Movement Radio presents Τrans Balkan Express: Αn investigation into the complex and diverse Balkan peninsula

Thursday 25 May 2023 | 13:00 - 22:00 EET

13:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • Salmiakki Pop w/ Dr. Smeđi Šećer

14:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • Lenhart Tapes w/ Vladimir Lenhart

15:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ Ermilova

16:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ Vlada Janjic

17:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • Romania w/ Maria Pappa

18:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ Eiger Drums Propaganda

19:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ Matej Rusmir

20:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • The Long January w/ Regis

21:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ N/OBE

Friday 26 May 2023 | 13:30 - 22:00 EET

13:30:00 Trans Balkan Express • A Happy Time in Lushnje w/ Christopher C. King

14:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • Pop Depression • Pinđur • Lost Eden • Izgubljeni Raj w/

Ivan Lončarević

15:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ Entropia Records

16:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ Jaša Bužinel

17:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • In the Gardens of Tomorrow w/ Piro Rexhepi

18:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • Shqipe Dancehall Bwitchesss w/ Rrita Jashari

19:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ Souci

20:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ TADI

21:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ Warrego Walles

Saturday 27 May 2023 | 14:00 - 21:00 EET

14:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • Roma Balkan Music Pt.1 w/ Laurent Clouet

15:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • Apirotan w/ Tasos Stamou

16:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ totsouko (To Pikap)

17:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ Kӣr

18:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • Underground Balkan Intercity w/ Zen Audio Obsessions

19:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ Voltnoi Brege

20:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • Screamo and Hardcore Punk in the Balkans feat. Ata

Carnet w/ Takis Zontiros

Sunday 28 May 2023 | 14:00 - 21:00 EET

14:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • Thrace w/ Adamantios Kafetzis

15:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • Roma Balkan Music Pt.2 w/ Laurent Clouet

16:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • Sounding the Arcifinious • The Evros/Meric/Maritsa River

w/ Stefanos Levidis

17:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • Works w/ Dimitris Karageorgos

18:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ Pablo Stettler

19:00:00 Trans Balkan Express w/ Manja Ristić

20:00:00 Trans Balkan Express • In the Field • Tirana w/ S.t.m.C.

Vlada Janjić

Pioneer of independent broadcasting and publishing in Serbia and a legendary DJ and promoter running the most respected festival slash clubnight in Belgrade Essential Trans Balkan Express listening, a personal ride through 40 years of leftfield gems from the region.

Ermilova

Ermilova is a Skopje household name, emerging on the scene after being drawn by it from an early age. Her passion for music evolved in taking up deejaying seriously in her early twenties. Whether she is spinning a house or electro dominated set, Ermilova's heart is always in the psychedelic, relying on acid and comfortably navigating through ambient, new wave, disco, post-punk & dub.

Warrego Valles

Producers, DJs, club promoters and queer activists @ninahudej and @ninaninabelleare leading Ljubljana’s club scene into a loud, saturated chaos in which the energy never fades. Their political charge, activist enthusiasm and fierce, extravagant style are wrapped in the fabric of their prodigious electronic project Warrego Valles.

Kӣr

Kӣr is the solo production epithet of Bane Jovančević, resident live artist and program manager of Belgrade’s club @clubdrugstore

By combining traditional and experimental influences in electro-acoustic music, Kӣr creates the sound in which drone-navigated post-industrial logos transgresses into a tribal mythos, in search for the traces of future. The clash of synths and acoustics invoke an audio landscape of Byzantine sacral traditions and Balkan folklore rhythms.

Manja Ristić

Manja Ristić is a violinist, sound artist, published poet, curator, and researcher. She graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Music, then awarded at the Royal College of Music, London, with PGDip Solo/Ensemble Recitalist. As a classical solo and chamber musician, as well as a composer and an improv musician Manja performed all across Europe and in the US, involving collaborations with established conductors and performers, multimedia artists, poets, and theatre and movie directors. Manja’s sound-related research besides contemporary performance in the field of instrumental electro–acoustics, is focused on interdisciplinary approaches to sound and field recording as well as experimental radio arts.

TADI

Tadi is a visual artist, graphic designer, DJ and producer living between Prishtina & Belgrade. She is the co-founder of @bijat____ a feminist/queer club night and co-founder of Prishtine Is Burning, a queer performance/club night in Prishtina. With releases on Hivern Records, DJ sets for NTS Radio, Boiler Room, this spring has seen her performing in some of the finest cutting edge spaces and festivasl in Europe.

Lenhart Tapes (Vladimir Lenhart)

Lenhart Tapes is a one-man-cassette-tape-manipulator and he has been mostly known for his live, striking and unforgettable live performances. Yes, walkmans are his musical instruments, and he does a live mix of selected material from his cassette collection on top of the rhythmic loops. Think noise, world music and Balkan ethno music seen through a very singular perspective.

Souci

Inspired by hardcore sounds of the past plus the cutting edge Footwork, Breakbeat and Jungle that her label platforms, Souci (she/her) cultivates a style which is ever-evolving. Growing up in Berlin as a first-generation immigrant from Serbia, she has a unique perspective and an uncompromising work ethic which translates to the studio and the booth. Starting her deejay career in 2019 and with appearances at CTM Festival, IPSE and HÖR Radio already under her belt, her pace of progression matches the intense pace of her music. As co-founder of RAIDERS, Souci has overseen releases and raves alike, while refusing to ignore the political aspect of dance music culture and always endeavoring to highlight femme artists in her work.

N/OBE

The Zagreb-based producer, DJ, promoter, co-founder of the @volta.zg collective, composer and radio host is one of the most exciting artists from the Yugosphere. As a DJ, he presents a modified overview of the digital avant-garde, equally emphasising the energetic and the exploratory. His work-in-progress debut album, 'Monuments', is a sprawling chronicle of Yugoslavia’s rise and fall reimagined through the visuals and semantics of its world-famous modernist monuments to the Partisan revolution.

Jaša Bužinel

Jaša Bužinel runs @sexo_cosmico clubnight, he’s the dance music editor for @thequietus curates @sonica_festival

He’s a rare, all-around force on the regional music circuit, profound music lover DJ and promoter with endless motivation.

Regis

Singular voice in regional club scene and one of the most intriguing musicians from Montenegro. Regis works with a rich palette of influences from the region adding a unique perspective to contemporary experimental music scene.

Ivan Lončarević

POP Depression is radio show, concert agency, record label and webzine brought to you Ivan Loncarević. No promoter can match his efforts in bridging the gap between global indie culture and Serbia’s musical landscape.

Matej Rusmir

Matej Rusmir is one of the youngest producers and DJs in Belgrade. His tendency towards darker and more minimal sound at his beginnings led to the most recent interests to introduce trance and jungle elements into his productions.

In 2018 Rusmir started a clubnight called Insolence with @undriia

Since 2021 Rusmir is a part of @yesbelgrade - pillar of the leftfield in Belgrade’s infamous @clubdrugstore

Smedji Secer

Crate digger and DJ from Rijeka, Croatia. Expert on Yugoslavian funk, soul, jazz and disco and beyond. Author of numerous Yugo flavored mixtapes and thematic Yugo funk parties. Dive into his mixcloud for a glimpse of the insanely colorful world of Yugo gems and music you’ve most likely never heard.

Adamantios Kafetzis

Over recent years Adamantios Kafetzis has become an avid collector of African music, a passion which has ultimately led him to visit Senegal many times in the last 15 years, obsessively investigating the sound, searching out and collecting vinyl, and on the whole, educating himself in Senegalese/African music, both past and present.

Christopher C. King

Christopher C. King is a Grammy-winning producer, musicologist and author. He has been producing collections of vernacular music from around the world for over twenty-two years and now splits his time between the US and Greece.

Entropia Records

Record store based in Athens. Operated by two friends & record collectors.

Pablo Stettler

Pablo Stettler is a Swiss/Danish multimedia artist and curator based in Bienne, Switzerland. He is running art spaces (m35 / Orange) and works as an art supervisor. He is experimenting with found footage, field recordings and spoken word.

Tasos Stamou

UK-based Greek electroacoustic music composer and performer, sound technologist, alternative music producer and tutor. A recording artist in Discrepant (UK), Ikuisuus (FL), Moving Furniture Records (NL), Orila Records (GR), Stamou has been blending antique and future sounds in his latest releases and shows. For more than a decade, he has toured with solo and collaborative projects all over Europe, working with pioneer sound experimentalists and improvisers, such as Anna Homler, Mike Cooper, Steve Beresford, Andrea Parkins, Sharon Gal, Adam Bohman, Arma Agharta, Alan Wilkinson and more. His latest sound works bring together his passion for both contemporary electronic and South-East Mediterranean music heritage, while his archive of sounds from this spectrum is rapidly growing the deeper he dives into this research. His album trilogy (Musique Con Crete/D.A.D/Antiqua Graecia), inspired by Greek folklore, has captured the attention of a contemporary audience seeking the reapplication of cultural roots.

Zen Audio Obsessions (Alex Zen)

Guitarist and singer in the '90’s Greek hardcore/punk band Αρνητική Στάση (Negative Stance), editor of the legendary political/satirical music fanzine Το Παπάρι (Bollock). A consistent and tireless member of the underground scene in Athens. Since 2011, Zen sings and plays the guitar for the hardcore punk band I Want the Moon. In a parallel universe he is a bookstore attendant, a translator and –occasionally– a DJ in small pubs.

totsouko (To Pikap)

to tsouko appears in physical form mostly in the southern balkans. it is a courier. it carries record bags, synths, samplers, consoles and various fx units. it spends it's time pushing buttons, turning knobs , plugging and unplugging wires and cables and walking from one pub to another.

To Pikap is a multi-purpose venue located at the general Roman Forum – Bit Bazar area, at the center of Thessaloniki, Greece, 57 Olympou Str. It is active since July 2015 and it is operated by six co-partners/co-workers. It occupies an area of approximately 250 square meters and it consists of three levels.

Our activities include the managing of a record label, a record store, a book store, a radio station, an art space called “Kato”, a second art space called “The Room”, a cafe-bar with daily vinyl dj sets, two online platforms regarding the visual artists and the musicians of Thessaloniki: “To Pikap Community” & “To Pikap The Scene”, the producing of two series of videos regarding music and live acts, plus many collaborations with external individuals, teams and organizations.

Voltnoi Brege

Voltnoi is one half of the Athens based curatorial duo DETACH.

Laurent Clouet

A highly versatile musician, Laurent Clouet learnt clarinet and saxophone during his travels and encounters with folk music players. Over the past ten years he has specialized in Balkan music, learning from masters such as Selim Sesler in Turkey, Petar Voinikov in Bulgaria, Manos Achalinotopoulos and Stavros Pazarentsis in Greece and Denis Shavlev in North Macedonia. He is involved in the Çok Malko and Drom collectives, the Selanik Turbo Bend, the Bey.Ler.Bey trio, creole music band Infernale Biguine, and regularly works on original soundtracks for films.

Dimitris Karageorgos

Dimitris Karageorgos is a composer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist improviser. His range of productions include electroacoustic and cross-cultural music creations, field recordings, concert performances, music for theaters, films, and dance acts, using sound diffusion and interactivity. He is interestested in the field of the Acoustic Ecology and through that culture he researches the soundscape as a compositional tool. Currently he collaborates with the groups: "inSTUMmental" and "PanNik Project". He is the President of the: "Hellenic Electroacoustic Music Composers