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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