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Bturn TV: Cassy interview at Dimensions Festival

Cassy Dimensions 2

The Panoramabar resident speaks about leaving Berlin to live the life of a nomad before settling down in her hometown Vienna We’ve caught Cassy, the only female DJ playing Croatia’s Dimensions Festival, in a good mood for a short backstage

Bturn TV: Mala (Digital Mystikz) at Dimensions Festival

Mala playing at Mungos Arena, Dimensions Festival (Croatia) / Photo: Dan Medhurst

In an exclusive video interview, the DMZ boss tells us why dubstep is not a genre but a movement, what you can learn from working with kids and how he makes music with a hearing loss in one ear As

Rita Ora: Made in Kosovo

Now that's patriotism. Ora scarfed in Kosovo flag.

The 21-year old rising star of British R&B returns to her hometown Pristina, Kosovo for the video ‘Shyne Ya Light’ off her debut album ORA Heavily advertised even before any of her music came out, Rita Ora has been picking

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Stand up people: Gypsy pop songs from Tito’s Yugoslavia

Part of the record collection amassed for the compilation / Photo: Philip Knox

Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, the historical compilation of hard-to-find Roma pop classics is set for release in 2013 For the past year, British music aficionados Philip Knox and Nat Morris have been indulging in a dulcet love affair with

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Dancing under socialism: rare electronic music from Yugoslavia (Part Two)

Illustration by Blanka Boskov

Some of the most extraordinary Yugoslav electronic gems recently rediscovered through a bunch of existing and upcoming compilation releases in Europe and the US, take two. Read the part one here Slovenian Electric Dreams Considering the early 1980s electronica in

Dancing under socialism: rare electronic music from Yugoslavia (Part One)

Illustration by Blanka Boskov

We bring you some of the most extraordinary Yugoslav electronic gems recently rediscovered through a bunch of existing and upcoming compilation releases in Europe and the US. Read the part two here In the last couple of years, various collections

The Bambi Molesters

Photo © Sasha Belopolanski

When thinking of Croatia the first thing that comes to mind is probably its magnificent Adriatic coast. And where there’s beautiful beaches… surf’s up! Although rather far from the sea, Sisak’s The Bambi Molester’s obviously know how to surf with

Interview: Djordje Stijepovic, Fishtank Ensemble

Photo © Jason Savy

He is probably one of the best slap-bass players around. From jamming with street musicians on the pavements of New Orleans to trading licks with Slim Jim Phantom of Stray Cats and Lemmy of Motorhead, he has performed and toured

Shriek punk: Dirty Beaches live in Belgrade

Dirty Beaches on stage. Photo / Milica Kolaric

It was the type of doowop you’d play in a haunted house, ‘50s and ‘60s rock n’ roll, stripped bare and thrust into a post-industrial soundscape. Every eye in the audience fixated on the enigmatic figure on stage, lurching back

Blind Tape Quartets at Otopia Festival in Amsterdam

Blind Tapes

The fascinating music project by Serbian sound artist Lukatoyboy continues in Amsterdam. Musicians are invited to play “blind” solo performances mixed in invisible “blind quartets” The idea behind the project is simple. Each artist records one take in a small,