Track List

• Schmaltzy synthpop， . Boasting a heady mix of Stalin opera， Tokyo karaoke and brooding impressionism， the sound of present-day Pyongyang distills into warped agit-pop and lost-in-time commie funk. If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in North Korean music， this is your vehicle for exploration. Christiaan Virant has visited this mysterious land and has assembled this amazing audio collage. Captured within are rare live recordings from various performances and mass games demonstrations， sounds lifted from People’s Army television dramas， samples from hard-to-find CD releases obtained in the capital， and of course， news reports from the "real" Radio Pyongyang， which continues to broadcast to this day， albeit under the new， strikingly anodyne moniker "Voice of Korea".