1977. The band is known primarily for its strong anti-war lyrics.-1977-1987:...
song "Pakleni vozači" ("Hell Drivers
Hell Drivers
This page is about the automobile sport. For the 1957 film starring Stanley Baker, see Hell Drivers Hell Drivers - The frequently used term to describe, and the very popular title of, numerous automobile thrill-based productions performing at fairs and racetracks by various squads of stunt drivers...
"), The Stooges
The Stooges
The Stooges are an American rock band from Ann Arbor, Michigan first active from 1967 to 1974, and later reformed in 2003...
song "No Fun
The Stooges (album)
The Stooges is the self-titled debut of the rock band The Stooges. It was released in August 1969 and peaked at number 106 on the Billboard album charts. Two songs, "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and "1969", were released as singles. It is widely considered as one of the best proto punk albums...
", and The Cramps
The Cramps
The Cramps were an American rock band, formed in 1976 and active until 2009. The band split after the death of lead singer Lux Interior. Their line-up rotated much over their existence, with the husband and wife duo of Interior and lead guitarist Poison Ivy the only permanent members...
' "Human Fly". The album appeared on the fifth place on the annual webzine Popboks list of the best albums released in 2006. Promotional videos were recorded for the tracks "Šifra" ("Password") and "Oh mili (Neupokojeni)" ("Oh, Dear Ones (The Undead)"), both directed by Joca Backulja. After the album release, the band lineup had included an additional guitar player, Vlada Burić, with whom the band appeared on the RTS 2 television show Bunt (Rebellion), and performed at the 2006 Jelen Pivo Live
Jelen Pivo Live
Jelen Pivo Live is a musical festival held since 2006 in order to promote the Apatin brewery brand Jelen pivo. The organizers had the idea gather the finest Serbian rock bands at one place, but the following year beside Serbian bands, foreign acts were also included in the festival lineups.- 2006...
festival on December 16, 2006, however, the lineup did not last long and the band remained a duo.
In 2008, the band finished the recording sessions for the new studio album, with the working title Supernaut 6. Announcing the album, recorded at the Master Blaster studio, Marković stated that it was musically a followup of the previous two albums, but with more complex guitar arrangements and production. In order to retain an authentic sound, the material, written and arranged by Marković and Radić, featured a fifteen-year old rhythm machine and twice as older guitar and bass guitar. Despite the announcement that Automatik Records was to release the album, the band was looking for a record label to release the new album for the following two years. Also, bassist Radić announced that the band was looking for the original tapes from the first three albums, available only on compact cassette
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette, often referred to as audio cassette, cassette tape, cassette, or simply tape, is a magnetic tape sound recording format. It was designed originally for dictation, but improvements in fidelity led the Compact Cassette to supplant the Stereo 8-track cartridge and reel-to-reel...
, in order to rerelease them on CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
.
2010s
On April 2010, the band independently released the fifth studio album, Pobuna mašinaPobuna mašina
- Personnel :* Srđan Marković "Đile" * Saša Radić - References :*...
(Rebellion of the Machines), thus completing the trilogy of albums which started with Raj na nebu, pakao na Zemlji
Raj na nebu, pakao na Zemlji
- Personnel :* Srđan Marković "Đile" * Saša Radić * Aleksandra Arizanović * Dejana Jovanović - References :* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4*...
and Eli
Eli (Supernaut album)
- Personnel :* Srđan Marković "Đile" * Saša Radić * Dragoslav Radojković - References :* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4* *...
. The album, consisting of ten songs, presented the band's final collaboration with the deceased producer Goran Živković, who also produced Budućnost sada and Eli. The album featured two previously released songs, "Đavo pod maskom" ("Devil in Disguise"), originally recorded and released in 1987 on the various artists compilation Beogradski grafiti - Bad Boy Rock (Belgrade Graffiti - Bad Boy Rock) by Marković with his former band Plaćenici, also featuring Partibrejkers
Partibrejkers
Partibrejkers is a prominent Serbian rock band from Belgrade, as well as an acclaimed act of the former Yugoslav rock scene....
guitarist Nebojša Antonijević "Anton" and Miodrag Stojanović "Čeza", and the title track, first released on Live in Zombietown
Live in Zombietown
- Supernaut :* Saša Radić * Čeza * Đile - References :* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4...
, as well as the cover version of the Roky Erickson
Roky Erickson
Roky Erickson is an American singer, songwriter, harmonica player and guitarist from Texas. He was a founding member of the 13th Floor Elevators and a pioneer of the psychedelic rock genre.-Biography:...
track "Nothing In Return", with lyrics in Serbian language
Serbian language
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
entitled "Ništa zauzvrat". After the album release, on July 18, 2010, the band performed on BELEF, the Belgrade Summer festival.
The following year, on January 28, Pobuna mašina appeared on the 13th place of the Popboks list for the best domestic album in 2010. The following month, the critics of Popboks made a list of the best domestic albums released in the previous decade on which the album Eli appeared on the 41st place. At the time, Vujičić Kolekcija released the monograph Niže nego ljudski: Srđan Đile Marković i andergraund figuracija (Less Than Human: Srđan Đile Marković and the Underground Figuration) by Nikola Dedić, featuring Marković's works from 1987 until 2011, promoted with an exhibition of Marković's works as well as the projection of the film Superstvarnost (Superreality), recorded by Supernaut and Sonja Savić
Sonja Savic
Sonja Savić was a cult Serbian actress, famous for her husky voice and series of impressive roles in some of the more memorable 1980s films made in former Yugoslavia. Sonja appeared in Miroslav Ilić video Voleo sam devojku iz grada...
, and Supernaut music videos. In May of the same year, at the Belgrade Mixer festival, the Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n alternative rock
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
band Neočekivana Sila Koja Se Iznenada Pojavljuje i Rešava Stvar
Neočekivana Sila Koja Se Iznenada Pojavljuje i Rešava Stvar
Neočekivana Sila Koja Se Iznenada Pojavljuje i Rešava Stvar Neočekivana Sila Koja Se Iznenada Pojavljuje i Rešava Stvar Neočekivana Sila Koja Se Iznenada Pojavljuje i Rešava Stvar (Serbian Cyrillic: Неочекивана Сила Која Се Изненада Појављује и Решава Ствар; trans...
performed the album Live in Zombietown
Live in Zombietown
- Supernaut :* Saša Radić * Čeza * Đile - References :* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4...
in its entirety, with the whole performance being broadcast on Radio B92.
Theater and film activities
With the actress Sonja SavićSonja Savic
Sonja Savić was a cult Serbian actress, famous for her husky voice and series of impressive roles in some of the more memorable 1980s films made in former Yugoslavia. Sonja appeared in Miroslav Ilić video Voleo sam devojku iz grada...
, the band worked on the theater pieces Ubistvo na ivici grada (A Murder on the Edge of Town), Superstvarnost (Superreality) and Play, for the former two the band recorded alternative film versions, directed by Sonja Savić. The latter two were turned into films, Superstvarnost, a 55-minute film, dealing with 300,000 intellectuals who had left Yugoslavia in order avoid the Yugoslav wars
Yugoslav wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought throughout the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats and Bosniaks on the other; but also...
, and Play, a computer animated movie featuring Marković's animations, dealing with the 1997 student protests in Belgrade.
Beside the two films, the troupe appeared in a musical semi-documentary Filmska akademija SuperNaut-BelgradeUnderground (The SuperNaut-BelgradeUndergound Movie Academy). The film soundtracks were entirely recorded by the band themselves. The three plays were also presented to the London
London
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audience at the Tate Gallery
Tate Gallery
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. After the performance of the piece Play, in 1997, the band stopped collaborating with Sonja Savić.
On March 1996, the band participated the International Alternative Theatre Festival FIAT, and the following year, at the Novi Sad
Novi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
Spens Sports Center
Spens Sports Center
SPC Vojvodina , commonly referred to as SPENS, is a multi-purpose venue located in Novi Sad, Serbia. It operates under publicly owned company JP "Sportski i poslovni centar Vojvodina", which in addition to SPENS also has "Sajmište Sports Center" under its umbrella...
organized the Veče Supernauta (A Supernaut Evening), which featured a rock concert, a theater play, and an art exhibition. During the same year, the band appeared as performers in the film Geto (Ghetto), starring the Električni Orgazam
Električni Orgazam
Električni Orgazam is a Serbian rock band from Belgrade. Originally starting as a combination of New Wave, punk rock and post-punk, the band later slowly changed their style, becoming a mainstream rock act.- New Wave years :...
drummer Goran Čavajda "Čavke". They also wrote the plays Masovna narkomanija (Massive Drug Addiction), Superstvarnost II (Kosmogonija) (Superreality II (Cosmogony
Cosmogony
Cosmogony, or cosmogeny, is any scientific theory concerning the coming into existence or origin of the universe, or about how reality came to be. The word comes from the Greek κοσμογονία , from κόσμος "cosmos, the world", and the root of γίνομαι / γέγονα "to be born, come about"...
)), and Pobuna mašina (Rebellion of the Machines), the later being co-written with the painter Miomir Grujić "Fleka".
Studio albums
- Budućnost sadaBudućnost sada- Personnel :* Srđan Marković "Đile" * Miodrag Stojanović "Čeza" - References :* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4* *...
(1993) - Niže nego ljudskiNiže nego ljudski- Personnel :* Srđan Marković "Đile" * Saša Radić * Svetolik Trifunović "Trule" - References :* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4* *...
(1998) - Raj na nebu, pakao na ZemljiRaj na nebu, pakao na Zemlji- Personnel :* Srđan Marković "Đile" * Saša Radić * Aleksandra Arizanović * Dejana Jovanović - References :* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4*...
(2000) - EliEli (Supernaut album)- Personnel :* Srđan Marković "Đile" * Saša Radić * Dragoslav Radojković - References :* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4* *...
(2006) - Pobuna mašinaPobuna mašina- Personnel :* Srđan Marković "Đile" * Saša Radić - References :*...
(2010)
Videography
- Filmska akademija SuperNaut BelgradeUnderground (1995)
- Superstvarnost (1996)
- Geto (1996)
- Play (1997)
External links
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- Supernaut at B92.fmB92B92 is a radio and television broadcaster with national coverage headquartered in Belgrade, Serbia. The network's key demographic is chiefly urban and young audience. Its programs, including the news cover topics with fairly liberal political painted attitudes...