MANIFESTO

Balkan Beats is truly a genre within world music,  something which generated itself and will only survive in cosmopolitan culture.

CULTURE - RECYCLING

BalkanBeats Project was founded in 1993 in Berlin  by Robert Šoko [online]

More than a project, BalkanBeats is a cultural battle; by playing original or remixed versions of traditional Balkan tunes, the BalkanBeats project not only gives them a space within the world music scene and on the dance floors, but also in the memories of young people.

 

Dear friends & foes,

My name is Robert Šoko — imported from Bosnia, refined in Berlin.

Back in the early nineties, when I was young, fearless, and broke, I started spinning Balkan records for myself and a handful of homesick comrades. I called it “BalkanBeats” — and suddenly the whole thing grew legs, arms, and started dancing on its own.

Ever since, it’s been a wild ride — glorious highs, ridiculous lows, and plenty of noise in between. Somewhere along the way, you gave me a purpose that actually means something. So thanks — to you, the universe, and maybe even my neighbours (who still haven’t called the cops).

And  the madness has gone worldwide:
I’ve dragged my Balkan circus around the globe  — in 30+ years  performing in more then 150 cities; in 40 countries; around 700 events,  — 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, Braunschweig, Kottbus…

✨ Japan

Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagano, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Fukushima, Chiba, Gifu, Gunma, 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 👀

“A Masterpiece, Gung-Ho style”
Songlines, London, UK