VROOOM are: Vanja Milinkovic - vocals, Marko Njezic - guitar, Marko Grubic - bass and sampling, Aljosa Varga - fretless bass, Branislav Potic - electric drums.
The music band VROOOM was founded in March 1997 and started its career through live performances in Belgrade clubs. From the very beginning the band created under the influence of Balkan folk melodies, cabaret music and contemporary rhythms of western popular music (techno, drum'n'bass, trip-hop, etc.). All these genres are united through a specific sound marked by two vocals, guitar, accordion, fretted and fretless bass, sampling, electronic and acoustic drums and percussion. The band got a wider affirmation by working within THE TORPEDO THEATRE COMPANY where, in performances OVERLAPPING, ANIMAL FARM, and ETHNO CIRCUS, VROOOM played their music live. During 1998 and 1999, VROOOM toured, as a music component of THE TORPEDO THEATRE COMPANY or as an independent band, the following places: Switzerland, Slovenia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia, where they participated in most significant music and theatre festivals (INFANT, BELEF, BITEF, Budva - Theatre City Festival, etc.).
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In 1999, the album TORPEDO MUSIC was produced by the band itself. It is a collection of compositions created for plays for THE TORPEDO THEATRE COMPANY and plays for several institutional theatres. Music from this CD was used in a movie BELGRADE TOURIST GUIDE 2000, which was awarded the Belgrade Golden Medallion as the best Yugoslav short film in 2000 and the Golden Orange at the Antalia film festival, Turkey. |
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The same year VROOOM recorded a new studio album comprising songs from their concert repertory named VENTILATION (issued by the Felix Records) as well as a live album, Live in Zurich, sponsored by the Swiss embassy in Belgrade and Zuercher Theater Spektackel. In 2001, VENTILATION reached the stores and the album singles Tamni vilajet (Dark Cave), Kao Adam u rano jutro (Like Adam in the Early Morning), and a cover of Blondie's Heart of Glass all did well on the important top 10 singles charts in Serbia and Montenegro. The album promotion started with VROOOM's live appearance on the opening of the Belgrade film festival, FEST 2001. In the next two years the band plays all across Serbia and Montenegro and on most of the important festivals at home and abroad (Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, France, Switzerland).
As well as working on applied music (theatre plays: Danton's Death, The Last Death of Frenky the Teardrop, Talking It Over, The Characters, The Travellers, The Teeth, The Safe House, Who Do You Trust?, School); documentary film: Pepparkakslandet; sporting events: The World Fina Cup and Tasmajdan trophy waterpolo tournaments, Diamond Ball international basketball tournament), in 2003 the group started working on the new album, announcing it with a cover version of Sarlo akrobata classic, Problem (issued on a V.A. compilation Kao da je bilo nekad), and with new videos for the new album singles Undersense and Awakening which reached No. 1 on almost all the important top 10 video clip charts in Serbia and Montenegro.
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In March 2005, the new album EVOLUTION was released by Automatic/Mascom (Nika records for Slovenia, Menart for Crotia).
Album promotion was devised though concerts followed by a projection of a series of animated videos with the subject Evolution - a process of constant changes of unquestionable durability and dubious cause. |
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The single Missreality was the most frequently played Serbian song on the MTV Adria in 2005 and the video Malo vremena (A Little Bit of Time) spent over ten weeks on MTV Adria's Top 20 list (it reached No. 1 several times thanks to the spectators' votes). The year 2006 was marked by another success for the band - Vrooom was awarded the band of the year title (TV Metropolis), with an album of the year (Kontramagazin) taking top positions on almost every top list for 2005.
Albums:
- 2005 - EVOLUCIJA - Automatik/Mascom (Nika Records (SLO), Menart (HR))
- 2001 - LIVE IN ZURICH - Theater Spectakel and Swiss embassy
- 2001 - VENTILACIJA - Felix records
- 1999 - TORPEDO MUSIC - Torpedo
Compilations:
- METROPOLIS 2002 - 2002 - Metropolis records
- KAO DA JE BILO NEKAD - 2003 - Circle records
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