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Purpose of this release is to present young artists from the ex-Yugoslavia region to the global music lovers and dance floor shakers. One could say this sounds yugo-nostalgic, but all of these artists were born in Yugoslavia. With their music they present influences from the scene where they created and keep innovating the �art of dance�. Boltzmann, coming from Slovenia, with the floor killer "My places", gave respect to the new wave bands, to which he was listening to while growing up, at the same time bringing in some serious grooves with a very melodic synth lines. Borgie, coming from Bosnia and Herzegovina, kicks in with acid electro techno track, tough as Sarajevo�s eating, drinking and party habits. Then you have SevdahBavy, coming from Serbia, who just teases the crowd with his classic disco cut. He could not resists to throw in male vocal with an attitude, that creates a perfect balance with a female voice which invites us to - Just have fun - this mixture of attitude and celebration of life shows what Schmeker is all about.  Tosh Maracato, coming from Croatia, with his two tracks, explores neo trance sounds� bowling emotions, groove and spacey synths into the breaks, which could drive dancers far away from reality, but that is why we like the dance floors.  

ABOUT ARTISTS

MILAN STANKOVI� aka sevdahBABY

The artist also known as sevdahBABY, explores and pushes the limits by using the elements of Balkan music tradition in the context of contemporary electronic music styles. His music varies from broken beat and 2step experiments, to straight 4 to the floor club grooves. He is not afraid of mixing those two cultures, and he is not afraid of being accused of heresy from any kind of audience: folk music lovers on one side, or representatives of urban DJ/clubbing culture on the other side. He strongly believes that music is universal, that Balkan sevdah is equal to American blues, or Brazilian tristessa.

Tosh Marcato 

Tosh Marcato has been showing interest for music since his childhood. At only eleven, he attended a music school where he learned how to play a violin and a piano. At the age of fifteen, he went to his first party, and instantly, an unbreakable bond and love to electronic music was born. Following this experience, he started to learn basic steps of electronic music production. He believed that making of dance music is an art as any other. Transferring his emotions to the music is the most enjoyable part of his creative work. In 2003, he acquired professional DJ equipment, and soon he started making his name known on the scene. After many performances in clubs and coffee bars in his town and region, with two of his friends (Sasha Fishter & Examine), he started the project IN/OUT. Their goals was to present electro and minimal music and educate people about the scene generally. Today you can hear him in electro and minimal-techno edition. He believes that a DJ always must make special connection and have a non-verbal communication with dancers, and have them dance until the morning.

Boris Boras a.k.a.Borgie

Borgie was born in Sarajevo following the shocking death of the Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito in 1980. As a kid who grew up in the 80s, with the sounds of Soft Cell, Inner City & Technotronic, it was natural to find himself in Detroit sound in the early 90s, only to draw a great inspiration from the German minimal techno scene which brutally enslaved him to living, creating & mixing techno. At the dawn of the new millennium, he started promoting electronic music with two of his friends, Mustafa Salcin & Samira Poricanin, on a local radio station then called Sarajevo 202. The concept of this project, entitled Fresh Beats, was to lift all Bosnian artists creating and playing electronic music to a higher level, as well as to maximize their public representation. This project also sponsored almost all parties, promotions and leaflets related to the scene. During the time between 2000 and 2004, all of the most prominent DJs from Bosnia played on this show, and the promoters provided the audience with the sounds coming from some of the best DJ names in the world who either mixed or gave interviews in Fresh Beats. Nowadays Borgie is mostly occupied with a webzine net label Oscilator, releasing his production & mixed compilations. In addition to his original alias, Borgie is known as Splendex, when presenting minimal & electro, and also as Kran 709, for the sounds like Detroit & break beat, along with his friend Zlijay. And finally, at the end of the beginning, Borgie became a crucial part of Buka label management, along with many other music lovers and his friend Ymo17, a founder of the association.

Boltzmann

In his youth, Boltzmann attended elementary music school, where he acquired classic music education. While in secondary school he got in touch with electronic music at a well known night club Ambasada Gavioli in Izola, Slovenia. At the break of the millennium he realized what his future is going to be - playing and producing electronic music. He started his career on two cd-players and a mixer and began to play techno and electro music. Soon, he bought 3 turntables. In 2002 he organized his first electronic music event and later established, along with ten other enthusiasts, an association for promotion and distribution of electronic music, called SDJF. Together they have organized numerous successful events and hosted many world wide known DJs. In 2004, he started producing electronic music. As he adores synths, he appreciates artists who use them frequently in their music; therefore DJ Umek, Huntemann, Anthony Rother and Da Fresh have been major influences in Boltzmann's work, as well as the legendary English group Depeche Mode. Mostly he produces electro, but along with Lukas Stepan�i� aka Comrade, he collaborates in various techno music projects. His goal is to make his music notable to others, with a unique and genuine sound, bringing "electro-love" everywhere he plays.

HOME MADE = Music with Mediterranean soul and Balkan attitude.

Home Made Electronica, Croatia, is a record and a publishing company, releasing innovative dance music and bedroom electronica. Idiosyncratic in it's approach, Home Made has opened it's doors for quality music primarily made by Croatian artists with a mission to bring the creative output from the artists' rooms to the whereabouts of it's supporters worldwide. Focused on different release formats, Home Made cherishes love for CD albums and vinyl EP's, while recognizing the significance of digital distribution in reaching supporters of Music With Attitude.

Musically speaking, Home Made, Music with Mediterranean soul and Balkan Attitude, is about complexity of rhythm and melody, and the emotional charge necessary for the Art of Dance. With a feeling for artistic expression, Home Made continues to push the boundaries of how club music should sound like and provides DJs with sophisticated music that has a club vibe which reminds us why we like to dance.

More info www.homemadeelectronica.com