Merrie Melodias #5 - The Nonsense of Casual Relations - 24th September 2024

Uzbekistan-based DJ and boss of the experimental **https://tawpot.bandcamp.com)** label **[Eugenie Galochkin](https://www.instagram.com/gl4kn/)** presents rare vinyl rips from the Soviet **[Melodia](https://soundcloud.com/firmamelodiya** label. **Melodia** has released music from all around the world: from obscure Baltic electronica and free jazz from Siberia; to synth-pop from Tajikistan and academic avant-garde from Ukraine. The series will explore how national and cultural characteristics are embedded in musical language.

This episode focuses on the strangest releases from the Soviet major label Melodia, which could be characterised simply as ‘Non-music’. Some records shocked me, some made me cringe — but these tracks seem to form a curious narrative on the verge of a numbing psychedelic journey.

So, within an hour you will hear reconstruction of a concert on mammoth bones, advertisement of the famous Lithuanian hoover ‘Audra’ and car fluids of Soyuzbytkhim factory, fie