Superhiks
 SUPERHIKS classifies as ska-punk band with reggae, latin and Balkan folk music influences. They started with mixture of ska, punk and hardcore music. Today, the band features a powerful 3–piece horn section consisting of trombone, trumpet and flugel horn as well as the mighty percussion set played by Goce Naumov -“The Indian”. Superhiks has shared stages with other world famous acts: Manu Chao and Radio Bemba, Fun Lovin Criminals, Fishbone, Tito and Tarantula, Henry Rollins, H-Block, Rico Rodriguez and many others.
Their first album ”Cekaj be vikam…”(“Wait a second…”) was released in 2000 and received radio air and TV play on all commercial stations nationwide. Their long awaited follow-up album “Trumano” was released in November 2003. In 2006 Superhiks are realizing the 3rd (live) album from their biggest concert. It was realised in 35.000 copies and it was sold out for less than 7 days. Superhiks appeared on many national and international compilations such as: "Ska Generation", "I Woke Up in Motion", "Ska Factor Positive" and other. The song “Graffity Boy”, from their last album "And now... what?"(2008), reached the top on MTV Adria. They were awarded for best Macedonian band in 2001, 2002 and 2004, for best video in 2001 (Rade) and 2003 ("Znam deka ljubi"), and their concert at the Skopje Fair was awarded for best rock concert in Macedonia in 2004.
Dedicated for Life
 Dedicated for Life was formed in the beginning of 2001 in Skopje, Macedonia, when this four member crew made its first steps in the local hardcore scene. After about a year and a half of very hard work they released their first demo, recorded in very poor conditions but it was made only to witness the songs that were made in that time. After the gigs they had in almost every city in the country, they started working on the debut called “By All Means”. It was completely finished in 2004. In the meantime D.F.L. suffered some lineup changes but after that they released the record and made successful tour throughout Macedonia which ended in Skopje with more than 1100 people in the audience. In 2006 they started working on the songs for the upcoming release “Another Dawn” (2008). In July 2007, D.F.L. participated in the W.O.A. Metal Battle competition for Wacken for ex Yugoslavia countries and made it to the finals which were held in Belgrade.
The highlight was the concert with Apocalyptica in front of 3000 people in Skopje.
Blla Blla Blla...
 The initial idea came sometime in 1998, when Idriz Ameti gathered his friends from neighboring streets and through the punk, as a form of expression, started with realization of their ideas. From that period, only a few demos remain, the performance on Novi Rock festival in Ljubljana, and participation in several group shows in Skopje. In 1999, Mohamed Ibrahimi (guitarist) left the band, and in his place came Ermalj Skupi, a violinist who changed the sound image of the band. As a response to ethnic tensions, disagreements, differences and similarities, in March 1999 they came out with thier first, officially published, album "Blla Blla Blla".
This was followed by performances at festivals, concerts in Skopje, Tirana, Thessaloniki, Bitola, Pec, Prizren, Durres, a concert tour in Macedonia within the campaign for disarmament "For a better tomorrow!", etc.. In 2005, after three years of hard work, Blla Blla Blla released their second album, "Over Sky Ballkanishe Re-form".
Smut
 Smut is a hardcore band from Skopje, Macedonia, dating since 1996. They have released three official albums: Smut (2001), Forever Is Not Enough (2004) and All I Have (2007). If with the first album they were looking for their sound, which was found and defined with the second, then with the last album, “All I Have”, their style rose above level, which shows that they are proudly walking their way to success.
As recognition for their achievments was the honor of performing with bends such as: Sick of It All, Biohazard, Integrity, Hatebreed, Madball, Ignite, Defdumb, Born from Pain, Death Before Dishonour and many others. They have played in Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Bosnia, Romania, etc.
The band consists of George Ilovski (vocals), Gorgi Trpkovski (guitar), Dejan Nikolovski (guitar), Darko Najdovski (bass), Blagoja Antovski (drums).
El Mundo & Satori (Netherlands)
 El Mundo & Satori go by the names of Pim van der Burgt and Djordje Petrovic. Two energetic, enthousiastic and ambitious guys from Nijmegen. They both have a big passion; dancemusic..
During the period they've been working together they both have more or less the same filosophy about life and especially dancemusic. They believe life is about having a good time. And that’s what music and dancing is all about: Having a good time! This is recognisable in their performances as well as in their productions. Their style can be described as funky, deep and of course the most important thing: danceable. Therefore they both understand what it takes to give people a good time. It's all about setting the dancefloor on fire, over and over again...
Both have had their experience in producing and DJing for quite some years. El Mundo has been DJing for 8 years and Satori, who is a really talented and dedicated musician, for about 3 years. Their productions are getting many support from the big DJs/producers like Loco Dice, Karotte, Richie Hawtin, Mattias Tanzmann and Dj Wild to name a few...
Mulder (Netherlands)
 Mulder, born as Willem de Mulder, is a 28 years old dj & producer from the southern part of The Netherlands. Very early in his youth he got acquainted with, and fell in love straight away, drums and percussion, a love which inspired him to make music himself and even brought him to the Academy of Music years later.
His hugely developed rhythm combined with the technical and theoretical knowhow he gained during his college years, have turned out to be a profound starting point for his productions. This resulted in the releases ‘4Sure EP’ and ‘Nice One EP’ on Daniel Sanchez’ BlaBla label in 2009 which were supported by legends such as Richie Hawtin, Marco Corola, Karotte(“original is a bomb”), Radioslave(“sounds awesome!”) Josh Wink and Steve Bug.
His next release on BlaBla called 'Keep going EP' just came out and promises to be a big one. Under the name of his alter ego 'Second Floor' he will release a new record on Michel de Hey's label early this summer. Furthermore two remixes will come out on Ronan Portela's Unlock Recordings and Cray1 Labworks. Letu Shtuke (BiH)
 Letu Štuke were formed in 1986 when four high school friends from Sarajevo decided to make a band. Influenced by pank and new wave, members decided to join the new wave stream away from the pop-rock. With their diligent work and numerous concerts on what was once known as the "demo scene" in Sarajevo, intrigue the music critics.
During the war in Bosnia in the '90s, the group fell apart and all that was left of them were the demo recordings. After a long pause, in February 2005, Letu Štuke again returned to the studio and finally, after 17 years of waiting, they recorded their first album named, of course, "Letu Štuke". The album was very well accepted by the audience and the critics. In 2008 they issued their second album "Proteini i ugljikohidrati".
Today’s composition of the band includes: Dino Šaran (vocals, guitar), Dejan Ostojic (bass guitar), Djani Pervan (drums, percussions), Dino Vatrenjak (guitar) and Slobodan Cosic (keyboards).
Eye Cue
 Eye Cue was formed in 2001. After several changes in the composition, today's group consists of Bojan Trajkovski (guitar and vocals), Ivan Sarievski (bass guitar) and Ivo Mitkovski (drums).
What distinguishes them from the rest is their expression which includes almost all subtypes of the rock music. Their first single "Magic" was released in May, 2008. Five months later and the second single came out, which bears the name of their first album "Superstar Wannabe". The promotion of the third single "Glowing Lips" happened along with the promotion of their album last year. With "Not this time" Eye Cue won the audience from the region and in just two weeks managed to climb the first place on the regional charts for the best video on MTV, leaving behind the big music names like Van Gogh, Laka , Elemental, Negativ and others.
Eye Cue had remarkable performances on Boom Taksirat Festival, Pivolend festival, Vevcani Carnival as well as in many clubs.
Zoster (BiH)
 Zoster was formed in autumn 2000. They believe that reggae is the appropriate music for this turbulent area in which just a dosage of aggressiveness is too much even when it comes to music.
The first time Zoster entered the studio was in 2003 in order to record a single "Majko Jamajko". A year later they recorded their demo album never suspecting to become Number 1 on the local radio stations. Their first gig on West Herzegovina Fest brought them their first victory.
There are a couple of songs that catched the ear of the fans and critics. One of them are „Policija“, „Hercegovina“, „Majko Jamajko“, „Kisa“ etc. In the year 2006, the band enters the studio again and records 16 tracks from which they made selection of 12 songs to put on the second album "Festival Budala". Singles that follow the album are: „Ko je jamio, jamio“ , „Utopia“, „Na kamenu“, „Festival Budala“. The followng names make the band Zoster: Mario Knezovic (vocals, guitar), Boris Gutic (saxophone), Atilla Aksoj (guitar, keyboards, percussions, vocals), Marko Jakovljevic (bass, guitar) and Goran Rebac (drums, marimba, percussions, vocals).
Ljubojna
 Ljubojna has impassionedly played Macedonian music for six years already. Their music is tied to the Macedonian life and founded on the Macedonian traditional music. Elegant with a fierce rhythmic pulse, European but with fashions and influences of the East. They perform this music in all its forms: original, classical, popular, and experimental form.
Ljubojna stands behind many art projects: plays, ballet performances, music for film, and since 2002 the group has performed at many music and theater festivals throughout the world. They have held more than 50 concerts, not only in Macedonia and the region, but also in Toronto, Istanbul, Moscow, Venice, Rome, Marseille, Paris, New York etc. In October 2005 Ljubojna released their debut album, named as “P.S.O.” with suggestive and conceptual expression inspired from the novel “Parite se otepuvachka” by Risto Krle. The second album was recorded live and is titled "Macedonia fresh" (2008), and their third consecutive album, “Song for my song”, was released in 2009.
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Zebra Tracks (Greece)
 Although Zebra Tracks were reborn on Nov. of 2005, the “Zebra” concept has existed since the early 00's.The sale of their first double singl "Silicone Valley/ Borealis Fallacia" in 2006 in 700 copies and the large number of concert tickets sold were an unexpected success.
This was followed by the performance on the Urban Fest Osijek, Croatia and the recording of the song "Spare Time Soundtrack" which later became part of the soundtrack of the film "Approaching of the hour". In December 2006 they joined “Film”, one of the most popular Greek bands, on their tour throughout Greece.
Zebra Tracks EP, which was published in 2007, was greeted by the critics and the audience. That same year, Placebo picked Zebra Tracks as an opening act for their concert in Lycabetus Theatre, where Zebras played in front of 7000 fans. One month later, Zebras played live with Kaiser Chiefs, Long Blondes and Good Shoes at the Open Air Festival.
During 2008, the band spends most of the time in studio recording the debut full-length album “A family picture from…” which was finally released in October 2009.
Sethstat
Sethstat is considering a particular area of the music art where the ideas are result of the modern urban living, under strong influence of the traditional music treasure. The use of folk rhythms, melodies and motives as a background for building the music in combination with instruments from relatively modern origin (trombone, saxophone, trumpet, bass guitar, percussions and synthesizer, piano), create a truly unique music with a different, distinctive spirit.
This is one of the most active and best-known Macedonian jazz band who have so far released four albums: "Seth Makes Sense" (1993), "Within Yourself" (1996), "Sethstat" (2000) and "Rolling Garage" (2004).
Sethstat had remarkable performances in almost all Macedonian clubs and concert halls and abroad: Budapest, Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo etc. They have established collaboration with many respectable organizations like Skopje Jazz Festival, Bagi Records, Radio Jazz FM, 20th Century Music Festival - Synthesis, European Youth Music Festival, Belgrade Summer, Zagreb Jazz Festival, Sarajevo Jazz Festival etc.
High Control
 Inspired by the revolt against the contemporary decadence of moral values and trying to emphasize control on all segments of social life, these four guys from Tetovo decided to name their band High Control. Founded in 2005, most music critics characterize High Control as an alternative-rock band with visible grunge, metal and progressive elements. High Control had their first debut performance on Winner Fest in 2008 where they succeeded in entering the finals and thus performed in three different cities in Macedonia together with the 8 other finalists. Their next competing performance took place on Total Dem-O Fest where High Control won the prize for Best Band from the jury. As a prize they received an opportunity to release their debut album In Every Way that was promoted in Club Castro on April 17, 2009. As recognition for their hard work, the band performed on the debut stage on the 10th Exit Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia that was followed by many other performances in clubs and concerts all over Macedonia.
Having proven to be a band performing high quality music, High Control is again going to perform on Exit Fest but now on the bigger stage known as Fusion that would be followed by the release of their second album, tour, and more news…
Bernays Propaganda
BERNAYS PROPAGANDA could be shortly described as danceable newwave/post-punk band with charming and attractive female vocal. But don’t be misleaded, we are talking here about extremely political band influenced by a variety of bands, from Submission Hold over Fugaziall the way to the Gossip and Gang of Four. Firm drum beats accompanied with thick and groovy bass lines are the base upon which layers of funky and broken guitar chords are placed, and above all comes unique, strong and remarkable female voice as a cherry on the top. Were lunatic enthusiasm, bursting energy and catchy atmosphere already mentioned?!
Maybe because of that they’ve managed to play over 100 shows in 2009 all across Europe supporting their debut LP. Even beside the fact that they are not dealing with mainstream media they’ve ended on the radio top charts and gained lots of media support.
Their new album named “My Personal Holiday” was released in April this year. Everyone knows what will happen after: nonstop touring!
Olene Kadar (live) (Netherlands)
"Chaotic, unconventional, freaky”, Olene Kadar, who is also known as Henk van Zwol from Oldeholtwolde, is an intriguing personality with a remarkable sense for music and hairstyle. As soon as he got his first computer, the first sets of the production level were recorded. With the help of some friends from the North, Olene has met other producers from Friesland who have made him familiar with the regional techno scene. The rest is history. Frivolous Henk creates track after track after track… In 2007 the young Dutchman supplied the nightlife with a series of rocking live-sets in places like the Sugar Factory and Studio 80 in Amsterdam.
A notable remark is that this outstanding man has shaped a huge passion for music and creativity. Because of his a-typical way of performing he is seen as the most promising live-act of this moment.
Henk's sets are dynamic and build up with loops completed by effects and incredible vocal-cuts. This is one of the reasons why he is able to anticipate so well with his audience right in front of him. With a lot of effort, we get quite something, for not one set is the same.
Daniel Sanchez (Netherlands)
 Daniel Sanchez is from Amsterdam and has is roots in Spain because of his father. He is a real millipede in constant development and has an accurate nose for good and future progressive music. Besides his own events Bla Bla and Rotzooii, which are always fully sold out, he is also a successful DJ, producer and owner of the Bla Bla record label. His Bla Bla events are held every last Saturday of the month in the club with Amsterdam’s best sound, Studio80. Here he programmes the newest and coolest artists of the moment, from Dub to Techno and every progressive style that lies in between. As a DJ he has already acquired great popularity because of his memorable dj-sets that made the audience go crazy. ‘Mumbling Yeah’ has been remixed by Loco Dice, Marco Carola and Paco Osuna. All this became to be just the setting for the beginning of a rich variation of more releases to come. He’s been working on many projects in cooperation with worldwide famous names. All of these projects prove that Daniel Sanchez indeed is a grand multi-musical talent. In a relatively short period he has developed himself as a producer on various levels in electronic dance music. His passion for electronic dance music is so big, that the future will bring so much more by this man.
Linda Në Botën E Çudirave (Albania)
 LBC is an alternative experimental band form Tirana, Albania. The band is formed in 2008 by: Linda Rukaj (vocal, guitar), Bledar Boraku (guitar), Franc Kurti (bass guitar) and Erlind Hoxha (drums).
The biggest influences in their music is the sunrise in the morning, the warm smell of earth after the rain, clouds in the sky, the sky, every nature derivate, animal, and human derivate, the trees, milk, cigarettes, flowers, silence, love, lost, medness, strength..and lots of similar or opposite things that are not mentioned but are intended. Important for them is to say what they think, touch, feel and fantasize with their music.
T.B. Traceri
 T. B. Tracheri are rock & roll band formed in 1994. Until 2001 they had about a hundred hits with recordings of their concerts. In 2001 they released their first album “Klati i trkalaj" which rapidly evaporated from the music shops. In 2003, they issued the second album "Kupi me" and in 2005 their third album came out called "Slageri od Sodoma" in 2005.
The lineup, which comes from Kumanovo, Skopje and Vinica, includes: Kirco Arsovski (guitar, vocals), Kiril Arsov (bass, supporting vocals, guitar), Andrej Atanasov (drums, supporting vocals), Ivica Dimitrijevic (guitar) and Alekandra Popovska (supporting vocals).
Foltin
 Surrealism, passion and hot dance atmosphere of the fast Macedonian rhythms- this is probably the most appropriate description of Foltin’s music. Although they use standard musical elements, their approach in creating the atmosphere is unpredictable and above all original. Their language is a phonetic imitation of languages such as Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian..., so called "spontaneous Esperanto”. This unusual structure describes itself as a pseudo-emigrant cabaret and often their concerts are turning into a powerful audio-visual experience. It is not a strange thing to imagine all that when you consider the fact that they have worked on a music for theatrical performances, in which they are using the ready-made “instruments” or creating ambient sound with objects from unmusical primer function, construction of sound sculptures and installations. They took part in many musical and theatrical festivals in Macedonia, Croatia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Belgium, France etc. and several times have been awarded for their work.
The group exists since 1997 and so far they have published five albums: "Out Re-Mer", "Archimed", "Donkey Hot", "Lo-Lee-Ta-Too" and "Ovaa transplantirana mashina za chukanje dosega ne tipkala ljubovno pismo”.
Infuse
 Infuse beginnings date back to December 2006. Painstaking work resulted with their debut album "Around the Black" (2008). This is probably the first conceptual album in Macedonia, with influences from literature and art. The style of the music can be described as electro-pop, alternative and ambient. Members characterize their style as organic-electro because of the incorporated organic sound of the piano, guitar and the string quartet.
Due to changes in the composition, the group had a period of repeated preparation, but they still go down their path. The band is in excellent shape and offers vibrant gigs and exceptional musical experience.
In the group, along with Vlatko Georgiev (keyboards), are Svetlana Jovanovska (vocals), Dejan Milosavljevic (drums) and Zoran Kostadinovski (electric guitar).
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