B-B-B-B-B-Balkan!!!

This whole Balkan/Gypsy House sound is something i’ve definitely fallen in love with over the last year. I know it’s been around for years, but it feels like it did make a bit of a revival recently in terms of tracks being made (Riva Starr, Solo, Radioclit all get a nod but many many more people should be mentioned) and in terms of people getting into it again on the dance floor. I can’t say i’m always in the mood to play it but when it’s right, it’s right!

I feel like it has been underrepresented by me considering the amount i have been playing it, so here’s a few tunes which are often staple when i play balkan(ish) stuff

A big classic, “Klezmer” is kinda melow in terms of dance floor, but it’s so catchy and smooth it’s almost hard not to like… I like this Alvaro version most atm:

Pizeta feat. Reagadelica – Klezmer (Alvaro Arabic Nights Bootleg)

Radioclit recently did a remix for Balkan Beat Box and it’s a little bit all over the shop and full on. It’s also supa hype and fun:

Balkan Beat Box – Move It (Radioclit Remix)

If i get a bit more trippy and towards a weirder new house sound, this Style Of Eye tune is a killer. He’s so far up on his own level it’s not funny:

Style of Eye – Grounded

Going back to something classic, Buscemi’s “Sahib Balkan” is real slow, but feels right to get you in the mood.

Buscemi – Sahib Balkan

This M.In & Jones tune is a little bit weirder. Again along the lines of fun horns and bouncey movements.

M.In & Jonas – Balkan Style

A little extra on the end – Mastiksoul is the king his own rolling house sound. So happy and moving, fun and bouncey – he catches the essence of the Balkan sound whilst twisting it plenty to his own.

Juan Magan and Marcos Rodrigue – Bora Bora (Mastiksoul Remix)