Artist description Ethno electronic style blend makes an album you can dance at or close your eyes at. Yugoslav ethno motives were never before used to create modern electronic music. Album '21st Century Music' is conceived as a manifest of new ethno electronic fusion and is available thru this page. Album "Belgrade Soundscape" features early ambient electronic works and bombing sounds recorded during NATO attack on Yugoslavia. Most of the music from this album was released in 1998. on "Inventing Reality" album in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Both albums are to be danced at or to lie down and let the brain cells dance... signed - Nikola Cosic.

Music Style Serbian Electronic Ethno

Musical Influences FSOL, Lassigue Bendthaus, Hip-Hop, Serbian folk songs, NATO bombing, Jean Michel Jarre

Similar Artists Deep Forest, Future Sound Of London, Aphex Twin

Artist History During summer 1999. Nee from Yugoslavia had over 50 000 RA & MP3 downloads thru MP3.COM. Tracks 'Pirot Cherry' and 'Ouch Meeko!' are out on MP3.COM's Best of electronic CD, Best of summer '99 CD, GRIP mag cover CD, and french Cyberpress mag cover CD. Previous album - 'Inventing Reality' - was released in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1998. That tape could be still found in Maniac shop in a passage under Terazije in Belgrade.

Group Members Nikola Cosic - synths, computers; featuring - Ivan Memetovic - voice and accordion and Sonia Loncar - live keyboards.

Instruments Oberheim Matrix 1000, Kawai SX-240, Roland Juno-106, Korg Delta, Korg MS-20, Farfisa Proffesional Duo, Roland Vocoder VCS-350, Roland CR-78, Yamaha CS-20, Watkins COPICAT analogue tape delay, a no-name acoustic guitar with magnets, AKG D190C, Intel Pentium

Albums 1998. Inventing Reality, 1999. Belgrade Soundscape, 21st Century Music, 2000. Soundtrack from theatre play by Franz Xaver Kroetz - 'Instinct', by Isidora Zebeljan & Nee (currently on regular programme of Belgrade's Atelje 212 theatre).

Press Reviews "a highly cool combo of folk, electronics and sound effects, perfectly produced and as such, all 3 of these tracks go into the raw42 top songs list." - Alex of www.raw42.com;"Dada-inspired drum & bass full of chopped-up samples ,avant garde sound tectures, busy drums and a haunting melodica. Perfect forfans of Rephlex's Bogdan Raczynski, Vert or similarly mischieviousjunglists." - XLR8R ; " 21st Century music available today! Join the Age of Electronicus! " - MP3.COM.Articles in various Yugoslav press - Virtual,Beo Izlog, daily newspaper - Blicand Politika, reviews in Bulgarian music mags.

Additional Info www.beograd.com/nee hosts soundscapes from around the world in MP3 and RA. Wouldn't it be great to have sooundscapes from distant parts (Barcelona, New York, Belgrade for now) on separate channels of a sound mixer?

Location Belgrade, Serbia - Yugoslavia

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