Their name suggests a troupe of plugged-in Gypsies, and Balkan Beat Box is that, for starters. Lob on overdoses of klezmer and hip-hop, funk and dub, rass band and Arabic elements, and you'll be closer to getting it. Formed around two Israeli-born musicians,Tamir Muskat, who pounds the drums and takes care of the programming, and saxman Ori Kaplan, Balkan Beat Box is a veritable melting pot of disparate sounds and seemingly contrary influences, all scrunched together seamlessly and disguised as an exhausting riot. It's not that others haven't attempted the sort of mix that BBB does on this sophomore effort, it's that none have been so successful at pulling it off. On tracks like "Digital Monkey," with its dancehall-style toasting atop bottom-heavy echno and snaky brass, and "Joro Boro," with its surfy guitar, stark, industrial rhythm and mesmeric guest vocal from Dessislava Stefanova of the London Bulgarian Choir, it's one surprise after another here. Calling it world music wouldn't do it justice, it's more like out of this world music.
As kellywatchthestars posted yesterdayhttp://mog.com/kellywatchthestars/blog_post/140271If it looks too good to be true, it usually is :)"Free music downloads site in chaos as record giants pull out":http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23434386-details/Free+music+downloads+site+in+chaos+as+record+giants+pull+out/article.doMusic fans around the world faced confusion today as it was announ...
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Top 10+ eardelicious releases of 2007 Peace & Happiness to the MOG Community in 08!1 Nu Med - Balkan Beat Box2 The Shepherd's Dog - Iron & Wine3 None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock4 In Our Nature - Jose Gonzalez5 Icky Thump - White Stripes6 Sound of Silver - LCD Soundsystem7 Boxer - The National8 Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon- Devendra Banhart9 8 Diagrams- Wu-Tang Clan10 Graduation - Kanye West11 ...
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About to pack up the laptop in preperation for pre-dawn trip to the airport to be off to Baton Rouge for what should be a nice 4th of July and a wedding. Internet access is a bit shaky, as I'm not even entirely certain where I'll be sleeping any given night. So bearing that in might, a bit of late-night, vicodin perscription-powered bullshit.Picked up an issue of Alternative Press for the firs...
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Great bandthis treak is my favorit out of both CD'srecommended!!
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| 1 Keep 'Em Straight (Intro) |
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| 2 Hermetico |
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| 3 Habibi Min Zaman |
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| 4 Bbbeat |
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| 5 Digital Monkey |
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| 6 Balcasio |
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| 7 Pachima |
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| 8 Quand Est-Ce Qu'on Arrive? |
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| 9 Mexico City |
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| 10 Delancey |
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| 11 Joro Boro |
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| 12 Gypsy Queens |
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| 13 $20 for Boban |
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| 14 Baharim (Outro) |
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