~ 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 👀

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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Balkan Beats BOOK

HARDCORE ANTHROPOLOGY

YEBIGA

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!

PULA_PIVO

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.

ART DOCUMENTARY

In this both musical and socially engaged story about building bridges with music, you will get to feel what it’s like to be a "happy immigrant" living in these right-wing days of our generations.

BOOK REVIEWS

GORDY

Univeristy College London

CEO Piranha Arts & WOMEX, Berlin

Folker Magazine Bavaria

CHRISTOPH BAUMGARTEN

Balkan Stories Vienna

 

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 👀

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