Balkan Dream Team in Berlin * Goran Bregovic, Shantel & Robert Soko

We're announcing it here with a (virtual) blasting trumpet fanfare, Mr. Balkan Beats himself, Robert Soko, joins the illustrious Goran Bregovic and his Wedding & Funeral Band with Shantel & Bucovina Club Orkestar in an all-star line up of Balkan big boys at Berlin's Citadel Music Festival on 7 July. If you like your slivovitz cold, your brass hot and both flowing fast and furious, this is an event not to be missed. The founder of the Balkan Beats party phenomenon, Robert Soko, will be manning his customary station at the turntables, cutting the needle into addictive and excessive dance floor stompers. Lucky listeners that evening will surely get sneak-preview peeks into his next compilation, "A Night in Berlin", coming out on Piranha Musik this autumn.