#RSD 2019

[myvinylplaylist]

Alice Cooper: Dirty Diamonds (2005)

Record Store Day 2019 exclusive

Limited to 900 copies on Blood Splatter Vinyl

New West Records

[thatshitkrejci]

go to the record store 2 cd limit* -> 🚲 -> leave record store with 7 cds, unrepentant

*break this before you even leave when mspaint announces a pre-sales that includes cds finally !!!!

[wildpeachfarm]

yall. pewdipie mentioned. I need to give yall some info on him and its pretty /pos!!

pewds is our friend. as someone who has been watching him for a long time and found out about dream through him. watched evry video and stream released since 2019.

he never made a neg joke about dream!!!

never made fun of his face reveal, never made a grooming joke, no fatshaming . like no actual making fun in toxic way. yes, there were jokes and mentions, but in the most lighthearted way!! which me, one of the craziest dream rsd havers out there, giggled and not felt offended like i usually get when youtubers try to make a joke about dream. even dream stan joke was so lighthearted when he ordered a knock off dream hoodie for a video😭😭and then proceeded to call himself a dream stan and it was very silly no bad intentions . the only time pewds mentioned dream drama was when he very briefly talked about speedrunning scandal. but it wasn't even " dream is so evil for this .so fucked up " but more of " so this happened. huh ??".

I'm telling this because I was HORRIFIED each day like. what if he makes a grooming joke. what if he makes some very bad joke like its popular rn. but it never happened!!

anyways 🙏🙏🙏im just so happy I didnt lose my longtime comforrt youtuber in the dranti apocalypse when some of my others comfort youtubers(for example jacksepticeye☹️) would make pretty bad jokes which led me to never watching them again💔💔😿😿😿

Aw I’m happy for you anon! I wasn’t a pewds watcher myself but I’m happy that there are still a few big names that don’t jump on the “haha making fun of Dream is a meme” train 😭

[boatswainscall]

There's still some year left to get through but I'm going to call it anyway, for reasons I'll get into.

2024 started as bad as any other year for me. Since 2013 I've been consistently Having A Bad Time, across pretty much all fronts but especially mental health. Christmas and my biological birthday especially are hard on me, specifically because of a loss in my family in - you guessed it - 2013. So the arrival of the holidays is always an inevitable sharp decline, usually ending at rock bottom just in time for New Year's.

Make no mistake, I have happy memories from those 11 years, but what little else I do recall from that time are a monochrome grey sludge, the rest lost to depression and PTSD memory gaps. I turned 18 at some point, then 21, 24, whatever else, all supposed cultural milestones that are now lost to the fog forever.

2020 for sure led to things getting even worse, for reasons I don't feel the need to state. Things really were starting to improve for me in 2019, but the start of the Covid lockdown caused whatever progress I had made to give up the ghost. And I had kind of started to accept by the time 2024 rolled around that this was my new normal. Therapy is borderline impossible for me to obtain due to the desiccated state of mental healthcare services where I live, and the pandemic led me to developing acute agoraphobia. This was just how things were going to be.

Until May, where something changed.

I joined a community Discord server for Canadian players of FFXIV, and though the change was gradual, it was expansive. My walls started to come down. The dread that normally haunted me every morning as I woke up started to abate. I made friends there first, then more elsewhere as I started to get comfortable with socializing with strangers again. I stopped having full five-alarm BPD meltdowns every week on the dot. I stopped having RSD flare ups over the stupidest fucking shit imaginable. In all, my mental health improved in a way that was unprecedented for me.

In all I can legitimately say I've made more friends in the past seven months than I have over the course of my entire life combined. Real friends, too. Some casual acquaintances sure, but people I care about and who care about me all the same. People who don't belittle me or treat me as an afterthought. People who - and this was the biggest shock to my system that I still have not fully adjusted to - actually want to talk to and hang out with me because they sincerely enjoy my company.

And for the first time in over a decade, it's Christmas Eve and I am not suicidally depressed. I feel the opposite, in fact. And I know it's a direct result from breaking free from my own self-imposed isolation, and filling my life with connections that beat back the brain demons. Humans are social creatures after all, no matter how introverted we may be on an individual basis. Something I had to learn about myself the hard way and have only grasped the scale of recently.

I don't have anything poignant to say about it all, and I know the world is still on fire outside of my own little bubble. But in those seven months I've also taken strides alongside these new connections I've made to better my own habits in regards to constant doom scrolling. To remind myself that there is change I can make at the micro and personal level to improve not only my own life, but the lives of those around me that I care for. Even if its small and stupid things, it still makes a difference to those people, if even briefly. I'm going to look into doing work in my local community too at some point in 2025 - I don't know what exactly yet, but I know I want to do something.

Merry Shitscram and here's to better years ahead.

[frankwaxman]

Zend Avesta, Untitled (bonus track from Organique / Blackstrobe, 2019 RSD reissue)

[birdofdawning]

I just saw a post about how being with your friends is being surrounded by love, and I don't want to rudely piggyback off it but some stuff happened to me this week and here are some incoherent thoughts.

A few days ago I was at a big event with lots of old friends and family, all of whom have known me for decades. And I came out of it feeling so bad about myself.

And then I've been at work each day since and every afternoon I leave feeling really good.

And I think it's that with my friends I'm constantly being seen as someone they knew well but whom I can't be anymore (PTSD), and either having deep conversations about emotional stuff (I have alexthymia) or things that happened twenty years ago (which I can't remember, because PTSD). And I feel so guilty and ashamed, and also wondering if I'm annoying them by being so awkward, etc (RSD).

But at work I'm the person they've known since 2019, and our interactions feel safe and formally-informal; there's a script to fall back on, and because there's a script to fall back on I rarely need to fall back on the script. And they also seem to think I'm nice and smart and really useful in the morning tea quiz.

Anyway, being with my friends hurts, and being with my colleagues feels good. I'm not sure what to do with that.

[traumatizeddfox]

hi! so i was wondering a couple of trauma-related things.

tws for: bullying, dissociation, educational trauma, medical trauma, burnout, self-esteem issues, self-harm/suicidal ideation, long ask (i don't know the importance of these so i'm listing them just in case)

so i've had some things happening to me recently, and in total, and i was wondering about what your perception of them might be, just because i'd like outside perspective.

cyber-bullying: when i was younger, during the pandemic, i was still in school. i played minecraft with my friends a lot on a server. one of the guys on the server, let's call him v, joined after the rest of us. i wasn't very good at minecraft, and as the only girl i was sometimes teased. after v joined he started doing things that were upsetting and i told him not to. for instance, he'd lure me to "help him with mining", then kill my character and make me lose progress. he'd chase me around and hit me with swords (in game). the worst experience i had with him was when he trapped my character in a room i couldn't escape, and just hit me over and over and didn't let me leave. when i brought it up to the server moderator he was reluctant to do anything, and the other guys there weren't very supportive. eventually, i got my parents to intervene, and i don't play minecraft with v (or on servers in general) anymore. my question: was this cyberbullying? am i right to still be sensitive about it?

medical trauma: i was diagnosed with a type of chronic headaches about a year and a half ago. every day, all day, my head would hurt. eventually, i got treatment, by process of routine procedures and an eventual semi-surgery/procedure requiring anesthesia. however, i sometimes/often get headaches nowadays, and i have a tendency to think my head hurts a lot. my question: would this be a trauma response to my previous headaches (ie, misconstruing/exaggerating/overreacting to small headaches)?

education trauma/dissociation/burnout: i am currently in high school, which i am having an awful time with. i used to have fun in school, and i like learning, but my highschool is very large. i have asd and issues with executive dysfunction, so i'm tired all the time after socializing at school. i have trouble focusing, and often feel very bad about not getting homework done. i am currently in a constant state of exhaustion, feeling like crying all the time. i've also noticed recently that when i'm at school i kind of check out, just stop being in myself per se, try to do something like reading that takes me away, and am sort of in a fugue state. my question: does this seem like dissociation? do you have suggestions for me to fix it?

self-esteem issues: i have issues with self-esteem where i have excessive guilt and respond to any criticism with self-hatred and beating myself up. there's a little voice in my head that tells me i'm awful, i have guilt attacks where i feel like stabbing or cutting myself. my question: do these things seem like they could be a symptom of trauma, or more of just rsd or something else?

thanks so much for consideration :) sorry the ask is so long

-anon ida

Hi Ida! Ill try to answer as best as I can but just remember I am not a mental health professional!

Cyberbully: I would def consider it cyber bullying, mainly because he was taunting you and just personally harassing you. even if its in-game, its still really annoying to have someone constantly chase after you, kill your character and lose progress, to me thats harassment.

Medical trauma: Im not very experienced in medical trauma, but I did get severe neck pain back in 2019/2020 and the pain was horrendous, i wasnt able to do anything, and when i get pain in my neck i get super anxious. It might not be medical trauma towards ur headaches, but it could be a panic disorder, like maybe you're in fear of the pain?

education trauma/dissociation/burnout: this one im not too sure, to me it sounds more like burn out, it could be a bunch of things honestly! it could be burn out, it could lack of vitamins, it could be a list of things

self esteem issues: i have similar issues, I think the same things about myself. I cant say for certain if it's trauma, if it's thing youve heard others say to you, it could be a series of things. it could be social anxiety, it could be depression, etc.

It's definitely best to get a professional psychologist, therapist, doctor, etc to give you proper advice and information! It's a little hard for me to answer since I don't know you personally and I also am not a trained mental health professional but thank you for the ask and I hope things turn around for you!

[elizabethplaid]

a few more knitting notes for the night

Well, I didn't clean off the whole couch like I planned, but I at least sifted through the in-progress yarn bin.

I counted my deflated (not-yet-stuffed) pumpkins: 2 large and 7 mini. That's all the stuff I've knit since the last "stuffing spree", back in August. So 9 back then, 9 now = 18 pumpkins.

Next step is to tidy the yarn I've worked with over the summer. Some already went back in the big bin. A couple skeins need to be rewound. I need to separate a two-ply novelty yarn, to separate the eyelashes from the pom-poms. (It looks like clown pox, I stg.)

The leftover yarn bits from the Pantone hat were also loose in my bin. I don't want to start the 2nd hat yet, because Caron (the yarn company) really made the hanks look amazing. I'd like to display that next to the hat I made, so people can see why the colors are like that.

------------ I showed my dad the "harvest" of deflated pumpkins, along with the stuffed ones I've stashed away. (Also showed him the group photo from August.) He asked about pricing, and I said $10-15 for the smaller ones and $20-25 on the larger ones. He made a face and implied the prices were too high. I said Neighbor-G would fuss at me if I priced them too low, and I'm going to offer a discount for people buying multiple items.

If anyone wants to do a trade or partial trade, I would absolutely love that. Craft fair aside, K (from the library) and I have already discussed trading work between us. I plan to knit her a hooded scarf, and she will help me out with some quilting things. LL-J has destashed a bunch of yarn on me, so I don't mind giving her discounts or gifts. (I gave her 2 or 3 pumpkins last year.)

I know I won't sell everything, especially the pumpkins. I didn't make many cowls for that exact reason. It's 3 cowls (I decided to sell the dark green one), 2 scarves, the pumpkins, the cat-toy mice, and anything else will be display. (eg the Pantone hat, Harmony's sweaters, my leaf and mermaid shawls, etc)

Ugh, semi-irrationally, I'm pissed. Like, of COURSE I know pricing is tough. Appropriate for time-effort-materials versus what "sells", without alienating potential customers. I'm not trying to make a living, but I also know that whatever's left might make me feel discouraged.

Thank god for Neighbor-G being so supportive of me. She's the one that got me to attend (just displaying stuff for fun) in 2019. She's already jokingly warned me about pricing myself too low. She feels like the encouraging female role model that I really need, especially because she knows crafts and pricing and such. And dad trusts her, after working together in the community for many years.

2020 and 2021 were really rough for me, after a few years of decline. (I think I was really out of it by the end of 2017, but 2016 was still really good for me.) I still haven't taken doll pics in ages, but I'm so happy to be crafting again. Volunteering at the library and befriending LL-J made a huge difference. I'm so incredibly proud of my progress - stuff that's easy to show off to other people, rather than just my own personal victories.

With rejection-sensitive-dysphoria, a little stumble or set-back can throw me off for quite a while. Example: The Pantone hat ended up being too small. I got pumpkins stuffed within a week or so, but I think it took another month before I really got back into knitting. (That was also when I was getting into the cell phone games, oops.)

My point is that bringing up the pricing issue is another RSD trigger to me. It feels discouraging to think of how much -won't- sell. And if it's not selling solely because of my pricing, that'd be a big pain. Again, I want to bargain and trade with folks. I'd rather stuff gets taken home by other people, rather than ensuring I make a big profit. And it might not even be for other craft fair items. Like, "hey, run to the store and fetch me a snack" or something.

I think K and my counselor would say that's good for networking and building a presence in the community.

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HOLY FUCK, I just remembered I had a biscornu (embroidered pin cushion) I was supposed to sell! I set that aside, because I have to sew the panels together and stuff it. Holy fuck, holy fuck, that's hilarious. Like, I started that thing last October!

*sigh* I have 2 weeks. It doesn't have to be done all at once. I could probably stuff pumpkins while I man the table, and people would love it.

[greensparty]

Album Reviews: RSD releases from Prince and Passengers

Record Store Day is possibly my favorite of all fake holidays. It's the day that we celebrate independent record stores. I know I know, that's every day, right? But for one day we can celebrate record stores and part of that celebration is the special RSD limited releases that day. This year I got to review some of the special 2025 RSD releases:

Prince and the New Power Generation Live at Glam Slam

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One of the coolest things I’ve gotten to do with this website is cover Prince. You see, he was one of the earliest musicians I got into as a kid with Purple Rain on cassette tape. A few years after his passing in 2016, The Prince Estate and Legacy Recordings announced a definitive Prince catalog project. In 2019, I got to review his 00s reissues (Musicology, 3121, and Planet Earth) and his 90s reissues (The Versace Experience: Prelude 2 Gold, Chaos and Disorder, and Emancipation). In 2020, I got to review his early 00s reissues (The Rainbow Children and Up All Nite with Prince: The One Night Alone Collection). In 2023, I got to review the Super Deluxe Edition of Diamonds and Pearls. No matter what phase I was going through (metal, punk, alt-rock, classic rock), I always checked out whatever Prince was doing. By 1991, Prince was in the prolific space of releasing an album a year and had been for quite some time. Following his Graffiti Bridge album, he formed a new backing band the New Power Generation. Their first album Diamonds and Pearls was released in October 1991. In January 1992, Prince and NPG did a preview of their Diamonds and Pearls Tour at Prince's Minneapolis club Glam Slam. After being featured on the Super Deluxe Edition of Diamonds and Pearls, that concert is now getting the stand-alone vinyl release with Live at Glam Slam, a 3-LP yellow vinyl RSD release.

In my review of the Super Deluxe Edition of D&P, I wrote "I think the highlight of this set is actually the Glam Slam concert. I wished that the concert had been released as its own live album and DVD. I was lucky enough to see Prince in 2010 at Madison Square Garden and he is easily one of the greatest performers of all time. Last year’s live release Prince and the Revolution Live was my #1 Live Album of 2022. But burying this concert in the box set is sort of like burying the lead." I'm happy to say that giving this concert it's own release is giving the concert it's own spotlight. With the exceptions of bootlegs and concerts on box sets, there actually haven't been too many live Prince releases (official, non-bootleg that is). 2002's One Nite Alone...Live and the and the 2020 collection was good, but not great as it was something of a lesser era for Prince. There was a few other live releases in the 00s as well. But the 2022 release of Prince and the Revolution: Live is the gold standard of live Prince releases as documenting what a truly legendary live performer he was. NPG was not bad, but let's face it they had big shoes to fill after The Revolution. But he clearly was in his prime as a live performer by 1992. There's an emphasis on NPG songs from this early 90s eras, but there are also some older gems like "Nothing Compares 2 U" and "1999" and some medleys. This is definitely one worth picking up in place of the D&P Super Deluxe Edition!

For info on Live at Glam Slam

4 out of 5 stars

Passengers Original Soundtracks 1 30th anniversary

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In Nov. 1995 U2 and their frequent producer Brian Eno released a side project under the nom de clure Passengers. It was a complete experimental left turn for one of the biggest bands on the planet at the time. The concept of their lone album Original Soundtracks 1 was that each song was written for imaginary films, although a few songs made their way onto actual soundtracks like the anime Ghosts in the Shell. They brought in unlikely guest stars like Luciano Pavarotti and Holi. The album flew under the radar for the most part, although songs like "Miss Sarajevo" did appear on later compilations. Now as that album celebrates its 30th anniversary this year it is being released on vinyl for the first time in a remastered 2-LP RSD edition.

Through this blog, I’ve had a chance to cover U2 quite a bit: doing album reviews of the recent anniversary editions of The Joshua Tree in 2017, All That You Can’t Leave Behind in 2020, and Achtung Baby in 2021, 2023’s re-recorded classics Songs of Surrender and the reissue of Zooropa, and last year's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb reissue. But unlike those reissues of classic albums, this is more like a lost album. When it came out in 1995, I heard it a few times, but I never picked up. Not because I didn't like it, just didn't get around to it as I was mostly into other bands at the time like Foo Fighters, Hole, Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam. So for me, this was like discovering something new. This is a fascinating album in U2's trajectory in that it was released after 1993's Zooropa and before 1997's Pop, both albums that are steeped in electronic sounds. With the exception of "Miss Sarajevo" and "Your Blue Room", the album didn't make much of a splash. If you go into this accepting that it is NOT a U2 album, but a electronic experiment featuring the members of U2, you'll appreciate it, but if you expect this to be of the ranks of their 90s work like Achtung Baby, it'll be looked at as a letdown. But give it a few listens and let it settle in.

For info on Original Soundtracks 1

3.5 out of 5 stars

[claudiajcregg]

Top 5/10 prettiest vinyl you own?

Welp, I forgot about this (and the movie) asks when my laptop suddenly restarted and lost the drafts. I had saved an earlier version, but I also went through most of my vinyl and checked rather than just going by memory. To no one's surprise, the list was longer than 10… I mostly based this on color and aspect, but sometimes packaging was a factor.

No particular order, though!

The Lumineers, The Lumineers · Cherry/Black swirl 10th Anniversary remaster

Taylor Swift, Lover Live from Paris · 2025 Repress

Noah Kahan, Town Hall (Stick Season Collaborations) · Tiger Eye Brown (RSD BF 2024). I also adore the WABHF gatefold.

Sabrina Carpenter, Short n' Sweet (Deluxe) · White Pearl Opaque. But also swirly translucent. (I had ordered the azure blue, but kinda wished I had gotten the white. Imagine my surprise on the 14th when I opened it… It's also so trippy to be linking to my submission on Discogs wtf.)

Taylor Swift, Midnights · Jade Green Marbled

Kacey Musgraves, Same Trailer, Different Park · Cactus Green (VMP Exclusive)

The Lumineers, Live from Wrigley Field · Orange/Red/Yellow Swirl (Sunfire) (It really does look like sunfire!) (I'd add Passenger's ATLL Anniversary ed. in Sunrise as another really pretty yellow.)

Matt Nathanson, Some Mad Hope · Opaque Sky Blue (RSD BF 2019)

Phoebe Bridgers, Punisher · Blue/Red Galaxy (LRSD 2020). (My record is definitely blue with some red, far less than in the discogs pics, but the blue is so pretty. The booklet that all variants (should?) have is so cool.)

Olivia Rodrigo, Can't Catch Me Now · Maroon Marbled, with an etched side (Pics don't do it justice. Also felt right to include one of the few singles I have. I also do like the BR zoetrope for GUTS Spilled.)

Others I love all of them, otherwise I wouldn't have them: TTPD: The Anthology (could've made this a Taylor list tbh), Laufey's Bewitched (Goddess Edition) (that board game!), Ed Sheeran's – +-=÷× (Tour Collection) (Blood Records), various translucent red records, more I'm 100% forgetting

[fantastickkay]

Collection Spotlight: Lizzo - Coconut Oil (CD, 2016; RSD Clear Vinyl, 2019)

The tail end of 2016 is when I finally got wise to a local single making its way through Minneapolis with Lizzo's Good As Hell. Its [original] music video was upbeat, down to earth and tons of fun!

A few months later, I found the EP at Electric Fetus and even though it was a little spendy for a measly 6 tracks I knew I had to pick it up before Lizzo blew up!

Then, a few years later I found the RSD vinyl release at a local antique store for a decent price.

This EP is tons of fun. So far, I do believe it is Lizzo's best piece of work and highlights some fun times in my life as well.

[serenityscribes]

Job Search the saga continues...

I have been debating making a self promotion post on LinkedIn that I'm actively looking for work. Why does that feel so gross to me when the entire platform is designed around that very concept?!

RSD for the win. I've applied for a few more jobs this morning, the ones that didn't explicitly say "5 years minimum" for experience.

Retrain they said, the job market will be great they said.

(Of course "they" said all this based on projection data from 2019... so.. stuff and things happened since then.) (They, of course, being my retraining workers comp entity.)

The referral I got for the movie/tv gig has yet to pan out. So I'm expanding my general search to show said they that I've been a good little insuree who continues to hunt in a market that's had a ton of downsizing. But anyway.

[thedecayedsys]

Lonin - he/him - crow petre - bird kin

aesity - age slider - gatekeeper

anxiety + paranoia holder - RSD holder

Boundaries:

touch: ask, family only preferably

flirting: no thank you

befriending: okay, it takes a bit

Likes:

birds, waffle fries, drawing, his dads, children’s media, 60s music

Dislikes:

loud noises, bright lights, itchy wings

[tricobicofriend]

Original(2019) & redraw(2020) of Aventurine & Moonstone(aka Avi & Moon) meeting face to face for the first time! A lil abt their backstories under the cut!

So Moonstone was Blue Diamond's first personal handmaiden, far before pearls and before the diamonds figured out how to customize gems. After an accident that chipped her gem, she lost and arm, both her feet, and the last two fingers on her remaining hand nearly completely fused together. Moon thought she and Blue Diamond had a bond, but after the accident when she overheard Blue talking about shattering her, she realized it wasn't true. She also heard Blue talk of Aventurine's/Avi's planned shattering(bad ADHD + shit support system of Homeworld + RSD + Homeworld ableism = bad news bears), and being compassionate and having seen Aventurine around, she stole her gem when it was in storage to be shattered, then slipped away on a ship. Nobody went looking for them because they were defective. Aventurine is confused and sad about not being shattered, but on their slow journey to Earth via ship (warp drives can be tracked? also plot device for more character development time) she starts to like the idea of sticking around, if only for Moon. She gets therapy on Earth for her depression and then she & Moon live happily ever after, eventually joining the Crystal Gems (after a misunderstanding & crash landing nearly gets both of the pair poofed).

[e-kultura]

Nikolov-Ivanović Undektet: Koncertna promocija albuma “Distopija”

Jedan od najkreativnijih velikih džez ansambala u Evropi, Nikolov-Ivanović Undektet, u organizaciji Doma omladine Beograda održaće koncertnu promociju novog albuma „Distopija“, u ponedeljak 11. decembra od 20h u sali Amerikana DOB. Ulaznice, po ceni od 1.200 RSD u prodaji su preko eFinity sistema i onlajn.

Nikolov-Ivanović Undektet je hibridni ansambl koji udružuje talente Vladimira Nikolova i Srđana Ivanovića sa devetoro vrhunskih muzičara iz nekoliko evropskih zemalja. Sastav obuhvata 7 duvačkih instrumenata (truba, horna, trombon, tuba, alt, tenor, bariton saksofon sa zamenama na flauti, klarinetu, bas klarinetu i sopran saksofonu), harmoniku, klavir, bas i bubnjeve.

„Distopija“ je treći album Nikolov-Ivanović Undekteta. Ovaj projekat pred publiku donosi 10 novih kompozicija, nastalih u pandemijskom i postpandemijskom periodu. Srž autorskog materijala nastala je tokom dana izolacije, kao dva dela: „Distopija“ i „Krik” (Scream), koja izražavaju protest protiv distopijskog načina življenja preko izražavanja muzičkog „krika“. Nakon stvaranja ovog osnovnog materijala, koji je poslužio kao kreativna baza, novi komadi su otvorili i druge teme, kao i prostor za muzička istraživanja. Objavljivanje albuma podržao je SOKOJ, a prvi singl za numeru „Krik“ prati i video.

U stvaranju novog albuma, Undektet je dobio i nove članove: Sebastien Lado (Sébastien Llado) na trombonu, Olivije Lene (Olivier Laisney) na trubi, Leo Gedi (Léo Guedy) na bariton saksofonu i bas klarinetu. Pored njih, iz stare postave tu su Luka Ignjatović na alt saksofonu i flauti, Kristijan Mlačak na tenor i sopran saksofonu, Miloš Budimirov na tubi, Noe Klerk (Noé Clerc) na harmonici i akordini, Mihail Ivanov na kontrabasu, Srđan Ivanović na bubnjevima i Vladimir Nikolov na klaviru.

Nikolov-Ivanović Undektet je nastao 2017. godine i odmah izazvao veliku pažnju publike i međunarodne džez zajednice svojim prvim autorskim albumom „Artistry in Broken Rhythm“. Za debi izdanje početnu inspiraciju našli su u delima Stena Kentona i Majlsa Dejvisa, izgrađujući na tim impulsima moderno orkestriranu muziku visokog intenziteta i duboke emocije, u bojama i ritmovima raznih kontinenata, od Njujorka do Balkana. Seme projekta posejano je sredinom prošle decenije u Holandiji, gde su Nikolov i Ivanović studirali, a naslovna numera Vladimira Nikolova „Artistry in Broken Rhythm“ dobila je nagradu Silesian Jazz Festivala u Katovicama, 2016. godine.

Drugi album „Frame and Curiosity“ objavili su 2019. godine, a premijerno su ga sa uspehom predstavili na otvaranju 35. Beogradskog džez festivala u Domu omladine. Tom prilikom specijalni gost bio im je francuski flautista Mažik Malik. Ugledni džez časopis JazzTimes je, u recenziji njihovog drugog albuma koji briše žanrovske okvire i otvara nove kreativne mogućnosti u muzičkom stvaralaštvu, nazvao Nikolov-Ivanović Undektet revolucionarnim ansamblom. Do sada su ostvarili mnogobrojne nastupe i osvojili nagradu na takmičenju „Made in New York Jazz Competition“.

Koncertna promocija trećeg studijskog albuma „Distopija“ 11. decembra u Domu omladine Beograda, biće prilika da premijerno čujemo osveženi Nikolov-Ivanovič Undektet, u punom stvaralačkom naponu!