Gloomy female HC of the metal-free sort – TOZIBABE were one Yugoslavia’s best bands in my books. Their songs on the essential “Hardcore Ljubljana” comp LP (released in 1985; recently re-released from what I heard) were amazing and admitedly better than the four songs on this last sign of life by them. Still, it’s a smasher of a platter and a scarce find. Let’s hope they did get through the bloody civil wars and without turning onto nationalism (like so many of their contemporaries did).
The cheesy synthie-bells intro is so great, and overall, the vocals fit in very well (which isn’t always the case with female vocals in HC). Listen for yourselves.
Dezuje.mp3
Trash.mp3
Ti.mp3
Lutke.mp3
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Luvely post! Didn’t know they had a 7″. The songs on the comp are so great. You should post them too.
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thank you for killing 7 inch punk. gemm after gemm increbible job your doing here.
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This site is one of the top of my favorites.
Tozibabe is from the Ex-Yugoslavia ok, but exactaly which country are they from?
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In 1986, there was no ex-Yugoslavia. It was Yugoslavia. Tozibabe were from there, actually.
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Well, since they were on the “Hardcore Ljubljana†comp. LP I assume they are from Slovenia, duh!
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No, they were from Yugoslavia. There was no Slovenia in 1986.
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what a dumb ass. haha
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i don’t care if they’re from Slovenia or Yugoslavia, these girls make me horny…
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Dumb ass? no man the question is valid, my mistake was that i took Few minutes to realise that they were in the Ljubljana comp. And yes they were from Yugoslavia how i knew before, but also how i believe WE know is Yugoslavia was created during the 2nd World War from states of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia. Technicaly there wasn’t a Slovenia in 1986. But it was there, go ask a Slovenian person if they consider themself Yugoslavian or Slovenian at that time? They even speak different languages. My idea was just to know what part of Yugoslavia they were from, like you could say the same about the Soviet Union: Latvia, Russia, Lituania,… or West Germany and East Germany.
Anyway, more music please
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It was very common to delineate which part of the country bands were from before the break up of Yugoslavia. It wasn’t, and still isn’t, an uncommon question.
Here’s the video for the first song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfGbi8GonGU
Great post.
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Excellent post! Two of these tracks seem to be titled ‘Trash’. I used to correspond with a guy in Ljubljana back in the early ’80′s from whom I aquired the ‘Ljubljana Hardcore’ on tape. I hope he’s still alive.
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Thanks for posting this… I used to own this and (like a dumb-ass) sold it when I went off to college and needed some money. It’s nice to hear it again.
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Thank you for posting this, I myself am a Slovenian Candadian and I was so excited to see this. I went to so many record stores in Slovenija and I couldn’t find the Harcore Ljubljana comp. My favourite Slovenian band.
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hi, i am from croatia, you see, former yugoslavia was federal state made of six republics, slovenia, croatia, serbia, etc… so back than they were both, from yugoslavia and slovenia. you know what happened later. i am heavily into Tozibabe sound back from 80′s, yeah, LJU HC tracks kicks as nothing else, but this 7” rules too, very original stuff yet keeping it at hardcore basis, even use of keyboards is excellent. i don’t know them personally but Marsa ex Tozibabe is i believe behind this page – http://www.lunin.net/marsa/tozibabe/ – not much of use to you as it is in slovenian, but anyway. btw, i started new mp3 blog about former yugoslavian hc/punk underground, so i would like to spread the word… links exchange is welcome.
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http://corpusdelicti-kktz.blogspot.com/
This is the link for KKTZ’s killer blog that focuses on mainly punk and hc from the former Yugoslavia. Tozibabe absolutely rules!
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Tozibabe (i.e. The Tough Ladies, which is a very inaccurate translation!) were from Ljubljana/Slovenia/Yugoslavia. They had a very unique sound for an all girl HC band, back then there were not so many girls into HC and even such a few were in bands. Amazingly, they did a few semi-professionel videos, which you can watching & listening at youtube.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfGbi8GonGU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khAvKhLruDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgTQlMItm7k
and here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSC_sIVeo4c
A few of the 7″s came with a big promo poster, too.
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A “very unique sound for an all girl HC band”? C’mon.
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Yeah, very unique in a special way, they were not riot grrlllish and they could play their instruments, so they still rocks!
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Riot Girls in 1986?
Well, from what I heard, they could cook and drive cars pretty good too …..
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Actually, there was Slovenia in 1986.
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