Dubioza kolektiv: Bosnian dub rock group

Dubioza kolektiv, also known simply as Dubioza, is a Bosnian dub rock group. Its crossover style brings together hip hop, ska, reggae/dub, rock, punk, electronic music and Balkan music, and its songwriting is socially and politically conscious, with lyrics in more than one language. In 2015 the group was referred to as the most popular Bosnian musical act.

The group was formed in 2003 by Brano Jakubović, Vedran Mujagić, Almir Hasanbegović and Adis Zvekić, through the merger of two musical groups, Ornament and Gluho doba. It originates from Sarajevo and Zenica. A female vocalist, Adisa Zvekić, was part of the group initially and later left to pursue a solo career.

Performances have been multilingual, in Bosnian and English, since the band's inception. Singer Adis Zvekić has said he first set up a forerunner band in 1993, at the age of 13, when the Bosnian War meant there was no electricity and the band met in the evenings for jam sessions in the dark. All members declare working-class backgrounds, as children of workers and peasants.

The group considered contending to represent Bosnia at the Eurovision Song Contest but decided against it because it would have required signing a contract obligating them to refrain from political statements; instead they recorded and released the critical political song "Euro song". The self-titled first album came out in April 2004, with two of its songs also receiving accompanying music videos. The Open Wide EP followed in December 2004, with four remixes of songs from the Dubioza kolektiv album and two previously unpublished tracks featuring English dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah and Mush Khan of the Pakistani-British group Fun-Da-Mental.

Dubnamite features 10 songs. Firma ilegal (English: Illegal Enterprise) was the first album with all lyrics in the Bosnian language, addressing the social and political situation and Transition economy in Balkan societies, including corruption, privatization vs. social ownership, and the opportunistic political oligarchy. The fourth album, 5 do 12, was the first released online in full and free to download; it featured Plavi orkestar vocalist Saša Lošić and Macedonian ska punk group Superhiks, and the CD release added remixes by other artists and recordings from MTV Live @ Skirlibaba Studio sessions.

It continued the path of Firma ilegal with socially critical lyrics in Bosnian. Wild Wild East was the first album released for an international audience and market, marking the group's entry onto the international stage some 8 years after its founding. It satirises topics including the way Western Europe looks down at Bosnia and Herzegovina in "Euro Song", capitalism in "Making Money", and the falsehood behind the promises of the American Dream in "USA".

Apsurdistan features 13 songs. Lyrics on Happy Machine were penned in response to events over the two years before its publication, including the Gezi Park protests, The Pirate Bay trial and the European refugee crisis, and featured numerous collaborating artists from around the globe with lyrics in English, Spanish, Punjabi and Italian. The album title alludes to the makeshift distillation apparatus used to distill rakija, a regionally popular variety of moonshine; the drink is also mentioned in the song "No Escape (from Balkan)", and a blueprint for the contraption appears on the album cover, in protest of new EU regulations requiring a permit even for small scale spirit production intended for domestic use.

The group appeared at Glastonbury Festival 2015 and at South by Southwest in 2016, their US debut. The 2017 album Pjesmice za djecu i odrasle (English: Songs for Youths and Adults) features songs written exclusively in Bosnian, with singles including "Himna generacije", "Treba mi zraka" and "Rijaliti".

A song from the 2011 album Wild Wild East, "USA", was adopted as an unofficial anthem for the Bosnian national football team during the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. The original track was a satire on immigration from Bosnia to America.