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  "slug": "selda-bagcan",
  "name": "Selda Bağcan",
  "description": "Selda Bağcan appears 3 times in our Anadolu Rock and 1976 lists, placing as high as No. 5. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-31",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/selda-bagcan/",
  "appearanceCount": 3,
  "distinctRecordings": 2,
  "years": {
    "first": 1975,
    "last": 1976
  },
  "highestPlacing": {
    "rank": 5,
    "list": "Anadolu Rock"
  },
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      "kind": "genre",
      "slug": "anadolu-rock",
      "name": "Anadolu Rock",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/genre/anadolu-rock/",
      "entries": 2
    },
    {
      "kind": "curator",
      "slug": "nineteen-seventy-six",
      "name": "1976",
      "url": "https://waxonia.com/theme/nineteen-seventy-six/",
      "entries": 1
    }
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    {
      "trackKey": "selda-bagcan--yaz-gazeteci-yaz",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/selda-bagcan--yaz-gazeteci-yaz/",
      "title": "Yaz Gazeteci Yaz",
      "year": 1976,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "\"Write it down, journalist.\" Selda was imprisoned three times and had her passport confiscated; the fuzz bass on her records is as blunt as the lyrics.",
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          "exact": false
        },
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          "exact": true
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      },
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      },
      "artist": "Selda Bağcan"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "selda-bagcan--cemalim",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/selda-bagcan--cemalim/",
      "title": "Cemalim",
      "year": 1975,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "A lament for a dead boy, over a bassline Mos Def later sampled. The clearest evidence that this scene's records travel without any explanation attached.",
      "alsoOn": [],
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          "url": "https://open.spotify.com/search/Selda%20Ba%C4%9Fcan%20Cemalim",
          "exact": false
        },
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      },
      "rank": 6,
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        "name": "Anadolu Rock",
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      },
      "artist": "Selda Bağcan"
    },
    {
      "trackKey": "selda-bagcan--yaz-gazeteci-yaz",
      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/selda-bagcan--yaz-gazeteci-yaz/",
      "title": "Yaz Gazeteci Yaz",
      "year": 1976,
      "label": null,
      "isrc": null,
      "whyItMatters": "\"Write it down, journalist, write it.\" Turkish folk melody over a fuzz guitar, sung by a woman who was imprisoned repeatedly for records like this one. The year's clearest case of a local form being used to say something dangerous.",
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        {
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          "slug": "anadolu-rock",
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      ],
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        },
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