BALKAN BEAT BOX

thanks to jed, you know that i was recently in israel for ten days, during which i got an interesting cross-section of what israeli people listen to. as most of you can probably guess, a large portion of it is weird electronic remixes of top 40 hits from about two years ago to which they hop around like happy idiots. but there was a lot of interesting shit mixed in.

balkan beat box is a musical trio [one of the dudes was from gogol bordello] that i have somehow never heard of prior -- they're pretty damn popular -- but israeli people go ballistic when they come on in a bar or club..

gonna rip this right from wikipedia:

They established their own unique sound by fusing the musical styles of Mediterranean and Balkan traditions with hip-hop and dancehall beats. The group was extremely influenced by Jamaican dub, another influence visible in their hybrid musical form. Balkan Beat Box’s goal was to take ancient and traditional musical traditions and fuse those with hip-hop in order to create a new mix of musical styles out of the traditional world music context that would appeal to listeners in a club or a dancehall.

they just put an album out recently which is good, but my favorite so far is nu med, which you can download below.

some of you may have heard this song before as well.



dl.