The VROOOM music band was formed at the
end of 1997, beginning their activities in Belgrade clubs,
using a unique sound (two vocals, guitar, accordion, bass,
fretless bass, electronic and acoustic drums) to merge cabaret
music, with the melodies of the Balkans and contemporary rhythms
of the West (techno, drum'n'bass, trip-hop.).
They won wide recognition as the musical section for the
TORPEDO theatre group, in whose plays they performed their
music live. During 1998 and 1999, both with and without TORPEDO,
VROOOM performed in Switzerland, Slovenia, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, where they also
participated in the most important musical and theatre festivals
(Infant, BELEF, BITEF, Budva-Grad teatar, etc).
Since 1999, the band has released several albums: TORPEDO
MUSIC, a collection of compositions created for plays of the
TORPEDO group and a number of "institutionalized" theatres,
VENTILACIJA and a live album LIVE IN ZURICH. VROOOM's songs
have been ranked on all-important hit lists in the country.
Coupled with ongoing work on applied music, the band started
recording a new album in 2003 and, as a trailer, published
their cover version of the song "Problem" by a cult
Belgrade band from the 1980s, the Sarlo Akrobata, and video
clips for the songs "Undersense" and "Budjenje" (Awakening),
which have been ranked high on radio and TV hit lists in Serbia-Montenegro.
VROOOM are:
Vanja Milinkovic - vocal
Marko Njezic - guitar and vocal
Marko Grubic - bas and sampler
Aljosa Varga - fretless bass
Branislav Potic - drums
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