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New frontiers of Balkan & Eastern European culture. Focused on all things intelligent and creative, audacious and subversive, borderline and bizarre.

Music, Culture and Style of the New Balkans

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03/11/2015

Hello, Lord Vader. It's been a while.

http://bturn.com/10540/darth-vader-walks-through-sarajevo

The Power of the Dark Side might not be so entertaining for Sarajevo’s ordinary citizen considering the city’s recent past, but there were gleeful laughs when Darth Vader strolled down Tito’s street today.

14/05/2015

Black box included.

http://bturn.com/10522/serbian-electronic-album-dedicated-hr-giger

Eerie noises, unearthly radio frequencies and an occasional synthetic kick drum paying respect to the late biomechanic surrealist

22/12/2014

Desolat Music Group label boss and a worldwide superstar DJ LOCO DICE has visited Belgrade for the first time earlier this year. In an almost lost and never-to be-seen interview with Tijana T he is exploring the city and sharing his deep personal thoughts on life and music. Loco Dice explained why he equals electronic music to freedom, how EDM is not a dirty word and what “Black Truffles In The Snow” song is all about. If you want to know what is the easiest way to destroy your DJ career you will get that answer too.

It's been a long time coming, but 2014 finally brought Desolat label boss and worldwide DJ superstar Loco Dice to the Serbian capital. In a relaxed stroll

07/11/2014

Planningtorock is playing Croatia and Macedonia this November, so we caught up with her for a short chat on the music industry, Beyonce and Lagerfeld, gender and LGBT, and her own "queering sonic" concept.

http://bturn.com/10444/planningtorock-interview

The trailblazing producer and multimedia artist talks for Bturn about the music industry, Beyonce and Lagerfeld, the issues of gender and her own “queering sonic” concept, ahead of her shows in Zagreb and Skopje

16/10/2014

We don't give a flying monkey about Vladimir Putin. But his unearthly presence in Belgrade today - chasing away the clouds from the heavens and firing rainbows above aerobatic Serbian military airplanes - makes a good excuse to remember one of our older posts.

We prefer the Russian communists to the Russian nationalists. It's all about s*x, as always.

http://bturn.com/10286/soviet-erotic-alphabet

This precious discovery from the vaults of Stalinism sheds new light on the supposedly s*xually repressive communist society of the former Soviet Union. Yes,

14/10/2014

We're back, suckers. Balkans are still a mess, but everyday life down here still inspires some world travellers to great deeds.

This one is by 23-year-old American artist Emma Fick:

http://bturn.com/10393/this-is-balkan-snippets-of-serbia

I was first drawn to Serbia solely because I wanted to trace my family history. However, I quickly found a people, history and landscape so vibrant and nuanced

02/09/2013

The slick sound of Romanian techno is making its way through the London club vortex:

http://bturn.com/10374/london-romanian-techno

Techno is not big in London nowadays, certainly not as some bass-related derivatives but the genre still

16/08/2013

There's still time for you to become a Music Hunter. Get to travel around the best music concerts, festivals and intimate gigs around Europe. All you need to do is document your experience. Fire those tweets out

http://bturn.com/10329/become-a-music-hunter

Audition to become a Music Hunter and gain exclusive access to festivals, concerts and private gigs while documenting your entire experience through Twitter,

08/06/2013

This Serbian football club owner was found dead in his hotel today. The world has lost yet another fashion icon:

http://bturn.com/9738/the-most-stylish-football-club-owner-in-the-world

Why this ex-bodyguard and hotellier-turned-football club owner is the indisputable king of fashion, on and off the sports pitch Kanye who? Bata KanKan

31/05/2013

In case you're on a lookout for some sonic inspiration to help you kickstart the weekend, try our latest podcast edition - an exclusive broken beats mix by rx:tx label owner Borka:

http://bturn.com/10207/bturn-podcast-009-borka

Co-owner of the cult Slovenian label rx:tx, Borka has been spinning records for more than 10 years. “Started with breaks but now it's a bit more hectic,

30/05/2013

We've popped in for a chat with the Croatian internet activist, researcher and cybercommunist about the future of web, the One Million Books project and the upcoming uprising and collapse*

http://bturn.com/10269/marcell-mars-interview

We met the Croatian internet activist and researcher Marcell Mars for a prolonged chat about the future of internet, The One Million Books project and the

18/05/2013

Solar-powered mosque in Pristina? Local islamic community not impressed

http://bturn.com/10251/futuristic-solar-powered-mosque-in-pristina

An Italian architect has a bold plan to build a solar-powered spherical Mosque in the center of Pristina but the local Islamic community is not impressed

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