When we visited Macedonia’s capital Skopje, the punkish Kanal 103 radio, located in the socialist remnant of a building surrounded by a police station and a hooker strip, it seemed like the place where anyone making anything worthwile sonically, congregated. Running their own shows, playing concerts, etc.

One of the guys who works there is B.ATL, part of the Disphilharmonia collective, IDM inspired dissonant digital noiseniks. Here, he comes solo with a broken, glitchy offering, which recalls the heyday of the genre in the 90’s, but somehow follows its own path, to disorienting, almost lucid effect.

Free download.

In this installment of our podcast series, Bratislava-based producer Jacques Kustod (a review of his debut EP is here) delivers a disquieting mix composed of his own production with a dash of acid /Phuture Tracks/, krautrock /Neu!/, even The Beatles. An uncanny walk through a sonic chamber of disembodied voices, echoing spheres and scant melodies coated in an icy December haze. A psychedelic rhythmic medley through hauntologic territories with amicable ghosts lurking nearby.

You can download it here:

The London-based project Jamka has been exploring the outer reaches of analogue electronics for a decade now, as part of the Urbsounds Collective. Their hardware medley especially comes to life during their unforgettable live experiences. A reckless sonic abandon leads the listener into higher states of sonic consciousness, with no mercy.

This podcast is an assortment of their sounds spanning over a period of the last ten years. When listening to them you will not find any chronological order in the way they follow. Instead the individual tracks were arranged so that they relate to each other sonically and in their attitude. The podcast delivers 12 tracks overall and includes a bonus in the form of a lost and recently found song Jopra recorded in Bratislava in 2002. This track is now available as a free digital download.

For more information about Jamka and their latest album Pari Passu please visit their website:

To download Jopra, click here if you want it in mp3 and here if you’d like it in wav format.

We are teaming up with the Novo Doba festival to deliver an evening with three of the most interesting Belgrade-based electronica producers, all of whom have a penchant for beats, bass and urban culture. Thursday 15 September 2011 in Pancevo, Serbia. 

MANGULICA FM (SRB)
Luka Papic’s last release The Third Eye EP is a sonic journey through abstract landscape of dub and instrumental hip-hop significantly influenced by ex-yugo folk. Even though folk is not so popular between the alternative youth, Mangulica still uses samples of local ethno and folk music and fuses them together in order to create an original take on contemporary Serbian urban sound that is aware of its past.



RAP CATS (SRB)
Belgrade’s backstreet feline collective Rap Cats carries the leftfield electronica flag. Although there is no rap in Rap Cats the hip-hop street-culture influences are clear but twisted into a freaky, and almost psychedelic urban-paranoia, expressed via laidback meandering walls of synth and heavy bass.

RAP CAT$-FRIDAY by RAP CATS 
 
ZMIKEO! (SRB)
The latest discovery of the Belgrade scene is also a fan of hiphop as well as being influenced by drum and bass. Zmikeo!’s tracks have the lo-fi, angry and unpolished quality that could be ascribed to UK grime, it’s only that he comes from Belgrade and not a London suburb.

Zmikeo-Empty recycle bin by ZMIKEO!

after-party by Easterndaze dj’s (SK/CZ)
http://easterndaze.net/
http://www.novodobafestival.net/

The Hungarian project Gazsi Rap Show sing about loneliness?? (Egyedül vagyok mint az ujjam) on the backdrop of industrial beats and lofi rapping.