[b]Balkan Beats Vol I & II & III[/b]

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[b]BalkanBeats Vol.1 (2005)[/b]

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Artist: Various Artists
Title Of Album: BalkanBeats Vol.1
Year Of Release: 22/05/2006
Label: Eastblok Music
Genre: World Music, Balkans
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
Total Size: 120 Mb
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When the first grenades were fired in the disintegrating Yugoslavia of the early 90s, a young Bosnian named Robert Šoko came to Berlin to start a new life.He didn't care if his neighbour was Bosnian, Serbian, or Croatian. Robert began to throw parties with like-minded emigrants and played the old yugo hits - a symbol of long gone, peaceful Yugoslavia.Vital survival training of emigrantstrying to regain a lost past, their own history, and identity. After over 10 years, the BalkanBeats parties are "legenda". Twice a month, BalkanBeats are blasting in Berlin's Mudd Club: Gypsy grooves, tribal beats and Balkan ska.

BalkanBeats became an international cult affair. Now, Šoko plays New York and L.A. on a regular basis. BalkanBeats are highly addictive - it's in their savage energy, the colourful, fresh timbre, and passion. The inexhaustible diversity stems from Slavonic, Oriental, Jewish traditions, and from the culture of the Roma people. The music's natural openness enables an easy and exciting transfer to modern times. Fresh Balkan bands pick up those traditions and process them into an individual cultural amalgam. Artists such as Let 3 and Magnifico spoof their own Balkan roots, fuse them with rock, ska, or metal, and nevertheless pay respect. Fanfare Ciocarlia, Karandila, and the Boban Markovi? Orkestar radicalize classical Balkan brass music with maximum virtuoso skill, thus renewing an old tradition to something sounding fresh and exciting. Many of the bands are inspired by completely different traditions. Mahala Ra Banda throw you out of the Bucharest slums into the heat of New Orleans. BalkanBeats presents the greatest hits from the Mudd Club on a CD. Traditional and urban sounds - diverse, explosive, and just over the top.

Compilation from Germany of some excellent tunes.
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1 Magnifico & Turbolentza: Hir Ai Kam, Hir Ai Go
2 Besh O Drom: Meggyújtom a Pipám
3 Mahala Ra Banda: Colindat
4 Yugoton & Kazik: Malcziki
5 Legen: Zumba
6 Kultur Shock: Blagunjo Dejce
7 Let 3: Tazi-tazi
8 Kayah & Bregovi?: Prawy Do Lewego
9 Frank London's Klezmer Brass All Stars: Tsu Der Kretshme
10 Karandila Feat. Maya: Djelem, Djelem
11 Ssassa: Romanela
12 Sanja & Balkanika: Kermes
13 Boban Markovi? Orkestar: Od Srca
14 Fanfare Cioc?rlia: Dusty Road
15 George Dalaras & Goran Bregovi?: Night (nihta)

[b]BalkanBeats Vol.2 (2006)[/b]

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Artist: Various Artists
Title Of Album: BalkanBeats Vol.2
Year Of Release: 06/11/2006
Label: Eastblok Music
Genre: World Music, Balkans
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
Total Size: 140 mb
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The journey continues ... what DJ Soko started in the Berlin-Kreuzberg underground about a dozen years ago, has now become an established trademark and a party burner for fans and admirers. After the first compilation “BalkanBeats” the interest and the excitement was great. It managed to not only cherish the grand Balkan brass orchestras but to also combine this congenially with varieties of Balkan music, not heard of so much before, i.e. ska mixed with folk, klezmer, brass, Roma music and jazz. The sounds flowing in from the Balkans is getting more and more exciting.

BalkanBeats Vol.2 (2006)

“BalkanBeats volume 2” widens the range again. Here you find artists from ten different countries; Indian-oriental influences next to electronic music and classic gypsy tunes. DJ Soko has again dug deep into his magic box. Next to treasures, which he discovers on his journeys to his old homelands, he is now also being sent music from many artists who like the open concept of BalkanBeats. Little Balkan scenes also exist in other cities now. The DJs invite each other for guest appearances and exchange music. Everywhere you find people dancing wildly, whether it's at the Mehanata Bar New York, at Divan du Monde Paris or at the Schauspielhaus, Frankfurt.

Despite his international commitments, DJ Soko is still doing his monthly BalkanBeats nights at the Mudd Club in Berlin every second and fourth Saturday. This is the home base of Balkanbeats plus a fixed address for Balkan fans. It is great to watch how more and more people get excited about this music and how other DJ's pick up this passionate music. This feedback then again inspires and encourages musicians in the Balkans. At home, masters of their art, like Fanfare Cioc?rlia, are by now not only regarded as just another Roma brass ensemble but are respected as internationally acclaimed musicians. Young DJ's and producers in Croatia and Serbia are now more self aware of their roots and mix this with crazy new sounds.

BalkanBeats Vol.2 (2006)

On “BalkanBeats volume 2” DJ Soko seeks to project these new style-crossing trends as well as to acknowledge purist sounds – just as it is being celebrated at their parties. Balkanbeats does not cut the edges though. No smoothness or clean shaveness here! The Balkans is torn apart: wild/romantic, whilst at the same time it is able to be a modern European region. Many talented people have emigrated. That is why you also find on “BalkanBeats volume 2”, artists from the States or from Belgium bringing their own new influences. Some artists have probably not even heard of each other before. Some come from remote villages whilst others are fully linked up and socialised in the capitals.

BalkanBeats Vol.2 (2006)

As the borders in Europe disappear and the cultural exchange spans world-wide networks, the music also there has less and less clearly defined genres. Crossover! Passion is the keyword. You can find this in abundance in the Balkans. BalkanBeats does not preserve this culture like a museum piece as it swirls it onto the dancefloor to keep it alive. Whoever has danced through a night in the Berlin Mudd Club has an idea of how integration can work without words. DJ Soko (Bosnia) and his partner in crime Marko (Croatia) do not give a damn where the people on the dancefloor come from. Balkanbeats means tolerance, which is fun. What counts is, no dress code and to only dance together around the Balkan fire, which blazes in one or another form in all of the songs here. Balkanbeats try to capture this spirit between passion, delicate melancholy and it's very own unique craziness.

01 Sevdahbaby - Do U Like It?
02 Mitsoura - Lei Toi
03 Azis - Anti Geroi
04 Karaván & Boban Markovic - Szép Ez A Villag
05 Kal - Mozzarella
06 !deladap - Goldregen (n.o.h.a. Mix)
07 Biber - Gypsy Part One
08 Besh O Drom - Ha megfogom Az Ördögöt
09 Fanfare Ciocarlia - Hora Evreiasca
10 Postolar Tripper - Vuci, Ville I Balave Sopile
11 Kiril feat. Vlada Divljan - Baba Zumbula
12 Romashka - Loli Phabay (The Red Apple)
13 Boban Markovic Orkestar - Optisani
14 Va Fan Fahre - 31
15 Emir Kusturica & No Smoking Orchestra - Moldavian Song

[b]BalkanBeats Vol.3 (2008)[/b]

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Artist: Various Artists
Title Of Album: BalkanBeats Vol.3
Year Of Release: 05/02/2008
Label: Eastblok Music
Genre: World Music, Balkans, Gypsy
Quality: MP3 / Joint Stereo
Bitrate: VBR kbit/s / 44.1 Khz
Total Time: 60 min
Total Size: 98 mb
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Volume 3 of the popular and original Balkan music compilation featuring exclusives and hits by Shantel, Goran Bregovic, The No Smoking Orchestra and many new fresh names.

01 - Slavic Soul Party - Opa Cup [04:40]
02 - Magnifico - Ubicu Te [03:38]
03 - Kiril Feat MC Wasp & Rucl - [03:53]
04 - Watcha Clan - Balkan Qoulou [03:49]
05 - Shantel Feat. Boban Markovi [04:40]
06 - Goran Bregovic - Gas Gas [03:03]
07 - Ot Azoj Klezmer Band - Turk [05:18]
08 - Max Pashm - Manea-K [04:48]
09 - Parno Graszt - Drunk Of Sor [03:24]
10 - Slonovski Bal - Moscow Feve [04:05]
11 - Damian & Brothers - Hopai D [03:12]
12 - Al Jawala - Heymischer Bulg [03:19]
13 - Figli Di Madre Ignota - Nem [04:09]
14 - The No Smoking Orchestra - [03:42]
15 - Romengo - Naj Ma Shela [04:23]