Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Homecoming - Tunng & Taraf De Haidouks
2. Alone At My Wedding - Buscemi & Kocani Orkestar
3. Oi Bori Sujie - Animal Collective
4. Red Bula - Balkan Beat Box & Mahala Rai Banda
5. Romano Dance - DJ Click & Mahala Rai Banda
6. Mi Bori Sar Korani - Smadj & Kocani Orkestar
7. Duba Duba Si Hora - Shantel & Taraf De Haidouks
8. Rom And A Home - Oi-Va-Voi & Taraf De Haidouks
9. Maxutu - Cibelle & Kocani Orkestar
10. Man Who Drinks - Forty Thieves Orkestar & Mahala Rai Banda
11. Morceau D'Amour - Nouvelle Vague & Mahala Rai Banda
12. Neacsu In Africa - ShrineSynchroSystem & Taraf De Haidouks
13. New Adventures Of Soldier Tufaiev - Gurzhy, Yuriy & Zelwer
14. Go East - Fabri, Gaetano & Taraf De Haidouks
15. Ismail Oro - 43 Skidoo & Susheela Raman
16. Spoitoresa Revisited - Russ & Nahala Rai Banda

Disc 2:

1. Cudna Zena - Kocani Orkestar
2. Siki Siki Baba - Kocani Orkestar
3. L'Orient Est Rouge - Kocani Orkestar
4. Duba Duba Si Hora - Taraf De Haidouks
5. Terno Chelipe - Taraf De Haidouks
6. Cind Eram La '48 - Taraf De Haidouks
7. A La Turk - Taraf De Haidouks
8. Spoitoresa - Rai, Mahala Banda
9. Lest Sexy - Rai, Mahala Banda
10. Romano Dance - Mahala Rai Banda
11. Fiances Dream - Zelwer
12. Soldier Tufaiev Gets Married - Zelwer

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19671 in Music
• Released on: 2006-11-06
• Number of discs: 2

Album Description
The pioneering recordings by Crammed Discs of traditional gypsy music moved into the 21st century with the release of the first collection of re-mixes, Electric Gypsyland, which sparked off the fascination of young DJs and re-mixers for gypsy music from the Balkans.

Electric Gypsyland 2 takes this even further. It's a collection of reinterpretations / re-inventions of tracks from three of the leading Balkan Gypsy bands (Crammed's mighty Taraf de Haidouks, Kocani Orkestar and Mahala Rai Banda), made by notorious fusionists (Balkan Beat Box, Oi Va Voi, Smadj, Shantel), by several mainstays of the new Balkan club scene (DJ ClicK, Forty Thieves Orkestar, Gaetano Fabri, Russ Jones, Russendisko), and by more unexpected contributors coming from totally different musical areas (Tunng, Animal Collective, Nouvelle Vague, Cibelle, 43 Skidoo feat. Susheela Raman, Buscemi and ShrineSynchroSystem). Also featured are many additional guest musicians (from Europe, Turkey, Africa), engaging in virtual jamming with the original players. While some of these pieces stay close enough to the originals and can be described as remixes, most are poetic re-inventions, works of pure imagination.

Also enclosed is a bonus CD including 12 of the best, original tracks by Taraf de Haïdouks, Kocani Orkestar, Mahala Rai Banda & Zelwer.

Customer Reviews

If you liked Electric Gypsyland Vol 1...
If you like Volume One in this series, you'll like Volume Two. There's a few stand-outs, but the whole thing is well and thoughtfully put together, by all the artists involved. Plus you get the wonderful collection of unmixed contemporary Rom bands on the second CD. Worthwhile.