Ritam Nereda

Ritam Nereda
Ritam Nereda performing live at the 2010 EXIT festival
Background information
Origin	Novi Sad, Serbia
Genres	Punk rock, Oi!, hardcore punk, crossover thrash
Years active	1986 – present
Labels	Predskazanje, Dim, Ghost House, Walzwerk, Music YUser, Hi-Fi Centar, Automatik, Metropolis Records, One Records, SKCNS
Associated acts	Annathema, Atheist Rap, Pero Defformero, Vrisak Generacije, Monogamija
Website	www.ritamnereda.com
Members	Boban Petronić Miroslav Mijatović P.J. Saša Friš
Past members	Slobodan Fekete Miodrag Balaban Milan Krajnović

Ritam Nereda (Serbian Cyrillic: Ритам Нереда; trans. Rhythm of Disorder) is a Serbian and Yugoslav oi!/punk rock band from Novi Sad.

The band was formed in 1986, by Boban Petronić (bass guitar, vocals), who previously worked with Vrisak Generacije, Fritz (guitar), and Pavke (drums), and having intensively rehearsed, they recorded their first demo recording, the song "Za Novi Sad" ("For Novi Sad"), the following year, at Pavke's Studio M. Due to the audience positive reactions to the recordings, the band, in an altered lineup, which featured Petronić (vocals), Četa (bass guitar), and P.J. (drums), and Slobodan Fekete "Barbun" (guitar), started performing, mainly in clubs.

The selected recordings from the performances from this period were later released on the band's first official demo recording Oi Ain't Dead, released in early 1990 by the Belgrade record label Predskazanje Records. The demo, available only on compact cassette, beside live recordings, also featured studio material, recorded at the Barbaro and Matrix studios.

The recordings from the debut studio album, Nikog nema (There Is No One), released in 1991, was sent to many European record labels, eventually being released in 1991 by German label Dim Records in LP and CD formats. The album, with live versions of "Skinheads" and "Sama" ("Alone"), was released in Serbia by Ghost House Records. Due to the worldwide catalog sales of the album, the band appeared on several various artists compilations, and was charted on several independent European top lists. The album was promoted live in major Serbian cities, including Novi Sad, Belgrade and Kragujevac.

After the album release, the band got another guitar player, Milan Krajnović "Ćomi", a former Mr Joint and Loš Spoj member. The new lineup recorded the second studio album, Breaking, released by the German record label Walzwerk Records, and the funds from the album sales were used for humanitarian purposes, helping children endangered by the Yugoslav Wars. Before the album release, the German authorities took over the album recordings, claiming that the label was breaking the economic sanctions imposed to Yugoslavia by the United Nations, but, after a compromise, made with the help of UNICEF, the album release was allowed. Beside the songs with lyrics in Serbian language, including the hit "Put beznađa" ("Road of Despair"), the album featured five songs with English language lyrics. The album was also released in Serbia, entitled Razbijanje (Breaking), and was released by Music YUser, available on compact cassette only, and featuring lyrics entirely in Serbian language.