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 Touareg
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 Neboj a

Bogdanovic (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 4-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.