Ex-yu Rock- Pop- Hip-hop The Best Of World Music

brought a raw, intelligent, and socially conscious energy to the scene. Hip-Hop & Electronic

The best world music, I realized, isn’t from everywhere. It’s from a place that no longer exists, except in the space between the speakers and the heart. And as long as one kid passes it to another, that place is never really gone.

– The industrial martial avant-gardists. Formed in the mining town of Trbovlje (Slovenia), Laibach took totalitarian imagery and turned it into a terrifying, brilliant art project. They are the only band to have played both North Korea and the Vatican. Their covers of Life Is Life and Sympathy for the Devil are apocalyptic interpretations of Western pop. Ex-Yu Rock- Pop- Hip-Hop The Best Of World Music

– The Bosnian 2Pac. Edo’s 2004 album Slušaj Mater ( Listen Up, Mother ) is a masterpiece of wartime storytelling. In Jesen u Mojem Soku ( Autumn in My Street ), he raps from the perspective of a Sarajevan child during the siege, describing sniper fire as "thunder that follows you home."

So plug in. Turn it up. And let the Balkans break your heart in three languages, four time signatures, and a dozen unforgettable melodies. brought a raw, intelligent, and socially conscious energy

When we ask what makes "The Best of World Music," we are really asking: What music carries the heaviest weight of culture, history, and human emotion?

When the beat dropped into Gane by Who See (a Montenegrin hip-hop duo I didn’t even know I had on the record), Srđan finally spoke. “You have this?” He grinned, a real grin, the first I’d seen on him. “My cousin is their sound guy.” And as long as one kid passes it

By the early 1980s, the Yugoslav scene shifted toward (New Wave), centered in Belgrade, Zagreb, and Ljubljana. Ex-yu Rock- Pop- Hip-hop The Best Of World Music -