Noise pop is a subgenre of alternative or indie rock that developed in the mid-1980s in the United Kingdom and United States. It is defined by its mixture of dissonant noise or feedback with the songcraft more often found in pop music. Shoegazing, another noise-based genre that developed in the 1980s, drew from noise pop.
Bardo Pond are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1991, and who are currently signed to London-based label Fire Records. The current members are Michael Gibbons (guitar), John Gibbons (guitar), Isobel Sollenberger, Clint Takeda and Jason Kourkounis (drums). Bardo Pond's music is often classified as space rock, acid rock, post-rock, shoegazing, noise or psychedelic rock. Some Bardo Pond album titles have been derived from the names of esoteric psychedelic substances. Their sound has been likened to Pink Floyd, Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine amongst others.
Hari Mata Hari is a Bosnian rock band. Hari Mata Hari is the stage name for the singer Hajrudin "Hari" Varešanović. The group originated from the city of Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The group has performed over 1,000 concerts and sold 5 million albums to date. Their songs are among the most famous and popular love ballads in the former Yugoslavia era. Hari Mata Hari was the representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 held in Athens, Greece. Coincidentally, hari mata hari is Malay for 'day of the sun, or Sunday'.
Kaliopi Bukle, known professionally as Kaliopi, is a Macedonian singer-songwriter. In her career, Kaliopi has progressed from singing lead vocal with her eponymous band in 1980s Yugoslavia to being an established vocalist and composer working in North Macedonia and across former Yugoslavia. She represented then Republic of Macedonia twice in the Eurovision Song Contest, first in 2012 in Baku, Azerbaijan with "Crno i belo" and a second time in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden with the song "Dona".
Disciplina Kičme, currently working under the slightly altered name of Disciplin A Kitschme, is a Serbian band, one of the two spin-offs of the seminal Yugoslav new wave and later post-punk band Šarlo Akrobata, the other being Ekatarina Velika. Musically, they are best described as an aggressive and artistic rhythmic explosion, experimenting and seeking out new expressiveness while finding inspiration in the traditions of punk rock, funk, jazz fusion, motown, jungle, drum and bass, and the works of Jimi Hendrix.
Nenad "Neno" Belan is a Croatian rock musician, known as the frontman of Đavoli, as well as for his solo work.
Klopka Za Pionira is a noise-rock band from Serbia. Their music is built on improvisation, lyrics written by the band's vocalist Mileta Mijatović. The band has published 11 albums and EPs and two live albums on the independent record label Ne-ton.
Dodole is an album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2009 on the Ne-ton independent label. This album is considered by many to be their most accessible to date. It took the band nearly two years to record and publish it, while they usually released several albums during one year. Thus it represents their most technically advanced effort. Musically, it contains songs with a more mainstream rock'n'roll approach, standard form and length. The name of the album comes from the lyrics of the song "Pagani", in which the old pagan Slavic ritual of Dodole is mentioned. The cover illustration by Larisa Acikov depicts burning pagan totems.
Kupine is an album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2006 on the Ne-ton independent label. This is one of the more experimental and ambient sounding albums by Klopka, containing long, slowly developing songs with many ambient nature-like sounds but also various machine noises and loops. The album contains very few lyrics, appearing now and then in some of the songs.
Tao Business is an EP by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2007 on the Ne-ton independent label. It has only one song, albeit almost twenty minutes long, which is actually an excerpt from one of the band's sessions with Vladimir Palibrk on drums as a special guest. The whole song was recorded in one take at the Pančevo gallery Elektrika, all instruments at the same time, and is built on improvisation. The result is a drone, noise tune with a free-jazz form. There are almost no lyrics and surprisingly little guitar while the bass guitar, drums and electronics dominate.
Fiskalna kasa za dilera grasa is an EP by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2007 on the Ne-ton independent label. It contains two versions of the same song dealing with police brutality of a young man who was caught with a marijuana joint. The name of the EP means "Fiscal cash register for the grass dealer" and is actively advocating legalization of marijuana.
Svinje is an album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2007 on the Ne-ton independent label. It contains eight songs of which some are new versions of songs from the previous album Kupine with significant changes in both music and lyrics. The sound on this album is rich and multi-layered with extensive use of sampling, tape-loops, static noise etc. unexpectedly intercepted by soothing harmonic melodies of instruments such as xylophone. Svinje is the Serbian word for pigs.
Haker ili iskušavanje đavola is the second album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2004 on the Ne-ton independent label. A big departure from the sound of first album, this album is unique by many standards in the band's body of work. It is the only album without Vladimir Lenhart, since there are no bass lines in any of the songs. Also, there is no guitar and no vocal input from Mileta Mijatović, the band's singer. The whole album consists of various machine buzzes and computer generated noises accompanied by a large amount of sampled voices originating from English translations of speeches by Josip Broz Tito, operas in Serbian, children's educational records, Orthodox chanting, the opening speech from a concert entitled "Trumpets of Peace" held in Sarajevo 1977, "The Internationale" sung in Serbian, various commercials, old Yugoslav movies, SpongeBob SquarePants dubbed in Serbian, etc.
Vratićeš se Satane is the third album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2005 on the Ne-ton independent label. It consists of ten songs, cover versions of tracks by Satan Panonski, which is unusual for Klopka. It is also unusual for Mileta to sing lyrics that are not his own. The cover art was by Bouraiqc des Merdes.
Jutro u fabrici is an EP by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2005 on the Ne-ton independent label. The album has only one instrumental song of harsh noise consisting of industrial noises and loops treated electronically with many effects.
Planetarni čovek is an album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2006 on the Ne-ton independent label. It is one of the more seriously crafted albums by Klopka, and the first recorded on professional equipment. This album contains a cover version of Tom Waits' song "Poor Edward", Google translated into Serbian. The album cover was drawn by Maja Veselinović.
Raj na Zemlji postoji is the first album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2004 on the Ne-ton independent label. The album is characterized by fast tempo punk-like songs with only clues to the band's future sound.
Živa sila is an album by the Serbian noise-rock band Klopka Za Pionira, released in 2011 on the Ne-ton independent label. The band was invited by the organizers of the Koperground festival to play at the 2010 edition, and offered time at a local studio to compose and record a couple of new songs. The result is this album.
Srđan Marjanović is a Serbian singer-songwriter from Belgrade.
