''Party Songs'' is an EP by

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group

Laibach Laibach () is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with the industrial, martial, and neo-classical genres. Formed in the mining town of Trbovlje (at the time in Yugoslavia) in 1980, Laibach represents the musical wing of the Neue Slo ...

. It contains three versions of the song "Honourable, Dead or Alive, When Following the Revolutionary Road", as well as two versions of North Korean pop song "We Will Go To Mount Paektu" and a live recording of all-Korean folk song "

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" . The songs are a collaboration with Boris Benko from Slovenian electronic band

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. The song "Honourable, Dead or Alive, When Following the Revolutionary Road" is a re-interpretation of an aria from the

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'' Tell O' The Forest!'', one of five famous revolutionary operas in the DPRK, "written and produced under the guidance of the Dear Leader

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." It was "prepared for the 2015

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concert in Ponghwa Theatre in

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, but deemed too 'confusing' by the North Korean hosts and struck from the concert repertoire."

Track listing

#Honourable, Dead or Alive, When Following the Revolutionary Road (Arduous March Version) – 4:06 #Honourable, Dead or Alive, When Following the Revolutionary Road (Single Hearted Unity Version) – 3:19 #We Will Go To Mount Paektu – 3:38 #

(Live at Kum Song Music School, Pyongyang) – 2:26 #Honourable, Dead or Alive, When Following the Revolutionary Road (Live at Kum Song Music School, Pyongyang) – 2:24 #We Will Go To Mount Paektu (Live at Ponghwa Theatre, Pyongyang) - 3:33

References

Laibach (band) albums 2019 albums Mute Records albums Covers albums {{2010s-electronic-album-stub