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1	Keep 'Em Straight (Intro) 1:14
2	Hermetico 5:08
3	Habibi Min Zaman 3:52
4	Bbbeat 4:00
5	Digital Monkey 3:43
6	Balcasio 3:32
7	Pachima 5:42
8	Quand Est-Ce Qu'on Arrive? 3:31
9	Mexico City 3:45
10	Delancey 3:12
11	Joro Boro 3:41
12	Gypsy Queens 3:31
13	$20 for Boban 3:27
14	Baharim (Outro) 1:52

Barnes & Noble

They say it's the Internet that has encouraged the blossoming of micro-genres and the aggregate influence of such genres' scattered fans. Perhaps. But there's far more exhilarating evidence of the same phenomenon every time New York-based Balkan Beat Box convenes. Staffed by a shifting cast centered around Israeli expats Tamir Muskat (drums corporeal and virtual), Ori Kaplan (sax), Itamar Zeigler (bass), and Tomer Yosef (MC and mayhem), BBB draws from everywhere. There's the titular Balkan brass displayed in its purest form on "BBBeat," electronic dance throb with Gypsy samples ("Delancey"), Arabic pop ("Pachmina"), and dancehall reggae moods ("Digital Monkey"). Bulgarian women's choirs and video-game effects are appropriated in equal measure, along with Jewish liturgical melodies and DJ patter. Guitarist Jeremiah Lockwood brings bottleneck slide licks to underscore rapping in Hebrew…it goes on and on. Apart from the considerable musicianship required to pull these varied styles off, you gotta admire BBB for making these unlikely ingredients not only addictive but incredibly hip. Tubas and dancehall? Wicked! Mark Schwartz

All Music Guide

Their name suggests a troupe of plugged-in Gypsies, and Balkan Beat Box is that, for starters. Lob on overdoses of klezmer and hip-hop, funk and dub, brass band and Arabic elements, and you'll be closer to getting it. Formed around two Israeli-born musicians,Tamir Muskat, who pounds the drums and takes care of the programming, and saxman Ori Kaplan, Balkan Beat Box is a veritable melting pot of disparate sounds and seemingly contrary influences, all scrunched together seamlessly and disguised as an exhausting riot. It's not that others haven't attempted the sort of mix that BBB does on this sophomore effort, it's that none have been so successful at pulling it off. On tracks like "Digital Monkey," with its dancehall-style toasting atop bottom-heavy techno and snaky brass, and "Joro Boro," with its surfy guitar, stark, industrial rhythm and mesmeric guest vocal from Dessislava Stefanova of the London Bulgarian Choir, it's one surprise after another here. Calling it world music wouldn't do it justice, it's more like out of this world music. Jeff Tamarkin

Washington Post

Madcap mash-ups are on tap when Balkan Beat Box is at work.

Philadelphia Inquirer

With its riotous stage show and inspiring, post-nationalist message, clearly the time is right for a band like Balkan Beat Box.