Places

BORDERLINE CINEMA Previous project of [borderline_music] host Zeljko Luketic. Here are the collected essays and reviews aired on Croatian National TV (HRT) about cult movies, trash & camp; genre cinema, forbidden film classics, etc. This site won several Croatian web awards. Parts of it are published in various film magazines

DISCOGS Excellent and comprehensive database of electronic music releases.

ELECTRO EMPIRE Excellent electro database, regulary updated news section and users forum. Registration needed.

BRAINWASHED Online streaming radio, news, reviews, The Brain text and The Eye video features, new releases lists. Great site!

DUSTED MAGAZINE Updated every day and run on voluntary basis (no advertising is accepted). Includes reviews, features and charts.

EXPLICIT MUSIC Croatian online journal for music and theory founded by Petar Milat. Hard core theory in English, Croatian and German. They are also program advisers of Zagreb Music Biennale and concert promoters.

CYBERNETIC BROADCASTING SYSTEM (C-B-S) Music community from Holland run by I-F aka RobotDJX with great online radio broadcasting huge amounts of italo, disco & electro. Includes forum, Murdercapital TV, aired mixes database, megamixes contests and famous yearly CBS Top 100 where members vote on the best tracks. Huge influence!

GLOBAL DARKNESS The West Coast Sound of Holland. Bunker - Den Haag, Crème Organization, mixes and classic tunes + info about exciting stuff like oldschool, electro and acid. Includes forum where many dutch artists preview their new tracks.

ER45 Croatian music community online forum. Info on upcoming concerts & parties.

DISCO MUSIC The name says it! History of disco, record label discographies and forum for users.

RELEASE MUSIC MAGAZINE Independent international alternative music web magazine based in Gothenburg, Sweden. There is also printed edition. Check out excellent news section.

SKRUFFF Cool online newsletter e-zine run by Jonty Skrufff with the help from Larry Tee & Beee from Futon, among others. These names also explain what kind of music they cover.

TEXTURA Monthly collection of contemporary music-related reviews, articles, and images produced by Ron Schepper; while some are exclusive, others have appeared in Grooves, Junkmedia, Cyclic Defrost, and Signal To Noise.

PITCHFORK News, reviews, features & free MP3's. They hate Electronicat, Peaches and lots of electro stuff we play, but then again...

REMIX SERVICE DATABASE Good attempt to list all the known remix services from 1977 (when Disconet started as the first service) to the present. Out of nearly 70 main services with even more spinoffs, less than 12 companies are currently in business. Listings of rare ON-U Sound & old DMC (among many) mixes.

STYLUS MAGAZINE Another interesting online daily web magazine dedicated to music. Also are included film reviews too. "We don't want to be a buyer's guide", they say.

THE MILK FACTORY Monthly alternative music news and reviews of electronica, pop and world music.

WFMU Cult freeform radio! Donna Summer dj's there!

Clubs

KSET Alternative club & excellent concert venue in Zagreb. Tickets at reasonable price, cheap beer and friendly crowd. Sadly, events & concert promotion is virtually non-existent, so you'll probably miss some great concerts because main promoter there believes only in few posters on public places.

MOCHVARA Alternative club & concert venue in Zagreb. Site always updated, promoters informed, crowd mixed and usually friendly. In the recent years range of music presented there is wider and more diverse, opposed to HC & punk beginnings. This resulted in more people freqenting the club.

SKWHAT The Sisak's centre of underground resistance & non-commercial youth culture. Club events, concerts, festivals and a forum.  

MAMA Zagreb's first net.culture club; home of [borderline_cinema] live screenings & former [borderline_music] web host. You've got to love them!

AQUARIUS Club & label, formerly popular among minimal techno crowd, now into hip-hop and everything with everything on it. Some interesting programs like Soba 23 might happen. Desperately trying to revive itself, expensive, out of the city centre club route.

CHANNEL ZERO Ljubljana's most interesting club; placed in Metelkova zone.

Shops

BOOMKAT A specialist music website/store and huge resource of information and opinion about music that exists beyond the radar. Covers the most underground forms of electronic music.

JUNO Excellent vinyl & CD store with up-to-date online catalogue stating what they really got. Reasonable prices & fast delivery but sadly small offer on DJ equipment and vinyl care products. They have 'no invoice in the package' option which is usefull for countries like Croatia and its greedy tax & custom fees politics.

CLONE SHOP Label store offering much more in rare vinyl and CD's. Speciality is disco, electro & italo. Superb and friendly service!

FREEBIRD Zagreb based second hand vinyl & CD store, used classics at reasonable prices and a very nice stuff & service. You can find there some real vinyl surprises (like Ultra Red!) or even pre-vinyl bakelite records. Also check out ROXY and KARMA.

TROLIK Best record store & distributor in Croatia, run by one & only Dinko Bazadona. ere You can find some extremely rare CD and vinyl releases from Coil, Death In June, Psychic TV, selected electro, experimental or just plain weird music. Go to Planet Music Shop link and test their mailorder.

FORCED EXPOSURE Great record store, features rare and hard-to-find releases. Hrvatski works for them! Cool newsletter with reviews also.

HARD TO FIND RECORDS Abnoxious and arrogant vinyl store that treats customers from these parts of Europe like criminals. They ask amounts of paper proof about address and credit card, do not deduct VAT for non-EU orders, charge offensive shipment rates and over-price stuff they sell. You have been warned, avoid this store like a plague! There are better places to spend your money on vinyl.

VINYLWERK Get your record pressed at Juraj Stumberger's vinyl factory (only one in Croatia!) and listen to his musical projects Liquid Level, Malfunction & Recent Reason covering dub techno, electro and dark ambient/experimental soundscapes.