Goran Bregovic & Iggy Pop - In the Death Car

What this video is

Released in 1993, 'In the Death Car' sits at the intersection of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the international emergence of Balkan art cinema. Goran Bregović, a Sarajevo-born composer who led Yugoslavia's most prominent rock band Bijelo Dugme from 1974–1989, had pivoted to film scoring amid Yugoslavia's collapse, most notably for Emir Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies and Arizona Dream. The song and its…

Why it matters

A landmark artifact of the Balkan world-music-meets-punk crossover genre of the early 1990s. 'In the Death Car' demonstrated that Eastern European folk orchestration and Western post-punk sensibility were not merely compatible but mutually electrifying. The track influenced subsequent…