Balkan Beat Box on Their 'Talk Dirty' Sample and Why the Sax is Back — rollingstone.com

Balkan Beat Box, a trio formed by Gogol Bordello's Ori Kaplan and Firewater's Tamir Muskat, has been doing strange things with Mediterranean styles and electronic sounds for over a decade. A band with a professed love for remix culture, their 2005 debut contained the widely sampled "Bulgarian Chicks," but earlier this year they reached a new level of unacknowledged ubiquity when Jason Derulo's "Talk Dirty" grabbed the saxophone riff from their 2007 "Hermetico." Speaking over Skype, Ori (in Vienna) and Tamir (in Tel Aviv) told the story behind the sample and discussed why the sax is not only back but being used in creative new ways.

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