Robert Soko

"I really enjoyed the book's gung-ho style."  - Simon Broughton-  Songlines, London -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Gleefully blunt." - Daniel Spicer- The Wire, London-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"This book is going to be mined for raw material by Balkan culturologists for a long time to come."- Prof Eric Gordy, University College London-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Hardcore anthropology writing - on drugs! Finally, an inside look at the BalkanBeats craze, from Yugo-land to Yugo-wars to Yugo-diaspora.
Thank you for filling the gap."- Christoph Borkowsky, CEO Piranha Arts & WOMEX, Berlin------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"A detailed, multifaceted, valuable work - funny sex scenes, heartbreak, and drug-fueled excess included."- Ines Körver, Folker Magazin-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"An impressive panorama of an era brought vividly back to life - a must-read."- Chris Baumgarten, Balkan Stories Vienna DESCRIPTIONBalkanBeats DJ Robert Soko and music journalist Robert Rigney have put together the highly compelling Balkan Beats - An Oral History looking back on 30 years of Balkan music madness in Berlin, New York, Istanbul, Tokyo - and beyond.
From articles, memories and interviews with over 130 artists, a fascinating portrait of a scene emerges that at its peak aspired to be "the new rock'n'roll". Balkan Beats Book has adopted the "oral history" format, a literary genre that has gained in popularity in recent years. The book consists of edited passages from a collection of interviews and anecdotes that are tightly woven together into an accurate chronology.
The model is the 1996 classic Please Kill Me - The Oral History of Punk.