This EP features a whole new style of electronic world music, based on the folk music from the Baltic sea region. The Helsinki/Finland based Boom shakalaka DJ team, responsible for compiling the EP, started getting more acquainted with their own musical heritage only after having been musically around the world a few times through their radio show and monthly club, which focus on different dance music styles from around the world.
DJs Emil, Rideon and Svengali realised that the area surrounding them has a music tradition with bouncy accordion rhythms and melodic fiddle harmonies that could work well in the context of global bass music. However, to make the local material more suitable for the dance floors, it needed some remixing. One thing lead to another and soon it they had a whole new musical genre on their hands; Baltik bass.
The word quickly got out and the Baltik bass vol. 1 EP also features folk bass superstars Shazalakazoo who give a go at retweeking some classic Finnish folk music.
“When working with these remixes, we didnʼt want to restrict our style according to the boarders of some nation-state, instead we want to point to the similarities in the musical folklore from a larger region and we refer to the sea for its historic importance as a logistic centre and a symbol of openness, multiculturalism and the sharing of ideas and goods”, declares DJ Emil.
The EP is the the first in a series of releases to present new world/folk music from Northern Europe and the Baltic sea region and the artists hope that this will inspire producers from the area to create similar material.
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