Rastok
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| Urban Music Fest RASTOK | |
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| Location(s) |  Jelah, Bosnia |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Founded by | |
| Date(s) | Two days, starting on the first weekend of August |
| Genre(s) | Rock, Punk, Electronica, Metal, Hip hop |
| Website | www.rastok.com |
RASTOK (also known as Urban Music Fest RASTOK) is an annual summer music festival on Plateau Rastoke in Jelah, Bosnia. It is staged annually since 2003 and usually lasts two days (since 2003).
Commercialization of music scene, after war, in BH suppress urban music bands in second plan which refuse to follow trend of modernistic pop and turbo-folk music. Medias and media's attention are focus on non expressional, patterned and commercial music and their promotion. This moment was key reason for genesis of Rastok Fest.
Need for promotion of urban and original bends, which are lot of in BH, was lodestar for organization of festival. In the beginning festival was gathering rock bands, but faster it spread on all other urban music directions like: punk, alter rock, metal, dub, reggae, ska, jazz and other fusions of urban sound. Festival was held on different locations in town of Jelah under manifestation 'Jelah Summer', four years consecutively, start from year 2003. until 2006.
Rastok become trademark for all non affirmated bands from BH and further in other countries. Festival is gathering young, urban people from all over BH and their friends from other countries, unburdened from nationalism, prejudice and primitivism, which they spend time together in festival days.
Precisely them this festival is dedicated.
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[edit] Festival goals
1. Cultural and social integration of youth from different ethnic group in BiH and region
2. Promotion of urban music like universal language of intercultural communication
3. Promotion of urban non-affirmated bands
4. Break of cultural isolation in local communities
[edit] History
[edit] 1.RFR03
1.RFR03 was held on town square in Jelah on 29. and 30. July 2003. That year there was next bands:
Manessagra / Dub / Banja Luka BH
Betty Ford Soundtrack / Rock / Doboj BH
Puls asfalta / Rock / Travnik BH
Znak / Rock / Jelah BH
Cabezas De Amazonia / Rock / Travnik BH
Vatrena Voda / Rock / Tešanj BH
Toxic Death / Metal / Tuzla BH
Predgrupa / Punk Rock / Gračanica BH
Alfa / Rock / Žepče BH
Offside / Rock / Sarajevo BH
Dbauiazadjale / Electro Rock / Prijedor BH
Semantic / Rock / Tuzla BH
Spress / Rock / Žepče BH
[edit] 2.RFR04
2.RFR04 was held place on Sport playground in Jelah on 30. and 31. July 2004, with slogan ‘Track to Tolerance’ trying to send message about joint future we step in to. That year performed:
Voodoo Cadilac / Rock / Brcko BH
Ringispil / Ska / Novi Sad SR
The Last Location / Rock / Sarajevo BH
Laut / Rock / Sarajevo BH
Legion / Metal / Brcko BH
Betty Ford Soundtrack / Rock / Doboj BH
Procesor / Rock / Bihac BH
Bregma / Rock / Osijek HR
Grupa Tvog Života / Rock / Osijek HR
Dubioza Kolektiv / Electro Dub / Zenica BH
[edit] 3.UMFR05
3. URBAN MUSIC FEST RASTOK 2005 More and more applied bands, which do not play rock music, influence to change name of the festival. 3.UMFR05 held place on plateau Rastok in Jelah on 5. and 6. August 2005. This time slogan of the festival was ‘Road to tolerance’. On 3.UMFR05 performed:
Veprovi / Rock / Vlasenica BH
Dbauiazadjale / Electro Rock / Prijedor BH
Vroom / Rock Punk / Beograd SR
Dick Is Dead / Punk / Doboj BH
Pacijenti / Rock / Zvornik BiH
Punkard / Punk / Tuzla BH
Pridigarji / Ska / Ormož SLO
Oblik / Rock / Banja Luka BH
[edit] 4.UMFR06
4.UMFR06 was held place on plateau Rastoke in Jelah on 4. and 5. August 2006. This time performed:
Maršal / Rock / Tešanj BH
Shoplifters / Punk Rock / Novi Sad SR
Mija & Co. / Rock / Jelah BH
No Rules / Rock / Tuzla BH
Slum / Hip Hop / Prijedor BH
Autogeni Trening / Alter Rock / Podgorica CG
Corbansick / Crossover / Sarajevo BH
Perishment / Trash Metal / Doboj BH
Also there performed guest bands:
Grupa Tvog Zivota / Punk Rock / Osijek HR
Dubioza Kolektiv / Dub / Zenica BH
Zabranjeno Pušenje / Rock / Sarajevo BH
[edit] 5.UMFR07
5.UMFR07 will hold place on plateau Rastoke in Jelah on 3. and 4. August 2007. On 5. UMFR07 will perform:
Friday
Illegal Mindz / Hip Hop / Doboj BH
The Rock Flock / Indie Punk / Pleternica / HR
Vemors / Rock / Travnik BH
Spanish flyz / Punk Rock / Sarajevo BH
Disco 'n' Action / Electro Rock / Rijeka HR
Divert / Hardcore / Pozarevac SR
Post Scriptum / Reggae Ska / Banja Luka BH
Saturday
Tread & Psychoacoustics / Jazz Rap / Sarajevo BH
Memlah / Nu Jazz Dub / Zrenjanin SR
F.A.U / Blues Rock / Zagreb HR
VIS Gorenje / Rock / Podgorica CG
No S3ngs / Pop Rock / Zagreb HR
Under Pressure / Punk Rock / Novi Sad SR
