Establishing experimental and improvised music in Belgrade is a challenge: there are just a few funding opportunities, a conservative music education and a missing infrastructure. But musicians as the sound artist and composer Svetlana Maraš are moving back to Belgrade after years abroad and build up a new scene – with enthusiasm, good ideas and international collaborations.
Published June, 2014
1. What’s the highlight for you in the Serbian music scene of 2012?insane eyes’ anthology “tautau - colourful mp69s, mostly violet’, released on my label nauk.
Published January, 2013
Fat Kid Beny and Hyphy in Belgrade, 2k11 FAT KID BENY, the founding member of Belgrade’s “domestic rap” posse RAP CAT$ has gone solo. With the release of his latest batch of synth&dirty tracks and raw beats that Beny and his friends call “rap music” we asked him for an interview.
Published July, 2012
mangulicaFM is no stranger to easterndaze’s ears. The Belgrade producer, who currently lives in cold cold Hamburg, played at our party in September in Pancevo (Belgrade;).
Published April, 2012
Zmikeo! came into our attention whilst frantically searching for Serbia’s up-and-coming musical hidden gems before heading there at the tail end of last summer. We came across the mysterious Zmikeo! (aka Milos Petrovic) - whom we digged so much we put up his first live gig in Pancevo near Belgrade, in September.
Published February, 2012
Vuksa Velickovic is a writer, UCL alumni, editor of the Bturn magazine focused on promoting the music, culture and style of the Balkans and a general man about town. Here he divulges what rocked his world in ‘11 and what has 2012 got in store for him.
Published January, 2012
A view of Belgrade from the top floor hallway of one of the East Gate towers Our affinity for the Balkans started more than a year ago when we first set out to explore the music scene of this for us totally unfamiliar country - at least until then (in spite of the fact that half of Lucia’s family lives there). Serbia is perhaps the most economically and politically disadvantaged, dealing with the legacy of its past and relative isolation in European terms.
Published December, 2011
Introducing Zmikeo! - the repetitive, synth and bass-heavy production of the 24 years old Milos Petrovic from Serbia, our latest obsession. Zmikeo-Empty recycle bin by ZMIKEO! Zmikeo!’s tracks have the lo-fi angry and unpolished quality that could be ascribed to grime, it’s only that Milos comes from Belgrade and not a suburb in London.
Published September, 2011
Mangulica FM is a project of Belgrade-based musician Luka Papić. Luka is also the head of the startup label Over9000, dedicated to supporting the Serbian music and art scene.
Published August, 2011
Some time ago, we have written about a documentary about Belgrade’s creative scene (check the article here). There is another movie about similar subject out there.
Published May, 2011
Planet Svetlana - proudly based in Belgrade - is back with a storming free release, a reworking of her third release Diablo Riddim by Piece of Shh… The remixing duties have been handed to Slovenian, UK-based producer Nightwave (aka 8bitch), Hungarian honchos Headshotboyz and Bunny on Acid. Get the bass-heavy release here.
Published March, 2011
Just as we delved into editing our Serbian audio material for the luverly Resonance FM, recollecting (at least aurally) our visit there in September 2010, the news about the demise of its digital arts festival Dispatch has hit the Facebook. In September, after having talked to the festival organizer Relja, there was no traces about the impending news.
Published March, 2011
Bruce Sterling (yes, THE Bruce Sterling) kindly retweeted our post about Belgrade. Thanks Bruce! And a rambling on Vice about Eastern Daze here and on The Wire magazine’s website here.
Published October, 2010
First impressions of Belgrade from Avala train. September’s melancholic mood with last few glimpses of sunshine offered a perfect backdrop to our first Balkan-bound journey in our project.
Published October, 2010
We met filmmaker Nikola Zecevic at the Belgrade Noise gig at Belgrade’s premier alternative arts venue Kulturni Centar Grad or KC Grad on a balmy Tuesday night. He was running around with his camera, eager to capture the spirit of the night and Belgrade’s sprawling creative scene.
Published September, 2010
The internationalists wet dream, Vice Verse is a mutal collaboration between Serbia’s leading electronics festival Dis-patch and the US Communikey. In April 2010, 15 artists, embarked on an extensive tour of 30+ Northern American cities with stops at Quebec’s renowned Mutek festival unleashing a heady dose of live music, audio visual shows, DJ sets, new media workshops and other projects such as a the exhibition of prints developed by the art director of Dis-patch Nebojsa Cvetkovic.
Published September, 2010