tapan meets generation taragalte: atlas

Soundway presents the unique results of a one-off 2018 meeting in Marrakech between Belgrade-based tribal/techno/industrial outfit Tapan and the nomadic Tuareg 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 Nebojsa Bogdanović (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 since 2015 have brought together their diverse musical experience under the collaborative moniker of Tapan. 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 four-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. RIYL: The Bug, The Comet Is Coming, DJ Khalab, Mala, Clap! Clap!, Burial, Tolouse Low Trax.