Apartchiks

Infobox musical artist
Name = Apartchiks


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Origin = Sidney, Australia
Genre = Electronic
Experimental
Years_active = 1997
Label = Avant Garde Records
AG Records
Associated_acts = Die Tonzentale
Vlada Divljan & Old Stars Band Idoli
Leb i Sol
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Past_members = Vlada Divljan
Kiril Džajkovski

Apartchiks were an electronic/experimental duo featuring former Idoli fronman Vlada Divljan and fromer Leb i Sol keyboardist Kiril Džajkovski, both living in Australia durring the late nineties when the band existed. After releasing one EP and one long play album, the two continued working on their solo projects.

History

Former Idoli frontman Vlada Divljan moved to Australia on August, 1991. He worked with local bands and soon started working on a local Serbian radio station. Durring the mid-nineties he had already established himself as an expert on soundtrack composing, mainly working with electronic music. At about the same time former Leb i Sol member Kiril Džajkovski moved to Australia and released an EP "Synthetic Theatre" through AG records.

On January 1997, the two started working together on a project called Apartchicks and the first release was "Dekada" (Decade) featuring four tracks of sampled speeches of Slobodan Milošević combined with electronic music and rhythm. It was released as an EP by Avant Garde Records. The next release was a long play album "Recorded Suplement" released by AG Records in 1997. The album featured experimental electonic music sound. The font used for the cover was simmilar to the font of the Serbian daily newspaper Politika.

In 1998 Divljan returned to Yugoslavia and recorded the soundtrack album for "Tri palme za dve bitange i ribicu", released by Favi. The soundtrack featured trakcs from the "Dekada" EP. Divljan went back to Australia. He met his future wife Dina, got a son and moved to Vienna. In the meantime he released two solo albums, one with his Old Stars Band called "Sve lazi sveta" and the other "Vlada Divljan presents Die Tonzentrale" as Die Tonzentrale.

Džajkovski continued his solo works and recorded several EPs, albums and soundtracks. In 2005 he worked on the soundtrack album for "Balcancan" on which appeared the track "Baba Zumbula" featuring Vlada Divljan. The song became a nationwide hit in Macedonia.

Discography

* "Dekada" (Avant Garde Records, 1997) - EP
* "Recorded Suplement" (AG Records, 1997 - Studio album
* "Tri palme za dve bitange i ribicu" (Favi, 1998) - Soundtrack album, featuring tracks from "Dekada"

External links and references

* EX YU ROCK enciklopedija 1960-2006, Janjatović Petar; ISBN 978-86-905317-1-4
* [http://www.kiril.com.mk Kiril Džajkovski official site]