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this guy kept on asking me if i liked 'techno', like 'depeche mode' .....
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― gareth (gareth), Monday, 10 February 2003 10:42 (10 years ago) Permalink
woah. good, i guess. and about time too, wasn't it? but wot is it you got to know then? anything more 'bout your original question (from august '01)?;-)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 10 February 2003 11:53 (10 years ago) Permalink
It seems people like to have their music extremely loud in Bucarest. In every bar, apart from the most expensive ones, there's this pounding pseudo-gipsy (or is it turkish) euro-dance at such a high volume you wonder how this girl can hear what this guy is telling her. But people just seem used to this - hopefully.
The only great musical things i saw were the few Rom parties i went to. There's a minimal band, like those you can listen to in ferry boats, playing standards (i guess) to accompany a singer who really knows how to rock the house - and he'd better do because he's not standing on any stage, he's at the same height as everyone in the audience, it's not like he wins the game as soon as he starts to sing, he has everything to do to make you "up for it" (?).
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Reviving this as a rolling thread - partly because it'll stop me spamming the Rolling Pop 2012 one with videos of questionable Albanian R&B, partly because there seems to be a few people around with an interest in chalga, turbo-folk, Romanian dance music, Polish pop, etc and it would be good to have somewhere to post newish stuff.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 09:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fifth single from Nyusha's excellent début album.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 09:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dunja Ilic (Serbia) with a...striking video.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 09:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Aforementioned questionable Albanian R&B.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 11:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
The incomparable Azis (Bulgaria).
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 11:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
somehow i never really got into Azis' stuff, love the videos of course but no tune of his ever seems to stick with me...
2012 chalga* i'm digging at the moment:
* (well, Bulgarians mostly call it 'pop-folk' nowadays, at least those who actually enjoy it afaict - i'm no expert but i'm guessing it's similiar in that regard to Serbian folk, where haters keep on using the catch-all term 'turbo-folk' even though it's tied to a bygone era/style)
quality Rihanna video ripoff there
Costi in his imperial phase, effortlessly fucking around with the song structure... of course a less charitable reading would be that it's a tuneless mess! whatever, i love it
one big reason i love BG pop-folk is its caribbean lilt and here it's very much in effect - reminds me of lovelorn R&B-leaning dancehall/dancehall-leaning R&B, stuff like Chrissy & Vybz' "Wasting My Time"
admittedly the production is a bit on the shoddy side but the tune is tops
― Mind Taker, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 12:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
as for Serbian folk - this is my fave atm:
this is also huge:
― Mind Taker, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 13:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh yeah, digging the new Neda Ukraden single too:
― Mind Taker, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 13:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
These are fantastic!
The Mariya single is particularly good - Costi is a remarkable producer.
The Goga Sekulic song is absolutely ridiculous but i love it.
I agree that Azis' tunes tend not to stick in the memory for too long but his voice is terrific.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 13:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
#!
I'm quite interested in Ivan Dorn (Ukraine) at the moment. Not 100% sold on the songs but he has potential. There's definitely a gap in the market for his kind of stuff there.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 13:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
Are Depeche Mode still gods there? Does this mean if somebody hosts a Depeche Mode-influenced song for Eurovision, that song is likely to in?
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 14:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Depeche Mode are still huge. I get the impression people in the UK underestimate their popularity, not just in Eastern Europe but in Germany, France and the US.
There's a nice Depeche Mode theme bar in Tallinn.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
enjoying that Nyusha upthread, will check out the album
russian music - and ex-SSSR in general - is among the biggest casualties of me not having the time to check out everything i'd like to, so just fire away with the youtubes
― Mind Taker, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
will also rep for this on the carribean-flavoured chalga tip, love how it's so gentle and light while also being kinda goofy:
― Mind Taker, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 15:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Desislava single is very charming.
Russian and Ukrainian pop used to have a bewildering number of new releases every month but it seems to have slowed down a lot recently. Most of the songs i was listening to in Kyiv in November were still getting heavy rotation on TV in St Petersburg last month.
Mama Lyuba by Serebro has been the big, big Russian hit recently and has spawned hundreds of parody videos.
Derevya by Vintazh is still very popular at the moment as well.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
On the Ukrainian side, Vera Brezhneva's solo career is really taking off. Her album has been out for a while but it's getting a lot of attention in Russia at the moment.
She was in the band V.I.A Gra, back in the days they were amazing. This is one of her solo singles with Dan Balan from O-Zone.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Svetlana Loboda's doing pretty well , also.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like that someone has taken the time to do a chart of who was in V.I.A Gra and when. It's not easy to track.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just noticed that Iza Lach (Poland) put out a video for the single Chochiaz Raz a few weeks ago. Her album was my favourite of 2011.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Piece from The Guardian today mentioning a few of the Russian ones upthread:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2012/mar/14/pop-musik-sound-charts-russia
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 17:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
that Serebro track!!!
so amazing
― Mind Taker, Thursday, 15 March 2012 10:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
haven't watched Viva Polska in months - is silly PL electro-rap still a thing? didn't mind whenever this came on:
― Mind Taker, Thursday, 15 March 2012 13:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Cool thread - I only ever hear any of this stuff in a Eurovision context.
― Doch! (seandalai), Thursday, 15 March 2012 13:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
Seems to be a lot of commercial house and big ballads on Viva Polska at the moment, rather than electro-rap. Monopol had a new single, Imprezza, out a while ago but it's not a patch on Zodiak Na Melanzu from 2009.
I guess the big rap-dance song of the last year was Sexualna by Mirami, who are Ukrainian but were really popular in Poland as well.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Thursday, 15 March 2012 14:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
so many things i loved about Viva Polska... keeping Kat Deluna's "Run the Show" in heavy rotation for months and months after the rest of the world forgot it ever existed! caning Linus Loves' way-beyond-awesome remix of Pixie Lott's "Mama Do" while ignoring the crappy original! lapping up everything - and i really mean EVERYTHING - RedOne comes up with!
otoh i like-but-not-love most of their homegrown stuff, this Ke$ha pastiche is probably the last thing i fell hard for and that was, like, two years ago:
― Mind Taker, Thursday, 15 March 2012 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ha! I like that!
There was another Guardian piece on Polish pop last year:
Dance-pop from Poland isn't really capturing my attention that much at the moment but they have lots of really good chart stars who are drawing from slightly more left-field sources. I adore Monika Brodka and Iza Lach and like Kasia Nosowska a lot.
The Maria album is great, btw. This is another one that stood out:
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Not sure how i managed to repost the Mirami video, was going for:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2011/nov/17/pop-musik-sound-charts-poland
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
No mention of Latvia's Brainstorm yet? This song came third in the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest. I've loved it ever since a dark-haired Latvian beauty put it on a mix CD she made me :)
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 15 March 2012 16:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
enjoyed your Russian piece in the Guardian, SV! "Vybirat chudo" is wonderful - will definitely give Nyusha's albuma a spin this weekend
Maria's album is good, yes... it's not uncommon for chalga divas to make a video for every song off of an album, and i'm grateful that she did one for "Game Over" - on its own i find it to be a little flat, decent "On the Floor" xerox but not much else, it's one of those dance songs that comes alive for me only when i see some actual bodies moving to it
Preslava's album is also worth checking out - no masterpiece or anything but lots of good stuff throughout
― Mind Taker, Friday, 16 March 2012 11:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
excellent thread you guys, moar plz
love Мария's 'Мръсни помисли'
― r|t|c, Friday, 13 April 2012 12:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
hi rtc! other Maria tunes you need to check out imo: Nai dobria, Dai jega, Mojte zadrujki (all prod by Costi btw)
new + new to me Bulgarian stuff i've been into recently:
also this somewhat underproduced but still rather enjoyable Serbian jam:
― Mind Taker, Friday, 13 April 2012 13:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
May as well include Turkish pop as it's stylistically so similar to lots of other things in the thread. I love Atiye.
Balkan influence spreading to Ukrainian novelty dance-pop. Featuring Aliona from V.I.A Gra mk.1
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Saturday, 14 April 2012 18:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
kinda haven't been feeling Romanian stuff this year but this one is wonderful
― Mind Taker, Saturday, 14 July 2012 19:52 (10 months ago) Permalink
I like that a lot.
Dunja Ilic has a new video out:
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Saturday, 14 July 2012 21:42 (10 months ago) Permalink
any Russian/ex-USSR tips of the, uh, non-electrogoth variety? ;)
feeling this Romanian-flavored Serbo jam:
― Mind Taker, Friday, 28 September 2012 10:43 (7 months ago) Permalink
Will be in Moscow on the hunt for new things next week!
The new Fabrika stuff sounds exactly like the old Fabrika stuff, which isn't a bad thing in my book.
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, 28 September 2012 11:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
thank you for turning me on to iza lach and brodka! anything more in this vein super-appreciated! also interested in any other polish music recommendations (including non-pop; have started with the guardian article) but should probably start a new thread for this... did a search but seems under-represented on ilm.
― kfb, Friday, 28 September 2012 16:11 (7 months ago) Permalink
The two big stars that Brodka and Lach are most influenced by are probably Kasia Nosowska and Maria Peszek. They might be good starting points. Julia Marcell's not bad either. Kasia Stankiewicz's Extrapop album from a few years ago is also worth a listen.
I can't remember if i posted links at the time but the Guardian did a week of Polish music in the summer. Piotr Metz's article on the new polish scene might be another good place to start digging.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/series/sounds-of-europe-poland
― Temporarily Famous In The Czech Republic (ShariVari), Friday, 28 September 2012 17:04 (7 months ago) Permalink
thanks! sounds like some great stuff in there.
― kfb, Friday, 28 September 2012 19:13 (7 months ago) Permalink
Domestic CDs appear to be pretty much dead in Russia. I asked a girl in Soyuz how many Russian new releases they stock per month and she said, "maybe one or two". Everyone's clearing as much stock a they can and you can feel the dust on your fingers as you flick through the racks. It's the same situation in Ukraine, unfortunately. Five years ago you'd have had at least a dozen new chart CDs every couple of weeks.
I don't have access to Muz.TV at the moment, only MTV, which is never the best guide, but they're still playing stuff from 2010 on regular rotation. So much of the new stuff around is internet / radio only.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Monday, 8 October 2012 16:24 (7 months ago) Permalink
iza lach has a mixtape and 5-album deal with snoop dogg
http://izalach.bandcamp.com/
― zycieboli, Monday, 8 October 2012 20:47 (7 months ago) Permalink
(zycieboli, just curious - anyone I can recognize from twitter?)
yeah, just came here to check if Iza's been already mentioned and it's so nice to see she has! here's my fav off of her summer mixtape:
and a choice cut from Krzyk (ShariVari - I remember you including the album on your 2011 ballot!):
keep an eye for her incoming album, as far as I know a few great tunes are to be included on the tracklist, gonna be great
― V79, Monday, 8 October 2012 20:58 (7 months ago) Permalink
on balance i'm going for brodka > iza lach but all of this is just <3
― kfb, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 15:44 (7 months ago) Permalink
just one more thing - don't want to go all Iza stan at once, but I've got to mention the vast collection of non-album songs (mostly sung in English) she uploads on her Soundcloud, from old stuff like Million (one of her best songs IMO) to newer ones (for instance, Lemon) they're all worth a listen!
― V79, Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:14 (7 months ago) Permalink
wow, "million" is something else
― kfb, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
Really pleased the last Nyusha single got a good reception on The Singles Jukebox (7.67!)
Have been listening to Eva Polna's Ya Tebya Tozhe Nyet a lot too.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Thursday, 18 October 2012 20:58 (7 months ago) Permalink
I think AATW has picked up Serebro's Gun for a UK release after it was a huge hit in Italy.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Thursday, 8 November 2012 08:44 (6 months ago) Permalink
find their english grating and thought (admittedly on just one listen) that "Gun" was a poor "Mama Lover" xerox, so didn't bother checking their english album... should i?
― Mind Taker, Thursday, 8 November 2012 12:11 (6 months ago) Permalink
I quite like Gun but it's not a great album. Most of the songs are English versions of Russian singles (Sladko, etc) so it doesn't really bring much of value.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Thursday, 8 November 2012 12:36 (6 months ago) Permalink
I'll be visiting the Empik in Wroclaw next week. Any essential Polish pop from 2012 that I might have missed?
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Saturday, 1 December 2012 21:18 (5 months ago) Permalink
Looking forward to seeing Alina Orlova in Hoxton tomorrow night.
― Head Cheerleader, Homecoming Queen and part-time model (ShariVari), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 21:57 (3 months ago) Permalink
just fyi "Head Cheerleader, Homecoming Queen and part-time model" is my dream life
― surm, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 22:07 (3 months ago) Permalink
Have you seen Most Popular Girls In School?
― Head Cheerleader, Homecoming Queen and part-time model (ShariVari), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 22:14 (3 months ago) Permalink
no but something tells me i should
― surm, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 22:19 (3 months ago) Permalink
Yes! It's on YouTube.
― Head Cheerleader, Homecoming Queen and part-time model (ShariVari), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 22:31 (3 months ago) Permalink
got my vinyl of "LAX" a few days ago. did you get any interesting finds in wrocław, sharivari?
― kfb, Thursday, 31 January 2013 14:39 (3 months ago) Permalink
To be honest, no. I got the Kamp! album but appear to have mislaid it. Empik's new CD selection wasn't great.
Alina Orlova was very good tonight. Played to an absolutely packed (mostly Lithuanian) crowd. Not sure the Regina Spektor comparisons quite do her justice.
― Head Cheerleader, Homecoming Queen and part-time model (ShariVari), Friday, 1 February 2013 00:11 (3 months ago) Permalink
that's a shame. i'm not familiar with the kamp! lp but the remix of "dancing shoes" on LAX is fun. i'll be empik-bound next week so any heads-up on interesting things is always appreciated!
― kfb, Friday, 1 February 2013 14:04 (3 months ago) Permalink
New Maria Peszek is really good, too, btw
― kfb, Saturday, 2 February 2013 21:02 (3 months ago) Permalink
Excellent! I'll have to check that out.
― Head Cheerleader, Homecoming Queen and part-time model (ShariVari), Saturday, 2 February 2013 21:06 (3 months ago) Permalink
Kamp! are playing at Birthdays in Dalston on the 24th of February. Still haven't really heard enough by them to come to a definitive judgement but will probably go.
― Head Cheerleader, Homecoming Queen and part-time model (ShariVari), Saturday, 16 February 2013 10:49 (3 months ago) Permalink
yeah, still not made up my mind about them either. currently i'm trying to organise my life around brodka on the 3rd march in łódź.
― kfb, Monday, 18 February 2013 10:23 (3 months ago) Permalink
OMG she's playing The Great Escape!
― Head Cheerleader, Homecoming Queen and part-time model (ShariVari), Monday, 18 February 2013 11:38 (3 months ago) Permalink
ha, not only got my tickets for brodka sorted but also noted that iza lach will be at łódź kaliska the following week. amazing!
― kfb, Thursday, 21 February 2013 14:19 (3 months ago) Permalink
Brodka! Jazz Cafe Camden! 15th May!
― Des Fusils Pour Banter (ShariVari), Sunday, 7 April 2013 12:03 (1 month ago) Permalink
nice! bought mine today!
― kfb, Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:01 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
thanks for the heads-up, sharivari!
just grabbed a ticket for maria peszek next week. notice also that she'll be at the scala a few days after brodka.
― kfb, Thursday, 2 May 2013 09:05 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Fantastic. Where is she playing next week?
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Thursday, 2 May 2013 10:55 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
she'll be at klub wytwórnia in łódź. there are a few other polish dates, too. wrocław tonight, then a couple of nights in kraków next week.
― kfb, Thursday, 2 May 2013 11:48 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Great. Let me know how she is. I'll probably catch her London show.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
so, she was basically great, catching her show very much advised, especially if overt and theatrical acts of blasphemy + polish-language freestyle covers of "sabotage" are anywhere near your thing.
― kfb, Friday, 10 May 2013 09:06 (1 week ago) Permalink
Will book my ticket immediately.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Friday, 10 May 2013 09:17 (1 week ago) Permalink
Rats! Just realised I can't make it. Thanks though!
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Friday, 10 May 2013 09:24 (1 week ago) Permalink
brodka! tonight! so excited!
― kfb, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 14:48 (6 days ago) Permalink
She was great!
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:24 (6 days ago) Permalink
yes, she was! "granda" was crazy from where i was standing.
― kfb, Thursday, 16 May 2013 09:40 (5 days ago) Permalink
I think that got the biggest response of the night. I brought a friend who had never heard anything by her before and he was hugely impressed. Hopefully she'll draw a good crowd at The Great Escape.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Thursday, 16 May 2013 09:48 (5 days ago) Permalink
i suppose that was always guaranteed. i also brought a friend who said it was the most fun he'd had at a gig for a long time. i'd like to know a bit more about the two songs she played in the middle of the set that i didn't recognise... she played them before in łódź, too, but they aren't familiar to me. covers? new songs?
― kfb, Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:11 (5 days ago) Permalink
One of them was a cover of My Girlfriend's Boyfriend by Her Space Holiday. Not sure about the other one.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:21 (5 days ago) Permalink
My Girlfriend's Boyfriend was her debut single in Poland (Dziewczyna Mojego Chłopaka, iirc.
― хуто-хуторянка (ShariVari), Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:24 (5 days ago) Permalink
ah, interesting, thanks! i'm not totally familiar with her pre-granda material. hopefully the other one will be something new.
― kfb, Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:34 (5 days ago) Permalink