STREAMING NOW: Preservation Sound Radio 6.12.19: USSR + Eastern Bloc Vinyl

Really excited to share this one with y’all: it has been a dream of mine for many years to assemble an all- USSR + Eastern Bloc Rock/Prog/Funk show.

Click here to stream the show (until July 12, 2019)

Tracking down all these records (everything is from the original 70s+80s vinyl LPs) took some doing but it was worth it… there is so much obscure and frankly incredible material on Melodiya, Amiga, and the various Czech and Polish and Hungarian labels from the Iron-Curtain days. Here’s the set list, and where possible I’ve included a YouTube link- it’s very hard to locate this stuff on YouTube, or anywhere else, as many of these files are posted using only Cyrillic characters. A few other caveats: I had to rely on Goggle Translate for the song titles and the artist names, so I can’t say for certain if any of this info is 100% accurate. At the very least though, it should provide the motivated crate-digger with some basic starting points for tracking down some of these records. Enjoy –

1. Funny Children “Our Song”
2. Romance For Lovers OST (Alexander Gradsky et al) “Search”
3. Alla Pugacheva “Tambourine Shaman”
4. Omega “After a Difficult Year”
5. Gunnar Graps + Magnetic Band “Our Lawyers” /// SET BREAK///
6. Alla Pugacheva “Sonnett” *Sampled in 50 Cent’s ‘Piggy Bank’*
7. Sigfried Walendy “Papa Joe”
8. Sofia Rotaru “Road”
9. Magnetic Band “Troubadour”
10. Iberia Ensemble “Traveling” /// SET BREAK///
11. Plastic People of the Universe “Toxic”
12. The Young Seven “Letter Father”
13. Ensemble Singing Hearts “Where to find love”
14. No To Co “Sunday”
15. Omega “Ten Thousand Steps” /// SET BREAK///
16. Electra “The Rooster with the Red Comb”
17. Alla Pugacheva “Fully Around The Sages”
18. Psycho “Nomina Sunt Odiosa”
19. Hungaria “Steffi Come”
20. Studio 66 “Not A Student” /// SET BREAK///
21. Funny Children “Always Away”
22. Gunnar Graps + Magnetic Band “Money Wall”
23. Ruja “It’s here you were born”
24. Puhdys “Doors open to the city”
25. Omega “Girl with Pearls in her hair” *Sampled in Kanye’s ‘New Slaves’ ///SET BREAK///
26. Czelaw Nieman “Pebble”
27. David Tukhmanhov “Mentally Enter Your Cabinet”
28. Arsenal “The Tree”
29. Electra “The Smile” (2nd half of song)
30. Yacheslav Ganelin “Devil’s Bride O/S/T”
31. No To Co “Dimi” ///SET BREAK///
32. Vitamin “(title uncertain)”
33. Karat “The Blue Planet”
34. Vaclav Neckar + Bacily “Time Machine”