Balkanology 3,1

So now the flavour of the month(year?) is Balkan beats - bloody hell, has going out for a good time been reduced to theme dress up parties? (Face it, that's what goth became, eh?). Fuck the music, lets dress up as someone else in order to enjoy ourselves - c'maaan, who listens to Balkan music in the safety of their home (who ever listened/s to rave/trance/house/doeffuckingdoef ???). Next, Ford Cortinas belting out Gypsy rhythms on over subbed sound systems..

I'm not knocking 'Balkan' as such, there's some worthy stuff, from poignant folk to shitkicker punk. But face it, a couple o' zydeco's to a 4-on-the-floor dance beat does not a genre make....