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If anyone here is familiar with or fond of Serbian music, please fill me in : background, any styles, names of groups. It doesn't matter whether it's contemporary or traditional.

Thanks!

― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Sunday, 5 March 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know. I like electric guitar, so I never really got into it. My mom has a lot of serbian stuff. I like the older (80's or earlier) folk group singers. I like the sound of a group of at least 4 singing. I once heard some serbian rap, and thought it was OK. It sounded a little emo like atmosphere.

I think there are some free downloads here:
http://muzika.ovde.com/

― nicky lo-fi (nicky lo-fi), Monday, 6 March 2006 08:27 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that's a pretty vague request.

I've put up a couple of songs on other threads and they're still up if you'd like to hear them:

Darkwood Dub - Zapremina - electro-pop (they're a pretty well-known band for more than 10 years now. used to sound a little more rock-ish. i don't know if you're looking for songs with serbian lyrics, this is an instrumental song.)

Indira Radic - Preko Preko - turbo folk, i put it up here as a joke since it's very OTT, it "samples" a Rammstein song and the woman sings badly over it. she is also very well-known, practically a superstar around these parts. this is not one of her bigger hits, though. as i said, it's turbo-folk, and it's probably the most prolific (and the most popular) music genre in this country. most of the songs on the page that nicky-lo-fi posted are in the same vein.

if you're interested in Serbian rap, there's a bunch of mp3's here, i can give you some recommendations if you'd like, just specify what kind of songs you want to hear. don't start from the beginning, that "master scratch band" folder is a DJ album from the 1980's, "sindikalni" is a radio show, and "orbodmebej" is an album from 1996 over popular beats. all the other stuff is mostly post-2000. (there are also videos here.)

― Guy Incognito (Guy Incognito), Monday, 6 March 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and the Wikipedia article on Turbo-folk is a pretty informative read.

― Guy Incognito (Guy Incognito), Monday, 6 March 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

Stuka will be at SXSW this year, here's their profile (with a downloadable track):
http://2006.sxsw.com/music/showcases/band/2370.html
The band website apeared to be down when I checked, but that could be temporary.

― patita (patita), Monday, 6 March 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks. I saw a Serbian brass band once and they were excellent. A lot of young Serbs came out. I was just interested to know more about that stuff.

― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Monday, 6 March 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the brass bands are also very popular, especially at weddings and other celebrations. If you want to hear some of the songs you heard at that show, try searching for "Mesecina" and "Kalasnjikov" (both by Goran Bregovic) on soulseek or anywhere, those are the songs that every brass band plays. And they're great.

― Guy Incognito (Guy Incognito), Monday, 6 March 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Im serbian and i alot of good music thats serbian
here are some people you could check out
Dara Bubamara, Dragana Mirkovic, Jelena Karleusa, Tanja Savic, COLONIA!!, Twins, Sasa Matic, Mile Kitic, Saban Saulic, Dejan Matic, Nemanja Nikolic, Seka Aleksic....

― mira, Wednesday, 19 April 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

hey anyone know the official Twins page...i love twins and COLONIA

― Cristine, Saturday, 27 May 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

I only know Serbian music through Serbian ESC entries. :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 27 May 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

Balkan Speed Brass Bands

I've fallen in love with some Serbian brass band music on the Goran Bregovic soundtrack to the movie Underground, and just dipped my feet in the surface of another band, the Boban Markovic Orkestar.

Are there other classic recordings in this genre, and other names I should look into? TIA.

― pirouette (35 Hertz), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

Koçani Orkestar

― Ghost Bear Junior High Attendance Party (Ghost Bear Junior High Attenda), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

Just posted on the current classical thread, but perhaps worth a mention here. Right this moment, I'm listening to and enjoying some contemporary Serbian classical music linked to from Kyle Gann's blog (I'm on the first file linked to from this post):

http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2010/04/every_29_years_saturn.html

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 3 April 2010 09:21 (fifteen years ago)

Is it better than Croatian music?

― Uncontrollable Purge (S-), Saturday, 3 April 2010 10:57 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRawuu4lSPc&feature=related

― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 3 April 2010 16:25 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vOv_9ARMFM&feature=related

― nicky lo-fi, Saturday, 3 April 2010 16:41 (fifteen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl-EqqYupYo

― Nigel Farage is a fucking hero (nakhchivan), Thursday, 3 November 2011 11:36 (thirteen years ago)

Disciplina Kicme,later known as Disciplin A Kitschme is a great post-punk/noise/whatever band. With their funk inspired groove,rebellious shouted slogans and agressive sound they would be something like a balkan equivalent of Public Enemy.Checkout the earlier stuff,with the serbian spelling,later on they started singing in english and tried to conquer europe,but we all know how that went.

― zhalgiris, Sunday, 6 November 2011 09:45 (thirteen years ago)

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