If you care about up-and-coming bass-driven music from the British Islands, chances are you might soon come across Brey, a 20-year-old producer behind the latest release of Serbian/British Svetlana Industries imprint. Born in Angola as Breyner Laurindo Da Silva Baptista…
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…
The owner of Svetlana Industries talks about the shady business of running an international music label from Belgrade via London, the art of slipping through borders and how to market upcoming artists from Eastern Europe I first met Toby Brundin…
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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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...
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....
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...
