TBF

TBF, short for The Beat Fleet, is a band from Split, formed in 1990. It began as a hip hop and trip hop group and over the years grew a sound of its own, with rap at its heart.

The band is Aleksandar Antić "Saša" (lyrics, vocals, scratches, samples, harmonica), Mladen Badovinac (vocals, keyboards), Luka Barbić (vocals, keyboards, clarinet, harmonica), Ognjen Pavlović (bass, keyboards), Nikša Mandalinić (guitars, keyboards) and, since September 2008, drummer Janko Novoselić, who replaced Jan Ivelić. Their albums were produced by Dragan Lukić "Luky".

The first album, Ping-pong (umjetnost zdravog đira), came out on Croatia Records in 1997. Uskladimo toplomjere (2000) on Menart won the Crni mačak award for best album, and Maxon Universal (2004) brought the 2005 Porins for best rock album, best production and song of the year, for "Nostalgična".

Galerija Tutnplok (2007), with "Đita", "Smak svita", "Lud za njom", "Fantastična" and "Data", was the Porin album of the year, and "Smak svita" won best vocal group performance; it is the playlist here. The live album Perpetuum Fritule, recorded at Močvara in Zagreb in 2009, won the Porin for best live album, Pistaccio Metallic (2011) was album of the year again, and Danas sutra followed in 2015. In all, the band has won 19 Porins.

In February 2009 they played their biggest concert, for Radio 101's 25th anniversary at Dom sportova in Zagreb, in front of about 8,000 people. In 2009 and 2010 they performed in the play Garaža at ZKM in Zagreb, which premiered at La MaMa in New York in January 2010. With Let 3 they recorded "Izgubljeni" and "Glavanovo / Malo san maka".

Their first unplugged concert was at KSET in Zagreb in 2008. Antić and Badovinac also acted in Garaža, and members of the band belonged to the amateur theatre group Odron, which staged Baš beton i stupovi društva at the Croatian National Theatre in Split.