I was in Mostar over the summer, and wound up dancing in the streets to a DJ playing this INCREDIBLE modern Balkan folk. It had all kind of weird time signiture shifts, but always managed to stay funky and danceable.
I got chatting to a very eloquent and well educated local guy, and he told me that Western music was repressed during the days of Tito, so musicians who would otherwise be making rock turned their creativity to producing innovative folk music, resulting in this really vibrant scene. He told me some key artists to look out for, but of course I totally forgot their names. The street vendor I tried to buy a CD off fobbed me off with some eurodisco-sounding shit.
I figure if there's any general music forum where people might be into this stuff, it's this one.
― chap, Friday, 8 February 2008 14:59 (seventeen years ago)
Did he fob you off with some dodgy Turbo-Folk?
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 8 February 2008 15:02 (seventeen years ago)
You mean stuff like Balkan Beat Box?
― baaderonixx, Friday, 8 February 2008 15:03 (seventeen years ago)
Yes, I think it was Turbo-Folk (which many Bosnians believe is an evil Serbian plot to corrupt the youth of the Balkans).
― chap, Friday, 8 February 2008 15:04 (seventeen years ago)
Just checked out some Balkan Beat Box - that's the kind of thing, yes!
― chap, Friday, 8 February 2008 15:17 (seventeen years ago)
In that case, the easiest is probably to listen to the last.fm Balkan Beat Box radio and see what comes up
― baaderonixx, Friday, 8 February 2008 15:27 (seventeen years ago)
Thanks, I'll do that.
― chap, Friday, 8 February 2008 17:00 (seventeen years ago)