balkan folklore, world beats, elektronika, afrobeat, bhangra, funky tunes, bigga bush, dj shantel, massive attack, tricky, gypsy sounds & melodies, dj panko, boban markovic, mitsoura, natasha atlas, clotaire k, manu chao, flamenco, rumba catalana, ojos de brujo, maracatu, dj dolores, my onkel, the bulgarian black sea coast...
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10.11.07 balkanXpress @ GO EAST! in Lapa/Rio de Janeiro
Kosta Kostov is not a nickname! Born in the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, Kostov grew up in the unique Balkan way of celebrating. Moving to Germany didn't stop his passionate search for the best rhythms and melodies from the Balkans. Today working as a music journalist and dj, Kosta Kostov is the mastermind and resident "machinista" of the balkanXpress, the turbulent party in Cologne’s club Gebäude 9.
In April 2004, the balkanXpress started in Cologne’s club scene first as a regular party, to introduce and represent the many-facetted music of Southeastern Europe. It quickly became a reference for people who love spontaneous and passionate celebration. The balkanXpress takes you on a dance journey through the valleys and hills of the Balkan beats and breaks, always with view out to new horizons... The rhythms of typical music and dance-styles like horo, racenitza, cocek, rembetiko or klezmer are quite similar to the beats of drum ’n’ bass and breakbeat and offer a great space for fusions. The Balkan music also share a common ground with musical phenomena like the sounds from the Orient & Maghreb, the hispano-brazilian flavas or the Bhangra beats. The trip with balkanXpress will take you beyond the Balkans, to the music related neighbours that have more similarities with Southeast European music than expected. That’s the reason why prominent Global Village DJs like DJ Panko (Ojos de Brujo), DJ Click (No Fridge), DJ Gaetano Fabri (Electric Gypsyland), DJ Eastenders have participated to the balkanXpress.
Meanwhile the balkanXpress is travelling not only through German lands. Kosta Kostov is a well seen guest in the Barcelona clubs Sala Apolo and Sidecar, in Paris’ Divan du Monde, in Athen’s Altera Pars and Booze Club and in Vienna’s Ostklub. On March 2007, the balkanXpress brought for the first time the transbalkan beats and breaks to the clubs in the Brazilian cities of Belem, Aracaju, Brasilia Capital, Porto Alegre, Florianpolis and Rio de Janeiro.
Jump on the balkanXpress and enjoy Kosta Kostov's frenetic BABUSHKA-BREAKS, HORO-DUBS, KLEZMER-RIDDIMS, GYPSY-SPEEDBRASS!
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eheeej baticeee! how are you? how is life? I see you can't stop to party... And I also see that we are going to drink a lot of bad spanish wine in Sevilla... I can almost smell it already... And start thinking about one crazy balkan night here in Novi Sad in november in my organization...
Glad it touched your soul. Actually this is a Brazilian Northeastern music from the seventies which is quite forgotten these days. There are some music like that in Brazil, from the Northeast specifically, whose harmonics sound somewhat Mediterranean. This is probably because many of the Europeans who came to Brazil on the 16th and 17th Centuries were actually 'Iberian Moorish' - of either Arab, Jewish or Roma origin (fleeing the holy bonfires of Europe, of course).
I'll still work some more on this remix. Add some elements, revamp it a little more. I also want to listen to it in proper hi-fi monitors and bounce it 0dB. As soon as I do this I will send you the track. I can also send a self-contained .als (Live) file if you feel like remixing it yourself. If you have some tracks that you fancy some hebrew-brazilian-punany-rapping on top of them just drop them on. Plenty of work we can do together. Mishtô kako, mishtô!
broder, im in Ibiza making a Deep House tour, in a cap of radios and clubs, good times! we are traing to make a German tour, i will let you know, by the way, i have a german novia, so...
souleil heute Abend ab 21h bei soulsender,de, zu Gast: Hans Nieswandt Wir bringen zu Tage was "White Cocolate" bedeutet und spielen Songs von Steely Dan, Todd Rundgren, Tim Hardin, Beach Boys, Joy Fleming und vielen anderen. Mit Sicherheit: hörenswert. Tune in!
