Japanese people have developed a good ear for Balkans music and a DJ crew named Balkans Beats is drawing massive crowds in its Tokyo events.
It was November 2015 and the Japanese crowd at Robert Soko’s music-fuelled party in Tokyo was pumped as they grooved to rousing rhythms played by the Bosnian DJ.
“In Japan it has to be cool. It has to be quick if you want to catch this audience right now. Because the audience you get now in their twenties and even late twenties, you will lose them in three, four or five years…” Although there is to this day a great deal of infighting among warring factions of DJs and musicians about who was first and who influenced whom, it’s fairly clear that Soko’s parties inspired a whole array of East European post-communist club-nights, from star-author, Wladimir Kaminer’sevents in Frankfurt am Main.But it was his introduction to the music of fellow Bosnian Goran Bregovic that forced Soko to reevaluate the music he had grown up with in Bosnia, but had never really taken heed of.
The years between 2005 and 2012 are generally perceived to be the peak of the Balkan hype – when club-goers in Europe flocked Balkan parties to dance their cares away to upbeat, brass-laden club tracks reworked with heavy dollops of electronica, bass and break-beats. “There were a lot of people into belly-dancing coming to our parties,” says Chiku Yutaka, a Japanese Balkan DJ who helped found Balkan Beats Tokyo. Extremely fashion conscious, a Tokyo trend-setter in his own way, he was largely responsible for pulling in a hip crowd for the Japanese Balkan parties.
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