Tapan Meets Generation Taragalte - Atlas Vinyl EP New 2019

1. Jbit Aala Khiam (feat. Generation Taragalte)
2. Aha Yazine Kaymaltou (feat. Generation Taragalte)
3. Hyatti (feat. Generation Taragalte)
4. Yogi Yamahssar (feat. Generation Taragalte)

Soundway presents the unique results of a one-off 2018 meeting in Marrakech between Belgrade-based tribal/techno/industrial outfit Tapan and the nomadic Touareg electrified desert-blues group Generation Taragalte.

Tapan is not an ordinary “techno” project, rather it escapes easy categorization. It is the Belgrade-based production duo of 20/44 club resident Nebojša Bogdanovic (Schwabe), and Goran Simonoski, a producer behind music projects such as Belgradeyard Sound System, Piece of Shh and more. Both have been active in the Belgrade music and nightlife scenes since the 1990s, and have joined forces of their diverse musical experience under the Tapan moniker since 2015.

While performing at the Atlas Electronic festival in Morocco in 2018, they encountered Generation Taragalte of southern Morocco, and recorded the initial music for the Atlas EP in an improvised studio on the festival grounds, followed by final production on returning to Belgrade. The result was the 4-track EP “Atlas”, a dark, desolate and potent collision of the electronic drone-jazz of Belgrade and the windswept, desiccated psych-guitar riffs of the Moroccan Sahara.