Borghesia’s 1989 album ‘Resistance’ reissued by Matrix Music Arhiv with bonus live 2LP
Borghesia
Ljubljana EBM and electronic rock act Borghesia will see their 1989 album “Resistance” reissued by Matrix Music Arhiv (MMA) on 26 June 2026. The release is available across four formats: a limited purple-and-white double vinyl, a black double vinyl, a double CD, and a limited-edition cassette of 100 copies. The double vinyl and double CD editions include a bonus live album, “Dal Vivo a El Paso”, recorded in Torino, Italy in December 1988. The album has been remastered for this release.
The original album occupies LP1/CD1 across all formats. Tracks are: “Theme One (Resistance Mix)”, “Message”, “If”, “Konflikt (Conflict)”, “October”, “Rumours”, “Young Prisoners”, “Discipline”, “Mali Čovek (The Little Man)”, “PIAS”, “Police Hour”, and “More Resistance”.
The bonus live recording, “Dal Vivo a El Paso” – the title translates from Italian as “Live at El Paso” – makes up LP2/CD2 on the double vinyl and double CD editions. The recording was made during a European tour stop in Torino in December 1988 featuring very different, raw and at times ‘dubbed up’ versions of the band’s early tracks.
Tracks are: “Hunters (Lovci)”, “Am I?”, “Sentenced To Death (Na smrtno kazen)”, “Who Turned Off the Light? (Kdo je ugasnil luč?)”, “Him (On)”, “Naked Lunch (Pasto nudo)”, “So Young (Tako mladi)”, “Rugged City (Ogolelo mesto)”, “Mud (Blato)”, and “Naked, Uniformed, Dead (Goli, uniformirani, mrtvi)”.
The cassette edition, limited to 100 copies on purple MusiCassette, contains the LP1/CD1 tracks only.
About the original ‘Resistance’ release
Borghesia’s “Resistance” was first released in 1989 on Play It Again Sam (PIAS) in Europe, Wax Trax in the US, and Jugoton in Yugoslavia. It was among a sequence of Borghesia releases on PIAS between 1987 and 1991, which were also licensed to Wax Trax in the US and Canada.
The album’s production sounded like it was created in a bunker, using stolen military equipment and synthesisers. Matrix Music Arhiv connects the reissue to current political conditions: “The dark clouds of violence are already looming over Europe, they’ve never really left the Middle East, and the levers of power and capital ever so louder, not even covertly at all incite: war, war, war!”
Side-Line published a Click Interview with Borghesia in March 2019, in which Aldo Ivančič discussed the band’s history, their place in EBM’s early period, and the 2018 album “Proti Kapitulaciji” on Moonlee Records.
About Borghesia
Borghesia was formed in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia (now Slovenia) in 1982 by Dario Seraval (vocals, programming) and Aldo Ivančič (drums, programming), along with video artists Zemira Alajbegović, Neven Korda, and Goran Devide. The project grew out of the alternative theatre groups Theatre FV-112/15 and Teater Performans.
Early releases appeared on the Slovenian label Zalozba FV and the Italian label Materiali Sonori: “Ljubav je hladnija od smrti” (1985) and “Their Laws, Our Lives” (1986). From 1987 the band issued a series of records on PIAS: “No Hope, No Fear” (1987), “Escorts and Models” (1988), the single “Naked, Uniformed, Dead” (1988), and “Resistance” (1989). PIAS releases were licensed to Wax Trax in the US and Canada.
Borghesia and Laibach both appeared on “Trans Slovenia Express”, a compilation released on Mute Records in 1994.
Following “Resistance”, the band released “Message” (PIAS, 1990), “4×12” (Blind Dog Records, 1991), and “Dreamers in Colour” (PIAS, 1992). The band halted all of its activity in 1995 with “Pro Choice” on Zalozba FV.
The band resumed activity in 2009 and a retrospective double CD, “20th Century – Selected Works”, appeared on FV Music the same year. “And Man Created God” was released on Metropolis Records in 2014.
A year later Dario Seraval appeared as a guest vocalist on dreDDup’s track “Etika” for the Side-Line free compilation “Face the Beat: Session 2”.
“Proti Kapitulaciji” followed on Moonlee Records in 2018, and “Un Chant d’Amour” appeared on Final Muzik in 2021. The current touring lineup includes Irena Tomažin and Jelena Rusjan (vocals) and Andrej Mazi (guitar) alongside core members Seraval and Ivančič.
The MMA reissue of “Resistance” is released on 26 June 2026.
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