Club Balkan Fever!!! Helsinki

2012-02-02T03:57:00.001-08:00

Sat.25.02. Club Balkan Fever presents :

SHANTEL 14 Years of Anarchy & Romance DJ Session

Hosted By Borzin & Levy

The King of Balkan Disko returns to Helsinki to play another of his 5
Hours Dj Sessions .
Everybody still remembers the great Show in front of a Crowd of 4000 @
the Flow Festival 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvH-GOxSB7E

Shantel is an exceptional artist with a global reach. He has won
international awards for several of his albums, which cover a broad
range of styles, and has fired up the atmosphere at hundreds of gigs,
festivals and parties with his uniquely eclectic sound. His Bucovina,
Disko Partizani, Disko Boy and Citizen of Planet Paprika have made
this German phenomenon (Vogue) famous throughout Europe (including
Turkey, where Shantel is a pop icon) and beyond, inspiring countless
artists from Finland to Buenos Aires and former Yugoslavia (where he
is regularly featured on MTV Balkanika).
http://www.myspace.com/shantelbucovinacluborkestar
https://www.facebook.com/ShantelBucovinaClub

Time 22-04

Tickets 15 €
Get your tickets in advance here
http://www.tiketti.fi/Shantel-DJ-Session-LeBonk-Music-Machine-Helsinki-lippuja/13676
Agelimit is 24 but with a presale Ticket only 20 years
YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

https://www.facebook.com/groups/67757848904/

http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

Sat.28.01. Club Balkan Fever presents :Dj Government 4000 ( Serbia )

2012-01-09T18:05:00.001-08:00

Resident DJs BORZIN & LEVY feat. VLADIMIR KEKEZ ( Serbia)

Special Guest: DJ GOVERNMENT 4000 ( Serbia ) For the first time ever in Finland.

The diversity of world bass music is perfectly captured here.
Forward-thinking and fresh, these new sub-genres rely on modern
technology yet are heavily inspired by traditional cultures. They're
global yet influenced by very local experiences. And more than
anything this new musical landscape is colourful, fun and constantly
evolving. In Government 4000 they have found themselves a champion
where Easts meets West and where everybody comes to dance."Vladimir
Popović aka Government 4000 is one of the leading lights in the global
bass scene in Eastern Europe. Listen closely as Brazilian baile funk
meets Balkan beats, gypsy grooves, electro folk and more global bass
to get you moving.
soundcloud.com/government4000

Time 22-04

Tickets 8 € http://www.tiketti.fi/Club-Balkan-Fever-presents-The-Next-Dimension-LeBonk-Music-lippuja/13674
Agelimit is 24 but with a presale Ticket only 20 years
YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

https://www.facebook.com/groups/67757848904/

http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

Sat.17.12. Club Balkan Fever presents: 2011 Season Closing Party

2011-12-12T23:25:00.001-08:00

AFROCOLA feat. Sakari Kukko (sax) Live

From Senegal, via Serbian mountains, deep into Finnish forests echoing
with schlager-oompah.
Afrocola is really an extraordinary combination. Instant party guaranteed!
The Track "Näitä polkuja tallaan"which has been played by Radio
Helsinki during the last 2 weeks up and down is from the just released
Balkan Fever CD compilation .
Come and get your own copy of the CD at the party .

Members :
Meissa Niang (voc)
Antero Priha (tr)
Samppa Leino (tuba)
Julius Heikkiä (g)
Ilmari Heikinheimo (dr)
Vladimir Kekez (perc)

Marko Roininen (perc)

www.facebook.com/afrocola
http://soundcloud.com/afrocola

Balkan Fever Residents: DJs Borzin & Levy

Place : Dubrovnik Eerinkinkatu 11
Time : 22 - 03
Tickets only 10 € NOW from www.digelius.fi ( Please Cash Only )
We advice to buy your Ticket in advance .
Age : 18

Balkan Fever
https://www.facebook.com/groups/67757848904/
http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

We return in 2012 for a New Season of Balkan Fever Madness .The best
is you buy yourself some new Dancing shoes .

Sat.28.01.2012 Club Balkan Fever presents :The Next Dimension

Resident DJs Borzin & Levy feat. Vladimir Kekez ( Serbia)

Special Guest: DJ GOVERNMENT 4000 ( Serbia )
For the First Time ever in Finland

The diversity of world bass music is perfectly captured here.
Forward-thinking and fresh, these new sub-genres rely on modern
technology yet are heavily inspired by traditional cultures. They're
global yet influenced by very local experiences. And more than
anything this new musical landscape is colourful, fun and constantly
evolving. In Government 4000 they have found themselves a champion
where Easts meets West and where everybody comes to dance.
"VladimirPopović aka Government 4000 is one of the leading lights in
the global bass scene in Eastern Europe. Listen closely as
Brazilian baile funk meets Balkan beats, gypsy grooves, electro folk
and more global bass to get you moving .
soundcloud.com/government4000

Time 22-04

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Sat.25.02. 2012
SHANTEL DJ Session @ Le Bonk 22-04
Tickets here: Age 20/24
http://www.tiketti.fi/Shantel-DJ-Session-LeBonk-Music-Machine-Helsinki-lippuja/13676

Sat.10.12.Club Balkan Fevers presents : Little x-mas Party

2011-12-05T23:08:00.000-08:00

We just released and celebrated our very first CD Compilation with V/A
of Balkan Music from Finland.
The Cd will be in all serious Record stores on the 7th of December .
So make sure you have time to put one copy for yourself
or Friends under the Christmas Tree. And we decided to Party a little
bit more before x-mas so welcome and get your Dancing Shoes ready.

Special Guest DJ 1-vituhailé

"So far you've been partying to some great gypsy music from the
Balkans - so now it's high time to taste some other kinds wild-ass
gypsy party music from accross the Mediterranean: SPAIN. And more
specifically, the Rumba Katalana and Flamenco Fusion Pop scenes of the
60's and 70's, also known these days the Achilifunk legacy, which has
been prominently featured in places like the Sonar Festival. Artists
like Peret, Las Grecas, Los Amaya and Los Chichos will invite you to
baila baila!"

Resident DJs Borzin & Levy feat. Vladimir Kekez ( Serbia)

PLace :Le Bonk

Time : 22-04

Tickets : 8 €
http://www.tiketti.fi/Club-Balkan-Fever-presents-Little-X-mas-Party-LeBonk-Music-lippuja/13673
Agelimit is 24 but with a presale Ticket only 20 years
YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

http://www.levykauppax.fi/artist/v_a/balkan_fever_helsinki/#cd

https://www.facebook.com/groups/67757848904/

http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

Sat.26.11. Club Balkan Fever presents: Cd Release Party

2011-11-08T01:32:00.001-08:00

The Balkan Fever Cd Compilation Vol. 1 Release Party

Resident DJs Borzin & Levy feat. Vladimir Kekez ( Serbia )

Special Guest : Jaakko Laitinen & Väärä Raha Live

Jaakko Laitinen & Väärä Raha was established in 2009 after which we have been touring hard around Finland from very northern Lapland to Helsinki. Neither have we forgotten the foreigners. On the contrary, we have visited many times the Baltic and Scandinavian countries as well as Germany. During the year 2010 only we did 80 gigs. We have played in big festivals with thousands of listeners as well as in shabby little pubs, in culture houses, in a living room, on streets, at weddings and in clubs. And always our music has won the hearts of lovers and dancers!
http://www.myspace.com/mrjaakko

Time 22-04

Tickets 10 € http://www.tiketti.fi/tapahtuma/13647

Agelimit is 24 but with a presale Ticket only 20 years
YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

https://www.facebook.com/groups/67757848904/

2011-10-03T13:01:00.001-07:00

Friday 04.11. Balkan Brass Festival Helsinki

2011-10-03T12:58:00.001-07:00

@ The Circus, Salomonkatu 1-3,

Opening Hours 20.00-04.00

K-18 /Age 18

Tickets 39,90 € from http://www.menolippu.fi/showevent.asp?id=1908

Face Book Event https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=225439220813563

FANFARE CIOCARLIA LIVE/ ROMANIA
BOBAN & MARKO MARKOVIC LIVE/ SERBIA

BAD ASS BRASS BAND LIVE/ FIN

DJ ROBERT SOKO /BALKAN BEATS/ GER
DJ BORZIN & DJ LEVY FEAT. VLADA KEKEZ / FIN

In November The Circus in Helsinki will host an event like nothing
seen before on the Finnish stages, a battle of the worlds two biggest
Balkan brass bands. The musical fighters are the Romanian Fanfare
Ciocarlia and the Serbian Boban & Marko Markovich. This time the dance
bands that can often only be heard in the static concert halls will
perform their music the way they are supposed to: aiming for the dance
floor.

Fanfare Ciocarlia

Fanfare Ciocarlia is a brass band consisting of twelve Romanian
Romani. They have performed over thousand concerts in over fifty
countries, and released five internationally acclaimed and awarded
albums. In addition to the traditional Romani and Balkan influences
they fuse elements of international pop, flamenco and Bollywood into
their fast paced music. The band themselves cheekily define their
music as Balkan Funk. Known for their frantic performances the band
never plays their music from note sheets. They skillfully improvise
their songs into fresh new forms in each and every one of their
concerts.

Boban & Marko Markovic

The Boban & Marko Markovic Orchestra has been the leading Balkan Brass
band in Serbia over the last 17 years. The band based on brass and
percussion's is led by Boban Markovic, the man often crowned as the
best trumpet player of the Balkans. They perform a fresh take on
traditional Balkan music, and they have already released nine albums.
The band's music is also well known from the soundtracks of several
Balkan films, the most famous of them being the awarded "Underground"
by Emir Kusturica.

The other Markovic in the band's name is Boban's son Marko, who joined
his father's group in the age of 14. Before joining he had been
practising for up to 10 hours a day, the rumour says. The band has
been warded several times, and they are immensely popular in both the
Balkans and the rest of the world. They regularly perform at the
world's biggest festivals for tens of thousands of people, and in the
Hungarian festival of Sziget even Oasis had to re-schedule their
performance as the festival's ecstatic audience would not leave the
stage after the performance of Boban & Marko Markovic.

In addition to the live bands the event will host a performance of DJ
Robert Soko, the founder of the Berlin based Club "Balkan Beats". Soko
and his Brand are considered to be some of the biggest forces behind
the recent huge international success of Balkan music.

The domestic cream is represented by Bad Ass Brass Band and the Balkan
Fever Club DJ's Borzin and Levy. Plus Serbian Born Vladimir Kekez on
Darbuka.

www.myspace.com/fanfareciocarlia

www.bobanandmarkomarkovic.com

www.balkanbeats.de

www.myspace.com/thebadassbrassband

www.balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com

www.thecircus.fi

Party Sat.01.10.Club Balkan Fever present: DJ CLICK ( Paris )

2011-09-30T12:43:00.001-07:00

Party Party tomorrow Saturday !!! FB Event http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=228833103837505

Sat. 01.10. Club Balkan Fever !!! Helsinki presents:

DJ CLICK ( Paris ) For the First Time in Finland

Hosted by Balkan Fever Resident:

DJs BORZIN & LEVY + Darbuka player VLADIMIR KEKEZ ( Serbia )

Place: Le Bonk Yrjönkatu 24 Helsinki

Tickets 8 € http://www.tiketti.fi/tapahtuma/13200

Agelimit is 24 but with a presale Ticket only 20 years
YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

Balkan Fever!!! Helsinki in Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/groups/67757848904/

http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

Tune In Turn On Drop Out Radio Helsinki 88,6 Mhz www.radiohelsinki.fi
Saturday 1.10 klo 18:00 - 20:00 Kohti Valoa with Dj Bunuel with special Guest DJ CLICK @ 19.00

DJ Click (France)

www.myspace.com/djclicknofridge·

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j19WPsc57tw&feature=related

The razor-sharp production styles of one of France's most adventurous
DJs pulsate with a range of Mediterranean musical flavours. DJ Click
is as passionate for electronic music as for traditional world music –
delivering alongside tsigane, klesmer, flamenco,jazz and techno and
drum'n'bass. DJ Click boasts an impressive list of production credits
including the fiery electro-jazz collective UHT, numerous remixes for
Warsaw Village Band, Mahala Raï Banda, Burhan Öçal, Boogie Balagan and
Rachid Taha. "No limit, no visa, no border music" - a global
street-style ethos warmed by his passionate electro dance floor
approach.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfuOdOoUgU8&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VIFAuDfFuw&feature=related

Balkan Fever!!! Helsinki in Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/groups/67757848904/

http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

Next Party Friday 04.11. @ The Circus

The First Ever Balkan Brass Festival in Finland .

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=225439220813563

Get your Tickets now before it is to late .

http://www.menolippu.fi/showevent.asp?id=1908

Sat.01.10.Club Balkan Fever present: DJ CLICK ( Paris )

2011-09-27T10:37:00.001-07:00

Sat. 01.10. Club Balkan Fever !!! Helsinki presents:

DJ CLICK ( Paris ) For the First Time in Finland

Hosted by Balkan Fever Resident:

DJs BORZIN & LEVY + Darbuka player VLADIMIR KEKEZ ( Serbia )

Place: Le Bonk Yrjönkatu 24 Helsinki

Tickets 8 € http://www.tiketti.fi/tapahtuma/13200

Agelimit is 24 but with a presale Ticket only 20 years
YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

Balkan Fever!!! Helsinki in Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/groups/67757848904/

http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

DJ Click (France)

www.myspace.com/djclicknofridge·

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j19WPsc57tw&feature=related

The razor-sharp production styles of one of France's most adventurous
DJs pulsate with a range of Mediterranean musical flavours. DJ Click
is as passionate for electronic music as for traditional world music –
delivering alongside tsigane, klesmer, flamenco,jazz and techno and
drum'n'bass. DJ Click boasts an impressive list of production credits
including the fiery electro-jazz collective UHT, numerous remixes for
Warsaw Village Band, Mahala Raï Banda, Burhan Öçal, Boogie Balagan and
Rachid Taha. "No limit, no visa, no border music" - a global
street-style ethos warmed by his passionate electro dance floor
approach.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfuOdOoUgU8&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VIFAuDfFuw&feature=related

Balkan Fever!!! Helsinki in Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/groups/67757848904/

http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

Next Party Friday 04.11. @ The Circus

The First Ever Balkan Brass Festival in Finland .

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=225439220813563

Get your Tickets now before it is to late .

http://www.menolippu.fi/showevent.asp?id=1908

2011-09-06T04:24:00.001-07:00

Saturday 24.09.2011

Club Balkan Fever & Love and Anarchy Festival proudly presents:

SHAZALAKAZOO Live ( SERBIA )

Balkan Fever: DJs BORZIN & LEVY feat. VLADIMIR KEKEZ on Daburka ( Serbia )

Place : DUBROVNIK / Eerikinkinkatu 11 / Helsinki / Finland

Time : 22.30 - 03

Tickets are 12 € and limited to 200 Pieces available from
www.digelius.fi on sale NOW. Cash Only Please !

Age Limit 18

Links :
http://www.myspace.com/shazalakazoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6tlvJ-6154&feature=player_embedded#at=15

Shazalakazoo Making electronic music since 1998; performing it live since 2000.
A band from Belgrade (Serbia) formed by Milan Djurić (usb-clarinet,
plastic knobs, faders, rubber pads, silicon chips, singing and
shouting) and Uroš Petković (electric violin, turntablism and silicon
chips). The band plays danceable electronic bass music spiced with the
sounds originating from their own region - the Balkans. Their
interpretation of Balkan melodies, harmonies and rhythm patterns are
often intertwined with the influences that come mostly from Latin
America and Sub-Saharan Africa, creating the unique musical blend
which they call folkstep.

The band performed in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro,
Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy,
Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Russia, Denmark,
Sweden, Norway, Finland, Slovakia and Poland so far.
They have two albums - Speaking Balkanian (2010) and The New album
BANG! BANG! is aiming to be released in October 2011 for Berlin`s
EASTBLOK MUSIC Label.
Their compositions and remixes appear on various compilations or other
artist`s releases.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67757848904&v=info

BIO:
Club Balkan Fever!!! has been rocking Finland with his attitude for
over 2 Years now.They are running there Clubs Nights @ Dubrovnik
Eerikinkatu 11 and Le Bonk Yrjönkatu 24 ,Helsinki Finland. We play all
Kind of Balkan Music in a Traditional and Modern Style. Great parties
with a flavor of Balkan Beats and Melodies are just right place for
people to have one of the best PARTY, PARTY times of there Live !So
get some new Dancing Shoes before you enter the Dancefloor.OPA! The
Club had Guests like Mahala Rai Banda ( Macedonia ) , Besh o Drom (
Hungary ), Robert Soko ( Berlin ) , Ahilea ( Macedonia ) , Dj Tagada (
Paris ) ,Max Pashm ( Uk ) , Gaetano Fabri ( Belgium) ,Dj Shotnez (
NYC) , Prinssen Paulista ( Oslo )& Shantel (Germany ) and the whole
range of the local Balkan Music Scene from Finland there are to many
to mention here.

Sat.03.09. Club Balkan Fever presents : SEREFE SOUND SYSTEM Live

2011-08-28T12:57:00.001-07:00

Sat.03.09. Club Balkan Fever !!! Helsinki Presents :

SEREFE SOUND SYSTEM Live (Fin) There first gig EVER so dont miss this one !

Members : Jaakko Laitinen , Arttu Tolonen ,Teemu Korpipaa, feat.Vladimir Kekez ( Serbia )

http://serefesoundsystem.bandcamp.com/track/ota-osasi

Resident DJs BORZIN & LEVY

Place: Le Bonk www.lebonk.fi Yrjönkatu 24 Helsinki

Tickets 8 € www.tiketti.fi

Agelimit is 24 but with a presale Ticket only 20 years
YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

SEREFE SOUND SYSTEM
Yhdelle juttu alkoi homeenhajuisessa kellariklubissa Berliinissä. Toiselle rovaniemeläisen kirpparin levylaarin äärellä. Kolmas kuulee jonkun pohjoismaisen kansanmusafestivaalin loputtomilla parkkipaikkajatkoilla Boban Markovicia. Kiinnostuksen kipinä jää kaikilla kytemään.Serefen kolmesta ydinjäsenestä Jaakko Laitisen kipinä roihahtaa liekkiin ensimmäisenä ja siitä syntyvät ensin lyhytikäiseksi jäänyt Orkestar Business Class ja myöhemmin suurempaa mainetta niittänyt Jaakko Laitinen&Väärä Raha.

Arttu Tolosen ja Teemu Korpipään kohdalla homma jäi tuliselle diggailuasteelle eikä tie vienyt balkanilaisia vaikutteita hyödyntäviin projekteihin moneen vuoteen. Sitten tuli Serefe Sound System, joka sai alkunsa Artun haastatellessa Jaakkoa lehteen. Bändissä yhdistyvät Teemun konevääntö Artun kielisoittimiin ja sämpleihin sekä Jaakon dramaattiseen laulantaan. Vuosikymmenet väliltä 1950-2010 lyövät kättä iskelmämelodioiden ja filosofisten tulkintojen lentäessä pulputtavien acid-riffien päällä busukin soittaessa valkoisen miehen bluesia. DJ-setin ja konsertin raja hämärtyy rock-poliiseja ärsyttävällä tavalla.

Hiki lentää, mutta onneksi on kravatti kaulassa, johon sitä pyyhkiä.

Fwd: Sat.13.08.Club Balkan Fever!!! Goes Mbar Terrace:SHAVA

2011-08-12T10:43:00.000-07:00

Sat.13.08.Club Balkan Fever!!! Goes Mbar Terrace presents :

SHAVA (FI) Suomibhangra Live

Kiureli Sammallahti (vocals, keyboards, harmonium)
Tuomo Kuure (bass)
Valtteri Bruun (guitar)
Hannu Risku (drums, ragga vocals)
Sami Rönkä (dhol, tabla)
Peali Mitra (vocals)
Jessica Heinonen (dance)

http://www.suomibhangra.com/

http://www.myspace.com/shavamusic

& Balkan Fever DJs BORZIN & LEVY

http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

This is the last Balkan Fever event for this Summer in mbars Terrace.

Address: mbar
Mannerheimintie 22-24 00100 Helsinki ,Finland
www.mbar.fi

Timetable 21-02
Band plays around 23.00

Absolute Free Entry !

KANSA HALUAA BHANGRAA!

ja Intian syke iskee kuin miljoona ampeeria suoraan sydämeen...

Shava soittaa iskusäveliä nykypäivän betonisen maailmankylän asukin arjen riemuista ja murheista. Suomibhangra on uuden vuosituhannen globaalia kansanmusiikkia, jonka juuret ovat kotiseudulla Itä-Helsingissä mutta latva syleilee koko maailmaa. Rytmi ja sydän tulee Intiasta.

Bändin nimeen ei liity monimutkaisia filosfisia merkityksiä. Suomessa on lauleskeltu "halitulijallaa" ja meksikolainen riemunkiljahdus kuuluu "arriba!". Kun Punjabissa on mahtava meininki meneillään siellä hihkutaan "shava, shava!

Kun rumpu alkaa soida, sun on pakko tanssia..

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204195969638633

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8_LynHb6kA&feature=player_embedded

Sat.13.08.Club Balkan Fever!!! Goes Mbar Terrace: SHAVA (FI)

2011-08-09T04:36:00.001-07:00

SHAVA (FI) Suomibhangra Live

http://www.suomibhangra.com/

http://www.myspace.com/shavamusic

& Balkan Fever Residents DJs BORZIN & LEVY

http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

This is the last Balkan Fever Event for this Summer in mbars Terrace.

Address: mbar
Mannerheimintie 22-24 00100 Helsinki ,Finland
www.mbar.fi

Timetable 21-02

Shava plays around 23.00

Absolute Free Entry !

Sat.06.08. Club Balkan Fever present:BALTIK BASS Vol.1

2011-07-31T00:09:00.001-07:00

Guest : DJ SVENGALI (Baltik Bass/Boomshaklaka)

http://www.facebook.com/boomshakalaka.worldwide

Balkan Fever Residents:

DJs LEVY & Dj BORZIN

and VLADIMIR KEKEZ (Srb) on Darbuka

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67757848904&v=info

Place : Le Bonk Yjrönkatu 24 ,Helsinki

Tickets: 8 € from Tiketti.fi

Ikäraja Ennakkolipulla K-20, ovelta K-24

Agelimit is 24 but with a presale Ticket only 20 years
YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

Sat.02.07.Club Balkan Fever!!! Helsinki present:

2011-06-27T09:51:00.001-07:00

DJ SHOTNEZ ( of balkan beat box , NYC)

http://www.myspace.com/djshotnez
http://www.balkanbeatbox.com/
http://soundcloud.com/tracks/search?q[fulltext]=dj+shotnez&q[type]=&q[duration]=

DJ BORZIN (Balkan Fever)
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67757848904&v=info

VLADIMIR KEKEZ (Serbia / Balkan Fever ) on Darbuka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblet_drum

Location :
Le Bonk Music Machine
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki / Finland
www.lebonk.fi

Roof terrace open till 04

Time : 22-04

Tickets 10,- € pre sale here http://www.tiketti.fi/tapahtuma/12272

Age limit 24 years with pre sale Ticket only 20 years

YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

Le Bonk summer/fall 2011 program released!

2011-06-15T04:51:00.001-07:00

Sat.11.06.Club Balkan Fever!!! Goes Mbar Terrace:

2011-06-07T12:59:00.001-07:00

Sat.11.06.Club Balkan Fever!!! Goes Mbar Terrace:

AFROCOLA BRASS BAND (FI) feat. Meissa Niang (Senegal)

Meissa Niang: Vocals & percussion
Antero Priha: Trumpet
Samppa Leino: Tuba
Ilmari Heikinheimo: Drums
Julius Heikkilä: Electric guitar
Vladimir Kekez: Percussion
Pauli Lyytinen: Saxophone
Makro: Bassdrum & percussion

Balkan Fever DJs BORZIN & LEVY

This program is part of the Bassline Festival
http://www.facebook.com/basslinefestival

Address: mbar -
Mannerheimintie 22-24 00100 Helsinki ,Finland
www.mbar.fi

Timetable to all Events Outside 21-02 & Inside 02-03
Band plays around 23.00

! Absolute Free Entry !

FB Event http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=128510110563008

Sat.04.06.Club Balkan Fever !!! Goes Summer@Le Bonk

2011-05-31T05:38:00.001-07:00

Sat. 04.06. Club Balkan Fever !!! Goes Summer @ Le Bonk

DJs:

REETA OF WONDERLUST
http://www.myspace.com/djswonderlust

SOMA ( Balkan Fever )

BORZIN & LEVY ( Balkan Fever Residents )
http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

The DJs will also play on the Roof Top Terrace 22-04

Location :
Le Bonk Music Machine
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki / Finland

Time : 22-04

Tickets 8,- € pre sale from www.tiketti.fi

Age limit 24 years with pre sale Ticket only 20 years

YOU can pass the Queue with a advance Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

More about Club Balkan Fever!!! here :
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67757848904&v=info

GREAT NEWS!

2011-05-26T14:28:00.001-07:00

BALKAN BRASS BATTLE FESTIVAL HELSINKI 4.11. CONFIRMED!

2011-05-26T14:26:00.000-07:00

Woohoo this will be it folks! Get Your low-price tickets in time!

Sat.21.05.Club Balkan Fever !!!present :EMMI KNUUTINEN & CO: BULGARSKA KITKA

2011-05-19T13:03:00.001-07:00

Saturday 21.05. Club Balkan Fever !!! Helsinki present :

EMMI KNUUTINEN & CO: BULGARSKA KITKA Live

Emmi Knuutinen: voc, kantele
Mamo Ensemble: voc
Mihail Dintchev: tambura, voc
Von & Af: harmonium, tuba, voc

Emmi Knuutinen & CO will play brand new material which has roots in Bulgarian dance and
choir music and in traditional singing.Performers are all folk musicians from Finland and Bulgaria.
Emmi Knuutinen sings in the Vocal Ensemble Finno-Balkan Voices:
http://www.myspace.com/finnobalkanvoices

! Attention ! The Live Performance will already start at 21.00

Hosted by Balkan Fever Djs Borzin &Levy

Place : Dubrovnik, Eerikinkatu 11 ,Helsinki

08pm - 3 am - 20.00 - 03.00

Age limit 18

Tickets only 10,-€ After the Band 5,-€

Pre sale starts 16.05. from www.digelius.fi (cash only please)

Club Balkan Fever!!! info :

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=202341153141210

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67757848904&v=info

http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

Sat.14.05.Club Balkan Fever present : BALTIK BASS

2011-05-08T13:56:00.001-07:00

Note: Change of Artist ! We would like to inform that Dj Shotnez of Balkan Beat Box cant play on the 14.05. in Le Bonk .But we are happy to announce that he will be coming on Sat.02.07. to play at Club Balkan Fever.More info come soon.

: New Line up :

Saturday 14.05. Club Balkan Fever !!! present: BALTIK BASS
...

DJs:

Guest EMIL ( Baltik Bass )

Resident BORZIN ( Balkan Fever )

Resident : VLADIMIR KEKEZ (Ser)

plays Darbuka http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblet_drum

Location :
Le Bonk Music Machine
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki / Finland

:Tip: Le Bonks great Summer Roof Terrace is open till 04

Time : 22-04

Tickets Only 8,- €
pre sale here : http://www.tiketti.fi/tapahtuma/11891

Age limit 24 years with pre sale Ticket only 20 years
YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

Dj Emils Bio :
He is a versatile DJ with a keen interest in music from all around

the world. He has a background in musicology and apart from producing music and DJing, Emil lectures on popular music history. Emil also runs the Maasto Records imprint, which latest releases include the Baltik bass vol. 1 EP. This release features new electronic club music based on the folk music from the Baltic sea region - defined as a sister genre to Balkan beat. Emil has outside of Finland performed in places like Germany, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia and, together with the Boom Shakalaka DJ collective, he hosts a world music Radio show on Basso radio.

DJ Emils Old & New Favourites

1. Nicolae Guta - Cu cine m-am insurat
2. Nicolae Guta - Gigolo
3. Dj Svengali vs Markku Lepistö - Free your soul feat. Mad Ice
4. Cosmonautix - Misirlou
5. Las Balkanieras - What's cooking?
6. Mightyfools - Hoo haa (Neki Edit)
7. Dunkelbunt - White Chocolate Butterfly (Stefano Miele Remix)
8. Sa Bat Machines - Valium gitan
9. Nicolae Guta - Domnul politai
10.Stefano Miele - Dumineca Matina feat. Daniele Durante

http://www.maasto.com/
http://soundcloud.com/maasto
http://soundcloud.com/maasto/sets/boom-shakalaka-presents-baltik/
http://www.boomshakalaka.fi/
http://www.mixcloud.com/boomshakalaka/
http://www.basso.fi/radio/boomshakalaka

More about Club Balkan Fever!!! here :
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67757848904&v=info

Club Balkan Fever !!! goes Summer Terrace

2011-05-03T10:28:00.001-07:00

Club Balkan Fever & mbar present together a Series of 4 Events during this Summer on mbars Terrace.
Yes finally Summer is coming and we are Happy to have put a Great program together for that.Mark your Calendars.
We suggest to get some new dancing shoes.Opa!

Timetable to all Events Outside 21-02 & Inside 02-03
Free Entry !

Sat.07.05.Club Balkan Fever!!! DJs Borzin & Levy
Guest Vladimir Kekez ( Ser) plays Darbuka
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblet_drum

Sat.11.06.Club Balkan Fever!! ! AFROKOLA BRASS BAND (FI)
& DJs Borzin & Levy
This program is part of the Bassline Festival
http://www.facebook.com/basslinefestival

Sat.09.07.Club Balkan Fever!!! DJs Borzin & Levy
Guest Vladimir Kekez (Ser) plays Darbuka

Sat.13.08. Club Balkan Fever !!! SHAVA (FI)
http://www.suomibhangra.com/
& DJs Borzin & Levy

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67757848904&v=info

Mayday Sat.30.04.Club Balkan Fever presents: 2 Years Anniversary of Madness!

2011-04-18T01:53:00.001-07:00

Special Guest : DOBRANOTCH from ST. Petersburg / Russia

This international band consist of musicians from Russia, Moldova and Lebanon and plays music inspired by
traditions of these countries, using acoustic instruments, such as violin, accordion, cimbalom, tuba and percussion.
Dobranotch is an odd local folk band that blends Balkan folk, Klezmer music and Arab rhythms .
So welcome to dance of your Shoes with us.

http://www.myspace.com/dobranotchband

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lZfJ3EEjxw&feature=related

Hosted by Balkan Fever Djs BORZIN & LEVY

Place : Dubrovnik, Eerikinkatu 11 ,Helsinki

10 pm - 4 am - 22.00 - 04.00

Age limit 18

Tickets only 12,- € After the Band 6,- €

Limited to 200 Tickets . Be Smart be Fast .

Pre sale from www.digelius.fi (cash only please)

Next Club Balkan Fever 14.05. in Le Bonk.

Sat.16.04.Club Balkan Fever !!! present :Teija Niku & Grupa Balkan

2011-04-11T01:48:00.000-07:00

Sat.16.04. Club Balkan Fever !!!Helsinki present :

Teija Niku & Grupa Balkan

http://www.teijaniku.com/

Hosted by Djs Borzin &Levy

Place : Dubrovnik, Eerikinkatu 11 ,Helsinki

10 pm - 3 am - 22.00 - 03.00

Age limit 18

Tickets only 10,-€ After the Band 5,-€

Pre sale from www.digelius.fi (cash only please)

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109806352433223

Sat.09.04. Club Balkan Fever present : SHANTEL (Ger)

2011-03-21T06:58:00.001-07:00

Sat .09.04. Club Balkan Fever!!! present:

SHANTEL ( Ger )

13 Years of Anarchy and Romance Tour

DJ Session

Hosted by DJs BORZIN & LEVY

Location :
Le Bonk Music Machine
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki / Finland

Time : 22-04

Tickets 15 € pre sale www.tiketti.fi

http://www.tiketti.fi/tapahtuma/9575

Age limit 24 years with pre sale Ticket only 20 years

YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

Interview - SHANTEL
http://www.essayrecordings.com/vid_shantelepk.htm

http://www.myspace.com/shantelbucovinacluborkestar

http://www.bucovina.de/

SHANTEL - AUTHENTIC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vha-HWvYQ5Q

Shantel began his DJ career in Frankfurt, Germany, and was inspired by the audience reaction to gypsy brass bands such as Fanfare Ciocărlia and trumpeter Boban Marković to infuse electronically-tweaked Balkan gypsy music into his DJ set. Shantel released two compilations of his popular DJ night, Bucovina Club, on his own Essay label, which won the Club Global award in the 2006 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music. He was one of several DJs to remix recordings of Taraf de Haïdouks and Kočani Orkestar on the Electric Gypsyland compilations from Belgium's Crammed Discs label, and released his next album on that label. He gained popularity in Turkey after recorded clip of 'Disko Partizani' in Istanbul.Shantel's 2007 album Disko Partizani departed somewhat from the techno sound of Bucovina Club, concentrating more on the music's Balkanroots.

On August 28th 2009 he released his new album with the name "Planet Paprika".Since then he has been touring in Sold out Venues all over the Planet Paprika.In the Summer of 2010 he played at the Huvila Tent in front of crowd of 1000. His last November Helsinki show @ Club Balkan Fever in Le Bonk was as always a Crazy Disko Partizani Show .

Opa!

Sat.19.03 Club Balkan Fever !!! present : SHAVA

2011-03-13T04:18:00.001-07:00

Sat.19.02 Club Balkan Fever !!!Helsinki present :

SHAVA Live (Suomibhangra)

http://www.suomibhangra.com/en/

&Hosted by DJs Borzin & Levy

Place : Dubrovnik, Eerikinkatu 11 ,Helsinki

9 pm - 3 am - 21.00 - 03.00

Age limit 18

Tickets only 12,-€

Pre sale from www.digelius.fi (cash only please)

Sat 09.04.2011

Next Balkan Fever Party !!!

SHANTEL ( Ger) Romance & Anarchy Dj Session

Place Le Bonk www.lebonk.fi

Tickets on Sale NOW !

http://www.tiketti.fi/tapahtuma/11025

Sat.12.03. Club Balkan Fever !!! present: AHILEA DJ SET (Mac)

2011-02-20T23:55:00.001-08:00

Opa Next party coming up !

Saturday 12.03.2011 Club Balkan Fever !!! present:

For the First Time in Finland

AHILEA DJ SET (Macedonia)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-zk-bTl0B8

http://www.essayrecordings.com/essay_ahilea.htm

& DJs BORZIN & LEVY

Live Percussions by VLADIMIR KEKEZ (SRB )

Location :
Le Bonk Music Machine
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki / Finland

Time: 22-04

Tickets 12€ pre sale http://www.tiketti.fi/tapahtuma/10973

IMPORTANT :
The Age limit is 24 years with pre sale Ticket only 20 years.
YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

HUOM! Ennakkolipulla ikäraja K-20, ovelta K-24.
Ennakkolipulla jonon ohi!

Next Club Balkan fever !!! Saturday 19.03. @ Dubrovnik

SHAVA http://www.suomibhangra.com/en/

& Hosted by DJs Borzin & Levy

Sat.19.02 Club Balkan Fever !!!Helsinki present : AMENGO DROM

2011-02-06T10:59:00.001-08:00

AMENGO DROM Live

http://www.amengodrom.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C4WWNHKQfs

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Amengo-drom/163016507051822?v=info

&Hosted by DJs Borzin & Levy

Place : Dubrovnik, Eerikinkatu 11 ,Helsinki

9 pm - 3 am - 21.00 - 03.00

Age limit 18

Tickets only 12,-€

Pre sale from www.digelius.fi (cash only please)

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Bar Dubrovnik spring 2011 program released!!!

2011-01-14T05:54:00.000-08:00

Le Bonk spring 2011 program released!!!

2011-01-14T05:52:00.000-08:00

Fri 14.14. 2011 It's Wonderlust time @ Dubrovnik!!!

2011-01-14T05:15:00.000-08:00

Very welcome to further adventures in the Balkans with the lovely Dj Duo Wonderlust & Vladimir Kekez on percussion. Hosted by dj/vj Levy. Party time 21 - 03, tickets 8,- €

Address: Eerikinkatu 11, Helsinki (Corona downstairs) Age limit 18 to 118 years, Opa!!!

Sat.05.02.2011 Club Balkan Fever !!! Helsinki presents: MAX PASHM (UK)

2011-01-12T22:05:00.001-08:00

Saturday 05.02.2011 Club Balkan Fever !!! Helsinki presents:

MAX PASHM DJ SET (UK) For the first time in Finland

http://www.myspace.com/maxpashm

Hosted by DJs BORZIN & LEVY

Live Percussions by VLADIMIR KEKEZ ( Srb/Fin )

Location :
Le Bonk Music Machine
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki / Finland

Time: 22-04

Tickets 12€ pre sale http://www.tiketti.fi/

The age limit is 24 years, with presale ticket only 20 years !
You can pass the queue with a presale ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !
HUOM! Ennakkolipulla ikäraja K-20, ovelta K-24.
Ennakkolipulla jonon ohi!

ATTENTION !

19.02. NEXT CLUB BALKAN FEVER !!! @ DUBROVNIK

AMENGO DROM Live
Hosted by DJs Borzin & Levy

Live percussions by Vladimir Kekez (Srb/Fin)

Friday 31.12. Club Balkan Fever!!! - NEW YEARS EVE BLAST !

2010-12-19T13:41:00.001-08:00

Friday 31.12. Club Balkan Fever!!! - NEW YEARS EVE BLAST !

JAAKKO LAITINEN & VÄÄRÄ RAHA

The Band will play 2 Sets .1 before midnight and 1 after midnight.

http://www.myspace.com/mrjaakko

Hosted by DJs BORZIN & LEVY

Place : Dubrovnik, Eerikinkatu 11 ,Helsinki

9 pm - 4 am - 21.00 - 04.00

Age limit 18

Tickets only 14,-€
Tickets on sale Now and Limited to 200! Be fast Be smart
Pre sale from www.digelius.fi (cash only please)

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=152675014778567

Watch the Band playing at one of the Balkan Fever Nights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH6ocYyRlmE&feature=related

Sat.18.12.Club Balkan Fever!!! present: DJ TAGADA ( Fra)

2010-12-12T21:33:00.001-08:00

Saturday.18.12.Club Balkan Fever!!! present:

DJ TAGADA ( Fra) For the first time in Finland the Balkan Wizard from Paris.

http://www.myspace.com/djtagada

Hosted by DJs BORZIN & LEVY

Location :
Le Bonk Music Machine
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki / Finland

Time: 22-04

Tickets 12€ pre sale http://www.tiketti.fi/tapahtuma/9892

The Age limit is 24 years with pre sale Ticket only 20 years
HUOM! Ennakkolipulla ikäraja K-20, ovelta K-24. Ennakkolipulla jonon ohi!

YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

NEXT PARTY 31.12. NEW YEARS EVE BLAST !

JAAKKO LAITINEN & VÄÄRÄ RAHA

Hosted by DJs BORZIN & LEVY

Place : Dubrovnik, Eerikinkatu 11 ,Helsinki

21.00- 04.00

Age limit 18, tickets 14,- €

Now on Pre sale from www.digelius.fi (cash only please)

Re: Sat.04.12.Club Balkan Fever!!! Present: ORKESTAR BORDURKA

2010-11-16T01:30:00.001-08:00

PARTY OOMPAH STRAIGHT FROM BORDURIA, ANYONE?

Gee mom, this is even better than x-mas!!!

Sat. 4th of December 2011

Club Balkan Fever !!! Presents:

Orkestar Bordurka & Djs Borzin & Levy

Place :Bar Dubrovnik, Helsinki,

9 pm - 3 am,

age limit 18, tickets 10,- € from www.digelius.fi (cash only please)

Learn Your movez here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKQiCY2XQL8

Check the highlights of last summer's legendary Kaustinen gig:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSOyCAJ-GSo

Sat.13.11.Club Balkan Fever!!! present: SHANTEL DJ SET (Ger)

2010-10-18T06:09:00.001-07:00

OPA PARTY AGAIN OPA CUPA !

Saturday 13.11.Club Balkan Fever!!! present: AUTHENTIC TOUR 2010

SHANTEL 5 Hour DJ SET (Ger) The King of Balkan Disco Returns !

Hosted by BORZIN & LEVY

Location :
Le Bonk Music Machine
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki / Finland

Time 22-04

Tickets 15 € pre sale www.tiketti.fi

http://www.tiketti.fi/tapahtuma/9575

Age limit 24 years with pre sale Ticket only 20 years

YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

Interview - SHANTEL
http://www.essayrecordings.com/vid_shantelepk.htm

http://www.myspace.com/shantelbucovinacluborkestar

http://www.bucovina.de/

CITIZEN OF PLANET PAPRIKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg7m9j4AkoM

Shantel began his DJ career in Frankfurt, Germany, and was inspired by the audience reaction to gypsy brass bands such as Fanfare Ciocărlia and trumpeter Boban Marković to infuse electronically-tweaked Balkan gypsy music into his DJ set. Shantel released two compilations of his popular DJ night, Bucovina Club, on his own Essay label, which won the Club Global award in the 2006 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music. He was one of several DJs to remix recordings of Taraf de Haïdouks and Kočani Orkestar on the Electric Gypsyland compilations from Belgium's Crammed Discs label, and released his next album on that label. He gained popularity in Turkey after recorded clip of 'Disko Partizani' in Istanbul.Shantel's 2007 album Disko Partizani departed somewhat from the techno sound of Bucovina Club, concentrating more on the music's Balkan roots.On August 28th 2009 he released his new album with the name "Planet Paprika".Since then he has been touring in Sold out Venues all over the Planet Paprika.
His last March Helsinki show @ Club Balkan Fever was Sold out in Advance ..
Dont miss the Crazy Disko Partizani Show .

Opa!

Sat.16.10.Club Balkan Fever!!! present: GAETANO FABRI ( BEL)

2010-10-04T04:44:00.001-07:00

Saturday 16.10.Club Balkan Fever!!! present: SMART GYPSY TOUR 2010

DJ GAETANO FABRI ( BEL) For the First Time in Finland

VLADIMIR KEKEZ (SRB) on Batteria/Rhythm Section

& BALKAN FEVER DJs BORZIN & LEVY

Le Bonk Music Machine
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki / Finland

Time 22-04

Tickets 12 € pre sale www.tiketti.fi

Age limit 24 years with pre sale Ticket only 20 years

YOU can pass the Queue with a pre sale Ticket. Be Smart Be Fast !

www.lebonk.fi

www.myspace.com/djgaetanofabri

http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130459567001282&ref=mf#!/pages/Dj-Gaetano-Fabri/32121780605?ref=ts

SAT. 02.10. CLUB BALKAN FEVER !!! Presents: ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT

2010-09-19T22:08:00.001-07:00

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Date: Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:51 PM
Subject: SAT. 02.10. CLUB BALKAN FEVER !!! Presents: ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT
To: dubrovnik@andorra.fi, Lahti Erkki <erkki.lahti@capitalcatering.fi>

SATURDAY 02.10. CLUB BALKAN FEVER !!!

ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT This will be the only gig in Helsinki this year, don't miss it!

& BALKAN FEVER DJs BORZIN & LEVY

TICKETS 12 € pre sale from www.digelius.fi ( CASH ONLY )

Age: 18

Time: 21.00 - 03.00

Date : Saturday 02.10.2010

Location: Dubrovnik Eerikinkatu 11 ( Downstairs of Corona Bar )
Helsinki / Finland

Links:

http://www.myspace.com/alamaailmanvasarat

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130329423675474&ref=ts#!/pages/Alamaailman-Vasarat/211345947840?ref=ts

http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=130329423675474&ref=ts#!/group.php?gid=67757848904&ref=ts

Alaaailman Vasarat Released an iPhone Gameon 2010-09-15 The torchbearers of the "fictional world music", Alamaailman Vasarat (The Hammers of the Underworld) have released their first iPhone game, titled HammerBlast, which is now available. According to band leader and game developer Jarno "Stakula" Sarkula, the game is... the first "band game" of its kind, "taking the player high above the lost continent of Vasaraasia to hunt down the band's lethal music instruments with a deadly Tuba Cannon". The application includes a customized music player, with eight intensive live tracks from the Alamaailman Vasarat DVD "Haudasta lomilla".

Saturday 18.09. CLUB BALKAN FEVER !!!presents : ROBERT SOKO ( BIH/GER)

2010-09-05T22:03:00.001-07:00

Saturday 18.09.2010

CLUB BALKAN FEVER !!! Presents for the first Time in Finland -

ROBERT SOKO DJ SET (BIH/GER) BALKAN BEATS BERLIN

& DJs BORZIN&LEVY

Venue : LE BONK MUSIC MACHINE
Yrjönkatu 24
Helsinki / Finland

Time : 22.00 - 04.00

Tickets : 12 € Pre sale from www.tiketti.fi

http://www.tiketti.fi/event/8940

Age limit 24 years with pre sale Ticket 20 years

www.lebonk.fi

http://www.myspace.com/balkan_beats

http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

BalkanBeats is the Drug, Robert Soko the Dealer

It's a lifestyle; a feeling; and in the last couple of years it's expanded from a European to a world-wide phenomenon. From Bosnia to Brazil, BalkanBeats has people hooked.

Robert Soko has been throwing parties in Berlin since 1993. He was the first to coin the term BalkanBeats to try and define his mix of music from the Balkans. BalkanBeats are Serbian Gypsy brass and folk melodies reinterpreted, given electronic beats and blended with western styles such as ska and rock. In the recent past the phenomenon has caught on in other cities around the world where Balkan immigrants live. BalkanBeats parties rave all the way from Frankfurt and Vienna to New York and Melbourne.

Robert grew up in Zenica, central Bosnia, listening to western music: rock and roll, punk and ska. In 1990 he left Bosnia for Berlin. He took a job as a taxi driver and started hanging out at the Arcanoa, a punk bar in Berlin's immigrant quarter Kreuzberg with his ex-pat friends. The Arcanoa became their second home. Soko put on his first parties there, playing his Yugo music for fifty German marks and beer for free. He celebrated socialist holidays: Tito's birthday, Day of Women. May First. The parties were a mix of irony and nostalgia and Soko was surprised to see how many people came, as nostalgia for Yugoslav socialism was not the 'in thing' in those days of growing Balkan nationalism. And yet the parties grew.

Then something happened. After years of listening and playing western-derived rock, punk and ska, Soko found himself returning to his ethnic Balkan music roots, the roots he had rejected as a youth in Bosnia. This was largely due to two figures, Goran Bregovic and Emir Kusturica. Bregovic who revamped Balkan Gypsy melodies, making Balkan music palatable for a western audience, and Kusturica, for whose Gypsy inspired films Bregovic did the soundtracks. And Soko played new/old Balkan music. And people loved it. Women grooved to it. Guys pogoed to it. It was a sensation. The press took notice. From the Arcanoa, Soko moved onwards and upwards, first to the Mudd Club, then to the Lido, all the while spreading the party fever to other cities around Europe, to New York, L.A., South Africa and Brazil.

Sat.04.09. GRAND SEASON OPENING PARTY IN DUBROVNIK HELSINKI

2010-08-29T20:33:00.000-07:00

GRAND SEASON OPENING PARTY IN DUBROVNIK HELSINKI

CLUB BALKAN FEVER !!! Presents for the first Time in Finland

DJ PRINSEN PAULISTA (BALKAN BEAT PARTY EUROPE) ( Nor) Original village disko!

& BALKAN FEVER Hosts BORZIN&LEVY

TICKETS 12 € pre sale from www.digelius.fi (Cash only )

Age: 18

Time 21.00 - 03.00

Date : Saturday 04.09.

Location: Dubrovnik Eerikinkatu 11 ( Downstairs of Corona Bar ) Helsinki

Links:

www.myspace.com/balkanbeatparty

Soundclip_ http://soundcloud.com/dj-prinsen-paulista

http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

BIO:

5 years ago, something happened to the nightlife in Oslo - Balkan Beat
Party (BBP) was born in the hands of Dj Prinsen Paulista. Since then
nightlife has changed, into a more eclectic, folky image. Hip Hop and
house had to step aside for music from the Balkans.

Prinsen Paulista`s fascination with horn blowers and tuba beats,
proved wrong all speculations, saying that brass music and gypsy pop
is not suited for the dance floor. The result was and still are a
heated, humorous, wild and beautiful village party in the hippest partof Oslo.

A few donkey months later Paulista`s BBP had expanded to Bergen,
Gothenburg, Copenhagen and Stockholm and even exists today as one of
these cities most original and funky club-concept.

Paulista will give you the other side of Balkan, the original folk
sound, the one not exported, in other word the authentic sound. Expect
a mix of Romanian Manele (pop) and Lautari (Trad.) Bulgarian coceks.
Jugo-hits from the past and present, Gypsy pop, Trubaci (Brass) ,
greek syrtakis and Turkish delights.

Prinsen Paulista serves you a rhythm chase wilder than thousands of
donkeys, a stronger experience than bean stew with cabbage and chili.
Paulista takes you to the Balkan highlands, in the time between
weddings and funerals, running from neighbor to neighbor in search of
more plum brandy, while being chased by a huge brass orchestra.

In 2009 Prinsen Paulista became the first European DJ ever to play at
the legendary brass festival - GUCA in Serbia, with the invitation
from Boban & Marko Markovic Orkestar. The past years Paulista has
organised gigs and played with artists like Mahala Rai Banda, Fanfare
,Boban Markovic, Balkan Beat Box, Shantel, and presented and
given time on stage for other great Scandinavian Balkan-acts.

Sat.28.08. CLUB BALKAN FEVER!!! Presents : The Official SHANTEL & BCO Afterparty:

2010-08-16T06:00:00.001-07:00

OPA PARTY TIME AGAIN !

> SATURDAY 28.08.
>
> CLUB BALKAN FEVER!!! Presents : The Official SHANTEL & BCO Afterparty:
>
> Line up:
>
> WONDERLUST DJs
>
> MUSTA KEKE (SRB) on BATTERI
>
> Balkan Fever DJs BORZIN & LEVY
>
> Time: 22-04
>
> Age :18
>
> Ticket 12 € incl. cloak fee
>
> pre sale www.digelius.fi ( cash only please)
>
> Place :Ravintola Kaisaniemi - Helsinki - Kaisaniementie 6
>
> http://www.ravintolakaisaniemi.fi/kaisanie/tilat.htm
>
> ttp://www.myspace.com/djswonderlust
> http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/
>
> The Afterparty Venue is just 200 Meters walking distance away from the
> Huvila Tent where the SHANTEL Concert takes place .
> OPA !We will have a wild Night ahead of us and you never know if the
> Bands shows up as well to Jam along.
>
> Check Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar: AUTHENTIC Tour 2010live gig info here.
>
> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67757848904#!/event.php?eid=130329423675474&ref=ts
>
> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67757848904#!/event.php?eid=146079848742650&ref=ts

Shazalakazoo!

2010-08-03T14:12:00.000-07:00

See You next Saturday @ Le Bonk! If You're in Facebook, earn free tickets to the party by inviting friends, check out how in Our FB group site: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67757848904 Opa!

07.08. CLUB BALKAN FEVER - GRAND OPENING PARTY! SHAZALAKAZOO (SRB)

2010-07-26T02:32:00.000-07:00

"CLUB BALKAN FEVER !!!- GRAND OPENING PARTY!

Club Balkan Fever!!! - Grand Opening Party!
la 7.8. klo 22-04 @ Le Bonk Music Machine, Yrjönkatu 24
SHAZALAKAZOO Live (SRB), dj's Borzin & Levy
Liput: 14 e (ennakko: Tiketti & Lippupiste)

Balkanilainen tanssimusiikki on saanut vihdoin jalansijaa myös
Suomessa. Kukaan ei tarjoile tanssilattialle balkanilaista biittiä
yhtä hyvin kuin helsinkiläiset dj:t Borzin ja Levy, joiden Club Balkan
Fever aloittaa Le Bonkissa kuukausittaisena lauantaiklubina heti
elokuusta lähtien. Club Balkan Feverissä soi tanssimusiikki maailman
kaikilta kolkilta, painopisteenä Kaakkois-Euroopan omalaatuiset rytmit
ja tunnelmat. Club Balkan Feverin avajaisbileiden esiintyjävieras on
serbialainen SHAZALAKAZOO, jolta kuullaan hieno liveä ja dj-settiä
yhdistelevä show. Jo vuonna 1998 toimintansa aloittanut kaksikko luo
soundinsa balkanin alueen musiikkiperinteestä, elektronisista
rytmeistä ja tuhdeista bassolinjoista. SHAZALAKAZOO on räjäyttänyt
tanssilattioita uransa aikana kaikkialla Euroopassa, nyt kuitenkin
ensimmäistä kertaa Suomessa."

http://www.balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/shazalakazoo

Club Balkan Fever!!! - Grand Opening Party!
Sat. 7.8. klo 22-04 @ Le Bonk Music Machine, Yrjönkatu 24
SHAZALAKAZOO Live (SRB), dj's BORZIN & LEVY
Ticket : 14 e (pre sale: Tiketti & Lippupiste)

"Balkan music is finally setting it's foot in Finland. Nobody serves
it better to the dance floor than Helsinki's own dj's Borzin & Levy,
whose Club Balkan Fever starts as a monthly Saturday club in August at
Le Bonk. Club Balkan Fever's music comes from all over the world but
focusing on Balkan area's rhythms and moods. The opening party's guest
act is Serbian duo SHAZALAKAZOO, who will do a fantastic show that
mixes live act and a DJ set. The duo that started already in 1998,
create their sound from the mixture of Balkan music heritage,
electronic rhythms and fat bass lines. SHAZALAKAZOO have blasted dance
floors all over the Europe, but now they are in Finland for the first
time."

http://www.balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/shazalakazoo

Sat. 24.07.CLUB BALKAN FEVER!!! Presents: ORKESTAR LELE LELE (Swe/Bul/Nor)

2010-06-24T11:28:00.001-07:00

24.07.SATURDAY 21-03 Free Entry

CLUB BALKAN FEVER!!! Presents: ORKESTAR LELE LELE (Swe/Bul/Nor)
& Balkan Fever DJs BORZIN & LEVY

www.myspace.com/lele_lele
www.lele-lele.se/
www.mbar.fi

Join The Event in the Face book here
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=132072033480923

Enjoy the Balkan Fever feeling on a hot summer night @ the Teracce of mbar.Opa!

Club Balkan Fever !!! DJ Guest appearance @ Club Boom Shakalaka

2010-06-07T00:36:00.000-07:00

Opa!
Come and Join our beloved Balkan Fever Djs Borzin &Levy when they play at the Opening Party
for the Summer Club of Boom Shakalaka on Thursday the 8th of June.More info here:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4265282&op=1&view=all&subj=582278982&id=587228991#!/event.php?eid=126889767341158

Club Balkan Fever !!! Worldvillage Official Afterparty 30.05.

2010-05-16T01:41:00.001-07:00

Club Balkan Fever !!!
Start Time:
Sunday, May 30, 2010 at 9:00pm-03.00 am
Location:
Virgin Oil Co.
Street:
Mannerheimintie 5
City/Town:
Helsinki, Finland

Maailmä kylässä -festivaalin sunnuntain päätösklubi toteutetaan yhteistyössä maineikkaan Club Balkan Feverin kanssa. Klubilla päästään juhlimaan kuvitteellisen balkanilaisen kansanmusiikin tahdissa, kun lavalle astuu Orkestar Bordurka. Bändi avaa yleisölle syrjäisten vuoristoseutujen turbomuzikan ja folkloren elämyksellisen aarreaitan ja tarjoaa tanssilattian täyttävän sekoituksen itäeurooppalaisen kansanmusiikin hienoimpia perinteitä ja tuoreimpia vaikutteita.

Klubilla lappilaisen mausteen Balkanin mustalaisrytmeille ja venäläisille romansseille antaa Jaakko Laitinen ja Väärä Raha, jonka parissa tanhutaan Lapland-Balkan-tansseissa, joissa trumpetti soi ja haitari raikaa.

Illan esiintyjät:
Performing Artists :

ORKESTAR BORDURKA
JAAKKO LAITINEN & VÄÄRÄ RAHA
DJ BORZIN & DJ LEVY

Liput Tiketistä, ennakkoon 6 € & ovelta 8 €.

www.maailmakylassa.fi

http://www.balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

Facebook Event

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=109297102434971&ref=mf#!/event.php?eid=109297102434971&ref=ts

12.05.& 14.05. ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT DVD Release Party

2010-05-08T23:05:00.001-07:00

Opa 2 Days of Balkan Fever in Helsinki and Tampere are coming your way.

WEDNSDAY 12.5.2010 / Next Day Helatorstai @ KORJAAMO , VAUNASALI Helsinki

CLUB BALKAN FEVER !!! Presents:

LIVE:
ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT (DVD – release party!!)

http://www.vasarat.com/

TEIJA NIKU & GRUPA BALKAN

http://www.myspace.com/teijaniku

BALKAN FEVER DJ´S BORZIN & LEVY

http://www.balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

Balkan Fever in Facebook :

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67757848904&v=info

www.korjaamo.fi

K-18

Klo 21-03

Liput ennakoon 14€ + mahd. toimituskulut / ovelta 16€
Korjaamolaiset 12,50€ + mahd. toimituskulut / ovelta 14,50€
www.lippu.fi <http://www.lippu.fi> 0600 900900 (1,75e/min+pvm)
www.tiketti.fi <http://www.tiketti.fi> , 0600 11616 (1,50€/min+pvm)

Friday 14.5. 2010
Klubi, Tampere
Ovet:22:00 K-18
Liput 10 € (Ennakot: Tiketti - http://www.tiketti.fi/tapahtuma/7818)

ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT (DVD – release party!!) (23:00)
+ Club Balkan Fever dj's!

http://vasarat.com/
http://balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

http://www.tiketti.fi/tapahtuma/7818

http://www.klubi.net/

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=114050641969244&ref=ts#!/event.php?eid=110634132312330&ref=ts

Vappu - 01.05. CLUB BALKAN FEVER !!! Celebrates its 1 Year Anniversary

2010-04-20T10:12:00.001-07:00

Lineup :

9 pm: HORTTO KAALO -40 years in the music business anniversary concert

11 pm: BOUBAMARA GO-GO GIRLS Gipsy dance performance!
12 pm: JAAKKO LAITINEN ja VÄÄRÄ RAHA New album release tour

& Balkan Fever DJS BORZIN & LEVY

Place: DUBROVNIK ( Downstairs of Corona Bar) Helsinki / Finland

We start earlier than usual because of Vappu.

Opening times: 19 - 03

Attention HORTTO KAALO will play already at 21.00 !!!

Age: 18

Now On Sale 200 Hot Limited Tickets : Only 15 €
www.digelius.com Cash only please !

Welcome to the Vappu Kreisibailu .
You can dance your feet, ass or head off again!

http://www.tmp-production.fi/horttokaalo/index.htm

http://www.myspace.com/mrjaakko

http://www.balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

Opa !

16.04. Balkan Fever Club Special !!!

2010-04-12T21:30:00.001-07:00

After the Amazing 2 gigs of Besh o drom in Turku & Helsinki last weekend .
We are again about to hit the Pan of Balkan Music with Dj Robert Soko
from Balkan Beats -Berlin this Friday @ Semifinal.
Robert just played with SHANTEL @ his Club last Saturday for a Crowd of 1300 .
So he just warmed up for his First Gig in Finland and for sure he has the
Freshest Beats with him.OPA ! Dont miss this one.

16.04. Friday Balkan Fever Club Special !!!

Location Semifinal @ Tavastia Club Helsinki

DJ Robert Soko (BIH)
Orkestar Bordurka
DJ's Levy & Borzin

This Event is a Part of the Funky Elephant Festival 16-17.04.

More Info www.funk.fi

Liput: 21 € / 23 € ( Pre sale / Door )
www.tiketti.fi

Time 21-04

( Age 18)

Facebook Event

Spring 2010 program flyer

2010-03-23T12:24:00.001-07:00

Tix for the Dubrovnik events available from Digelius and for the Funky Elephant from Tiketti or Levykauppa Äx!

See You soon!

9&10.04.Club Balkan Fever!!! Presents Besh o droM (Hu) Turku/Helsinki

2010-03-20T09:44:00.001-07:00

Friday 09.04.2010 Turku /Finland

Club Balkan Fever !!! Presents Besh o droM ( Hu )

with DJs/Hosts Borzin &Levy of Club Balkan Fever

Place : Klubi, Humalistonkatu 8 A, 20100 Turku

Time : 22- 04

Showtime (band) : 24

Tickets 8 € - Presale: Tiketti www.tiketti.fi

www.turku2011.fi

www.klubi.net

!!! OPA OPA OPA OPA OPA OPA OPA OPA OPA OPA OPA OPA OPA OPA !!!

Saturday Helsinki 10.04.2010

Club Balkan Fever !!! Presents: Besh o droM (Hu) Live

DJs / Hosts Borzin&Levy

Place : Dubrovnik ( Corona downstairs) Eerikinkatu 11 Helsinki / Finland

Time : 21-03

Tickets 15 €

Pre sale from www.digelius.com
Cash Only please.

Besh o droM ( Hu)

Drawing musical and cultural inspiration from Transylvanian, Jewish, Afghan, Egyptian, Lebanese, Armenian, Bulgarian, Romanian and Greek tunes, this is the essential, feisty sound of gypsy fusion, with folk and electronic instruments in playful harmony. Formed in Budapest in 1999, the group name means 'ride the road', just like wild horses.

http://www.beshodrom.hu/index2.html

http://www.myspace.com/shodrom

Live Edit form Australia March 2010 Womadelaide 2010 LIVE! – On Site Performance – Besh O Drom

http://womadelaide2010live.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/beshodrom_sat_edited.mp3

Balkan Fever Facebook

http://www.facebook.com/events/edit/index.php?eid=375372939247&step=4&edit

http://www.balkanfeverhelsinki.blogspot.com/

13.03. CLUB BALKAN FEVER !!! Presents: SHANTEL (GER)

2010-02-28T03:57:00.001-08:00

BALKAN FEVER CLUB !!! Proudly Presents on Saturday 13.03.2010

SHANTEL / Planet Paprika DJ Set (GER)
The King of Balkan Disco is Back !

He will play a special all Night 5 Hour Set !

Place : Dubrovnik - Downstairs of Corona Bar
Eerikinkatu 11 - Helsinki - Finland

Time : 21.00 - 03.00

Tickets are 18 € and very LIMITED to 200 Pieces.
They will go like Hot Paprikas !
So you better be Quick Quick...
Last Time it was Sold Out in Advance !

NOW on Sale @ Digelius 5 Kulma / 5 Corners
www.digelius.com Cash Only Please !
Opening hours: Weekdays 11-18 Ph . +358 9 666375

Interview - SHANTEL
http://www.essayrecordings.com/vid_shantelepk.htm

http://www.myspace.com/shantelbucovinacluborkestar

http://www.bucovina.de/

CITIZEN OF PLANET PAPRIKA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg7m9j4AkoM

Shantel began his DJ career in Frankfurt, Germany, and was inspired by the audience reaction to gypsy brass bands such as Fanfare Ciocărlia and trumpeter Boban Marković to infuse electronically-tweaked Balkan gypsy music into his DJ set. Shantel released two compilations of his popular DJ night, Bucovina Club, on his own Essay label, which won the Club Global award in the 2006 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music. He was one of several DJs to remix recordings of Taraf de Haïdouks and Kočani Orkestar on the Electric Gypsyland compilations from Belgium's Crammed Discs label, and released his next album on that label. He gained popularity in Turkey after recorded clip of 'Disko Partizani' in Istanbul.Shantel's 2007 album Disko Partizani departed somewhat from the techno sound of Bucovina Club, concentrating more on the music's Balkan roots.On August 28th 2009 he released his new album with the name "Planet Paprika".Since then he has been touring in Sold out Venues all over the Planet Paprika.
His last September 2009 Helsinki show @ Club Balkan Fever was Sold out in Advance ..
Dont miss the Crazy Disko Partizani Show .

Opa!

Jasmine & Los Tinalos Orchestra @ Balkan Fever!!!, Dubrovnik Sat. 20th Feb 2010

2010-02-14T00:41:00.001-08:00

See You all there!

Eerikinkatu 11, Helsinki
Age limit 18
party 9 pm - 3 am
Hosted by Djs Borzin & Levy

Tickets 13,- , presale in Digelius Music Store, www.digelius.com

Mahala Rai Banda @ Vanha, Helsinki 2010

2010-02-14T00:27:00.001-08:00

What a gig! What a band! This one we definitely want to see again in Helsinki!!!

Finno-Balkan Voices & Prof. Dr. Dora Hristova @ Vanha 2010

2010-02-14T00:16:00.001-08:00

Some pix from my mobile phone...

Friday 05.02. Eastway & Balkan Fever present: Mahala Rai Banda (Romania)

2010-02-03T08:00:00.001-08:00

THIS Friday 05.02.2010

Eastway & Balkan Fever present:
For the first time in Finland !
Mahala Rai Banda (Romania) in concert
support Finno-Balkan Voices conducted by Prof. Dr. Dora Hristova (Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares)

And Balkan Fever !!! Hosts / Djs Borzin & Levy: You'll get the best Balkan Beats around.

Location: Vanha Ylioppilastalo
Address: Mannerheimintie 3 Helsinki Finland
Time: Doors Open 19.00

21- 03
Tickets: 39,70 €
Get Your pre-sale tickets from menolippu:
http://www.menolippu.fi/showevent.asp?id=1621

If you want to plan your evening here is the timetable.

19.00 Doors open: Background music selected by Balkan Fever Djs.

21.00-22.30 DJ Levy & DJ Borzin 1. set

22.30-23.00 Finno-Balkan Voices

23.00-23.45 DJ Levy & DJ Borzin 2. set

23.45-01.15 Mahala Rai Banda

01.15-02.30 DJ Levy & DJ Borzin 3. set

Finno-Balkan Voices will be warming up, to give a taste of their next day's concert in SibaFest: http://www.siba.fi/fi/sibafest/ohjelma/lauantai_6.2.2010. Conducted by Bulgaria's finest: Prof. Dr. Dora Hristova of the legendary "Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares"!
We guarantee that it will be very difficult to leave the dancefloor before 02.30. Unforgettable Balkan party night it will be!

Mahala Rai Banda

Their new cd "Ghetto Blasters" has been ruling the world music charts lately and was chosen the "Album of The Year 2009"
by The Songlines Magazine!
PopMatters Picks: The Best Music of 2009

Balkan party music, ripping along at a noisy pace, and with all the showmanship you could ask for. The singer carols and plunges, the trumpets patter like hail on a plastic roof. Everything is briskly aggressive, bright as polished teeth: the taut, tight work of specialists. Forensic in its giddiness. One part of the band comes from north-east Romania, the same place as Fanfare Ciocârlia, and the other from the south, the same place as Taraf de Haïdouks. Brass there, fiddles here. The two groups have cross-pollinated. Traditional music, yes, village music, yes, "folk" music yes, but with a clear commercial goal: it wants to grab your bits in its fist, press your ears back against your skull, and make you pay attention. Reportedly good live too.

Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=701407821#/event.php?eid=227338800350&ref=ts

Don't miss this one if You're into Balkan music!

Opa Novy God & NYE Spezials

2009-12-30T03:41:00.001-08:00

Thank You Opa Novy God and all You people who came to party again!!!

The blog has not been really up-to-date but now we're online again! here's a picture from the ONG gig

go and download their excellent album for free from their myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/galimatja

***STOP PRESS*** SOLD OUT.... very limited amount of reserved but unsold tickets will be released on the door 10 pm. Of course there will be some chance to get in after midnight again and the party is on until 04! Better than queue outside of any other nightclub in town, we promise. You can have a drink upstairs in Corona or Moskva on Your way down!

See You latest next year, the year of Balkan Music in Helsinki! Remember to get Your discount tickets for Mahala Rai Banda concert from www. menolippu.fi with discount code Balkan Fever ! Opa!

PARTY OOMPAH STRAIGHT FROM BORDURIA, ANYONE?

2009-12-10T01:15:00.000-08:00

Gee mom, this is even better than x-mas!!!

Orkestar Bordurka album release party feat. djs Borzin & Levy (Dijcka cancelled, sorry)

Sat. 12th of December, Bar Dubrovnik, Helsinki, 9 pm - 3 am, age limit 18, tickets 10,- €

Learn Your movez here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKQiCY2XQL8

Check the highlights of last summer's legendary Kaustinen gig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSOyCAJ-GSo

Bordurka will be on air on www.radiohelsinki.fi on Maria!'s show Fri 11th Dec. somewhere between 4 pm. - 6 pm.

Get Your tickets in time, with cash money, from www.digelius.com.

I will ask the band guys to leave some cds for sale at Digelius also.

See You.

2010.... The Year of Balkan Music!

2009-12-10T00:24:00.000-08:00

Turku & Tallinn may be the Culture Capitals 2011 and Helsinki The Design Capital 2012 but WE DECLARE YEAR 2010 TO BE THE YEAR OF BALKAN MUSIC HERE IN HELSINKI.
OUR DUBROVNIK PROGRAM FOR THE WINTER IS HERE AND IT WILL, IF POSSIBLE, JUST GET BETTER FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR... Towards the summer there will be more legendary guests coming from f.ex. Hungary & Germany, and the Finnish legends Hortto Kaalo prepare for their official 40 year anniversary tour & book release....

Sat. 30.01. Opa Novy God (New Year Band) from St.Petersburg visited Hellsinky last fall in Juttutupa to play the feet off from the bunch of audience that was lucky to be there. This time they're back for a club dancefloor in Dubrovnik and are up for a hilarious party to end the "tipaton tammikuu" -winter period of white noses. Check their myspace: http://www.myspace.com/galimatja

Sat. 20.02. Jasmine & Tinalos ladies will present some true gypsy beauty in heart & soul. They will be more than two ladies with also new live songs & surprise program. Do not miss this one!!! http://www.myspace.com/duotinalo

Sat. 13.03. The Emperor of Planet Paprika will be back in Helsinki. Shantel 5 hr solo set.

The lucky ones that got the sold-out&fought-for-tickets for the last time here know what to expect.

(The ladies who left early last time because they accidentally got drinks poured on them, please contact us for compensation....)

Tickets for next year will be available from www.digelius.com starting in January 2010, get yours in time, limited 200 people venue capacity. Yes, we are considering bigger venues but Dubrovnik is such a nice place! See You there!

2010 winter program & Mahala Rai Banda poster ready!!!

2009-12-09T09:06:00.000-08:00

Woohoo! We are extremely happy to, in co-operation with Eastway, present Romanian Mahala Rai Banda in Helsinki 5.2.2010!!!

Their new cd "Ghetto Blasters" has been ruling the world music charts lately and was chosen the "Album of The Year 2009" by The Songlines Magazine! We advise You to get the cd from Digelius or the internez! Seems also to be available in ITunes but not Spotified yet...

Finno-Balkan Voices will be warming up, to give a taste of their next day's concert in SibaFest: http://www.siba.fi/fi/sibafest/ohjelma/lauantai_6.2.2010. Conducted by Bulgaria's finest: Prof. Dr. Dora Hristova of the legendary "Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares"!

Your hosts Borzin & Levy will also here at Vanha guarantee that it will be very difficult to leave the dancefloor before 02.30. Unforgettable Balkan party night it will be!

P.S. If You think the 39,- € ticket price is salty: Here's a "secret" discount code to get the tickets for 32,-€ before 10th of January: Balkan Fever.

Get the pre-sale tickets from menolippu: http://www.menolippu.fi/showevent.asp?id=1621

New 2010 first 3 club's program flyer ready to print!

2009-12-07T10:07:00.001-08:00

WE LOVE BAKLAVA!

2009-11-23T10:10:00.001-08:00

We had such a good time again. Thank You all!!!

Next one is already on Sat.12. Dec. Orkestar Bordurka will tear the roof off, see U there!!!

Meanwhile, learn Your movez here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKQiCY2XQL8

**********STOP PRESS STOP PRESS***********

Eastway & Club Balkan Fever!!! Proudly present:

MAHALA RAI BANDA (Romania) @ Vanha Studenthouse, Helsinki on Fri 5th Feb 2010

Tickets from menolippu:

http://www.menolippu.fi/showevent.asp?id=1621

Rest of Club Balkan Fever!!! program for spring 2010 will be published soon and we promise 2010 will be THE YEAR of Balkan music in Helsinki!!!!

More news here soon, check us out!

Calm before the next storm...

2009-10-15T14:39:00.000-07:00

Thanks Transkaakko, Karri and You, the audience who made it a hell of a party again last time!

(The pic is from the soundcheck.... heh)

This Balkan/Gypsy music thing is finally approaching the position it deserves: Shantel tours Europe with his Bucovina Club Orchestra for sold out venues and his Planet Paprika -album is chart no1 in f.ex Turkey (of all sold music!) and Womex world music charts. We are working hard to get him back to Helsinki next year..... let's wish for the best.

Anyway the lineup for Balkan Fever!!! -clubs and events 2010 will be massive. Stay tuned here to get the latest news and join Our Facebook group:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=67757848904

Meanwhile, in Helsinki, check out the excellent acts coming to play Savoy and Kaisaniemi during the Etnosoi! -festival:

http://www.globalmusic.fi/index.php?page=etnosoi

before our next blast:

SAT. 21.11. CLUB BALKAN FEVER!!! presents: BAKLAVA live
http://www.myspace.com/baklavahelsinki
GUEST DJ REPE SORSA (BOOMSHAKALAKA / WeLoveHelsinki)

The extraordinary nine-piece orchestra BAKLAVA are:

Heidi Kiviharju -voc.
Emmi Knuutinen -voc.
Minsku Tammela -voc.
Teija Niku -acc.
Sami Kurppa -cl.
Ilkka Heinonen -cb.
Samppa Leino -brass
Markus Larjomaa -brass

Balkan Fever quality beats served by Your beloved hosts Borzin & Levy!
Quality drinks served by the Bar Dubrovnik super staff!
The hottest dancefloor moves served by the Balkan Fever quality crowd!

Not to mention Anu -the nicest ticket sales person ever!
Even the door guys are friendly and the new smoking booth for nicotine addicts will hopefully be ready by the best Balkan pikkujoulu party You've ever been to!!!!
Place: Dubrovnik (Corona Downstairs) Eerikinkatu 11

Time : 21-03
Tickets : 10,- €

Tickets NOW available from Digelius Music Store
www.digelius.com
(Please CASH ONLY !)
Tel. 09-666375 Open: Mo-Fri 11-18, Sat. 10-16

Rest of 2009 program:

Sat. 12.12. Bordurka, guest dj Dijcka
http://www.myspace.com/bordurka

Thu 31.12. Progressive Balkan NYE Special Disko:
ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT
http://www.vasarat.com/
DJ TEAM WONDERLUST
http://www.myspace.com/djswonderlust

PARTY TIME APPROACHING AGAIN!

2009-09-09T11:40:00.001-07:00

Sat 3.10. Transkaakko Live

Last chance for a while to see & hear the Fenno-Balkan pioneers & Faces main stage -09 act before some baby holidays, new album "Kulo" out in stores now!
http://www.transkaakko.com

Showtime ca. 11 pm.

Balkan Fever hosts Djs Borzin & Levy, guest dj Paleface!

After the massive turn out at our Shantel event which was sold out before we even opened the doors. It was a blast......
We have now the tickets on sale for the next 4 clubs:

Tickets are 10 € for each event .
For all Balkan Fever lovers we have made a Super Deal now.
You can buy tickets for all 4 events for only 30 € incl. NYE.
So you are saving 10 € .The offer is valid until Sat. 03.10.
Remember the tickets are limited to 200 for each event .

Tickets are NOW available from www.digelius.com
Ph. 09-666375 Open: Mo-Fri 11-18, Sat. 10-16

Notice: Cash only payment for presale tickets!

Club Balkan Fever rest of 2009 program is now confirmed:

Sat. 21.11. Baklava, guest dj Repe Sorsa
http://www.myspace.com/baklavahelsinki

Sat. 12.12. Bordurka, guest dj Dijcka
http://www.myspace.com/bordurka

Thu 31.12. Progressive Balkan NYE Special Disko:
ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT
http://www.vasarat.com/
DJ TEAM WONDERLUST
http://www.myspace.com/djswonderlust

And of course all events are with your beloved hosts Dj Borzin & Levy

Your Balkan Fever Team

IT'S PAPRIKA & VODKA & DANCE PARTY TIME TONIGHT!

2009-09-03T14:33:00.001-07:00

Don't forget the film "Auf Der anderen Seite" in Andorra (and a chance
to meet Shantel) 7 pm.
Tickets to the movie only 3,- €.

PRESALE TICKETS TO SHANTEL'S GIG WILL SELL OUT DURING FRIDAY. (8 LEFT
ON THURSDAY EVENING IN DIGELIUS)
LIMITED AMOUNT OF 50 TICKETS WILL BE SOLD ON THE DOOR STARTING BEFORE
THE FILM SCREENING.
PLEASE COME EARLY IF YOU WANT TO GET IN. VENUE CAPACITY ONLY 200.

Rest of 2009 program confirmed!!!!

2009-09-03T14:25:00.000-07:00

2009-08-07T02:28:00.000-07:00

HORTTO KAALO CANCELLED!!!

Two musicians are ill and cannot perform. We are sorry.

Jaakko Laitinen & Väärä raha come and rescue us, band showtime 12 pm.

Welcome anyway.

2009-08-05T23:49:00.000-07:00

Hortto Kaalo Showtime ca 11 pm., before the band we have a special dj set by Dj Karri "Paleface" Miettinen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wKZChzs7yI

It's Hortto Kaalo time, folks!!!

2009-08-05T23:33:00.000-07:00

This saturday U should come early or get Your tickets in advance from Digelius Music Store

Shantel flyer finally ready to print on the flipside

2009-05-19T04:04:00.000-07:00

New flyer going to print tomorrow

2009-05-18T03:25:00.001-07:00

Preliminary program for the rest of 2009 (Changes possible):

3.10. Transkaakko . New album out this summer

21.11 Baklava

12.12. Bordurka

31.12. NYE special: Alamaailman vasarat

Cellphone video shootage from the opening night party...

2009-05-11T13:38:00.001-07:00

http://www.vimeo.com/4597336

Levy & Borzin ready to roll

2009-05-03T23:23:00.001-07:00

Jaakko Laitinen & Väärä raha

2009-05-03T23:22:00.001-07:00

Dj Trash Mango

2009-05-03T23:21:00.000-07:00

What a night...

2009-05-03T23:15:00.001-07:00

Our opening night was the best party I've ever been to! Seriously!! Thank You so much for coming & making it happen!!! Next events: 4.7., 8.8., 4.9., same place. We are going to have more excellent live acts (Bordurka, Transkaakko, etc) and quality guest dj's (Shantel, Wonderlust, Bunuel, etc). Follow this blog to be up-to-date when we confirm the forthcoming program. We also started collecting email addresses so contact me or Borzin: (nizrob(at)gmail.com) to get on the BF!!! -email list. (We won't give Your addresses anywhere.)

All feedback & advice & links & hints & tips about who we should book to play or what music we should absolutely have is more than welcome here. Also if You have good pics from the party please link them here if they are o.k. to publish...

Once more: gestena, thanks, hvala, благодарам, fala, kiitos, gracias, спасибо, köszönöm, tesekküler, danke, motashakkeram, شكر , tack, nais,

ju falem nderit, shukran, mersi, shukriya, toda, multumesc and see You soon!

See You tomorrow!

2009-04-30T10:43:00.001-07:00

Allright folks it's party time.

Tonight Mecca (dj's Levy & Borzin playing all kinds of quality beats),
tomorrow Dubrovnik. All here in Hellsinki.

We have around 100 reserved tickets for the opening party and will NOT
take any more reservations, come early to get Your tickets from the
door or if You're lucky there will be some unsold reservations after
11 pm. when the band starts to play.

Welcome!!!

Moustache & posters arrived!

2009-04-24T14:47:00.001-07:00

To honor the arrival of 360 pieces of bad quality fake moustache and a
few high quality color posters we celebrated today with a massive
sauna party in our newly refurbished sauna in the homeyard...

News before the Grand Opening: International Workers' Day Vodka & Dance Party

2009-04-23T13:55:00.001-07:00

Updated programme & flyers (Couldn't decide which one is better...):

BF flyer version 2.0

2009-04-16T04:33:00.000-07:00

I like the kitchy one more...

2009-04-15T09:23:00.000-07:00

This is the official site of Balkan Fever!!! -club in Bar Dubrovnik, Eerikinkatu 11, Helsinki

The club is hosted by the residents Borzin & Levy

The Grand Opening Party will be on May 1st, 9 pm. Tickets 10,- €.

Live music @ the opening party will be provided by Jaakko Laitinen & Väärä raha,

showtime ca. 11 pm.

Venue capacity is only 200 so come early.

Future dates 2009:

Sat 4th of July

Sat 8th of August

Fri 4th of September (SHANTEL album release party!!!)

Sat 3rd of October

Sat 21st of November

Sat 12th of December

Expect always quality live acts and guest dj's and the best booze & dance parties You've ever been to!!!

Warmly welcome!!!

Flyer test version...

2009-04-15T08:53:00.000-07:00

Kitchy enough?



Finno-Balkan Voices will be warming up, to give a taste of their next day's concert in SibaFest: http://www.siba.fi/fi/sibafest/ohjelma/lauantai_6.2.2010. Conducted by Bulgaria's finest: Prof. Dr. Dora Hristova of the legendary "Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares"! We guarantee that it will be very difficult to leave the dancefloor before 02.30. Unforgettable Balkan party night it will be!

Mahala Rai Banda