Sunshine (Serbian band)
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1990s
The band was formed in 1993 by the vocalist Branko Bojović "Bane", also known as Gumbrowski, who, having previously worked in the Novi BeogradNovi Beograd
Novi Beograd or New Belgrade is the most populous municipality that constitutes the City of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is a planned city, built in 1947 on the left bank of the Sava river which was previously an uninhabited area, opposite of the old Belgrade...
band Green Cool Posse, formed Sunshine with vocalist Đorđe Radivojević, also known as Đole Ramirez. Recording several demo recordings in the early 1980s and being directly influenced by rap music, while spending two years living in the USA during the late 1980s, Bojović decided to present his own interpretation of the genre. The band recorded their debut album, Ljubavna likvefakcija (Love Assassifaction), released through Jugodisk
Jugodisk
-History:There were two recording labels in Yugoslavia named Jugodisk. The first Jugodisk started in 1950s and issued 78rpm records with Yugoslav folk and popular music...
, combining rap and hardcore punk
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...
with sexually overt lyrics, being thus distanced from the mainstream media but nevertheless gaining a loyal fan base. At the time, the band did not have a steady lineup, and the album was recorded with Del Arno Band
Del Arno Band
Del Arno Band is a Serbian and former Yugoslav reggae band from Belgrade. Formed in 1986, Del Arno Band are considered the longest lasting Serbian reggae band, and one of the pioneers of Serbian and former Yugoslav reggae scenes.-1980s:...
members, Margita Stefanović
Margita Stefanovic
Margita "Magi" Stefanović was a Yugoslav and Serbian musician best known as a keyboardist for the Serbian rock band Ekatarina Velika.Born in Belgrade as the only child of well-known theatre and television director Slavoljub Stefanović-Ravassi and Desanka Nikolić...
(keyboards) and Zvonimir Đukić (bass guitar). The material from the debut album was reissued on CD
Compact Disc
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by Metropolis Records
Metropolis Records (Serbia)
Metropolis Records is a record label based in Belgrade, Serbia.Formed in 1994, the label is mainly oriented towards rock music, and has released albums by a numerous notable acts of the Serbian rock scene.- Artists :...
, featuring the remixes of the songs "Priđi mi ti" ("Come Closer to Me") and "Pretty Boy", as well as the track "Extended Wicked Raggamuffin' Style Mix" as bonus material.
The followup, Sh.g.t.m., featured a similar lyrical style, having numerous vulgarism
Vulgarism
A vulgarism , also called scurrility, is a colloquialism of an unpleasant action or unrefined character, which substitutes a coarse, indecorous word where the context might lead the reader to expect a more refined expression.-See also:*Euphemism*Grotesque body*Ribaldry, scatology, toilet...
s, and sampled music combined with heavy beats. The recording sessions featured the guitarist Vojislav Bešić "Beške", a former Bezobrazno Zeleno
Bezobrazno Zeleno
Bezobrazno Zeleno were a former Yugoslav New Wave/pop rock band from Belgrade. The band was notable as the participant of the Artistička radna akcija project as well as for their later works....
and Glsiersi member, and Margita Stefanović's EQV appeared in the song "Misli mene gone" ("Thoughts Are Haunting Me"). By the end of the album recording, the band got the first steady lineup which beside the vocalists Bojović and Radivojević also featured a former Policijski Čas vocalist Nenad Bogojević "Bogi", former Bloodbath guitarist Stanimir Lukic "Staca", Sick Mother Fakers
Sick Mother Fakers
Sick Mother Fakers , also known as SMF for short, is a Serbian hardcore punk/crossover thrash band from Belgrade.- 1980s :...
drummer Boris and bassist and trombonist Nemanja Kojić
Nemanja Kojic
Nemanja Kojić is Serbian footballer who plays as a striker in Serbian SuperLiga club FK Rad Belgrade...
and Del Arno Band saxophonist Aleksandar Petković "Petko". Soon after, several lineup changes occurred and Petković was replaced by DJ Drej (real name Andrej Srećković) and Miloš Velmir "Buca". For a while, Srđan Jovanović "Jole", a former Oktobar 1864
Oktobar 1864
Oktobar 1864 was a Serbian and former Yugoslav rock band.-1984 – 1992:Oktobar 1864 was formed in 1984 in Zemun by Goran Tomanović and have changed several line-ups before they won the Best demo Band Award at the MESAM festival in 1986. Goran Tomanović the first band members over the...
drummer, performed with the band. Bojović, Lukić, Srećković and Bogojević recorded the music for the Jedan na jedan (One on One), directed by Mladen Matičević, also appearing as actors in the movie, but the soundtrack was never officially released.
During the Summer of 1997, the band released the single "Kokane" ("Cocaine"), which beside the title track also featured the songs "Mental kokane" and "Atmo-capella '91. preview". The material from the single recorded as collaboration with the band Plejboj
Plejboj
Plejboj was a Serbian punk rock/ska band from Belgrade.- Formation, rise to prominence :...
, appeared on the Bojan Skerlić Do koske (To the Bone) movie soundtrack. After the single release, due to their increasing popularity, the band held a sold-out concert at the Belgrade Sports' Hall
Hala sportova
Hala sportova is a multi-purpose sports arena located in Belgrade municipality of New Belgrade.The venue's actual name is "Palata sportova" , but it is widely known by its informal title - Hala. It was built and opened during 1968...
, on February 1998. During the same year, on late 1998, the band released the album Neću da se predam (I Will Not Surrender), featuring Deca Loših Muzičara
Deca Loših Muzičara
Deca Loših Muzičara , often abbreviated to DLM, are a funk rock band from Belgrade. They were one of most popular Serbian bands in the early 1990s...
members, trumpet player Borislav Veljković and saxophone player Vlada Miljković and EQV member Margita Stefanović, as guests. As the previous releases, the album was produced by Atman Active. The new material featured the same macho
Macho
Macho typically refers to machismo. Other uses include:*Macho , a short-lived disco group in the late 1970s*Pique macho, Bolivian dish*Macho Man , a 1978 disco song performed by the Village People...
erotic lyrical style, reaching its climax in the track "Kurva" ("Whore"), becoming one of the most vulgar and morose song in the history of popular music in Serbia. Other songs on the album, "Krug" ("Circle"), "Iza horizonta" ("Beyond the Horizon"), "New Era", featuring sampled music form the hippie
Hippie
The hippie subculture was originally a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The etymology of the term 'hippie' is from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into San Francisco's...
musical
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
Hair
Hair (musical)
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement...
, and "Bongo Budda", written by Nemanja Kojić
Nemanja Kojic
Nemanja Kojić is Serbian footballer who plays as a striker in Serbian SuperLiga club FK Rad Belgrade...
, left a much better impression on both the audience and critics.
2000s
The recordings from the performances at the Belgrade SKC on February 18 and 19 were released by Meropolis Records in 2001 on the live album Live!, produced by Goran Milisavljević. In the meantime, the song "Marginalan type" ("Marginal Type") appeared on the Srđan Golubović movie Absoulte 100, released by KomunaKomuna Belgrade
Komuna is a Serbian record label and media production house. Established in 1985, its headquarters are in Belgrade, Serbia with a branch office Budva, Montenegro...
on the official movie soundtrack in 2001. After the album release, the band went on hiatus which turned out to be the band disbandment. Guitarist Stanimir Lukić "Staća" formed the band X-Centar in 2001, releasing the album Restart in 2003, and Đorđe Radivojević "Ramirez" formed the band Avanti, backed with younger musicians. The following year, under the Sunshine moniker, Bojovic recorded the album Sha bilo (Wha's the Matter), featuring a combination of hip hop
Hip hop
Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...
and drum & bass crossed with violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
, trumpet
Trumpet
The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
and viola
Viola
The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
sound. The material, partially featuring the lyrics written by Radivojević, was produced by Bojović, Đorđe Miljenović and Vojin Ristivojević. During the same year, journalist Dejan Katalina wrote the book Sha bilo about the band.
In 2005, Sunshine, featuring Sky Wikluh, the producer of Sha bilo, released the single "Again Gettin' Wicked" through One Records
One Records (Serbia)
One Records is a record label based in Belgrade, Serbia.Formed in 1999, its catalogue covers a fairly wide musical spectrum - from younger hard rock and heavy metal bands such as Alogia, Cactus Jack, Dargoron, Stratus, and others, to young Irish folk/Celtic rock bands Tir na n'Og and Irish Stew of...
, which beside the title track also featured the songs "Prskalica" ("Sprayer") and "Zavidan Preview" ("Invidious Preview"). The tracks, with two new tracks, "Fight the Devil" and "Niklovan" ("Nickel"), appeared on the greatest hits compilation Fight the Devil, released by Multimedia Records on August 2007.
2010s
In June 2011, the band released the single "Nina-nana!", the first of three singles promoting the upcoming studio album, produced by AtmanActive, available for free digital downloadMusic download
A music download is the transferral of music from an Internet-facing computer or website to a user's local computer. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyright material without permission or payment...
via MTV Adria
MTV Adria
MTV Adria is a localized version of the music and entertainment channel MTV Europe, customized for the Balkan countries that used to be constituent parts of Yugoslavia...
official website, as well as the music video for the single.
Legacy
In 2006, the song "Misli mene gone" was ranked #34 on the B92 Top 100 Domestic Songs list.Studio albums
- Ljubavna likvefakcija (1995)
- Sh.g.t.m (1996)
- Neću da se predam (1998)
- Sha bilo (2002)
Other appearances
- "Žaklina traži sponzora" / "Kaluđerica" (Rap-l-trap; 1995)
- "Priđi mi ti" / "Žaklina traži sponzora" / "Kurva" (The best of Yu hip hop; 1996)
- "91 Preview" (Ustani i kreni; 1996)
- "Kokain" (Muzika iz filma "Do koske"; 1997)
- "Marginalan type" (Apsolutnih sto; 2001)
- "Misli mene gone (Live)" (Metropolis vol.1; 2002)
- "Iza horizonta" / "Priđi Mi Ti (Rmx)" (Metropolis vol.2; 2002)
External links
- Sunshine at FacebookFacebookFacebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
- Sunshine at YoutubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
- Sunshine at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...
- Sunshine at Last.fmLast.fmLast.fm is a music website, founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. It has claimed 30 million active users in March 2009. On 30 May 2007, CBS Interactive acquired Last.fm for UK£140m ....