The beat roars from recordings of hometown star Nelly and Edo Hajka, the hip-hop star of Bosnia. The pulsing lights and frantic motion on the dance floor could be anywhere.

The scene is the Europe Nite Club, the only Bosnian-owned enterprise on downtown's Washington Avenue strip. Many of its patrons are young Bosnian immigrants, but the crowd - like the music - is a blend of anybody who likes the late-night club scene.

Jasmin Redzic, who runs the club, enjoyed Styx, a Chicago-based rock band, while he was a teenager in Bosnia. He came here 10 years ago and was a house painter before he opened his club two years ago.

Europe Nite Club sometimes has live music but usually employs disc jockeys. Redzic, 36, said they play American and all kinds of European music, not just Bosnian. The result is a mini-U.N. on the dance floor.

"I'd say we play more American music than European," he said. "The Bosnian kids like what the American kids do."