Jovan Maljoković - The Uplifting Abyss* Previously unreleased Jazz Funk LP from 70s Yugoslavia * Crazy grooves, breaks, samples and smooth arrangements * Missing piece of Eastern Bloc Jazz history * Straight from the master tapes buried in the vaults of Radio Belgrade What would you do if a never before released jazz funk album from 70s Yugoslavia had dropped suddenly into your arms? An album which sounds like a crate diggers holy grail!? Album full of heavy drum breaks, repetitive bass

The Charm of the Highway Strip was also the band's debut release on Merge Records

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They released two LPs for Graham Coxon‰۪s label Transcopic Records Steady The Buffs & 1914

which generations of self-consciously misunderstood young men have clasped close to their hearts ever since

Folk music personified

and Stereolab

What precisely makes an Iceage song is still a mysterious thing

This is beautiful work” Ryley Walker

and undeniably-catchy package

lines are drawn to Severed Heads

Perhaps it‰۪s not too late for that - Carpenter's songs are timeless

the reissue is updated to include the whole of the 1985's 7" single "It's A Cracker" and "What A Carry On" 12" EP