Euro report

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4944516.stm

The BBC's Europop correspondent writes...!

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[thenipper.livejournal.com]

Mark Mardell: Serbian turbo-folk connoisseur. Who knew?!

His Newsnight appearances will now be seen in an entirely new light.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i don't know what the name of the dancing is that you do to turbo-folk (let alone "rugbo-folk" as i first typed) but i can imagine mardell doing it

[zenith.livejournal.com]

Our Very Own Mark Mardell is just not the same when he's not being made to dress up in a series of hilarious costumes like wot Andrew Neil always made him do.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

my GOD I want more turbofolk in my life.

No mention of German house bobbins :(

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I think I might change the tag line of poptimists to "bling and bosom".

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

It's about time really.

DOGZ WERE BARKING

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

>my GOD I want more turbofolk in my life.

Concur.

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I don't think Dogs Were Barking is turbofolk is it? It's just the Ukranian Pogues.

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[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Dubfolk - close enough.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have only heard one example of turbofolk, it is called 'Gili Gili' and is by one Jelena Karleusa, it is INCREDIBLE.

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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I got chatted up by a Serbian schoolgirl* on slsk because I was sharing this track, she was a big Busted fan.

*or a Serbian policeman, YMMV

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[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Is it about setting Croatians on fire? Most turbofolk has distinctly nationalist overtones.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

You should have talked to her about trends!

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It goes "gili gili gili gili gili something something something". It may well be.

Around the time I found it, I read an interview with another turbofolk singer called Ceca, who is the widow of one of the country's most notorious gangsters! And Jelena Karleusa is her big rival, also apparently the daughter of a top brass Serbian minister, and I can't remember the details but the rivalry reached such heights that one of them tried to arrange for the other to be KIDNAPPED!

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[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

Yep, Ceca = Mrs Arkan, Arkan generally being regarded number one evil fvcker in the Bosnian war.

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[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Ceca is v Eurotrash-glam, platinum blonde hair and probably-fake bosom and probably-not-fake fur coat. GANGSTER'S MOLL!

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Don't the Poles have something like turbo-folk - turbo-polka or technopolka or something? I thought I remembered reading something about it as well.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

They have disco-polo, which is basically very florid, campy disco sung in Polish. I don't think it has the nationalistic elements of turbofolk tho.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

No war criminals' molls to sing it, I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

here's a zip of some turbofolk faves lying around on my hard drive.

http://www.speedyshare.com/809228955.html

a lot of it's perhaps not quite full-on "turbo", but you might enjoy it regardless.

cheers,
Mind Taker