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"Selections from a special personal archive of mine, from a USB drive I thought I had lost. In 2016, I was staying in Stepanakert, Artsakh for a couple of months. An Armenian local named Saro, had been running this tiny music store there for 20 years (which was also a GIF/wedding photo animation business on the side). It was my birthday that day, and we got to listen to and pick hundreds of tracks from his computer. He burned CDs and also dropped tracks on this USB drive. Tracks range from Armenian, Uzbek, Tajik, Iranian, Russian, Lezgin, Georgian, Greek, Soviet era — pop, trance, traditional folk, EDM, early 2000s ringtones, and more." As Stepanakert and the rest of Artsakh faced occupation post-2020 war, this resulted in the displacement of indigenous Armenian families, local businesses and livelihood."_