The notorious music culture that became synonymous with Serbia’s former nationalist regime has anything but disappeared. Turbo-folk continues to play the role of both hero and villain – as Serbia’s best known ‘brand’ and a skeleton in its closet. After…
This kid sure knows how to get the booties shaking. The hipster crowd’s all favorite Felony Flats is the new breed of the Eastern European ground, raised on a multiplicity of music genres, from black metal to nu rave to…
Swinging the mood since 1998, as part of the Belgradeyard Sound System collective, Relja Bobic is known as the founder, artistic and managing director of Belgrade’s internationally acclaimed Dis-patch Festival of cutting-edge music & related art. As an independent art…
Folk-step? NeuBalkan trash-hop? Oriental-Core? What-the-fuck? Oh, it must be the (in)famous Shazalakazoo! The duo comprised of Scratchmaster Uce and MC Djura, has been making music since the late 1990s in various incarnations, from improvised radio shows to concerts and club…
Lukatoyboy, a.k.a Luka Ivanović is a musician, sound designer, journalist and radio editor from Belgrade. His main sound/music activities include producing & performing electro-acoustic improvised music using real-time sampling, feedback, field recordings and small iPod FM transmitters. On the other…
Igor Stangliczky is a Belgrade born freelance artist, working in the fields of sound art, sculpture and handcrafted design. Over the past years he was involved in the production of various art projects such as public furniture sculptures, specific make…
Goran Simonoski a.k.a Piece of Shh is one of the more experienced Belgrade producers, coming up over the last 10 years with the Belgradeyard Sound System collective, one of the first Serbian acts to achieve international recognition, during the early…
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
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Geeks behind the Iron Curtain: Yugoslav tech-socialism and the imaginary future Kristian Benic’s book digs out an impressive bulk of geeky stories not just about Commodores and Spectrums, but the Socialist Federal Republ...
The real Croatian hipsters (Split 1980s) A piece of street history from Split, Croatia 1985 showing a high awareness of popular fashion of the time. Not much different from what...
Meet Bata KanKan, the most stylish football club owner in the world Why this ex-bodyguard and hotellier-turned-football club owner is the indisputable king of fashion, on and off the sports pitch
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