Nine months ago, this here show gave you a brief tour of Tetkine Radosti/Auntie’s Delights, a kind of semi-nostalgic throwback to Yugoslav funk, with a twist. Two thirds of that outfit then went on, found a drummer, and formed The Jimmy Barka Experience

The Jimmy Barka Experience are a melange of sounds and genres that can only come from a group of music veterans. Funk, breaks, Afro, rock, and – of course - Balkansploitation. Not unlike Tetkine Radosti, they dig out old records. But the range is much wider, not just from the Alps to the Aegean, but from Peru to Baku.

Perhaps the most peculiar part of the Jimmy Barka Experience is that with their live sets, no two experiences are the same. They build their songs live, on stage, taking raw musical material they dug up somewhere, and crafting new tracks as they go along. There are subtle and not so subtle differences to the same track every time, until they get it just right.

DJs Borka and Bakto, known as Borja Močnik and Jaka Batič in their civilian lives, spent the better part of the last three decades behind all sorts of turntables. They’ve specialised in soul, funk and rare grooves. These became their signature samples, earning them a small but loyal following on the Slovenian club scene.

But once Borka and Bakto teamed up with jazz drummer and percussionist Marjan Stanić, things started moving away from a purely low-key club scene and into wider alternative scene, including some established alternative and world music festivals in Slovenia and its neighbourhood.

The Jimmy Barka Experience are named after Džimi Barka, character from an old Serbian film called When I'm Dead and Gone and played by Dragan Nikolić. Their first on-stage appearance was back in 2010. Since then, they've been around the block a couple of times and even opened for Ursula Rucker, Gramatik and Parov Stelar on occasion.

Earlier this year, the Jimmy Barka Experience released their latest full-length album. True Jusq’ici tout va bien consists of only ten tracks, but in the digital age, who’s to say an album has to be 50 minutes long? And that’s before we consider the fact their tracks are usually on the long side as it is.

And that’s all the time we have for this week. Check out Jimmy Barka Experience on Bandcamp, Spotify and wherever you get your music from. And Balkan Express will be back next week.