~ BalkanBeats ~
may we live in interesting times.
BalkanBeats
may we live in interesting times
Dear friends & foes,
My name is Robert Šoko — imported from Bosnia, refined in Berlin.
A long time ago, when I was young, fearless, and my pockets were emptier, I started spinning Balkan records for myself and a bunch of homesick comrades. I called it “BalkanBeats” — and suddenly the whole thing grew legs, arms, and started dancing on its own.
It’s been a wild ride: glorious highs, ridiculous lows, and plenty of noise in between. I’m thankful to you, the universe, and maybe even my neighbours (who still haven’t called the cops).
Since then, the madness has gone worldwide:
I’ve dragged my Balkan circus around the globe — more then 150 cities, over 40 countries, about 700 events, 30+ years — which is also my scientific proof that the Earth is definitely not flat (try DJ-ing on an edge, it doesn’t work).
And guess what? I’m still not done — see you on the next dance floor… ✨
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Global BalkanBeats Tour (So Far)
✨ Germany
Berlin, Hamburg, München, Köln, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Dresden, Leipzig, Nürnberg, Bremen, Hannover, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Bonn, Darmstadt, Würzburg, Ulm, Erlangen, Bielefeld, Rostock, Greifswald, Lübeck, Osnabrück, Flensburg, Schwedt, Wittenberg, Wittenberge, Jena, Perleberg, Plauen, Torgau, Potsdam, Schwerin, Konstanz, Oldenburg, Kottbus
✨ Japan
Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagano, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Fukushima, Chiba, Gifu, Matsuyama, Yamaguchi
✨ China
Beijing, Hong Kong
✨ USA
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco
✨ UK & Ireland
London, Bristol, Brighton, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin
✨ Italy
Torino, Milano, Roma, Trieste, Ariano
✨ Switzerland
Zürich, Geneva, Bern, Lausanne, Basel, Aarau, Sainte-Croix, Interlaken
✨ Portugal
Porto, Lisboa
✨ Spain
Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Sant Sadurní d’Anoia
✨ France
Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Lyon, Tulle, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Narbonne, Biarritz
✨ Belgium
Bruxelles, Antwerpen, Ghent, Leuven
✨ Netherlands
Amsterdam, Den Haag, Ede, Haarlem, Lelystad, Tilburg, Eindhoven, Venlo, Leeuwarden, Enschede, Maastricht
✨ Luxembourg
Luxembourg
✨ Scandinavia
Stockholm, Lund, Helsinki, Oslo, Bergen
✨ Poland
Warsaw, Gdynia, Mysliborz, Olsztyn
✨ Lithuania
Vilnius
✨ Czechia & Slovakia
Praha, Brno, Ostrava, Karlovy Vary, Usti nad Labem, Bratislava
✨ Austria
Vienna, Graz, Linz, Klagenfurt, Feldkirch
✨ Hungary
Budapest
✨ Balkans & Eastern Europe
Zagreb, Varaždin, Pula (Croatia)
Belgrade (Serbia)
Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Sarajevo, Banja Luka (Bosnia)
Sofia (Bulgaria)
Athens, Thessaloniki (Greece)
Istanbul (Turkey)
Yerevan (Armenia)
✨ Americas
Mexico City, Playa del Carmen, Oaxaca, Aguascalientes (Mexico)
Managua (Nicaragua)
Recife, São Paulo (Brazil)
✨ Africa & Oceania
Cape Town (South Africa)
Nouméa (New Caledonia)
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VIDIMO SE 👀
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CONTACT
BalkanBeats Records c/o Robert Soko
Möckernstr. 94
10963 Berlin Germany
tel. +49 30 695 07 956
balkan.beats@berlin.de
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GOOD NEWS

Some of you might know Billy Gould, the founding father of the band Faith No More. Well, a few years ago Billy fell in love with a domestic Serbian creation known as rakija (brandy/schnapps) and decided to bring it to the US. And he did it. And he got in touch recently saying: dude, we have to do it in Germany too, are you interested? I said: živili Billy pa vidili!

This is a “hangover album” in the truest sense: after ten wild days in the beautiful city of Pula, Croatia—full of drinks, laughs, and chaos—I ended up taking a bad fall in the street and hit my head pretty hard. A nasty bout of vertigo that stuck around longer than I expected. Not knowing what to do I sat down, gathered myself, and this song came out of it.
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Dear friends & foes,
My name is Robert Šoko — imported from Bosnia, refined in Berlin.
A long time ago, when I was young, fearless, and my pockets were emptier, I started spinning Balkan records for myself and a bunch of homesick comrades. I called it “BalkanBeats” — and suddenly the whole thing grew legs, arms, and started dancing on its own.
It’s been a wild ride: glorious highs, ridiculous lows, and plenty of noise in between. I’m thankful to you, the universe, and maybe even my neighbours (who still haven’t called the cops).
Since then, the madness has gone worldwide:
I’ve dragged my Balkan circus around the globe — more then 150 cities, over 40 countries, about 700 events, 30+ years — which is also my scientific proof that the Earth is definitely not flat (try DJ-ing on an edge, it doesn’t work).
And guess what? I’m still not done — see you on the next dance floor… ✨
————————————————————————————————————————————–
Global BalkanBeats Tour (So Far)
✨ Germany
Berlin, Hamburg, München, Köln, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Dresden, Leipzig, Nürnberg, Bremen, Hannover, Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Mainz, Bonn, Darmstadt, Würzburg, Ulm, Erlangen, Bielefeld, Rostock, Greifswald, Lübeck, Osnabrück, Flensburg, Schwedt, Wittenberg, Wittenberge, Jena, Perleberg, Plauen, Torgau, Potsdam, Schwerin, Konstanz, Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Kottbus
✨ Japan
Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagano, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Fukushima, Chiba, Gifu, Matsuyama, Yamaguchi
✨ China
Beijing, Hong Kong
✨ USA
New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco
✨ UK & Ireland
London, Bristol, Brighton, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin
✨ Italy
Torino, Milano, Roma, Trieste, Ariano
✨ Switzerland
Zürich, Geneva, Bern, Lausanne, Basel, Aarau, Sainte-Croix, Interlaken
✨ Portugal
Porto, Lisboa
✨ Spain
Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Sant Sadurní d’Anoia
✨ France
Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Lyon, Tulle, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Narbonne, Biarritz
✨ Belgium
Bruxelles, Antwerpen, Ghent, Leuven
✨ Netherlands
Amsterdam, Den Haag, Ede, Haarlem, Lelystad, Tilburg, Eindhoven, Venlo, Leeuwarden, Enschede, Maastricht
✨ Luxembourg
Luxembourg
✨ Scandinavia
Stockholm, Lund, Helsinki, Oslo, Bergen
✨ Poland
Warsaw, Gdynia, Mysliborz, Olsztyn
✨ Lithuania
Vilnius
✨ Czechia & Slovakia
Praha, Brno, Ostrava, Karlovy Vary, Usti nad Labem, Bratislava
✨ Austria
Vienna, Graz, Linz, Klagenfurt, Feldkirch
✨ Hungary
Budapest
✨ Balkans & Eastern Europe
Zagreb, Varaždin, Pula (Croatia)
Belgrade (Serbia)
Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Sarajevo, Banja Luka (Bosnia)
Sofia (Bulgaria)
Athens, Thessaloniki (Greece)
Istanbul (Turkey)
Yerevan (Armenia)
✨ Americas
Mexico City, Playa del Carmen, Oaxaca, Aguascalientes (Mexico)
Managua (Nicaragua)
Recife, São Paulo (Brazil)
✨ Africa & Oceania
Cape Town (South Africa)
Nouméa (New Caledonia)
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VIDIMO SE 👀