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SOUND SYSTEM BIOGRAPHY Two young guys from Belgrade (Serbia) started Belgradeyard Sound System more than 4 years ago. Goran Simonoski (born 1973) and Relja Bobic (born 1979) set up a live music radio show on the airwaves of the now famous Radio B 92. This show is still the basis of all their activities, which spread as time went by. The first big addition
to the roster was the
educational web site that you are visiting at the moment, with versions
in both Serbian and English, which serves not only as radio show
presentation, but also as a kind of information source for all people
interested in contemporary music. Genres don’t exist there, and the
only thread connecting all the music mentioned and reviewed is quality
and originality: be it underground hip hop, African music, dub, free
jazz, glitchy electronica, improvised, rock’n’roll or contemporary. In
one word – music…
A monthly
residency called Soundscapes is presenting
the latest developments in the electronic music field, also with a
video content prepared by friends and associates from all around the
world (Germany, Britain, Japan, Bosnia, Yugoslavia…). Event organizing
is the third main activity, and BGYSS do their best to bring the
hottest acts to Belgrade and present them to the local audience. So,
the BGYSS DJ team supported many of the internationally famous artists,
among them Jazzanova (Compost), DJ Shuriken (Compost), Rechenzentrum
(Kitty Yo/Mille Plateaux), DJ Vadim & Russian Percussion (Ninja
Tune/Jazz Fudge), Matt Black (Coldcut) and Pirate TV crew, Four Tet
(Domino), Tony Morley (Leaf Label), Manitoba (Leaf Label), Murcof (Leaf
Label), Sofa Surfers (Klein), Dub Club crew (Flex club), Sutekh
(Context/Plug Research), Safety Scissors (Plug Research), Kit Clayton
(Orthlorng Musork), Senking (Raster Noton), Vladislav Dlay/Luomo (Mille
plateaux/Force Inc), Monolake (Imbalance), Jamie Liddell (Warp), Req
(Warp), Kevin Blechdom (CoS), AGF (Orthlorng Musork), Tarwater (Kitty
Yo), Information (Runne Grammofon), Pita (Mego), Tujiko Noriko
(Mego/Tomlab), Andreas Berthling (Hapna), Aoki Takamasa (Progressive
Form), Radian (Thrill Jockey), Thilges 3 (Staubgold) etc. etc. etc.
BGYSS also took part in
the big Transmediale festival
in Berlin in the years 2002, 2003 and 2004. In between these
experiences, they set up their own festival – Dis-patch – in Belgrade
in October 2002, presenting more than 20 artists from 9 countries, and
thus directly facing the local Yugoslav audience with a fine selection
of contemporary electronic musicians. After the success of the first
edition, the festival will hopefully go on, each October. BGYSS are, as
music producers, now signed to the Cosmic.Sounds label from London with
the debut 12” featuring internationally established remixers and a
full-length album to be released in 2004. To promote the material, a
live band has been set up, with two original members on programming and
the addition of the double-bass player Ivan Antic (born 1974). The live
shows present the wide scope of BGYSS’s musical interests, consisting
of live electronic improvisation and the material to be released on the
debut album in equal parts, which is more in the realms of acoustic,
spiritiual, free jazz music – in its latest incarnation.
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