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Old 07-26-2009, 12:54 PM  
Lykos
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Belgrade is No 1 In Europe when it comes to clubbing

And am not thinking this up,this is what famous Guardian news says about my city
So ppl,come to party,here is full article

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URL Of Article : http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/200...a-gypsy-techno

Saturday night and the boat I'm on is rocking, literally. Gypsy fiddlers leap on to tables and among dancers. As more people board the boat, moored on the Danube in Belgrade, one of the musicians launches through a window and towards the roof. For a moment I'm certain he will end up in the river but, no, soon he's dancing above us, calling to people on the shore: come join the party!

Serbia's capital may never be celebrated alongside Prague and Budapest as a beautiful eastern city, but Belgrade is defiantly No 1 when it comes to clubbing. And with the rise of two (very different) Serbian festivals - the rock and techno Exit festival and Guca, where hundreds of Gypsy brass bands entertain 300,000 revellers - Belgrade is now on the western European music fan's radar.

Every night of the week it is home to a huge variety of clubs and parties. You can dance in old fortresses and on boats, in underground caverns and cocktail bars. And there's a great array of musical styles to dance to: from ragged Gypsy fiddlers to blinged-out turbo-folk singers, from banging techno through heavy metal, and more, much more.
Plato Jazz bar, Belgrade, Serbia Plato Jazz bar, Belgrade, Serbia

As with most emerging club scenes, it's international DJs who are at the forefront. An increasing number of big-names are heading to Belgrade, drawn by the buzz of a city in love with dancing. Radio 1's Gilles Peterson has been visiting the city for two decades and in October plays at Dom Omladine (domomladine.org), a spanking new and very large arts centre. Others include Brooklyn's superstar DJ David Morales, who has graced the decks at the chic Club Magacin 3 and returns to headline the Pena Festival on 29 August at the Belgrade Arena.

But where to head to? The city is divided by the Danube and Sava rivers into New and Old Belgrade. As the former consists largely of housing estates built in the concrete brutalist style favoured by communist regimes (alongside ugly strip malls thrown up when capitalism took over), newcomers should look to Stari Grad (Old Town). "

URL Of Article : http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/200...a-gypsy-techno
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