![]() He met Repetitor in Belgrade in 2012 at a WOLVON show courtesy of Petrol’s Ilija Duni, one of the movers and shakers of that city’s underground music scene. Koen’s enthusiasm eventually saw him organising fairly regular Balkan tours with the likes of Groningen’s much-missed noiseniks WOLVON and Neon Rainbows a couple of years later. Sadly, I don’t remember Blla Blla Blla but that’s my problem… But I also remember hearing that there were more such acts coming, and that I should keep my ear to the ground. ![]() I do remember seeing the brilliant Belgrade act Petrol play, and a little later that week at Leiden’s much-missed SUB071. My memory of the night is extremely hazy as it involved bootleg rakia by the bucketload. Koen’s mind had been blown by the amount and quality of the bands in the Balkans region and wanted me to see some of the acts that made the trip to the Netherlands. The festival was something to do with an organisation called Platform Spartak, a Dutch-based cultural set-up for young creatives in Europe. One of the shows was at Studio K in Amsterdam, with some Dutch bands I really liked, Green Hornet and Lost Bear. My story with them began back in the summer of 2010, when I got a call from Subroutine records’ co-founder Koen ter Heegde, inviting me to an alternative festival he’d helped to stage: Balkan Streets.
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