Nominally, Smetnaki straddle the cross-section between ska, punk and funk. The band themselves insist that they are not bound to any specific genre. But listen closely and you'll hear jazz in all its forms. Check them out on this week’s Balkan Express
Deca Loših Muzičara (Balkan Express 153)
If you thought nepo-babies are a recent invention then you haven’t heard about Deca Loših Muzičara, a tongue-in-cheek Serbian funk-rock band. They’ve been around since late ‘80s (more or less) and their tunes are still fun.
Tetkine Radosti (Balkan Express 150)
The wonderfully weird thing about Tetkine Radosti, a Slovenian DJ collective, is that they actually raid long-forgotten stashes of vinyl, singles, LPs and EPs, usually laying in some dusty corner of a non-descript antiques shop. In there, they will find musical rarities from former Yugoslavia and mix them all together into their signature sound.