Ill in the Head Records (2024)

The project started as a fanzine, but evolved into a record label shortly after the publication of the first issue of “Ill in the Head Zine” in June of 1992. Label’s initial release was a cassette compilation entitled “Life?” featuring punk/HC music by several Croatian bands. It was the first in total of 6 punk/HC compilations produced over the next 4 years. Geographical scope of these compilation

cassettes was later expanded to feature bands from all over the world. In addition to the compilations, the label started producing full length cassette albums in 1993, focusing on underground punk/HC and metal music from Croatia and Ex-Yugoslavia. Ill in the Head was the first Croatian record label to release music by a Serbian artist after the breakout of the war in 1991. It was the cassette album entitled “Osiguranje zivotne vecnosti” by punk band Ex-Cess from Belgrade. The cassette was released in 1994. The next step in the expansion of Ill in the Head activities was the creation of a mail-order distribution. In the spirit of the true punk DIY approach, the items (cassettes, vinyl, CDs, fanzines, T-shirts etc.) sold via mail-order were acquired through exchange with other independent record labels from around the word. The label’s distribution catalogue was extensive and represented 40% of Ill in the Head’s total sales, reaching underground/indie music audiences in every corner of Croatia and further in the Balkan region. In 1996 Ill in the Head started focusing on vinyl records, specifically 7”EP format. “Vragoder” EP by the Croatian band Gipps, and a split EP by the bands Running Party and The Cardinals came out that same year. All activities related to Ill in the Head stopped, and the label ceased to exist at the end of 1996, when Berislav decided to move from Croatia to Canada. In the span of four years Ill in the Head produced a total of twenty-two cassettes, two vinyl records, and distributed numerous international and national music releases and merchandise. The idea of restarting the label and focus it on promoting music from ex-Yugoslavia came about in 2013. Three years later, and exactly 20 years after the end of the label’s Croatian chapter, Ill in the Head is starting a new life in Canada. The first Canadian release, and also the 25th in the label’s complete catalogue, will be a 7” EP by the Macedonian band Bernays Propaganda. The record is scheduled to come out in early November 2016. At the end of the same month it will be followed by a full-length vinyl release by the Croatian artist The Marshmallow Notebooks. Stay tuned!

05/03/2022

"This bunch of experienced music adventurers is devoted to the sincerity of guitar music and the legacy of the Yugoslav music scene. Their music reminds us of a time when pop was till punk. In their catchy tracks, the old Balkan rock and roll spirit lives on, most distinctly through the temperamental lyrics in their native tongues. Hectic drums, spacious and expressive bass lines, jagged and angular guitar riffs, expressive (fe)male vocals and high energy levels — this is Lelee."

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This bunch of experienced music adventurers is devoted to the sincerity of guitar music and the legacy of the Yugoslav music scene. Their music reminds us of...

29/01/2022

Show #257

Sunday, January 23, 2022

Live on air at 93.3 CFMU in Hamilton and online

PODCAST LINK:
https://cfmu.ca/episodes/30887-no-hope-no-fear-episode-for-2022-01-23

257th episode of No Hope – No Fear is divided into three sections. We begin with a homage to Aki Rahimovski, legendary Yugoslav singer and frontman of Parni Valjak, who passed away on January 22. The next section features conversation with Amer Kantardzic AKA MC Snort Bill, Toronto-based singer/songwriter who will let us in on his collaborations with artists from city of Tuzla, Bosnia and Hercegovina. In the final portion, we will listen to Yugoslav albums featured on beehype’s World’s Best Albums of 2021 list. Tune in…. and stay tuned!

FINAL PLAYLIST:
01. PARNI VALJAK: Vruće igre (Vruće igre, Suzy, 1980)
02. PARNI VALJAK: Ulične tuče (Gradske priče, Suzy, 1979)
03. PARNI VALJAK: Predstavi je kraj (Dodjite na show!, PGP RTB, 1976)
04. F91 Feat. BAGI & MC SNORT BILL: DNK (Single, selfreleased, 2021)
05. Urban InstinktT: 100 Days (single, Menart Label, 2021)
06. HIV: Ulica je zlo (single, selfreleased, 2000)
07. SBO: Postaja F (Trans, SonicTribe, 2021)
08. VLADIMIR: Rikordus di mi mona (Vladimir, Gramofon Sarajevo, 2021)
09. KOIKOI : Hrast (Pozivi u stranu, Moonlee Records, 2021)
10. LELEE: Fasciniran (Čuka bije pumpa, Moonlee Records/ Ill in the Head Records, 2021)
11. Kensington Lima: Cheer Up Old Bu**er (Southbound, selfreleased, 2021)

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21/01/2022

I am super-happy and excited to see the release by my little record label Ill in the Head Records on the global list of best albums in 2021!!!

LELEE’s album “Čuka bije pumpa” shares the list of WORLD'S BEST ALBUMS OF 2021 with 80 records from all over the globe, as selected by beehype.

Beehype platform is run by 100+ music journalists, bloggers and DJs from around the world who collect and carefully select what is best in local scenes and present it to the global audience. Lelee is filed under (North) Macedonia, but can easily be put under Slovenia or Serbia, as members of the bend come from the different parts of Yugoslavia. As proven by this recognition, just like them, their music knows no borders or physical barriers.

If you have not herd “Čuka bije pumpa” yet, give it listen, and while you are at it, check out other amazing artists on this global list.

Congratulations to the band as well as to Moonlee Records with whom I co-published of this album.

https://beehy.pe/best-albums-of-2021/@@

Save the year 2021 enjoying amazing music from around the world – selected by our experts from around the world. “As sh*tty as 2021 was,” writes one of our contributors, “the thing we could rely on was a constant output of quality music.” Another one notes that while there’s still no sen...

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