Customer Reviews

Belgrade Coffee Shop

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The citizens of Belgrade underwent a major change since the peaceful revolution of October 2000. As an reaction to the awful Serbian turbo-folk music and influenced by the UK and German techno culture; house and drummnbass suddenly became the most popular music in the town of Belgrade. Everywhere in the street it was to be heard; every richer club was inviting stars from the UK. This culture was expanded to the rest of Serbia through the 'EXIT - music festival' in July 2001. It was 9 days of drummnbass and house as well as some rock.

The 'radio utopia 4: The Belgrade coffee shop' (that is the original name of this masterwork) is a compilation of quiet unknown artists. It is a wild mixture of the influenced but still unique musical world of the house culture in Belgrade.
Do not miss it!

Don't be worried by the description "Dance" music. You won't find any window-shattering, body-shaking beats on this compilation. Instead, hear what the artists have to say for themselves in this well-thought blend of Electronica/Trance. The last sentence on the back of the album describes their music as a "100% adrenaline-free collection of tunes from the place where apathy meets devastation..." This selection offers an inviting look into the young musical soul of Serbia. The trance-like sounds were better than I thought, and offered a richer mix of emotions than I had come to expect from modern 'Balkan' music. I only gave this a 4 because I had hoped to hear a few traditional Serbian sounds. This is definitely modern, definitely Euro - but definitely not Euro-trash!