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Real Name: Staffan Ehrlin Slobodan started off as an producer completely devoted to electronic body music with strong influences from Skinny Puppy, Frontline Assembly, Front 242 & Nitzer Ebb. This was in the year of 1993-94. Later on in the fall of 1996 he started to investigate the techno scene and it´s danceculture. He started to buy records from artists and producers who at the time were responsible for the most pounding releases. And it didn´t take him long to start producing himself, and in 1998 he got his first release out. It was on the Belgian cult technolabel SUBSOUNDS...

Slobodan Trkulja (born 29.05.1977 in Odzaci) is Serbian musician, compositor and vocal. Trkulja, together with his group "Balkanopolis" performs music built on traditional ethnic motives which he calls "tradimodern music of Balkan" or modern tradition. He studied and graduated on Amsterdam Jazz Conservatorium, section for saxophone. It is interesting that he never attended music school before he went to study in Amsterdam, but he was playing kaval, flute and bagpipe professionaly since he was 14 years old. Today, he is able to play 14 different instruments, mostly wind instruments. www.balkanopolis.com .

Slobodan River was established in 2002 by Ithaka Maria, Tomi Rahula and Stig Rästa. They blended well-known pop rhythms with sincere but unexpected rock sounds and had such an enthusiastic response from the audience that their 2004 debut album managed to top the local album sales list for six weeks. Among the local groups who sing in foreign languages, Slobodan River has certainly the biggest share in the play lists of Estonian radio stations. The title song of their album "Surrounded" soared immediately to the charts of all the biggest Estonian radio stations. They have met similar success with almost...