: Led by Johnny Štulić, they bridged accessible songwriting with punk and "Novi Val" (New Wave) credibility. Ekatarina Velika (EKV)
: The scene evolved from early jazz and pop remakes to a sophisticated "mish-mash" of funk, rock, and synth-pop. Ex-Yu Rock- Pop- Hip-Hop The Best Of World Music
To understand Ex-Yu rock, you start with Bijelo Dugme (White Button). In the mid-1970s, frontman Goran Bregović—now a global wedding-celebrity composer—took the bluesy hard rock of Led Zeppelin and grafted it onto Bosnian folk scales. The result was seismic. Songs like "Ne spavaj, mala moja, muzika dok svira" (Don’t Sleep, My Darling, While the Music Plays) turned mountains into concert venues. : Led by Johnny Štulić, they bridged accessible