Amoeba Music

The dirty, not-so-secret secret about all of our wonderful, cross-cultural, 21-century infused, musical polyglotism is this: Most of the time, when a variety of disparate styles are presented in a forward-thinking mash-up, the results are not greater than the sum of the aggregate parts. Instead, the individual components are simply diluted. Accordingly the appearance of the words “klezmer,” “hip-hop” and “Dancehall” in the same sentence is probably enough to send every hipster from Silver Lake to Williamsburg scurrying for cover. But wait — come back! Balkan Beat Box actually have legitimate merit. Yeah, they know, the whole concept sounds like a gimmicky affectation; that’s why they bust ass in a double-time frenzy,... Read More

Genre:

World

City Of Origin:

Brooklyn, ,New York United States

Formed Date:

2005