Have you any idea how many Beastie Boy balkan mashups there are out there? More than Jamaica’s got mangoes. Here’s some of the better ones to shake. your. rump. too…

So what’cha, what’cha, what’cha want? A balkan drum n’ bass mashup? You’re in luck…

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Balkan Hotseppers add the Beastie’s most overused acapella to Shantel‘s Disko Boy and it fits so well that you briefly forget the vocodered slew of Intergalactic mash ups over the last 13 years. Briefly. Here’s Intergalactic B-Boy…

We’ve posted this mashup of Triple Trouble and Amsterdam Klezmer Band‘s Sangadora Hot Dub before but who’s counting. Triple Son…

And another track from the To The 5 Boroughs album, this time married to Balkan Beatbox‘s Habibi Min Zaman. WorldWideWoofers‘ Habibi Beastie…

DJ Tomasc shows us what big-beat era Beasties would have sounded like if they’d have discovered tubas in the late 90s instead of Fatboy Slim. Balkan Movin…

Admittedly on this track by DJ Stanbul the Beasties acapella is slightly unnecessary (and frustratingly off-beat towards the end) but the urban-balkan-meets-french-electro-house mash-up underpinning it more than makes amends. Interbalkanic…

Dj Rüstico from Argentina specialises in cumbia and balkan remixes. Here’s Triple Trouble again…

And if you haven’t tired of the concept so far, exhaust yourself with this selection by DJ Magyar who takes the brief and runs with it…

Yeah yeah we know. You can’t swing a tired cliche in Soundcloud without hitting a beastie boy mashup but personally we’re still suckers for pure party fodder like this…

Hauyon – Sure Shot a Morirrrr

And the mashup with ‘Sangadora Hot Dub’ never fails to make de mensen shake their rump-ah!
Amsterdam Klezmer Band vs Beastie Boys – Typsy Gypsy

Come down to 93 Feet East next Tuesday to catch DJ IZEM from GROOVALIZACION radio play blazing tropical-meets-western-grooves mashups. Cumbia, samba, reggae and hip-hop kindle the audio burn…

A bit of info on the station…

Groovalizacion project comes from a radio programme called « Musicas Migratorias » (migratory music) on UPV Radio Valencia, Spain, a social an artistic initiative born in 2006. Its main purpose was to promote communication between alien cultures through art and instigate integration and dialogue amongst our multicultural societies. It started as a project performed by artists from various countries and dedicated to this intercultural dialogue.

The brightest civilizations and golden ages have always been the result of melting pots and combinations of different traditions and knowledge. Groovalizacion likes to believe that progress comes from mutual understanding and tolerance. That it also comes from the pleasure to meet foreign cultures, to taste the subtle contrasts which enrich our perception.

Groovalizacion wants to give a voice to the new musical scenes, to create a place where traditions and modernity freely mingle: Fusion, world, electro, Celtic music, flamenco, jazz, tango, reggae, ska, soul, urban sounds, bossa-nova, klezmer, raï… There is no end to the list of sounds and perfumes which, build identities, bring dialogue and food for thought.

Groovalizacion is a music lab, a meeting place and one of cultural exchange. Its doors are wide open to the curious kind eager to try the cocktail a la Groovalizacion, rich in flavours and ingredients collected along the way and the different latitudes. It’s a torrid, fun and passionate atmosphere which will take you from São Paulo to Casablanca, Berlin to Dakar, Bombay to Buenos-Aires, Hong-Kong to la Havana…

DJ IZEM – ANDY PALACIO vs CHUCK D

BOMBA ESTÉREO – FUEGO (DJ IZEM GROOVALIZACION REMIX)