Ex Yu Karaoke Midi 20 — Domaci

Miro never made number 21.

Miro looked at the floppy drive. Domaci Ex Yu Karaoke Midi 20. Not a product. Not a nostalgia gimmick. A eulogy in ones and zeros. Domaci Ex Yu Karaoke Midi 20

Miroslav “Miro” Janković had been programming MIDI files since the late ‘80s, back when “Yugoslav” still meant something. Now, in the autumn of 2006, his tiny studio above a bakery in Vračar smelled of stale tobacco and old electronics. The walls were lined with jewel cases, each labeled in his neat, blocky handwriting: Ex Yu Hitovi 1–19 . Miro never made number 21

Number 20 was different.