Gypsy music is conquering an increasingly wider public, and a great many young people are discovering the freshness, authenticity and sheer excitement of the Balkan sound. All across Europe club-goers are raving about Balkan music and taking its popularity to new heights. Electric Gypsyland beautifully brings together the old and the new with remixers by electronic producers Shantel, Senor Coconut, DJ Dolores and others, creating their own reinterpretations of tracks by leading Balkan Gypsy bands.

Taraf de Haïdouks, whose name translates as the "band of bandits," are regarded as one of the world's most recognized Balkan Gypsy bands. A village band of traditional Gypsy musicians, Taraf de Haïdouks come from the Romanian village of Clejani, which lies southwest of the capital city of Bucharest. Consisting of a dozen stunning instrumentalists and singers, with ages ranging from 20 to 78, they had never performed outside their region before they were "discovered" by St