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First, I feel I should state that all of the Russian in this article has been transliterated from Cyrillic into Latin. This makes everything a lot more accessible, but also makes research more difficult, as transliteration is by no means a precise art and standards aren't always followed. Hopefully the links at the article's end will aid further research.

Yanka Dyagileva's music is like nothing else I've ever heard. Her career was cut short by an apparent suicide; in her years on the scene she produced fewer original tracks than there are days in a month. Like so many great artists, she was not well known in life, and her albums were only given 'official' releases posthumously.

I first discovered Yanka via a dubplate I picked up while hunting through some stacks of wax. I picked it up because the A-side had a Siouxsie and the Banshees track on it. At the time I had no idea what the B was - it was scrawled 'Anka Bedeges,' or some similar misrepresentation of 'Yanka Beregis.' Beregis', the track that introduced me to Dyagileva, remains one of my favorite tracks to this day.

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