We bring you a selection of Balkan-related artists to keep your eye on in the coming year The Bulgarian beat-making duo have been keeping themselves busy the past year, expanding their abstract hip hop repertoire with additions of forward-pop-sounding IDM…
Video for ‘La Boheme’ from Svetlana Industries’ latest vinyl release The Machine City by Bulgarian beatmaking duo 1000names. A brilliant piece of Krafwerkesque machine pop, filtered through a low res CDR instructional video/love story that captures an eery feel of…
McDonald’s in the Balkans: a brief history From a source of national pride to a symbol of US imperialism, the American fast food chain has left its mark in the Balkans
In March...
The Soviet erotic alphabet picture book from 1931 This precious discovery from the vaults of Stalinism sheds new light on the supposedly sexually repressive communist society of the former S...
Yu-Mex: Yugoslav Mexican Music of the 1950’s After the Yugo-Soviet relations broke down in 1948, the Yugoslav authorities were looking for an alternative source of cultural inspiration....
Bulgarian prom day Yes, prom is that special event in your life when you celebrate the useless years you spent in high school getting drunk, cheating on ma...
