The Slovenian–Italian darkwave/electro/krautrock duo 6YPAH have recently unveiled their latest album, Prozorno mesto (translated as Transparent City).

This new release places greater emphasis on lyrical expression. The songs unfold as metaphorical confessions - impressions of growing up in urban landscapes during the turbulent transition from real socialism and regulated capitalism to competitive neoliberalism. The lyrics reflect a deep mistrust of the present, offering critiques of consumerism, excessive pandemic measures, Americanisation, digitalisation, and the commodification of life. They also sound a warning about the resurgence of Cold War tensions and nuclear armament. Both the sound and the lyrics lean towards the darker end of the spectrum, not only evoking the moods of the late 1970s to early 2000s in a retrospective sense, but also recontextualising them within the post-COVID era. Drawing inspiration from genres such as new wave, darkwave, krautrock, synthpop, synthpunk, and Yugopunk, the album comprises six tracks that encapsulate 6YPAH's sonic and literary vision in just under 30 minutes. Prozorno mesto, currently available digitally, will also be released as a limited-edition vinyl LP.

6YPAH was founded in 2008 as a collaborative project between Jani Toplak (Nova Gorica, Slovenia) and Giorgio Multineddu (Gorizia, Italy). Jani entered the world of music as the keyboardist for the psychedelic rock band Punk Freud. Giorgio, disillusioned by his early experience with the grunge band Gli Ade, decided to set up a home studio to produce his own electronic music. The two met by chance in 2002 and quickly discovered a shared passion for electronic music - particularly the German and French scenes of the 1970s and 1980s. They began playing together in 2007, with their first proper studio collaboration dating back to 2008, when their friend Blaž Kosovel invited them to compose an experimental electronic soundtrack for the docu-fiction film Spomemiki (translated as Monuments). They chose the name Buran for the project, inspired by the Soviet space programme of the same name. To lend their MySpace profile an air of mystery and allure, they transliterated the name from Cyrillic using the number 6 and Latin characters - resulting in the stylised moniker 6YPAH. This enigmatic abbreviation soon became the duo's signature. Link