DJ KOSTA KOSTOV & BxP SOUNDSISTEMA

 

 

New school Balkan-Mediterranean beats mixed with Digital Cumbia, Maghreb Underground, Baile Funk and plenty of Bass

Country: Germany

Label: UrbanWorld Records

Kosta Kostov is not a nickname!

Born in the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, Kosta Kostov grew up in the unique Balkan way of celebrating.Moving to Germany didn’t stop his passionate search for the best rhythms and melodies from the Balkans.

Today working as a music journalist and dj, Kosta Kostov is the mastermind and resident “machinista” of the balkanXpress, the turbulent party in Cologne’s club Gebaude 9.

In April 2004, the balkanXpress started in Cologne’s club scene first as a regular party, to introduce and represent the many-facetted music of Southeastern Europe. It quickly became a reference for people who love spontaneous and passionate celebration.

The balkanXpress takes you on a dance journey through the valleys and hills of the Balkan beats and breaks, always with view out to new horizons… The rhythms of typical music and dance-styles like horo, racenitza, cocek, rembetiko or klezmer are quite similar to the beats of drum ’n’ bass and breakbeat and offer a great space for fusions. The Balkan music also share a common ground with musical phenomena like the sounds from the Orient & Maghreb, the Hispano-Brazilian flavas or the Bhangra beats. The trip with balkanXpress will take you beyond the Balkans, to the music related neighbors that have more similarities with Southeast European music than expected.

That’s the reason why prominent Global Village DJs like DJ Panko (Ojos de Brujo), DJ Click (No Fridge), DJ Gaetano Fabri (Electric Gypsyland), DJ Eastenders have participated to the balkanXpress. Meanwhile the balkanXpress is traveling not only through German lands.

Kosta Kostov is a well seen guest in the Barcelona clubs Sala Apolo and Sidecar, in Paris’ Divan du Monde, in Athen’s Altera Pars and Booze Club and in Vienna’s Ostklub. On March 2007, the balkanXpress brought for the first time the transbalkan beats and breaks to the clubs in the Brazilian cities of Belem, Aracaju, Brasilia Capital, Porto Alegre, Florianpolis and Rio de Janeiro.

LINKS

Mambesa [EP] 2011 (UrbanWorld Records)

Remixes

BxP Soundsistema

Dimi Pingios -- bouzouki
Marco Thiemann -- guitar, vox
Markus Malcher -- vox, percussion
Kosta Kostov -- live mixing, scratches, vox

BxP Soundsistema invites you to a fresh banging live show, all in the name of booty shaking -- own compositions, remixes and mashups, in which the Balkan & Mediterranean meets all the nice flavas from dub & reggae through funk &breaks till basss and electro.!!!

Kosta Kostov’s project BxP Soundsistema looks forward… traditional sounds & melodies from the Balkans & the world VS. urban electronics, that’s the recipy. He worked on this project with the greek funky breakbeat producer & dj BASEMENT FREAKS aka George Fotiadis, featuring the slam poet ZEDRINE from Toulouse, the Serbian MC KILLO KILLO, PRINCESS JULIANA, a Jamaican singer and MC based in London, the Moroccan ribab & violin virtuous player FOULANE.

LINKS

www.myspace.com/bxpsoundsistema

Listen “Balkan Train” 2010 (UrbanWorld Records)

In 2011 Kosta Kostov performed official showcase at WOMEX festival in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Kosta Kostov rocked thousands of people on festivals Roskilde (Copenhagen/Denmark) 2009, Ethnomechanica (St. Petersburg/Russia)2009, EXIT (NoviSad/Serbia) 2007, 2008, 2009, Moers Jazz Festival (Moers/Germany) 2007, 2008, Kosmopolis (Kavala/Greece) 2008, Go EastT! (Rio de Janeiro/Brasil) 2007, 2008, 2009 , Juicy Beats (Dortmund/Germany) 2007, 2008, 2009, Ostklub Festival (Vienna/Austria) 2008, MI Plesmo Balkan Festival (Dortmund/Germany) -- 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, c/o pop (Cologne/Germany) 2008, 2009, Spirit of Bourgas (Bourgas/Bulgaria) 2009, S.O.M.A.-Festival (Cologne/Germany) 2007, 2008, Global Midsummer Festival (Cologne/Germany) 2007, 2008, 2009, Esperenicias Espantapitas (Almeria/Spain) 2008, Die Party (Mulheim/Germany)2009, Nordstadt Festival (Dortmund/Germany)2009 and many parties.

PRESS

Kosta Kostov- Mambesa EP. Generation Bass. October 26, 2011 -- Posted by mata hari