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    Posted: January 19 2025 at 23:45
Sup. One thing has been bothering me ever since I first visited this website. If you look at the country of origin categories in this database, you'll notice that out of all historic countries that don't exist anymore Yugoslavia is the only one that is retroactively called back to. Other states such as Czechoslovakia, Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), German Democratic Republic (East Germany), Soviet Union and so on, are correctively assigned to their closest modern era counterparts when it comes to categorizing bands (eg. the USSR based group Pesniary is assigned to Belarus, the Czechoslovakian group Collegium Musicum is assigned to Slovakia, Stern Combo Meissen from DDR to Germany).

I personally think it's pretty inconsistent. The categories should either consist of exclusively modern countries (remove Yugoslavia and reassign those old Jugoton formations to their respective 21st century Balkan countries) or list the appropriate historic states.

Edited by Hrychu - January 19 2025 at 23:47
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^ List the bands and where they are from and we'll try to edit what we can. Smile
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Sean Trane Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2025 at 02:41
TBH, I don't mind keeping Yugoslavia (and kept Czechoslovakia) as legit country entries in our PA DB.

For the DDR, it was quite simpler, since this was a fusion and not fission.

We could let Svettonio participate to this thread. Though a Serbian and ex-Yugo nostalgic (at least that's how I view him), we could maybe trust him to find the necessary input to allocate every band into the proper modern country, but things might no be so easy as separating the Czech from Slovak bands.
Would we recognize Kosovo as a legit country? 


Edited by Sean Trane - January 20 2025 at 02:47
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lewian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 20 2025 at 03:30
As a German I am very aware that the DDR music scene and the Western German one at the time were separated and quite different. The Krautrock genre in particular was much more connected to other Western styles. As far as I'm aware no DDR band has any similarity to this, neither do I know any DDR progressive electronic artist (which for sure had to do with availability of instruments and technology), although Tangerine Dream were hugely popular. The closest connection is maybe Stern Meissen - Triumvirat. Novalis can be connected to much of the more melodic-symphonic stuff that dominated DDR prog (also of course through the poetic at times German lyrics), but still at the time the Western German scene was closer to all kinds of other countries in style than to the DDR.

I know this kind of comment wasn't quite the thread opener's intention, but anyway...


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I did my homework I guess

Aerodrom - Croatia
Tihomir Pop Asanovic - Macedonia
Zeljko Bebek & PODIUM - Bosnia & Herzegovina
Begnagrad - Slovenia
Bijelo Dugme - Bosnia & Herzegovina
Marko Brecelj - Slovenia
Buldožer - Slovenia
DAH - Serbia
Den za Den - Macedonia
Doktor Spira i Ljudska Bica - Serbia
Drugi Način - Croatia
Dzejbi - Slovenia*
Furda - Serbia
Galija - Serbia
Hazari - Croatia
Hobo - Croatia
Igra Staklenih Perli - Serbia
Djordje Ilijin - Serbia
Indexi - Bosnia & Herzegovina
Izvir - Slovenia
Jutro - Slovenia
Korni Grupa (Kornelyans) - Serbia
Kornelije Kovač - Serbia
Miha Kralj - Slovenia
Laza I Ipe - Bosnia & Herzegovina
Leb I Sol - Macedonia
Josipa Lisac - Croatia
Maja de Rado & Porodicna Manufaktura Crnog Hleba - Serbia
Radomir Mihajlovic - Serbia
Drago Mlinarec - Croatia
Na Lepem Prijazni - Slovenia
Nepočin - Croatia
Oko - Slovenia
Opus - Serbia
Miki Petkovski - Macedonia
Pop Masina - Serbia
Davorin Popović - Bosnia & Herzegovina
Predmestje - Slovenia
Quatebriga - Slovenia
Laza Ristovski - Serbia
S Vremena Na Vreme - Serbia
Sarlo Akrobata - Serbian
Sedmina - Slovenia
September - Slovenia
Smak - Serbia
Soncna Pot - Multi-National
Spektar - Croatia
Tako - Serbia
Teska Industrija - Bosnia & Herzegovina
Time - Croatia
Trio Dag - Serbia

*solely based on the language of the tracklist

Quote Would we recognize Kosovo as a legit country?
In a perfect world, sure. But "controversial" countries such as Kosovo, Palestine, Somaliland etc. are not available in the Progarchives dropdown list. xD

Edited by Hrychu - January 20 2025 at 10:37
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