Listen to the tracks submitted in the feeder sound II OPEN CALL for producers
One of the most anticipated moments has arrived. Immerse yourself in a wide and deep playlist containing all the tracks submitted to the feeder sound OPEN CALL for music producers. You can listen and enjoy 134 tracks that cover all the colours and shades of electronic, minimal, micro, house, deep, tech and techno music spectrum. We are super happy to see that artists from around the world had joined the call and send their best musical productions to feeder sound. Moreover, we are delighted to see a lot of new young and talented debutants alongside well known and appreciated artists.
Between 12th of May and 12th of June, the jury composed by Ema Remedi, Tripmastaz, Dudley Strangeways, Hendrik, Miss I, Primărie, Jay Bliss will listen, select and award 3 tracks. The lucky WINNERS will be announced on the 15th of June.
Awards
1st prize – 600 lei / 120 euro
2nd prize – 550 lei / 110 euro
3rd prize – 430 lei / 90 euro
We wish you all participants good luck! 🍀
And for you our dear readers and listeners, we invite you to take your time, adjust the speakers’ volume and dig this extended playlist! This is a perfect way to spent the last weeks of quarantine and social distancing. Happily, music unites people and ideas event during these hard times.
Ruggiero – Wired
Track description: There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they’ve ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or technically proficient, when their expression becomes as easy and graceful as friendship or love. This is when they give us a glimpse of what we might be, of our best selves, and of an impossible world in which you give everything you have to others, but lose nothing of yourself.
About Ruggiero
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: Foes of Formalism
3 releases you enjoy the most: FILIPP – GEODESIC02; Julian Perez – GIRADA08; Varhat – AKUVA03
3 Romanian artists you follow: FILIPP; PRIKU; ADA KALEH
3 international artists you follow: VARHAT; THE GHOST; YOUANDEWAN
Most played album: SKEPTA – INSOMNIA
Vlad Bretan – No Rules Applied
Track description: club-oriented track, flavoured with bouncy sub-bass, hypnotic synths and glitchy textures.
About Vlad Bretan
Artist biography: Constantly growing in the local scene, Vlad Bretan is a name you might be familiar with. Starting as a hip hop producer, moving towards Chicago House and finally ending into Romanian sound sphere, he gained recognition in 2017 when Seth Troxler played his edit of Kylie Minogue’s ‘Slow’. In 2018 he released his first EP at Basel based label ‘Studio 405’ releasing now a classic jam ‘Intr-o Zi’ played by many Romanian artists. That year he also won his first prize ‘The up and coming artist of 2018’ at the Sibiu DJ Awards. The year was completed by an appearance on Sang out of tune’s V.A. and a second EP on the same SOT label. 2019 was marked by the release of JOKER002 and the Nocturn series of parties that he hosted, sharing the booth with artists such, Herodot, Sepp, Nu Zau, Lizz or Prichindel. He begins to attend bigger parties like Alandala and perform in some worldwide known clubs as Midi, Control Club, Club Eden or Club Guesthouse.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/vlad-
Current city: Cluj Napoca, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: Masterman EP
3 releases you enjoy the most: liniar005, playedby004, kiria001
3 Romanian artists you follow: Sepp, Arapu, Lizz
3 international artists you follow: Dewalta, Clovis, Giuliano Lomonte
Most played album: liniar005
Vlad Bretan – Desert Run
Track description: a very minimalistic cut, with a catchy groove, and interstellar soundscapes.
About Vlad Bretan
Artist biography: Constantly growing in the local scene, Vlad Bretan is a name you might be familiar with. Starting as a hip hop producer, moving towards Chicago House and finally ending into Romanian sound sphere, he gained recognition in 2017 when Seth Troxler played his edit of Kylie Minogue’s ‘Slow’. In 2018 he released his first EP at Basel based label ‘Studio 405’ releasing now a classic jam ‘Intr-o Zi’ played by many Romanian artists. That year he also won his first prize ‘The up and coming artist of 2018’ at the Sibiu DJ Awards. The year was completed by an appearance on Sang out of tune’s V.A. and a second EP on the same SOT label. 2019 was marked by the release of JOKER002 and the Nocturn series of parties that he hosted, sharing the booth with artists such, Herodot, Sepp Nu Zau, Lizz or Prichindel. He begins to attend bigger parties like Alandala and perform in some worldwide known clubs as Midi, Control Club, Club Eden or Club Guesthouse.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/vlad-
Current city: Cluj Napoca, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: Masterman EP
3 releases you enjoy the most: liniar005, playedby004, kiria001
3 Romanian artists you follow: Sepp, Arapu, Lizz
3 international artists you follow: Dewalta, Clovis, Giuliano Lomonte
Most played album: liniar005
Vlad Bretan – Dirty Job
Track description: bass-driven breakbeat, with very present sub-bass, and dreamy pads. could easily pump up a party at a peak time or after-hours.
About Vlad Bretan
Artist biography: Constantly growing in the local scene, Vlad Bretan is a name you might be familiar with. Starting as a hip hop producer, moving towards Chicago House and finally ending into Romanian sound sphere, he gained recognition in 2017 when Seth Troxler played his edit of Kylie Minogue’s ‘Slow’. In 2018 he released his first EP at Basel based label ‘Studio 405’ releasing now a classic jam ‘Intr-o Zi’ played by many Romanian artists. That year he also won his first prize ‘The up and coming artist of 2018’ at the Sibiu DJ Awards. The year was completed by an appearance on Sang out of tune’s V.A. and a second EP on the same SOT label. 2019 was marked by the release of JOKER002 and the Nocturn series of parties that he hosted, sharing the booth with artists such, Herodot, Sepp Nu Zau, Lizz or Prichindel. He begins to attend bigger parties like Alandala and perform in some worldwide known clubs as Midi, Control Club, Club Eden or Club Guesthouse.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/vlad-
Current city: Cluj Napoca, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: Masterman EP
3 releases you enjoy the most: liniar005, playedby004, kiria001
3 Romanian artists you follow: Sepp, Arapu, Lizz
3 international artists you follow: Dewalta, Clovis, Giuliano Lomonte
Most played album: liniar005
Kozac – Sending spaceships to Mars
Track description: 6:31
About Kozac
Group description: “Right in the mid of 2018, fellow Greeks groovers Grush and DJ Dest decided to join their forces under the Kozac project. The Thessaloniki-based duo’s aim is to smash the musical boundaries, bringing a fresh and innovative boost to the local electronic music scene. Their first track ‘Raveani’ released on BodyParts and was shortly followed by their first vinyl-only release on Fasten Musique called ‘Hoodlove’. The EP features 2 original cuts + a stunning remix by Romanian duo of the moment SIT (Cristi Cons and Vlad Caia) which was heavily supported by the likes of Petre Inspirescu, Sublee and many more.”
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Thessaloniki, Greece 🇬🇷
Name your last EP release: Hoodlove Ep (Fasten Musique)
3 releases you enjoy the most: 1) Cristi Cons – Perceptual Ep (Meander); 2) Amorf – Ancient future Ep; 3) Ferro -Out of me Ep
3 Romanian artists you follow: Petre Inspirescu, Cezar, Sublee
3 international artists you follow: Ricardo Villalobos, Dewalta, Vlada
Most played album: Fumiya Tanaka – Right Moment
Orlesko – Porcupines On Different Levels (Féltestvér Spoken Original Mix)
Track description: Travelling beyond our macroscopic backyard of creature comforts… observing the micro… noticing the climate… globally… taking in to account the sphere of function… higher worlds… the underworld… every organism within the instinctual flow… chaos leading a certain path… order fleeting but, present like a butterfly in the forest. How do we make sense of it all?
Acoustic Cello Performed by Féltestvér for tracks 01 & 02 and the Voice of Richard Rohr Spoken for Track 01. All Tracks Arranged, Written and Produced by Orlesko. Mastered at Audio Department | Nik Kozub (Edmonton, Canada).
About Orlesko
Artist biography: Buying a set of decks in 2003, to playing gigs in Western Canada in 2006, Orlesko was keen for underground dance music. The musical landscape was changing from proper banging techno to more minimal, reduced frequencies and by 2010, his niche was developed. The same year, working in Alberta’s renowned record shop, Treehouse Records, helped mould his understanding of the widespread electronic music globally. He has played in Amsterdam, North and South Germany, across Western Canada and venturing into the Black Rock City. Orlesko’s upcoming gigs will take him to Adelaide and Brisbane, Australia.
Having released independent music on Bandcamp, a cassette single compilation on the new Canadian prairie label DancingOasis is floating around the globe and currently three EP’s digitally released on the label VRNT, Orlesko continues to pursue house and techno in all its forms. Expect an array of originals and vinyl bombs on the dancefloor. Stripped-back magic music. Atmosphere for those late-night boogies to keep you moving!
“Clubbers fall into the channel of sonic bliss as the frequencies touch them. The aim is to experience the love of rhythm, whether you stand with your eyes closed or manoeuvre to the next kick drum; when the night is in full swing we connect with the atmosphere provided by the DJ.” – Orlesko
Portfolio link: https://orlesko.wixsite.com/
Current city: Adelaide, South Australia 🇦🇺
Name your last EP release: Orlesko – Porcupines On Different Levels [VR012]
3 releases you enjoy the most: Onur Özer – Karadae EP [Gilesku Records – GILE 005]; Margaret Dygas – In Wood / That [Perlon – PERL100]; Various – Zuerst EP [RORA – RORA001]
3 Romanian artists you follow: Miss I, Triptil, Suolo
3 international artists you follow: Margaret Dygas, Onur Özer, Ricardo Villalobos
Most played album: Minilogue – Animals [Cocoon Recordings – CORLP016 + CORCD016]
Son of Elita – Troyano
Track description: Minimal track, with a good baseline and loaded with a lot of energy isolation and groove. It has indigenous vocal super dope, I know you will enjoy it.
About Son of Elita
Artist biography: (www.elisound.net) Although his inclusion in the production started late, Luis Oscar Pimentel aka Son of Elita has not stopped working for his underground dance project to be heard, reaching all corners of the world. Step by step with much patience and discipline has managed to enter more than 100 underground music labels, being increasingly close to being someone important in his genre. Venezuelan by birth, he became interested in underground music at 24 years of age, and although electronic music is not a trend in his small town, he travelled through the main cities of the country to attend the most important festivals and afters of that time.
Portfolio link: http://classic.beatport.com/
Current city: Punto Fijo, Venezuela 🇻🇪
Name your last EP release: Baquiat ep [enfant records from romania]
3 releases you enjoy the most: Petre Inspirescu – Astral, Rhadoo – Aundi, Floog – Electronika.
3 Romanian artists you follow: Sepp, Radu mirica, Ada kaleh
3 international artists you follow: Ricardo Villalobos, herck, floog.
Most played album: Son of Elita – insomnia [coquette records – london]
Don Iolănescu – Imperfec
Track description: The track was made during the current pandemic situation while in isolation.
About Don Iolănescu
Artist biography: 20-year old producer from Timisoara, based in London
Current city: Timisoara/London 🇷🇴🇬🇧
Name your last EP release: – (all my tracks are unreleased)
3 releases you enjoy the most: NAU009, BlackTooney01, ATIPIC006
3 Romanian artists you follow: G76, Haokah, Dragomir
3 international artists you follow: Imbue, Alexis Cabrera, Denis Kaznacheev
Most played album: Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
Jules Magois – Light And Noise
Track description: This track has a rather hypnotic and meditative mood. The main elements are a voice sample, a rhythmic Epiano, a pad, and some violins (the violin melody has been made by myself using a Kontakt soundfont). Then I added various rhythmic elements and effects. I recorded myself jamming, so as to convey a more fluid and surprising feel. The track can be downloaded from its soundcloud webpage.
About Jules Magois
Artist biography: I’m a producer and dj based in Paris. I’m 26 years old, and I’ve been intensely listening to minimal house for around 5 years, while also developing my sound as a producer. I’ve played a few times in clubs in Paris and Strasbourg, and I’ve released two minimal house EPs for now.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/jules-
Current city: Paris, France 🇫🇷
Name your last EP release: Monte EP (label: Well-Kept Secret)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Villalobos – Chromosul (PERL48); Melchior Productions Ltd – Crown (MKIL01); Villalobos – Baby EP (musik 085)
3 Romanian artists you follow: Rhadoo; Dubtil; Sahau
3 international artists you follow: Ricardo Villalobos; Melchior Productions Ltd; Fumiya Tanaka
Most played album: Sepp – Timpuriu LP
Siff – Komma
Track description: The track starts with a tribal percussion, electric sounds and punchy kicks, continuing with some weird guitar tunes, the ambience is a weird one that takes you to a dark club where everyone dances in the same robotic rhythm. The glitches make you jump from your chair (we’re in isolation so nobody dances in clubs). The big break in the track is characterized by spooky sounds and weird voices. When the tracks approach the end, the rhythm changes, with an “acid” like synth that is slowly panning between the listener’s ears.
About Siff
Artist biography: Started making music in 2015, released the first track called “Tooly” at Recordeep. Played music in Denmark and Bucharest. Fascinated by abstracted, glitched, dark and groovy sounds. I don’t have a favourite producer but I will say that I was influenced by Amin Ravelle, Mihigh, Niwa Tatsui, Cezar, Dubtil, Crihan and Julian.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: Ocronomicon
3 releases you enjoy the most: Idana – cmyk EP; Fumiya Tanaka – Perl 117; Zef – Le Moroto EP
3 Romanian artists you follow: Crihan, Dubtil, G76
3 international artists you follow: Amin Ravelle, Vadim Oslov, ZTRL
Most played album: https://soundcloud.com/
TWFE to BKPM – Buffer
Track description: Transition from TWFE to BKPM, having elements from both projects, but with different sounds, DAW and instruments. A more mature version of composing the track and a cleaner sound. Electronica beat, with off tempo elements, fine bass, dark atmosphere and uprising vocals. Enjoy! 😉
About TWFE / BKPM
Introduction: Experimenting with electronic sounds for some time now…
Artist biography or group description: Two active projects TWFE (The White Fluid) and BKPM.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/el3ctiv | https://soundcloud.com/bkpm
Current city: Constanta, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: Turist Fatal
3 releases you enjoy the most: Black Sands (Bonobo), Peace is the mission (Major Lazer), Brand new machine (Chase and Status)
3 Romanian artists you follow: Silent Strike, Subcarpati, Kazi Ploae
3 international artists you follow: Bonobo, Dark Sky, Diplo
Most played album: Fat of the land (The Prodigy)
He Did – Santo (Matje Remix)
Track description: A remix I recently made for a friend’s imprint in Chile. I would describe it as the perfect party starter. Warm, groovy bass with quirky percussion featuring a Buchla melodic modular sequence to set off the journey.
About Matje
Artist biography: Emerging into the musical realms as a self-taught guitarist, Matje has developed his passion for electronic music back in 2008 when he starting spinning as a resident in a local club, initially mixing various genres of house music and then focusing more on the minimal sound. Throughout his musical affair, he warms up the crowd for Nu Zau & Dubsons in 2014. Without any second thought, he starts producing in 2015 and releases his first EP in digital format on 9.05.2017 at [brosh] records, followed by his second VINYL ONLY EP on 15.08.2019 at Otaku Records which is out on deejay.de and other main distributors (www.deejay.de/Matje_OTK006_
He becomes an international artist after performing in Belgium for the first time, in 2016. Then he becomes a London based artist with an impressive portfolio and an immersive and distinctive sound. Together with some friends, he starts his own label “Equinox” in order to create a cutting edge platform for releasing both dancefloor-oriented tracks and also ambient soundscapes for like-minded individuals to collectively enjoy!
Portfolio link: https://residentadvisor.net/
Current city: London, UK 🇬🇧
Name your last EP release: feeder.ro/2019/08/
3 releases you enjoy the most: Ricardo Villalobos -Thé Au Harem D’Archimède; Vlad Caia – Swan Lake; Unknown Artist – Jim If
3 Romanian artists you follow: Cezar; Cristi Cons; Dubtil
3 international artists you follow: Afriqua; S.A.M; tINI
Most played album: Amorf –
Pierre C – Outflow
Track description: The track I’m about to send has been sitting in my vault for a long time, I’ve been keeping it away from releases because I thought it deserves much more. It is one of my favourite tracks at the moment even if it was made in 2019.
About Pierre C
Artist biography: I’m a 26-year-old producer, been making music since 16 years old.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/petrica
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: “Lush Strings” EP which is available on my bandcamp
3 releases you enjoy the most: Uvar LTD’s VA; Botanic Minds – BMSS007
Most played album: Boards of Canada – Music has the right to children
Blacktee – Icebergs in the fog
Track description: Made this in some troubled times. Eery house mood.
About Blacktee
Artist biography: Born and raised in Bucharest, I’ve been making tracks since 2011, mainly eery bedroom house music.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: BUDGET CUTS split cassette
3 releases you enjoy the most:Head High- Rave, Kerri Chandler – Rain, Mood II Swing – Call me
3 Romanian artists you follow:Cosmin trg, Khidja, Borusiade
3 international artists you follow:Kerri Chandler, Shed, Robert Hood
Most played album:Kerri Chandler-Rain
Dubphone – The Road Of The Dub – Unsigned
Track description: Just a jam on a lonely night of quarantine I guess the 30th night alone in the house without sleep decided to power on the machines and jam. Hope you will enjoy it.
About Dubphone
Artist biography: –
Portfolio link: https://www.deejay.de/dubphone | https://www.beatport.com/artist/dubphone/128763
Current city: Valencia, Spain 🇪🇸
Name your last EP release: Dubphone, Patrascu – Talking Machines – Bad Barbie Records Miami – Vinyl Only
3 releases you enjoy the most: Petre Inspirescu – Gradina Onirica, Barac – One Who Can See In The Dark, Mihai Popoviciu – Gum EP
3 Romanian artists you follow: Sepp, Petre Inspirescu, Ada Kaleh
3 international artists you follow: Dyed Soundorom, tINI, Christian Burkhardt
Most played album: Paul Kalkbrenner – Berlin Calling
Konstantin_k – Marz
About Konstantin_k
Konstantin_k has released his productions on labels such as Little Helpers, Tempura Records, Global Ritmico Records (Germany), Atum Record, Bauns Music, 2 Owls Records, Amazing Lab, Harvibal, Mushroom Smile Records, NoExcuse, Habla Music Rec, Alboratory, Play Groove, Psicodelica, Pild Records, Tip Tap, eMBI Music, Ride Music, High Pressure Music, Datagroove, Convention, Vilena Records, Rats Lab, Baile Musik, Natural Beat Recordings, Lemon-Aid Music , Not For Us Records, Psykometrik Recordings, Musiq Records, Whoyostro, Basswalk.
Portfolio links: https://soundcloud.com/konstantin_k | https://konstantin-k.bandcamp.com/releases
Current city: Zürich, Switzerland🇨🇭
Suflet Mecanic – No return
Track description: Only one synth used. Microbrute.
About Suflet Mecanic
Artist biography: Lazy-ass
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/sufletmecanic
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
brüc – Summer open (Original Mix)
Track description: The track talks a lot about my references, the bass line continues, apparent percussions, and warm melodies that resemble classic synths, creating a unique atmosphere that conveys energy and tranquillity at the same time, thus creating my identity and transmitting my feeling when producing the tracks.
About brüc
Artist biography: Unprotected from labels that chain creativity, transmitting this in a clear and objective way in their sets and productions, transiting energetic sounds to introspective, shaped by their identity, with a passion for classic synthesizer tones and modern percussion, printing unique characteristics in their personalities.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Blumenau-SC Brasil 🇧🇷
Name your last EP release: Enterprise EP [CabanaMusic]
3 releases you enjoy the most: [SV001]; [Creature004]; [Telum005]
3 Romanian artists you follow: Sepp, Barac, Arapu
3 international artists you follow: Toman, Lazare Hoche, Arthus
Most played album: [KIRIA001]
Mryn – Masses
Track description: Masses is a track I made in several different sessions, spread over a month. Usually, I’m making tracks in one or two sessions so this one was particular, I paid a lot of attention to the grooviness of the track. The result is a rather short journey, club-oriented with breaks and soft drops, swirling percs and pads, I’m not too sure what the title is about, that’s up to you.
About Mryn
Artist biography: Passionate about minimal for several years after making his way into techno and house, Mryn delivers an unpredictable and harmonious journey.
His style, influenced by the ro-minimal and early tech-house scene, can be bright and catchy or sometimes dark and hypnotizing. The multiple rhythmic layers that make up his groove bring his audience into an irresistible odyssey that never sleeps.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/mrynmusic/
Current city: Rouen, France 🇫🇷
Name your last EP release: Missing Chapters
CSR – Mirage
Track description: Minimal track with plenty of 808 kicks, nice bass and a touch of delirium.
About CSR
Artist biography: upcoming release on Defora Records
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/nexam
Current city: Arad, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: Verrina & Ventura – Labirinto Osseo, Radiq -Eastern Hemisphere (Thomas Melchior’s Ethno Dub Remix), Butch & Hohberg – Rebirth (Cleymoore Aether Remix)
3 Romanian artists you follow: Rob Newton, Shotzi, Timis
3 international artists you follow: Butch, Pheek, Deepzana
Most played album: Thai Cubensis by Butch & Hohberg on OTHERSIDE
Gronny – Ricardo Villalobos remontiruet avtobus
Track description: A Tibetan singing bowl washed out by reverb and passed through a sampler in Ableton sets the atmosphere of a car workshop. The sound of a falling coin processed by a panorama and a certain equalization creates an image of a falling metal product during repair. Almost the entire rhythm section is recorded in live mode to create colour.
About Gronny
About yourself: I’ve been writing music since 2008. I don’t limit my work to style frames. I am inspired by experiments with sound.
Artist biography or group description: Born in the family of an artist and pianist. I am a student at the Saratov Regional College of Arts with a degree in wind instrument and percussion in the bassoon class. I am fond of writing electronic music since 2008.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/gronnymusic
Current city: Saratov, Russia 🇷🇺
Name your last EP release: https://
3 releases you enjoy the most: Barac – The Real You is Not You; Petre Inspirescu – Intr-o Seara Organica…; Raresh – Vivaltu
3 Romanian artists you follow: Raresh, Barac, Sepp
3 international artists you follow: Helios, Ricardo Villalobos, Jon Hopkins
Most played album: Moby – Long Ambients
Stefano Glisci – Scenario
Track description: Scenario is a very old project that after many years of revisitation finally came to life. The track has a really deep vibe with a soul style voice that leads the entire track. The main concept was to merge the soul style from the 50s and 60s with electronic sounds creating a new groove.
About Stefano Glisci
Artist biography: My name is Stefano Glisci I was born in 1996 and I am originally from the South of Italy. During the past years, I moved to Bucharest where I am currently living and studying.
Music production is one of my greatest passions in life and since I was I kid I had the unique opportunity to meet Italian local artists such as Markantonio, Luigi Madonna and the entire International Talent crew that inspired me to listen, play and produce electronic music.
Right now music production for me is a way expressing myself and at the same time a way of discovering the sound of tomorrow.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇮🇹🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: &ME- The Rapture pt.II; Strigoi – Habar n-ai tu; M.A.N.D.Y – Twisted Sister
3 Romanian artists you follow: Suciu; Mihai Popoviciu; Strigoi
3 international artists you follow: Rampa; Dj Boring; Guy Gerber
Most played album: Reincarnations pt.2 – Dj Koze
SOMA – Bondi Night Waves
Track description: Inspired by the endless flow, energy and breaking of the waves, SOMA uses this lapping of the waves at Bondi at Night as the inspiration for this Track. Using field recordings taken at Ben Buckler at Dusk, the wash of the pads reflect the waves, the grimey overdriven nature of the leads are the salt in the air and on your face with synth stabs the flickering lights that emerge as dusk falls.
About SOMA
Artist biography: Sydney born and internationally raised, SOMA soaks up a diverse array of influences and channels them into his infectiously creative output. The result is a complex, duby, deep and spacious house driven sound that ventures and evolves through a euphoric soundscape.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/soma_
Current city: Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
Name your last EP release: Jozzman Trax VA 2019
3 releases you enjoy the most: Ethernal002, Daydream008 & Unic003
3 Romanian artists you follow: Teluric, Arapu, Melodie
3 international artists you follow: Noak Skelton, Janeret, Lukea
Most played album: The Presets – Beams (Modular Records)
Al’iikhwa Ra – Untitled Gem
Track description: Born in a sunny January day, “Untitled Gem” is a melange of synthesizers and acoustic instruments, perfectly quantized beats and human imperfections, playful yet a bit dark.
About Al’iikhwa Ra
Group description: Under the name Al’iikhwa Ra (Ra Brothers), Andrei Raicu and Alexandros Raptis manage to explore the convergence between Oriental/ World Music, Techno and Dance Music through the use of modular synthesis and traditional instruments in their live sets.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: Acid Arab – Gul l’Abi (feat. A-WA), Deena Abdelwahed – Klabb V2, SUMS – Matha
3 Romanian artists you follow: Khidja, Karpov not Kasparov, Vlaicu Golcea
3 international artists you follow: Acid Arab, Sebastian Mullaert, Praed
Most played album: Musique de France
Alpha Bite – David And Goliath
Track description:I always wanted to create a moment where you can think and dance at the same time, a moment where the rhythm from the drums and ambience are in balance with each other. In other words, listening to the track after finishing producing it I realized that this was it. This was the perfect match, this was what I was contemplating and trying to reinvent. Jamming with modular gear it’s vital in cases where I have to submit the ideas that I want to create. Repeating the process and learning by doing, in order to create something different. The target it’s to have the right focus at the right time while you record I guess it’s more robotic…
The name David and Goliath came from a feeling that you get being an underdog, a contest where a smaller, weaker opponent faces a much bigger, stronger adversary. The name is meant to come as a reminder especially in times like these! I guess it is easy to feel overwhelmed and it’s alright. History showed us many times how we can find ourselves in our weakest moments and push forward. The story’s aim is that not all day time the thing that seems the strongest will survive. Music is a tool that is to help our mood and boost our dopamine in order to stay proactive and positive but because of capitalism is often overlooked. We should never lose hope. So, be like David. We all are David.
Alpha Bite
Artist biography: Alpha Bite is a producer/dj & performer, with a focus towards minimal. The project was started in 2001. Alpha Bite’s debut was trippy, glitchy downtempo with Aura, a digital album released on Bandcamp in 2011. In this period he had a lot of appearances in the clubs and festivals from Romania.
From 2012 he joined the danish realms by moving to Copenhagen. A brief collaboration with the Berlin-based label Collage Audio where he dropped his digital Ep: Between Dimensions.
The concept is always developing as a chameleonic skin but keeping true to the core of weirdness, channelling now a pinch of house all the way to techno.
Portfolio link: Digital Releases https://www.beatport.com/
Current city: Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰
Name your last EP release: Names Ep (Released on Bandcamp)
3 releases you enjoy the most: AFX – Analogue Bubblebath 1 (1991); Pool Boy – Pool Boy LP (full album); iO (Mulen) – Roller
3 Romanian artists you follow: Ada Kaleh; Tavi Scurtu; Adrian Budritan
3 international artists you follow: Richard Devine; Suzanne Ciani; Laurine Frost
Most played album: Jan Jelinek – Loop Finding Jazz Records (Full Album)
Techniscje Loef – Black Soul You (Parea Remix)
Track description: Last February my mate Techniscje Loef proposed me to do a remix for his track. The track consisted of a lovely atmosphere created with a delayed rhodes and a piano as well as 909-ish drums, and some other conga-electronic percussion in the background. He sent me the audio files with the main piano parts and some background percussion and gave me total freedom to create whatever I had in mind.
For my remix, I wanted to do something more “soft” compared to his track but keeping the vibe from the original since I already liked it. Something more like an after-party track or for some intimate club. I made a new arrangement with a longer intro using the delay tail coming from the rhodes to create a sort of tremolo-pulse effect and in order to make it easier for djs to mix in the track. Used some of the original main percussion to keep the vibe, however, I created a completely new drum kit with the addition of more hats and synth-made percussion. The track has also an “interesting” change in the kick pattern after the longest break. I added a completely new bass using Ableton Operator’s FM synthesis capability, that might be simple, but I think that all in all, it works well 🙂
About Parea
About yourself: I am Marc from Barcelona. I started djing when I was 15 and I have played under my real name and other aliases since then. Around two years ago, I decided to start a new project under the alias Parea, which is more focused on tech-house and minimal.
Artist biography: Dj, producer and one of Barcelona’s rising artists yet to get discovered. However, Parea is no stranger to the local clubbing scene. He has played in some of the most known venues in the city such as Elrow, City Hall or Casa Gracia.
He started mixing while still a teenager and since then he has grown and matured his sound both as a producer and a dj. His sound can be defined as minimal-house, but it’s more than that often moving between different subgenres of house and techno.
Best known for keeping the party going on for long hours, Parea has proven his creativity not only behind the decks but also as a producer. His first release on Bandcamp has received good feedback and support. He published podcasts on Tanzgemeinschaft Magazine, Grainy Unknown Artist series, Sonica.es and Pineal Barcelona.
Portfolio link: parea.bandcamp.com
Current city: Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸
3 releases you enjoy the most: Mountain015, OCR001, MMNT007
3 Romanian artists you follow: Petre Inspirescu, Direkt, Vid
3 international artists you follow: Traumer, Ion Ludwig, Alex Font
Most played album: PACEM7965-0
In Vitro – Thunderstorm
Track description: With this composition, I looked for the balance between dub techno and acid elements. Rhythmic interference and atmospheric arrangements. A recent thunderstorm defined the mood.
About In Vitro
Artist biography: Since 2006 In Vitro releases original music, mixes and remixes on several labels and netlabels around the world directly from Mexico. Breathe Compilations was his netlabel.
Portfolio link: https://yosoyunotrotu.tumblr.
Current city: Pachuca, Hidalgo. Mexico 🇲🇽
Name your last EP release: In Vitro – Aguanoche [bump220] Bumpfoot, In Vitro – Energeia [SLNT111] Silent Flow, In Vitro – Transdimensional Woods [Nu-Logic091] Nulogic.
3 releases you enjoy the most (this year): Scratch Massive – garden of Love, The Cinematic Orchestra – To Believe / Remixes, The Juan MacLean – The Brighter the Light.
3 Romanian artists you follow: Mihai Popoviciu, Electronic Emotions, Cristian Paduraru
3 international artists you follow: Brian Eno, LORN, The Orb
Most played album (at the time): The Bomb Soundtrack by The Acid
Quiet Madman – Back to Basics
Track description: Old-school hip hop instrumentals, influenced by 90s Era, made in Ableton Live, sounds from Splice.
Enjoy!
About Quiet Madman
Artist biography: My name is Quiet Madman, representing Your Favorite Ghost Producer. I’m a beatmaker from Sibiu, Romania, crafting instrumentals in Ableton Live!
Profile Link: http://hyperurl.co/4wo1ws
My Last EP is Retro Disk – https://distrokid.com/
3 Romanian artists you follow: Aforic, Phunk B, Bocaseca.
3 international artists you follow: Marco Polo, Apollo Brown, Evidence
Most played album: Evidence – Cats & Dogs
Siff – A worm’s astral projection
Track description: A complex one, it took me one week from start to finish. It starts off with my signature glitchy percussions, slowly working towards an electric ride full of mystic sounds, groovy basses, a voice that accompanies the textures and reversed one-shots. It gets more and more aggressive towards the end when another hat makes it more dancy. Overall, this track represents me and my style of producing music.
About Siff
Artist biography: Started making music in 2015, released the first track called “Tooly” at Recordeep. Played music in Denmark and Bucharest. Fascinated by abstracted, glitched, dark and groovy sounds. I don’t have a favourite producer but I will say that I was influenced by Amin Ravelle, Mihigh, Niwa Tatsui, Cezar, Dubtil, Crihan and Julian.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: Ocronomicon
3 releases you enjoy the most: Idana – cmyk EP; Fumiya Tanaka – Perl 117; Zef – Le Moroto EP
3 Romanian artists you follow: Crihan, Dubtil, G76
3 international artists you follow: Amin Ravelle, Vadim Oslov, ZTRL
Most played album: https://soundcloud.com/
Andrei Raicu – 0011001
Track description: I am trying to keep the sound as raw as possible so this track was developed exclusively in a modular system, using random triggers and biofeedback cv from plants, so I can recreate the torment of the nature nowadays.
About Andrei Raicu
Artist biography: Born in 1988, in Bucharest, Romania, Andrei Raicu studies Theater Directing at The National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest and furthers his studies with Theodor Cristian Popescu at The University of Arts in Targu Mures. He debuts his career as a theatre director in 2013 at Godot Caffe Theater in Bucharest with “Iaacovi and Leidental” by Hanoch Levin and he continues with two performances based on Goran Stefanovski’s writings: in 2015 “Hotel Europe” at The National Theatre of Bucharest and in 2016 “Euralien” a co-production of The Classical Theatre of Arad Ioan Slavici with the Association Citizenit.
In the same time, Andrei Raicu worked as Sound Designer for over 8 performances in different theatres from Romania. (“Push Up 1-3” by Roland Schimmelpfennig, directed by Theodor Cristian Popescu, “American Buffalo” by David Mamet, directed by Theodor Cristian Popescu, “Choke” by Chuck Palahniuk, directed by Ovidiu Caita).
Currently, using the experience gained in theatre direction and sound design, Andrei Raicu, continues to explore other artistic horizons in performance, queer and techno area. He creates in collaboration with artists from and outside Berlin, several happenings: “Athanatizein – ad immortalitatis ritual”, “Gruesome Manifesto”, “Queeerdos III – divination” and “Queeerdos V – The Odyssey”.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/andrei-
Current city:Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: Identified Patient Sleep Without Rest feat. Sophie du Palais; Donato Dozzy – Parola – Rework; Caterina Barbieri – SOTRS
3 Romanian artists you follow:Khidja, Future Nuggets, Corp.
3 international artists you follow:Allesandro Cortini, Kangding Ray, Carla del Forno
Most played album:J.M Pagan – Kiu / Ele Seus Amics
Rufi ft Elena Sstrings – Free Sprit (Matje Reconstruction)
Track description: Two friends made the original and they asked around for 8 artists to do a remix, each in a different genre. I was picked for the dancefloor/festival remix so I came up with the groove, melodic basslines, drumkit programming, vocal sampling and time-stretching, arrangement, piano arpeggio, mixing & mastering 🙂
Thank you for having me on board.
About Matje
Artist biography: Emerging into the musical realms as a self-taught guitarist, Matje has developed his passion for electronic music back in 2008 when he starting spinning as a resident in a local club, initially mixing various genres of house music and then focusing more on the minimal sound. Throughout his musical affair, he warms up the crowd for Nu Zau & Dubsons in 2014. Without any second thought, he starts producing in 2015 and releases his first EP in digital format on 9.05.2017 at [brosh] records, followed by his second VINYL ONLY EP on 15.08.2019 at Otaku Records which is out on deejay.de and other main distributors (www.deejay.de/Matje_OTK006_
He becomes an international artist after performing in Belgium for the first time, in 2016. Then he becomes a London based artist with an impressive portfolio and an immersive and distinctive sound. Together with some friends, he starts his own label “Equinox” in order to create a cutting edge platform for releasing both dancefloor-oriented tracks and also ambient soundscapes for like-minded individuals to collectively enjoy!
Portfolio link: https://residentadvisor.net/
Current city: London, UK 🇬🇧
Name your last EP release: feeder.ro/2019/08/
3 releases you enjoy the most: Ricardo Villalobos -Thé Au Harem D’Archimède; Vlad Caia – Swan Lake; Unknown Artist – Jim If
3 Romanian artists you follow: Cezar; Cristi Cons; Dubtil
3 international artists you follow: Afriqua; S.A.M; tINI
Most played album: Amorf –
Kazan – Turia (Break’n Dub Edit)
Track description: This track reflects breakbeat rhythms making the snare the main element, the kick remains deep in the first part of the pattern to make the other sounds cohesive with the snare. The texture is created with a deep reverberation of glitch sounds and various drums elaborated in a dub style.
About Kazan
Artist biography: “Kazan” is an Italian electronic music composer from the province of Latina, in Italy. Influenced from a young age in the various trend events of both Italian and European nightlife, he decided to experiment with his own musical production with minimalistic background sounds ranging from the Glitch-House to the Romanian Techno. Resident in the “Re-Born” events together with Velardi in his own province and guest in the “No-One” events on the summer evenings of Pescara (IT). In each of his sets, Dub sounds are perceived among all the facets ranging from Minimal-Techno to Micro-House, seeking in his sound to be part of the Italian underground scene.
Current city: Rome, Italy 🇮🇹
Portfolio links: Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kazan_
3 releases you enjoy the most: 1) Triptil + Silat Beksi rmx Catalog : MTMLTD006; 2) [Playedby009] Crihan – Pe Sub Piele; 3) Atemporal – La Manigua EP [CPD036]
3 Romanian artists you follow: 1) Nu Zau; 2) Arapu; 3) Vid
3 international artists you follow: 1) Petre Inspirescu; 2) Giuliano Lomonte; 3) Sit
Cuatr32 – 432hz
Track description: Eclectic Tibetan bowls processed by modules, stiff batteries strolling through simple rhythmic patterns, the strength increases progressively as the piano plays between the sequences, all the sounds are tuning on 432 hertz, our cells vibrate at that frequency, that way they have the possibility of regenerating themselves, we try to make this music to heal bodies and souls when it comes to dancing.
About Cuatr32: –
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/cuatr32
Current city: Santa Fe & Cordoba, Argentina 🇦🇷
3 releases you enjoy the most: Roger Gerresen – Heading In A Backwards Direction; Mariano Mateljan – Census; Viceversa – Fifteen, Sixteen.
3 Romanian artists you follow: Petre Inspirescu, Vlad Arapasu & Mihigh
3 international artists you follow: Franco Cinelli, Steevio & Ricardo Villalobos
Most played album: Guti – Rompecorazones
Ernest Kalinin – Bursa
About Ernest Kalinin
Artist biography: Hi my name Ernest Kalinin, I’m from the South Russia City of Krasnodar, now based in Bangkok Thailand!
Ernest began his DJ career back in 2013 and quickly became a welcome guest at many night clubs and lounges in all the major Asian cities. He is a founder of a music showcase called Night Sport, playing vinyl and creating music in such styles as Techno, Deep House, Underground Disco, Acid Rave and Electro Beats. His inspiration derived from nature, people and being culturally aware during his world travels. In addition, he’s received 3 top 100 House music hits on Beatport.com and Decks.de Germany.
Ernest has a unique sound and beat that keeps old and new followers on the dance floor full.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bangkok, Thailand / Krasnodar, Russia 🇹🇭🇷🇺
Name your last EP release: Mara
Ernest Kalinin & Eshka – NT66
About Ernest Kalinin
Artist biography: Hi my name Ernest Kalinin, I’m from the South Russia City of Krasnodar, now based in Bangkok Thailand!
Ernest began his DJ career back in 2013 and quickly became a welcome guest at many night clubs and lounges in all the major Asian cities. He is a founder of a music showcase called Night Sport, playing vinyl and creating music in such styles as Techno, Deep House, Underground Disco, Acid Rave and Electro Beats. His inspiration derived from nature, people and being culturally aware during his world travels. In addition, he’s received 3 top 100 House music hits on Beatport.com and Decks.de Germany.
Ernest has a unique sound and beat that keeps old and new followers on the dance floor full.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bangkok, Thailand / Krasnodar, Russia 🇹🇭🇷🇺
Name your last EP release: Mara
Marseeey – Tension
Track description: A track with a strong beat made with samples from Moog and Serum with the care of the quality.
About Marseeey
Artist biography: Moscow-based techno/tech-house DJ Marseeey is involved in music for more than a decade: his first experience with music production is dated 2002. In 2011 young artist tried himself as a DJ and stood in front decks — and since then Marseeey has been playing at underground parties, always delivering top-notch music taste and impeccable insights on how electronic music should sound like. A short time after it brought him to residency in a small DJ cafe Mojo (Suzuran) right in the heart of Moscow: his artistic vision and deep knowledge of current music trends encouraged respect from famous veterans of Moscow club scene.
Speaking of his own strong advantages, Ilia prior names music taste and attention to the tiniest nuances of music: during preparation for a new set, Ilia can spend hours digging vinyl crates or lurking beatport catalogues, listening to thousands of tracks before he finally finds the one that he needs. “Right now in the world there are a great number of talented musicians: that’s why one of the most important parts of being a DJ is to reveal hidden gems among enormous massive of decent music” — says Ilia. — “I often consider electronic musicians as modern-day geniuses. You can’t produce masterpieces on an assembly line: they are rare, practically solitary phenomena. And every single one of them deserves to be heard”.
The splendid music taste of Marseeey brought him to legendary global DJ contest Burn Residency in 2016. From that time he is AlfaFuturePeople music festival resident from Burn Energy.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺
3 releases you enjoy the most: JOULE08; SHMN002; RCT003
3 Romanian artists you follow: Barac, r.hitect, Sepp
3 international artists you follow: Vern, Remus, Diego Krause
Posada – Inesperado (Original Mix)
Track description: Inesperado is a track oscillated between house, dub and electro acid, deep and with minimalist nuances.
About Posada / Real Rhythm, Gusano, Inregistrari Interplanetare
About yourself: a young DJ and producer from Colombia.
Artist biography: resident of Sonido Central, an important club in his region, his sound ranges from house to techno with deep and minimalist nuances
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city:Cali, Colombia 🇨🇴
Name your last EP release: Midnight In Osaka (Vandalism Musique)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Ganduri Spirituale EP Curtea Veche; Electrolatino – Multicolor Recordings; al.frente – Multicolor Recordings
3 Romanian artists you follow: Vlad Arapasu, Arapu, Sepp
3 international artists you follow: Ricardo Villalobos, Maayan nidam, Bill Patrick
Most played album: Ganduri Spirituale EP (Curtea Veche)
Posada – Inedito (Original Mix)
Track description: Inedito is an analogous percussive track that has influences from house and electro acid, deep and with experimental minimalist nuances.
About Posada / Real Rhythm, Gusano, Inregistrari Interplanetare
About yourself: a young DJ and producer from Colombia.
Artist biography: resident of Sonido Central, an important club in his region, his sound ranges from house to techno with deep and minimalist nuances
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city:Cali, Colombia 🇨🇴
Name your last EP release: Midnight In Osaka (Vandalism Musique)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Ganduri Spirituale EP Curtea Veche; Electrolatino – Multicolor Recordings; al.frente – Multicolor Recordings
3 Romanian artists you follow: Vlad Arapasu, Arapu, Sepp
3 international artists you follow: Ricardo Villalobos, Maayan nidam, Bill Patrick
Most played album: Ganduri Spirituale EP Curtea Veche
Mezzin – Together
Track description: The track is a deep house one, with a jazzy chord progression and – we hope- a relaxed vibe through its melody and vocal lines.
About Mezzin
Group description: We are a duo from Brașov, Romania. George Pandrea is the producer and Tania Mușina is the lead singer. We formed in 2019 and this year we released our first Ep. As genres we like deep house, tech house and minimal.
Portfolio link: https://cutt.ly/gyeiuTE
Current city: Brașov, Romania, and Oslo, Norway 🇷🇴🇳🇴
Name your last EP release: Maps for dreaming
3 releases you enjoy the most: Mikhu – Sorry, Dub Taylor – Subtle, Pablo Fierro – Kalaa
3 Romanian artists you follow: Golan, Arapu, Cristi Cons
3 international artists you follow: Disclosure, Boris Brejcha, Peggy Gou
Most played album: Ada Kaleh – Introspectie EP
Heerd – There is no Spoon
Track description: the track has a mysterious old school sci-fi feeling.
About Heerd
Group description: Ionut Stroe si George Olaru together as Heerd. Living in Bucharest but both of us are from Constanta, we started from digging music and then to producing music when our sound got more mature.
Discogs page: https://www.discogs.com/artist/6433397-Heerd
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: https://www.discogs.com/Heerd-Elevate-EP/release/14197488
3 Romanian artists you follow: Raresh, Praslea, SIT
3 international artists you follow: ZIP, Afriqua, Moodymann
3 releases you enjoy: Mat Carter – Zark Time EP, Christopher Ledger – Dark Moon EP, Livio & Roby – Moons EP.
Most played album recently: Ion Ludwig – Rolling Drama
Gronny – Solina Purple
Track description: Initially, a “film” lining was made. Then it was decided to throw the groove. Almost the entire track was made on the Solina synthesizer, as well as the Electron Drum Machine SPK2.
About Gronny
Artist biography: Born in the family of an artist and pianist. I am a student at the Saratov College of Arts in the Department of Wind and Percussion Instruments in the bassoon class, as well as a mastering engineer as an electronic music magazine and label “ATROQ” located in St. Petersburg.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/gronnymusic
Current city: Saratov, Russia 🇷🇺
Name your last EP release: https://atroqlab.bandcamp.com/album/nature-adventure-ep
3 releases you enjoy the most: http://tiny.cc/ltlidz | https://atroqlab.bandcamp.com/track/lynx-breath | https://krymmryk.bandcamp.com/album/km03-hazbaragaz
3 Romanian artists you follow: Sepp, Nu Zau, Raresh
3 international artists you follow: Andrey Pushkarev, Celer, Arvo Part.
Most played album: Yayati – Tretii, Piper Spray – Drugstore Phones, Flaty – Generic Targz
Dadou – Creux du Van
Track description: I tried to implement all bests of minimal and natural sounds in one piece. The track was inspired by the artists I listed below.
About Dadou
Artist biography: First steps were made in 2016 and started mostly with techno sets and tracks, later on, in 2019 taste has changed dramatically and I began a new path, but already experienced events and had gigs internationally: Tbilisi, Moscow, Budapest, Bali etc.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/dadou01
Current city:Moscow, Russia 🇷🇺🇬🇪
Name your last EP release:Dadou – Point Of No Return, Space Michong EP. Label: [Conceptual Deep].
3 releases you enjoy the most:(very hard question) Daniel Bell – Rhodes 2; Ricardo Villalobos – Dexter; Petre Inspirecsu – De Bou; Bonus: Unknown Artist – Clarinette (not on label (RAL Series) Vinyl)
3 Romanian artists you follow:Bryz, Cristi Cons, Cosmjn (most liked).
3 international artists you follow:Ricardo Villalobos, Seth Troxler, Losoul.
Mryn – Yöln
Track description: I wanted to improve the grooviness of my music. After I installed several new plugins on my computer I tried to make just a groovy beat, nothing more. The session got longer and longer and this is the result, a full-length track that has that deep tribal vibe but still joyful. Definitely a morning/afternoon track goes well with the sunlight.
About Mryn
Artist biography: Passionate about minimal for several years after making his way into techno and house, Mryn delivers an unpredictable and harmonious journey.
His style, influenced by the ro-minimal and early tech-house scene, can be bright and catchy or sometimes dark and hypnotizing. The multiple rhythmic layers that make up his groove bring his audience into an irresistible odyssey that never sleeps.
With his experience in various musical projects including a psychedelic garage rock band or a lo-fi hip-hop side project, Mryn has released EPs and singles on numerous labels all over Europe and on the American continent.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/mrynmusic/
Current city:Rouen, France 🇫🇷
Name your last EP release:Missing Chapters (Bandcamp release)
3 Romanian artists you follow:Mihai Pol, Bucurie, Crihan
Kidd – Hunny Bunny
Track description: The track follows dark notes. The bpm is fast which makes the crowd move and feel the atmosphere which puts the listener into a different state of mind. The track was made using Ableton 10 and different Vst’s.
About Kidd
Artist biography: I am a Romanian bedroom dj and producer. I currently live in Onesti. I approached this passion very young and I am still focalized on the research: exploring new music from the past and the present at the same time. I fell in love with minimal music 3 years ago and since then I wanted to improve my producing and mixing skills.
Current city: Onești, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: Holdie Gawn – Weirden, Barac – Mystical, For Those Who Don’t Understand Magical, Mihigh – Kinky
3 Romanian artists you follow: Barac, Mihigh, Cezar
3 international artists you follow: Vadim Oslov, Holdie Gawn, Amin Ravelle
Szabee – 1990
Track description: This track was born under quarantine, that’s when I started producing, at the start of March 2020. This tune tested my patience, as I kind of rushed my other projects, I can safely say that I did not rush this one.
This song brings back raving memories, we as people keep a distance now, and I tried to create something that brings back memories from the best parties I’ve ever attended, for me, it really does the job, and every time I listen to it I want to rave. Hope you guys do as well.
About Szabee
Artist biography: I’m a passionate young buck from the heart of Transylvania, DJ, and now also a producer, I come from the grooves of Hip-Hop/ Rap, and that’s how I learnt what flow and groove really are.
Group description: I run a community page on Soundcloud, called Varrott, where we post podcasts, and songs from friends, DJ’s we know
Portfolio link: https://sawbolch.bandcamp.com/music | https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Cluj-Napoca, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: SLPFNK 21, 18, 22
3 Romanian artists you follow: Gescu, Herodot, Suciu
3 international artists you follow: Dewalta, Pascal Benjamin, Matthew Jonson
Most played album: I really enjoy many albums, a lot of them I play a lot, I cannot say for sure
Antoine – Mechanics Of A Train
Track description: I started jamming on the drum machines, I came up with a nice techno rhythm that reminded me of the sound a train makes when it operates. I then decided to name the track “Mechanics of a Train”, and I slowly slowly refined the tracks bit by bit to give it that stripped back a micro touch, I incorporated my own vocal sample, and used some guitar stabs from my friend Rick. My intention was to create a track that provided a feeling of how a train operates, and the journey it rides on, with new sounds that enter the track as it progresses. But also trying to maintain a raw and vintage analogue sound that is unique and stretches the minimal barrier.
About Antoine: –
Portfolio link: https://www.facebook.com/
Current city: Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
3 Romanian artists you follow: Vlad Arapasu, RQZ, GFD
3 international artists you follow: Silat Beksi, Venda, Zendid
Most played album: Yuseef Kamal – Black Focus
Cerbu – Digital Zap
Track description: Digital Zap transports you into gleaming chords, droning synths and reflective surfaces. Relatively minimal which paints futuristic landscapes layering them in between raking bass lines and glitched drums.
About Cerbu
Artist biography: Hailing from Bucharest, Cerbu grew up influenced by the electronic music of the 2010s.
At 16 years old, he began producing various styles of music ranging from drum and bass to film score. Having numerous twists and turns in his artistic career and always oscillating between sounds, 4 years later he is still refining his sounds and every time he finds a new way to connect his productions with his feelings.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/cerrbu
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: BP059, UNIC004, HPR008
3 Romanian artists you follow: Vid, Loxique, Dragomir
3 international artists you follow: Venda, Vadim Oslov, Methylat
Most played album: MODEIGHT005
Cerbu – Fragile Dreams
Track description: Gloomy atmospheres and soundscapes characterise this one. Weird and wonderful synths and frantic stepping drum syncopation are the order.It evolves effortlessly, ascending beyond journeys that you’ll lose yourself in again and again.
About Cerbu
Artist biography: Hailing from Bucharest, Cerbu grew up influenced by the electronic music of the 2010s.
At 16 years old, he began producing various styles of music ranging from drum and bass to film score. Having numerous twists and turns in his artistic career and always oscillating between sounds, 4 years later he is still refining his sounds and every time he finds a new way to connect his productions with his feelings.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/cerrbu
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: BP059, UNIC004, HPR008
3 Romanian artists you follow: Vid, Loxique, Dragomir
3 international artists you follow: Venda, Vadim Oslov, Methylat
Most played album: MODEIGHT005
Osvit – Joe Joaquin
Track description:
About Osvit
Artist biography: Based in Odessa, Ukraine, Yura Sitov aka Osvit is a DJ, producer and electronic music enthusiast that’s been involved in the underground techno and house scene for quite some time now. He started his career in 2007 and until 2015 he performed using another alias, winning the public’s attention by being a welcomed guest in numerous clubs in Ukraine. In 2012 he founded his own musical project, [“to be hip” underground and intellectual side of music] and held several successful parties. In 2013 he becomes a part of CULT.Beat, a well-known platform who invites skilled DJs, top-notch producers and amazing VJs in order to create memorable dance experiences. Yura’s journey in the realm of modern music made him share the decks with artists like Yaroslav Lenzyak, Hubble, Denis Kaznacheev, G76, Junki Inoue and Plusculaar, with whom he entertained the Romanian public on March 2018 at Club Eden in Bucharest. As a producer, he collaborated with labels like Conceptual Records, Simple Things Records, Soblazn, Binaural Arts, Tzinah, Genesis Records, High-Jack Records, Pulsar Music, CerSenin, Merger Music and Stamp, to name only a few.
Portfolio link: https://www.facebook.com/
Current city: Odessa, Ukraine 🇺🇦
3 releases you enjoy the most: WUDLP001, PLZ004S.2, BFG006
3 Romanian artists you follow: Barac, Sepp, Amorf
3 international artists you follow: Ricardo Villalobos, Sven Väth, Paul Kalkbrenner
hTT – Parasutism nautic
Track description: This track defines a new and pure perspective of minimal structure, assembled with some dark emotions and filled with tight and groovy rhythm.
About hTT
About yourself: “Connected with music since childhood, I’m always searching for new sounds or beats. I’m 30 years old and still have a lot of passion for electronic music.”
Artist biography: hTT known as Alexandru Marin, is born on 07/08/1989 in Bucharest. Discovers his passion for music as a child, studying guitar and piano and being fascinated by artists like The Beatles, Sugar Hill Gang, and The Fugees.
Had his first electronic experience, listening for the first time DJs like Paul Kalkbrenner, Ricardo Villalobos or John Digweed.
Falls in love with this genre and music production appears shortly as an important factor.
He shared the decks until now with Dj/s like Sublee, Lizz, Alci, Nima Gorji, Cojoc and many more
Dj-ing styles are addressed in Tech Minimal, Techno, Electronica.
Track styles are more directed to a personal imprint.
Portfolio link: https://www.facebook.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: Cosmjn – Soul things LP
3 Romanian artists you follow: Direkt, Vlad Arapasu, Loxique
3 international artists you follow: Fabe, Fumyia Tanaka, Dj Masda
Most played album: Cosmjn – Soul things
hTT – Seeds
Track description: Seeds, enhances the spirit of evolution, from seed to fruit this track is progressing with constant energy and brings in front punchy elements of minimal and techno.
About hTT
About yourself: “Connected with music since childhood, I’m always searching for new sounds or beats. I’m 30 years old and still have a lot of passion for electronic music.”
Artist biography: hTT known as Alexandru Marin, is born on 07/08/1989 in Bucharest. Discovers his passion for music as a child, studying guitar and piano and being fascinated by artists like The Beatles, Sugar Hill Gang, and The Fugees.
Had his first electronic experience, listening for the first time DJs like Paul Kalkbrenner, Ricardo Villalobos or John Digweed.
Falls in love with this genre and music production appears shortly as an important factor.
He shared the decks until now with Dj/s like Sublee, Lizz, Alci, Nima Gorji, Cojoc and many more
Dj-ing styles are addressed in Tech Minimal, Techno, Electronica.
Track styles are more directed to a personal imprint.
Portfolio link: https://www.facebook.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: Cosmjn – Soul things LP
3 Romanian artists you follow: Direkt, Vlad Arapasu, Loxique
3 international artists you follow: Fabe, Fumyia Tanaka, Dj Masda
Most played album: Cosmjn – Soul things
hTT – Trees
Track description: A mixture of mind and body, “Trees” combines dreamy sounds with powerful drums ensuring a full experience of a minimal state of mind.
About hTT
About yourself: “Connected with music since childhood, I’m always searching for new sounds or beats. I’m 30 years old and still have a lot of passion for electronic music.”
Artist biography: hTT known as Alexandru Marin, is born on 07/08/1989 in Bucharest. Discovers his passion for music as a child, studying guitar and piano and being fascinated by artists like The Beatles, Sugar Hill Gang, and The Fugees.
Had his first electronic experience, listening for the first time DJs like Paul Kalkbrenner, Ricardo Villalobos or John Digweed.
Falls in love with this genre and music production appears shortly as an important factor.
He shared the decks until now with Dj‘s like Sublee, Lizz, Alci, Nima Gorji, Cojoc and many more
Dj-ing styles are addressed in Tech Minimal, Techno, Electronica.
Track styles are more directed to a personal imprint.
Portfolio link: https://www.facebook.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: Cosmjn – Soul things LP
3 Romanian artists you follow: Direkt, Vlad Arapasu, Loxique
3 international artists you follow: Fabe, Fumyia Tanaka, Dj Masda
Most played album: Cosmjn – Soul things
Caliman – Discrepancies
Track description: Minimal track with micro house influences, bassed on rominimal sound, inspired by The GuestHouse typical music heard in lives session. Simple music for soul and mind.
About Caliman
Artist biography: I am passionate about minimal and techno music without of nowhere sounds with makes you think you are in the middle of nature, creating a parallel dimension for you where u can get lost. I think music is about felling not about some noises which came from a big box.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Cluj Napoca 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: Vulpix.ro, A world without mirrors,
3 Romanian artists you follow: Raresh, Cezar, Suciu.
3 international artists you follow: Raresh Romanov, Fabe, Ricardo Villalobos
Most played album: LORI001
Kazan – Ioria
Track description: Ioria represents for me the meeting point of various aspects of the electronic genre. It is based on a kick and a purely analogue-style bass that recall the techno variations of the early ’90s, completed by a more modern rhythm of drums, which recalls minimal sounds. The texture is made up of various glitch sounds that give fullness and depth, underlining the combination of a minimal Berlin-style as opposed to that hint of analogue techno. The choice of the “celestial” pad is the meeting point between the glitch part, the drums and the analogue sounds which raises monotony to the glitch sounds giving depth to the texture itself.
About Kazan
Artist biography: “Kazan” is an Italian electronic music composer from the province of Latina, in Italy. Influenced from a young age in the various trend events of both Italian and European nightlife, he decided to experiment with his own musical production with minimalistic background sounds ranging from the Glitch-House to the Romanian Techno. Resident in the “Re-Born” events together with Velardi in his own province and guest in the “No-One” events on the summer evenings of Pescara (IT). In each of his sets, Dub sounds are perceived among all the facets ranging from Minimal-Techno to Micro-House, seeking in his sound to be part of the Italian underground scene.
Current city: Rome, Italy 🇮🇹
Portfolio links: Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kazan_
3 releases you enjoy the most: 1) Triptil + Silat Beksi rmx Catalog : MTMLTD006; 2) [Playedby009] Crihan – Pe Sub Piele; 3) Atemporal – La Manigua EP [CPD036]
3 Romanian artists you follow: 1) Nu Zau; 2) Arapu; 3) Vid
3 international artists you follow: 1) Petre Inspirescu; 2) Giuliano Lomonte; 3) Sit
Hari – Nikolay
Track description: The name of the track comes from a good friend of mine he inspired me a lot to evolve in creating music, his pure energy on the dancefloor can not be underestimated.
About Hari / Audiomutz
Artist biography: Hari on his real name Patrascu Hariton, born in Dracula’s homeland in the mountains of Transylvania, Romania in 1984. His first contact with music took place early in his childhood when he started breakdancing and founded a crew. During his fifteen years of breakdancing, he felt very inspired by Afrika Bambaataa music, James Brown, dj shadow and many others. The DJ-ing career started as a hobby in 2007 playing deep house and tech house tunes at several private parties and small bars and clubs in his hometown, Alba Iulia. His passion for underground house music became more than a hobby in 2010, when he was asked to become a resident Dj at a local underground club named EXIT, along with his friend, Zarafu, they started playing together under the name of AudioMUTZ. Their music could be heard at several underground clubs and public radios in Transilvania, Romania such as Raum Club and Dot after-hours Club in Cluj Napoca, Go In Lounge, RYMA and Habitat in Alba Iulia, Mai Lounge in Sibiu, Ibiza Club in Timisoara. In 2012 he moved to Dublin, Ireland and became a resident dj at UNG Radio Dublin for 1 year. Then he starts playing all around Dublin Clubs like PygMalion, In 2015 he makes his debut in Spain – Ibiza. Now his a resident at Phever Fm Dublin his focus is on quality underground Romanian techno.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Dublin, Ireland 🇮🇪🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: Around the groove
3 releases you enjoy the most: Turturu – 1900, Mihigh – Lock, Deaf Pillow – Another Cycle (Javier Carballo Morning Mix
3 Romanian artists you follow: Rhadoo, Mihigh, Herodot
3 international artists you follow: DeWalta, Fabe, Yusef
Cr15tina – Tralala (In Padurea Cu Alune)
Track description: I didn’t plan to put this very happy children’s song in the song. Towards the end, I found the song and I realized that it fits very well with the melodic line, that I created.
About Cr15tina
About yourself: “Hello everyone. I am glad that I have the opportunity to share with you, the same feelings full of love, towards music!
My name is Filip Cristina, I was born on the Black Sea and I come from the resort 2 Mai.
As a child I had musical skills, I sang, I danced and I was attracted from an early age by the secrets of mixing. For several years I have been doing production, but I still have a lot to learn and I want to improve every day. Music for me, that’s all! Love, Passion, Devotion, Patience, Creation, Energy, Light, Knowledge, for me and for the people I interact with, through her prism and not only! Music has transformed me into what I am now. A human who wants to share as much positive vibration and peace as possible, to create a more beautiful world with you!”
Artist biography: Hailing from the capital of Romania, Bucharest, Cristina was born near the Black Sea shore in the holiday spot 2Mai, on April 19, 1987. She has lived into a childhood and adolescence of electronic music, as her father was an avid vinyl collector with an affection for electronica.
At the tender age of 14 was the first time she stood behind the decks, learning the techniques and crafting her DJ skills, and shortly after she began playing at local summer club. Prompted by her interest in electronic music and restless creative spirit Cristina also attended and completed a singing school.
In 2006 she moved to Bucharest getting involved in the Romanian capital’s underground party scene. She got to play her first gig at the Zebra club in Bacau, where many artists who left their mark in the Romanian underground scene have originated and made their stamp. For the next decade, she was a regular at many of Bucharest’s underground spots and became the resident of Silver after-hours club.
After a short hiatus, Cr15tina remerged back into the scene, this time with an interest for producing and creating her own sounds, marked by strong feeling, and emotion.
Her first EP, “Zbor Maiastru”(2016), was released by the label Arms Limited, followed by “Love Dimension” E.P (2017) released by the label Cisne Negro, and then her single for Rooftop Cardigans Sampler V.A. “Nu Zaietz Pagadi” (2017).
Since 2017 she has joined forces with HighSound.Ro collective, an agency that promotes underground Romanian DJ’s, artists and music producers.
Portfolio link: https://www.facebook.com/
Current city: Bucharest
Name your last EP release: Vandalism Musique (V.A)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Imbue – Black Sea; Counrad – Version Of Eden; Malin Genie & Per Hammar – Scania
3 Romanian artists you follow: Rhadoo, Raresh, Piticu
3 international artists you follow: Ricardo Villalobos, Tini, Nina Kraviz
Most played album: Botanic Minds
Cr15tina – Back To The Moon [Vandalism Musique]
Track description: This piece is related to the Sailor Moon cartoons, which I watched as a child. When I was a child, after finishing school, I went to kindergarten with my classmates and played these superhero roles in cartoons.
I was the lead role. The Princess on the Moon. Now that the princess has come to earth, she wanted to offer feelings and information from the moon through
Music.and when she finishes her work, she will be back on the moon.
About Cr15tina
About yourself: “Hello everyone. I am glad that I have the opportunity to share with you, the same feelings full of love, towards music!
My name is Filip Cristina, I was born on the Black Sea, and I come from the resort 2 Mai.
As a child I had musical skills, I sang, I danced, and I was attracted from an early age by the secrets of mixing. For several years I have been doing production, but I still have a lot to learn and I want to improve every day. Music for me, that’s all! Love, Passion, Devotion, Patience, Creation, Energy, Light, Knowledge, for me and for the people I interact with, through her prism and not only! Music has transformed me into what I am now. A human who wants to share as much positive vibration and peace as possible, to create a more beautiful world with you!”
Artist biography: Hailing from the capital of Romania, Bucharest, Cristina was born near the Black Sea shore in the holiday spot 2Mai, on April 19, 1987. She has lived into childhood and adolescence of electronic music, as her father was an avid vinyl collector with an affection for electronica.
At the tender age of 14 was the first time she stood behind the decks, learning the techniques and crafting her DJ skills, and shortly after she began playing at local summer club. Prompted by her interest in electronic music and restless creative spirit Cristina also attended and completed a singing school.
In 2006 she moved to Bucharest getting involved in the Romanian capital’s underground party scene. She got to play her first gig at the Zebra club in Bacau, where many artists who left their mark in the Romanian underground scene have originated and made their stamp. For the next decade, she was a regular at many of Bucharest’s underground spots and became the resident of Silver after-hours club.
After a short hiatus, Cr15tina remerged back into the scene, this time with an interest in producing and creating her own sounds, marked by strong feeling, and emotion.
Her first EP, “Zbor Maiastru”(2016), was released by the label Arms Limited, followed by “Love Dimension” E.P (2017) released by the label Cisne Negro, and then her single for Rooftop Cardigans Sampler V.A. “Nu Zaietz Pagadi” (2017).
Since 2017 she has joined forces with HighSound.Ro collective, an agency that promotes underground Romanian DJ’s, artists and music producers.
Portfolio link: https://www.facebook.com/
Current city: Bucharest
Name your last EP release: Vandalism Musique (V.A)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Imbue – Black Sea; Counrad – Version Of Eden; Malin Genie & Per Hammar – Scania
3 Romanian artists you follow: Rhadoo, Raresh, Piticu
3 international artists you follow: Ricardo Villalobos, Tini, Nina Kraviz
Most played album: Botanic Minds
Mihut – Heavenly
Track description: Heavenly started from an initial recording, of people in a huge oil tanker in Helsinki, that was opened for one day to the public. The challenge was to transpose that recording into an ambiental music piece, the sample being cut and looped. The final piece of music is a recording of a live analog jam in the studio.
About Mihut
Artist biography: Mihut, Romanian DJ established in Helsinki, Finland. He was the co-founder and co-host of This Moment On duo and Bassoradio’s show. More recently, he founded The Sound Collective, a platform for artists to showcase themselves in Helsinki and not only, co-founded the duo Hel2Buc and is the mastermind behind Hello Stranger’s music & bookings, having guests such as Miss I, Sepp, Asenn and Fictiv and the list goes on.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/mihutz
Current city: Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇷🇴
3 Romanian artists you follow: G76, Guy From Downstairs, Petre Inspirescu
3 international artists you follow: Dewalta, Lawrence, Audio Werner
Most played album: Vilod – Safe In Harbour
Nephesh – Beloved Nik
Track description: It’s a track I made when a guy on a telegram group said that the track before this one, I did send him, sounded like a Bob Sponge soundtrack. Nik is his name, so I made this track called Beloved Nik.
About Nephesh
Artist biography: I’m from Brazil, 27 years. Been on music for some years, like to create sounds. My new alias, for some warm and punchy sounds, atmospheric and minimalist sounds.
Portfolio link: https://nephesh.bandcamp.com/
Current city: Curitiba, Brazil 🇧🇷
Name your last EP release: Fakeforest, by groove.ro
3 releases you enjoy the most: Man, I don’t know…I am trying to listen to different stuff, but I love some releases like Holdie Gawn and Micawber – Vimmes / De Jure II Shcaa – An ungrateful death II and the cerec at Unic
3 Romanian artists you follow: Hipp / Dragomir / Sepp
3 international artists you follow: hostox \ shcaa \ elysee
Most played album: I was listening to a lot to the orientals, like susumo yokota Acid Mt. Fuji, and more the ambient ones as well
AURA SONORIS – COLOURS – ITALIAN MEDITERRANEAN
Track description: It’s chill, balearic style track was written with my friend (he died half of a year) and I want to make the vinyl release. Many musicians told that it’s a very very potentially the hit!
About AURA SONORIS
Artist biography: Anton Almazov – AURA SONORIS/SKYDIVE/VLADIS AUDIO/COLOURS
Engineer, Designer, DJ, Cross Country Skier, 3D graphic specialist, Sound engineer at COLOURS electronic music group, specialising in creating house, techno, deep house, progressive house, ambient, lounge tracks.
Also, he is a producer as well known as AURA SONORIS (podcasts on the netlabels), skydive – djing, and VLADIS AUDIO – is an experimental alternative music group.
Portfolio link: https://flat.fm/aurasonoris | https://soundcloud.com/aura_
Name your last release: the podcast to the label Batik Music is from Phuket, Thailand. this was AURA SONORIS – MAP OF MY HEAD. podcasts to the FLAT.FM, Macrospace Moscow, Techno Syndrome.
My EP was VLADIS AUDIO – LOVE STAR which was released on VL Records, Figuru Music and the net digital platforms such as spotify, deezer, music apple and so on…
3 releases you enjoy the most: the 3 releases I enjoy most is my podcasts RODA, MELTING SNOW, KEEP DREAMING, besides, the whole of my releases I enjoy most because only my favourite traxx is on my podcasts.
3 Romanian artists you follow: The 3 Romanian artists I follow? Mihai Popoviciu – the only one from Romania for sure.
3 international artists you follow: The 3 international are Jake Cusack, Andrea Cichecki and Forslab. They are not the stars but it’s OK.
Most played album: My most played album is AURA SONORIS – MELTING SNOW which was released at 7 of April, 2019 at flat.fm. it was played 355 times with rank 5 to 5.
COLOURS – COLOURS
Track description: This track was written under the influence of the music from cafe Mio – Moscow.
About AURA SONORIS
Artist biography: Anton Almazov – AURA SONORIS/SKYDIVE/VLADIS AUDIO/COLOURS
Engineer, Designer, DJ, Cross Country Skier, 3D graphic specialist, Sound engineer at COLOURS electronic music group, specialising in creating house, techno, deep house, progressive house, ambient, lounge tracks.
Also, he is a producer as well known as AURA SONORIS (podcasts on the net labels), skydive – djing, and VLADIS AUDIO – is an experimental alternative music group.
Portfolio link: https://flat.fm/aurasonoris | https://soundcloud.com/aura_
Name your last release: the podcast to the label Batik Music is from Phuket, Thailand. this was AURA SONORIS – MAP OF MY HEAD. podcasts to the FLAT.FM, Macrospace Moscow, Techno Syndrome.
My EP was VLADIS AUDIO – LOVE STAR which was released on VL Records, Figuru Music and the net digital platforms such as spotify, deezer, music apple and so on…
3 releases you enjoy the most: the 3 releases I enjoy most is my podcasts RODA, MELTING SNOW, KEEP DREAMING, besides, the whole of my releases I enjoy most because only my favourite traxx is on my podcasts.
3 Romanian artists you follow: The 3 Romanian artists I follow? Mihai Popoviciu – the only one from Romania for sure.
3 international artists you follow: The 3 international are Jake Cusack, Andrea Cichecki and Forslab. They are not the stars but it’s OK.
Most played album: My most played album is AURA SONORIS – MELTING SNOW which was released at 7 of April, 2019 at flat.fm. it was played 355 times with rank 5 to 5.
Chris_T – Forever Sunrise
Track description: It’s something about that sunrise feeling… I just tried to convey that feeling. Fingers crossed!
About Chris_T
Artist biography: Nothing too fancy… I just really like producing the music I like listening to (if that makes any sense haha).
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Eindhoven, Netherlands 🇳🇱🇷🇴
Name your last EP release (optional): The Fish That Tasted Water
3 releases you enjoy the most: Dream of Life, Layer Upon Layer, What is 23
3 Romanian artists you follow: Priku, Abel Soleil, Dragutesku
3 international artists you follow: Traumer, Sweely, Andrey Djackonda
Most played album: Not really electronic but overall, Exodus.
Chris_T – Trumpet Haze
Track description: I was in the process of track creation when I encountered an amazing trumpet sound that reminds me of those lazy roots records <3. I played around some more until I made a small melody, then re-built the whole track around the trumpet. I am very happy I did so. This track is the result. Enjoy!
About Chris_T
Artist biography: Nothing too fancy… I just really like producing the music I like listening to (if that makes any sense haha).
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Eindhoven, Netherlands 🇳🇱🇷🇴
Name your last EP release (optional): The Fish That Tasted Water
3 releases you enjoy the most: Dream of Life, Layer Upon Layer, What is 23
3 Romanian artists you follow: Priku, Abel Soleil, Dragutesku
3 international artists you follow: Traumer, Sweely, Andrey Djackonda
Most played album: Not really electronic but overall, Exodus.
Chris_T – How to describe This Moment
Track description: This track is very special to me. I have made it quite some time ago, and I kept coming back to it whenever I needed. I have no idea if other people feel what I felt when I listened to this song, but hey. it’s worth a shot!
About Chris_T
Artist biography: Nothing too fancy… I just really like producing the music I like listening to (if that makes any sense haha).
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Eindhoven, Netherlands 🇳🇱🇷🇴
Name your last EP release (optional): The Fish That Tasted Water
3 releases you enjoy the most: Dream of Life, Layer Upon Layer, What is 23
3 Romanian artists you follow: Priku, Abel Soleil, Dragutesku
3 international artists you follow: Traumer, Sweely, Andrey Djackonda
Most played album: Not really electronic but overall, Exodus.
Schime – Night Trip
Track description: The music it was inspired by night silence and roaming, soft melodies and strong hot deeps.
About Schime
Artist biography: Hungarian producer.
Schime‘s music incorporates a variety of styles and subgenres of electronic dance music, with a focus on dub techno, deep tech and minimal. His works have been released by imprints like Simple Things • Records, Kootz music, feeder sound, HardCutz records, Vandalism Musique Group, Merger Music, Welter Records, Savvy Records, Whoyostro LTD, Analisar Music, OuiOui (buyaka), M U S I C & L I F E, and many others. As a producer and DJ, he always spices-up his rhythms with amazing atmospheric textures and moments, inspired by the sounds of nature.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/dj-schime
Current city: Hatvan, Hungary 🇭🇺
Name your last EP release (optional): Drums Side, Defect Side, Bad Dream EP [Simple Things Records]
3 releases you enjoy the most: Bay Dream, Catcutz 4, Defect Side
3 Romanian artists you follow: Clarkent, Arapu, Barac
3 international artists you follow: Traumer, Reiss, Joren Edwards
Most played album: GETTRAUM 007
Nick Neiman – Upgrade
Track description: Firstly, in this track, we can feel a cyberpunk atmosphere by deep low bass and deepest house pad. Cyberpunk’s not about destroyed infrastructure or surreal technologies, it’s about harmony old with fresh, several eras coexisting at once and more transcendent and super simple technologies than we could imagine. Today it’s not future, it’s that where we live. Finally, we see a simple and balanced texture of samples like drums, percussions and etc. which harmonize with all main sounds and bring more feeling from the track.
About Nick Neiman
About yourself: I’m a musician and dj from Ukraine. I started DJ’ing 5 years ago. The first dj experience was a performance in the nightclub “Podium”, then I started to play with famous promo group in Poltava named “WAVE” and also playing in some local clubs. For the last time, I like the micro house, deep tech, minimal genres and now I’m playing sometimes on local private parties or parties organized by my friends. I love vinyl.
I’m making music in Ableton Live, but my previous experience was using the Fl Studio.
Artist biography: When I don’t hear anything in my head except music or sounds, I record it on my laptop. Over the past 5 years, my musical perception has undergone a lot of changes, but now it focuses on deep sounds, minimalism and organics. Let’s see what happens.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Poltava, Ukraine 🇺🇦
Name your last EP release: North Point Mall
3 releases you enjoy the most: 1. Priku END014; 2. Joker 002; 3. MR004
3 Romanian artists you follow: Nu Zau, Priku, Dragutesku
3 international artists you follow: Janeret, Jordan Magee, KiRiK
Most played album: QNQN2643
Widovski – From Motion To Ocean
Track description: It’s about a moment… a moment so intense that one second and you had the illusion that it was a lifetime. That a moment ago you were in your bed, thinking. You blink for an eye and you awake yourself just to see the ocean in front of yourself.
The simple beginning of the track is the base on which the inner reflection starts. The uplifting and playful chords that start to assemble creates an atmospherical environment in which one can transcend from here to there, from now to then in a blink of an eye.
The sparkly bubbles that arrive at some points remind you of the magic and the fragility of a moment, just like a balloon. A sensible floating object that can be broken even by the wind.
About Widovski
Artist biography: Widovski is a name that was built in time, slowly but surely. It’s an entity, an idea that I want to express music through (and soon through other different art forms). I started creating and expanding more thoroughly about 4 years ago when everything around didn’t quite have a sense of reality and decided that my purpose as an artist was to change that. My goal is to bring a sense of something to everyone, It might not be needed now, but it will surely be needed tomorrow.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Timisoara, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: This year I will release my first EP on vinyl. But until then, some releases/remixes I did: Inversit- Dismiss Ep FIZICAL004 Vinyl; https://www.yoyaku.io/release/krv006/
3 releases you enjoy the most: ACME – Music of Life EP; Boo Williams – Residual EP; The Mingers – Emancipation Revisited EP
3 Romanian artists you follow: SIT, Dan Andrei and Vid
3 international artists you follow: Ion Ludwig, Zendid and Sven Weisemann
Most played album: Afriqua – Colored
Widovski – Frame Collision
Track description: The bouncy playfulness and the unquestionable calling into the game hides a little more than that… It’s about that feeling when you think you have the world on your pinky. About that moment when you’re sitting on the peak of the highest mountain, on one foot, maintain your balance over the entire world.
It’s about that moment when you think you know everything but you know nothing. When being yourself and enjoying that little moment of happiness is everything you could’ve wanted.
About Widovski
Artist biography: Widovski is a name that was built in time, slowly but surely. It’s an entity, an idea that I want to express music through (and soon through other different art forms). I started creating and expanding more thoroughly about 4 years ago when everything around didn’t quite have a sense of reality and decided that my purpose as an artist was to change that. My goal is to bring a sense of something to everyone, It might not be needed now, but it will surely be needed tomorrow.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Timisoara, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: This year I will release my first EP on vinyl. But until then, some releases/remixes I did: Inversit- Dismiss Ep FIZICAL004 Vinyl; https://www.yoyaku.io/release/krv006/
3 releases you enjoy the most: ACME – Music of Life EP; Boo Williams – Residual EP; The Mingers – Emancipation Revisited EP
3 Romanian artists you follow: SIT, Dan Andrei and Vid
3 international artists you follow: Ion Ludwig, Zendid and Sven Weisemann
Most played album: Afriqua – Colored
Widovski – Mazer
Track description: Weird, stubborn and unbreakable. That’s how it is. You’ll be enjoying simple sounds that arrange themselves in an unnatural build-up until the intimidating voice and weird glitchy chords pop in and diffuse the reality in which you are listening to it.
That’s its purpose. Decomposing one’s idea of reality and reshaping it through the glitch infused sounds in a more wild and unnatural approach. In my opinion, the only resemblance for this track is The Great Wave of Kanagawa. An unstoppable wave that captures everyone, everything and doesn’t let anybody behind.
About Widovski
Artist biography: Widovski is a name that was built in time, slowly but surely. It’s an entity, an idea that I want to express music through (and soon through other different art forms). I started creating and expanding more thoroughly about 4 years ago when everything around didn’t quite have a sense of reality and decided that my purpose as an artist was to change that. My goal is to bring a sense of something to everyone, It might not be needed now, but it will surely be needed tomorrow.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Timisoara, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: This year I will release my first EP on vinyl. But until then, some releases/remixes I did: Inversit- Dismiss Ep FIZICAL004 Vinyl; https://www.yoyaku.io/release/krv006/
3 releases you enjoy the most: ACME – Music of Life EP; Boo Williams – Residual EP; The Mingers – Emancipation Revisited EP
3 Romanian artists you follow: SIT, Dan Andrei and Vid
3 international artists you follow: Ion Ludwig, Zendid and Sven Weisemann
Most played album: Afriqua – Colored
Alex Raptis – Slow Morph
Track description: Composed on a warm pandemic lockdown night, the track is a condensed version of a long jam with slowly changing repetitive melodic lines and small emotional bursts, its quintessence being similar to that of quarantine days.
About Alex Raptis
Artist biography: Born in Athens in 1989, Alex Raptis is a multidisciplinary artist working in the Performing Arts domain. His main areas of interest are Theatre Directing, Musical Composition and Lighting Design. He finished his BA in Theatre Arts (Directing) in 2012, at the National University of Theatre Arts & Cinema “I.L.Caragiale” in Bucharest (RO), following an MA in Light & Sound design at the same university, in 2014. Meanwhile, he has been working intensively as a sound engineer for the jazz scene of Bucharest and composing for theatre performances and plays. For the past years, he has been part of the electronic music duo Al’iikhwa Ra, together with theatre director and composer, Andrei Raicu.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
3 Romanian artists you follow: Vlaicu Golcea, Alex Halka, AC Leonte
3 international artists you follow: Acid Arab, Vangelis, Hans Zimmer
Most played album: Metropole – Anomalie
Arthus – Endz Tomorrow (Original Mix)
Track description: This track has a lot of feeling and I tried to print to the maximum what was felt at that moment, a track with a very strong emotional power, I discovered that I would be a father so I dedicated all my love in this song I tried to print my identity to the maximum and something I want to follow in my productions I had good feedback and I believe that the track has great potential, as it can be played at various times during the party.
Kick a little fat but very reminiscent of the 909, some modular in the same tone of the main Rhodes, a cut of vocal along with a HAT, bassline combined a lot with “TOM” and Kick I love working in this way.
About Arthus [Totoyov / Seiv]
Artist biography: Considered by the portal Alataj, one of the most specialized portals in the musical scene in Brazil to work with Warung, D-EDGE, CLUB INBOX and many other independent artists and groups, he was elected as one of the great promises of the micro-house / minimal scene in Brazil.
Arthus has his releases by major labels such as Honne, Metroline, Simple Things, DPE and recently released an EP in partnership with his friend Rods Novaes on the label Not For Us with remixes by Nima Gorji and Quenum.
His passion for music reflects so much that he is completely involved in the Brazilian scene, producing some parties and in front of one of the most renowned labels in Brazil, Totoyov.
Currently, he lives in the southern region of Brazil precisely in the city of Blumenau, where there are the best parties in Brazil.
Portfolio link:
Current city: Blumenau, Brazil 🇧🇷
Name your last EP release: https://notforus.bandcamp.com/
3 releases you enjoy the most: Sweely – All the Reasons; Arapu – System Error; Lee Burton – Bordeline
3 Romanian artists you follow: Arapu; Gescu; Mihigh
3 international artists you follow: Sweely; Lee Burton; Maher Daniel
Most played album: In spotify marmoni EP [Honne Music]; in support Chalana EP [Metroline Limited]
Havvoc – la grotte aux serpents
Track description: 8 min 03 de voyage dans mon univers au sonorité envoutante. laisse toi guider par le serpent a sonnette qui fera son apparition autour de la 5ieme minute et charmera tes épaule pour quelle sois dans le rythme de la tribu.
About Havvoc
Artist biography: Anthony, 28 years – from France
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/havvocmusiq/
Current city: Grenoble, France🇫🇷
3 releases you enjoy the most:microlab – lever du soleil, barac – who can see in the dark, basti grub – situtha salala
3 Romanian artists you follow:Microlab, Barac, Anaid
3 international artists you follow:Villalobos, Giuliano Lomonte, armes miran
Most played album: seism production
Mormeci – Ancient defragmentation
Track description: It is a story about an ancient soundscape, where my textures and atmosphere are meant to take your mind into the unknown, be ready for the journey that lies ahead
About Mormeci
About yourself: In love with the sounds that make you look behind, a slow and deep groove its what defines me.
Artist biography: Born in 1999 In Suceava, In the last years of visual art high school, Mormeci developed a new passion for music, following his instincts since then. Digging deeper into the unknown interested in dark atmosphere and textures that might give you chills.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Suceava, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: unreleased tracks as I am new to production path
3 releases you enjoy the most: Germeót – ”The Core” LP; подвал01by подвал; Hipp Look Ahead Lp
3 Romanian artists you follow: Rolf Ono; Leanca; Paul K
3 international artists you follow: Greenn, Pruskalo Ensamble, Ashac
Most played album: HMLV001 | Habla Music Limited VA
Cullin – Purple Moon (JorDee Remix)
Track description: warm, dry minimal groove made with love and soul.
About JorDee
Artist biography: JorDee dj/producer from Kiev Ukraine takes you on a fact-finding mission across the house galaxy in its most minimal form, navigating through the old school roads once-travelled and through endless fields of fresh techno jams…
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/jordeeneverbenormal
Current city: Kiev, Ukraine 🇺🇦
Name your last EP release: Jackob, JorDee – Observation EP [CWA333]
3 releases you enjoy the most: Call_lab 02; Atipic010; Vlad Arapasu – Vesica Piscis
3 Romanian artists you follow: Priku, Raresh, Gescu
3 international artists you follow: Oden & Fatzo, Fabe, Gene on Earth
Most played album: Gene on Earth – Local Fuzz
Cullin – Soundsystem (JorDee Remix)
Track description: deep minimal techno with old school vocal.
About JorDee
Artist biography: JorDee dj/producer from Kiev Ukraine takes you on a fact-finding mission across the house galaxy in its most minimal form, navigating through the old school roads once-travelled and through endless fields of fresh techno jams…
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/jordeeneverbenormal
Current city: Kiev, Ukraine 🇺🇦
Name your last EP release: Jackob, JorDee – Observation EP [CWA333]
3 releases you enjoy the most: Call_lab 02; Atipic010; Vlad Arapasu – Vesica Piscis
3 Romanian artists you follow: Priku, Raresh, Gescu
3 international artists you follow: Oden & Fatzo, Fabe, Gene on Earth
Most played album: Gene on Earth – Local Fuzz
GUSH – a Droga song for mAr1 (Katz chakra venus)
Track description: Being that on the 27th venus was the brightest this year I think 🙂 and my girlfriend paints the cat from “curaj cainele fricos” (n.e.: courage the cowardly dog) and I started 2 days ago with the Katz theme, but I could get only a snare, and a hat, too much noise, and I stumbled upon some samples :)) just yesterday and added the voices :)) it doesn’t have so much bass :)) I can’t get the handle of bass :))… I don’t know why hope you like it :)) I don’t really intend to win :)) it’s sort of like an experiment :)) I could’ve made a better one, but I just woke up that the call is only 2 days away 🙂
About GUSH
About yourself: patience is a virtue, in it for the people, not for the money :))
Artist biography: I’m 19 from Bucharest, started playing at home when I was 13-14, so like 5-6 years ago, learned vinyl 3 or 4 years ago, I think I’m not that good with times :)) and for 2 years or so I started making my own tracks. far from what I really imagine 😀
Current city: Bucharest, Romania
3 releases you enjoy the most: I’m gonna pick 3 very different releases that satisfy my “bubble” :)) 1. Glamorous Hooligan – In Absentia, 2. Getic Funk – 1.1 (the red vinyl), 3. DHS – Mind Control
3 Romanian artists you follow: Rhadoo, Dubtil, Julian
3 international artists you follow: Binh, Quest, Luca Piermattei
Most played album: Bladymore Galaxy – The Impermanent Sensations
sHotzi – There is still Light in these Dark Roots
Track description: Hard times. Isolation. The State of Introspection.
Nowhere. Nature.
“There is still Light in these Dark Roots” sets a meditative atmosphere with an ensemble of chords and percussions.
A rageous bassline follows, pouring a darker touch to the main mix which is then illuminated by a mysterious chant…
This track is about finding the inner light elevating us, in this world where many dark seeds have been planted and keep us grounded in confusion.
About sHotzi
Artist biography: Stefan Puscasu aka Shotzi has been playing the guitar and drumming in his teenage period and joined the electronic music scene in 2016.
Starting first as a convicted digger and then as a co-founder of the Romanian minimal promoter Storytellers, he taught himself how to merge and mix tracks quickly and started performing in places such as Switzerland, France or Romania.
His sets can be very diverse going from full abstract minimalist to more house-infused, powerful or breaky.
At the moment, Shotzi is working on his own musical productions, taking influences from rock/metal, hip hop, jazz, disco-funk or even ambiental meditation music.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Arad, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: Anestie Gomez – Ghost in the Machine; Sweely – Private Navigation; Stephen Beaupre – Kill Sugar
3 Romanian artists you follow: Barac, Miss I, Dot13
3 international artists you follow: Vlada, Sweely, Silat Beksi
Most played album: Da Grassroots – Passage through time
Svetlin – A1. Liric [Pana La Fund EP]
Track description: I don’t make music because I need to evolve as an artist. I just gather emotions from the things that happen around me and put them on paper, like poems. Then I start to compose ambiental sounds and so on. That’s how Pana La Fund was made, after 2 years of bipolar depression, fake people around me, I felt that I’ve hit the bottom (that’s where the name came from). Pictures represent the journey I took to hit that place. To be honest, I don’t even know if it fits “microhouse” but, that’s just how I think it is.
About Svetlin – BucharestUndergroundNight (personal music project/label/event organizer)
About yourself: I don’t follow trends or anything. Music came to me since I was 7 almost, like an instinct. I was ok listening to happy tunes, but almost anytime I got in love with the dark and sad ones. It’s a passion, not a lifestyle. I don’t see myself playing in clubs for a living, but I like to deliver something more, which can’t be described with words sometimes, and that’s my way of saying it.
Artist biography: I don’t believe in fancy descriptions either. Good music is good music, a bad one is a bad one and so on. I like to deliver people a good story, and if it’s not good, at least it’s my story. That’s how I would describe myself and my B.U.N (BucharestUndergroundNight)
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: Pana La Fund – 2020
3 releases you enjoy the most: G76 (NAU009); Pirvu (Vulpix); Dubtil (Paradox EP) pure gold for me
3 Romanian artists you follow: Dubtil – G76- Barac
3 international artists you follow: Sonja Moonear, the only one
Most played album: G76 – A World Without Mirrors
Svetlin – B1. Orbit [Pana La Fund EP]
Track description: I don’t make music because I need to evolve as an artist. I just gather emotions from the things that happen around me and put them on paper, like poems. Then I start to compose ambiental sounds and so on. That’s how Pana La Fund was made, after 2 years of bipolar depression, fake people around me, I felt that I’ve hit the bottom (that’s where the name came from). Pictures represent the journey I took to hit that place. To be honest, I don’t even know if it fits “microhouse” but that’s just how I think it is.
About Svetlin – BucharestUndergroundNight (personal music project/label/event organizer)
About yourself: I don’t follow trends or anything. Music came to me since I was 7 almost like an instinct. I was ok listening to happy tunes, but almost anytime I got in love with the dark and sad ones. It’s a passion, not a lifestyle. I don’t see myself playing in clubs for a living, but I like to deliver something more, which can’t be described with words sometimes, and that’s my way of saying it.
Artist biography: I don’t believe in fancy descriptions either. Good music is good music, a bad one is a bad one and so on. I like to deliver people a good story, and if it’s not good, at least it’s my story. That’s how I would describe myself and my B.U.N (BucharestUndergroundNight)
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: Pana La Fund – 2020
3 releases you enjoy the most: G76 (NAU009); Pirvu (Vulpix); Dubtil (Paradox EP) pure gold for me
3 Romanian artists you follow: Dubtil – G76- Barac
3 international artists you follow: Sonja Moonear, the only one
Most played album: G76 – A World Without Mirrors
Artro – Simbolismo (LuckyStrike voz)
Track description: This is a physical expression of hardware and was recorded at the studio using a friend’s voice. Organic rhythms with thinner, minimal elements such as hi-hats and claps fuse with thick bass to create a contrast of nice, welcoming breaks. Waves of sound and elements fly together with subtle harmonies and darkened warmth.
About Artro
Artist biography: Born in San José, Costa Rica. Artro has been involved in sound for almost 20 years now. As a drummer, Djing and producing his own sounds and field recordings for different purposes, Artro has been dedicating his time and energy to different forms of art. Based in Costa Rica he works in his studio named Trial Und Error and travels around the globe with different approaches to sound that go from Ambient, breaks, micro, minimal, house, electro, dub, techno, acid, IDM to name some examples. He’s been releasing music since 2012 and is part of Half Seas Over family in San José, Costa Rica.
Artro has different variations to sound when curating events, it depends on the concept, whom he plays with, the people and the place. His music is a passage through different emotions and experiences from every now and then. It has textures full of life and patterns that connect everything, organicity and constant elements that feel as currents of rhythm. All this treated with a fine selection of hand-picked records and digital released and unreleased music from friends and himself. Artro has also been experimenting with a live audiovisual performance. Music and his vibe have taken him to cure events, festivals, radio and more in places like Nicaragua, Honduras, Beijing, New York, Panamá, Chengdu, Qingdaoh, Honduras, El Salvador, Houston and all around Costa Rica to name some places.
Portfolio link: https://www.soundcloud.com/artromusic
Current city: San José, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Name your last EP release: Momentdat/Artro Label: SLOH . SLOH019; Metus/Ethos Label: Dul Recordings, DULR054
3 releases you enjoy the most: S.Moreira co-Saverio Celestri – SL003; Arapu – Wasted Ego UND007; Antislash – CCS027
3 Romanian artists you follow: Sebastian Eric, OuiOui, G76
3 international artists you follow: Cesare Vs Disorder, Nektar Agu, Whoann
Most played album: Shigeto – No Better Time Than Now
Artro – Karma
Track description: As it sounds, so it feels. This track has a linear structure with hypnotic rhythms of elements such as hi-hats playing sharp and bright sounds, while underwater melodies provoke feelings of a rainy day. All this, while different bass line structures work to bring an acid-like synth-funk that leads the way.
About Artro
Artist biography: Born in San José, Costa Rica. Artro has been involved in sound for almost 20 years now. As a drummer, Djing and producing his own sounds and field recordings for different purposes, Artro has been dedicating his time and energy to different forms of art. Based in Costa Rica, he works in his studio named Trial Und Error and travels around the globe with different approaches to sound that go from Ambient, breaks, micro, minimal, house, electro, dub, techno, acid, IDM to name some examples. He’s been releasing music since 2012 and is part of Half Seas Over family in San José, Costa Rica.
Artro has different variations to sound when curating events, it depends on the concept, whom he plays with, the people and the place. His music is a passage through different emotions and experiences from every now and then. It has textures full of life and patterns that connect everything, organicity and constant elements that feel as currents of rhythm. All this treated with a fine selection of hand-picked records and digital released and unreleased music from friends and himself. Artro has also been experimenting with a live audiovisual performance. Music and his vibe have taken him to cure events, festivals, radio and more in places like Nicaragua, Honduras, Beijing, New York, Panamá, Chengdu, Qingdaoh, Honduras, El Salvador, Houston and all around Costa Rica to name some places.
Portfolio link: https://www.soundcloud.com/artromusic
Current city: San José, Costa Rica 🇨🇷
Name your last EP release: Momentdat/Artro Label: SLOH . SLOH019; Metus/Ethos Label: Dul Recordings, DULR054
3 releases you enjoy the most: S.Moreira co-Saverio Celestri – SL003; Arapu – Wasted Ego UND007; Antislash – CCS027
3 Romanian artists you follow: Sebastian Eric, OuiOui, G76
3 international artists you follow: Cesare Vs Disorder, Nektar Agu, Whoann
Most played album: Shigeto – No Better Time Than Now
Robos – anomaly iz540
Track description: The track is a dark journey, expressed by various organic & electrical elements, begins with a synth that swaps with the bass throughout the song.
About Robos
Artist biography: My name is Robert Ostan, a producer from Iasi (Romania). I started listening to this style in 2017, a year later, learning the art of mixing, after which I started producing music from 2019 until now. Robos was born from the desire to create a new vibe for the minimal scene, I like to combine different styles in my tracks, but I especially focus on the darker style!
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/robos95
Current city: Iasi, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: My last EP release is on PhonicHouse1, Basme EP [PNH005]
3 releases you enjoy the most: Unified Field EP (by Mihigh & Paul K), pe sub piele srl (by Crihan), Soul Things LP (by Cosmjn)
3 Romanian artists you follow: Mihigh, Cosmjn, Priku
3 international artists you follow: Ricardo Villalobos, Cabanne, Rhadoo
Most played album: Unified Field EP (by Mihigh & Paul K)
Boncalo Denis – Moody up
Track description: First of all I’ve been working on this song since April 1st. :)) When I saw the feeder sound contest I was very excited. So for this track, I wanted to combine the groovy with some feelings. 🙂 Hope you like it! Enjoy!
And thanks again for this opportunity.
About Boncalo Denis: –
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Cluj-Napoca, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: Mihai Pol – Smile; Arapu – Over; Shonky – Plombiere
3 Romanian artists you follow: Mihai Pol; Raresh; Gescu
3 international artists you follow: Shonky; tiNi; S.A.M
Most played album: TELUM 005
Mr CLAUDE – Norimasu
Track description: This piece is inspired by a drive by the beach with the setting sun. At the time of its creation, I was in a period of my life where well-being and melancholy mingled, giving me these moments of relaxation, cerebral serenity and fullness.
About Mr CLAUDE
DJ, Composer, Founder & Owner ACE Prod.music34
Artist biography: After a few years at the Rennes Conservatory, in his childhood, he returned to music by discovering Trance Goa and Techno on local radios and private parties in 1994. 1 or 2 years later, he decided, with a friend, to learn to mix, buy his first turntables and his first vinyl.
Playing only for his friends for several years in Paris, it was only when he arrived in Montpellier in 2001, that he began to play in different places where he was quickly noticed by associations in his city but also in Paris.
Following major events in his personal life in 2005, he decides to take time to devote himself to his family and the discovery of IT, including its composition.
It is only for 4 years that he begins to create evenings then 1 year later has created his association “ACE Prod.music34” and decides to buy his first machines to produce his first live as well as now his first songs in order to discover his minimalist musical universe with his dark but well-punched touch that life and his experiences have brought him. Because as he likes to say “you have to groove”.
Links: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Montpellier, France 🇫🇷
Name your last EP release: Salmanazar – Triggers (Joule)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Suciu – Gloria From Astoria (Pressure Traxx Silver series); JERRY – Farfisa (SlowDance); Denis Kaznacheev – Mr Shaw ( Raconteur)
3 Romanian artists you follow: Suciu, Rhadoo, Vlad Arapasu &more
3 international artists you follow: Lowris, Margaret Digas, Arapu & more
Mr CLAUDE – Pantsu No Kokoa
Track description: For this song, which was written by me during these periods of confinement, is an inspiration from my joys that we manage to have and to draw despite the difficulties that we meet for life together, one on the other. others, those moments of euphoria that allow us to keep hope.
About Mr CLAUDE
DJ, Composer, Founder & Owner ACE Prod.music34
Artist biography: After a few years at the Rennes Conservatory, in his childhood, he returned to music by discovering Trance Goa and Techno on local radios and private parties in 1994. 1 or 2 years later, he decided, with a friend, to learn to mix, buy his first turntables and his first vinyl.
Playing only for his friends for several years in Paris, it was only when he arrived in Montpellier in 2001, that he began to play in different places where he was quickly noticed by associations in his city but also in Paris.
Following major events in his personal life in 2005, he decides to take time to devote himself to his family and the discovery of IT, including its composition.
It is only for 4 years that he begins to create evenings then 1 year later has created his association “ACE Prod.music34” and decides to buy his first machines to produce his first live as well as now his first songs in order to discover his minimalist musical universe with his dark but well-punched touch that life and his experiences have brought him. Because as he likes to say “you have to groove”.
Links: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Montpellier, France 🇫🇷
Name your last EP release: Salmanazar – Triggers (Joule)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Suciu – Gloria From Astoria (Pressure Traxx Silver series); JERRY – Farfisa (SlowDance); Denis Kaznacheev – Mr Shaw ( Raconteur)
3 Romanian artists you follow: Suciu, Rhadoo, Vlad Arapasu &more
3 international artists you follow: Lowris, Margaret Digas, Arapu & more
Raqpar – Dream for Zarah
Track description: I created this track dedicated to this competition. The main story a dream for a visionary person, Zarah. The journey completes itself with a harmony between the main chords and percussive elements in the groove.
About Raqpar
About yourself: Always love to learn and make music. Continuous improvement to reach a unique sounding with character. Never-ending searching for quality music.
Artist biography or group description: Raqpar releases can be found on several portals since 2012. An active member of Budapest’s underground scene, you can see his name in numerous lineups here. His duo with nu_clear is well known under the name of nupar.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/raqpar
Current city: Budapest, Hungary 🇭🇺
Name your last EP release: Cathedral EP (LBD01)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Afriqua – Four Fleurs, Christopher Ledger – Dark moon, Ludwig & Azier – Quagmire ltd05
3 Romanian artists you follow: Barac, SIT, Arapu
3 international artists you follow: Afriqua, Silat Beksi, Ion Ludwig
Most played album: OdD – Photosynthesize
Terry Benedikt – Losing Control
Track description: This track is very close to my heart. It was not a very conscious process of composing it, things just unfolded and I let them be. All I knew was that I wanted it to sound original. The sketch of it was made during a spontaneous all-night session when I couldn’t sleep, sometime in February 2020 in Berlin. Losing Control aims to embody how life can be lived by most of us in these daring capitalist times, always at the edge of getting your shit together.
Control can take many forms. The losing of it as well. Losing control of awareness, losing control of patience, love, peace, order, you name it. I wanted to convey a feeling of selflessness which is then relieved towards the end of the track with hopeful warm pads, which make the losing of control feel almost pleasurable. Because consciously losing control can also be a very good thing indeed.
I tried to keep the percussions very raw and edgy to underline the roughness of control being lost. Friends told me that the lead synth, in the beginning, sounds like a Super Mario game. Hadn’t thought of it but now I can’t get this picture out of my head anymore. Unlike many of my previous tracks, this one still makes me happy after listening to it more than 100+ times. Therefore, I chose to submit it for the open call and I hope it triggers something in you too.
About Terry Benedikt
About yourself: Hi, I’m Ben Flock aka Terry Benedikt, because my real name is already kind of taken by another prolific DJ. I’m into music since the start of my infant memories and into DJing for 6 years. Two years ago, I started making music myself and I’m starting to be more confident with the results. I contributed to your podcast series with jukebox #19 last year, thanks again for the opportunity. This open call gave me the incentive to actually FINISH a project with a deadline, I’m sure you can relate. Everything is music, music is everything. Hope you enjoy xx
Artist biography: After diving into the electronic music scene in Barcelona with the Kommuna crew, Terry now returned back to his hometown Berlin with the ambition to perfect the crafts of DJing, composition and event curation. Being part of the Love Foundation network taught him how to bring like-minded people together to acknowledge the importance of music in life. Recently he co-founded the Berlin-based event series Orbiting Souls next to his dear friend zodya, which aspires to become a music label and multidisciplinary platform in the very near future. Other interesting projects, such as the launch of a new festival in Poland, are in the pipeline and will be shared very soon.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
3 releases you enjoy the most: Kamasutra – Running Away (Wildflower Records / Italy / 1993); Chris Korda – Akoko Ajeji (Perlon / Germany / 2019); Litia~Loe – Life Love Dance (Façade Records / US / 1994)
3 Romanian artists you follow: Alexandra, Dragos llici, Miss I
3 international artists you follow: Laurine, Rubi, Francesco del Garda
Most played album: Stevie Be Zet – Archaic Modulation (Recycle Or Die, Germany, 1993)
Putuxop – Punta del Diablo
Track description: Made by three persons, first the bass, drums and some background sounds by Eduardo, then some front synths, melody and harmony by Estevao, and then the accordion and vocals by Santiago.
About Putuxop
About the group: We made this work in 3 persons, each from their respective homes contributing to what each one could make.
Group description: New formed Brazilian electronic and acoustic music band, blending many words and sounds.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Curitiba, Brazil 🇧🇷
Constand – Focus
About the track: A breakbeat track with glitchy sounds and a rolling bassline
Track description: It originally started as a four-on-the-floor track, but after adding some sound, I’ve thought about trying to make it breakbeat, I made a pattern on my drum machine and it worked! After that, I made a deep rolling bassline to add power and drive to the track.
About Constand
About yourself: I’m 20 years old and I’m studying electronic music production and DJ performance in Manchester, UK
Artist biography: I started DJ-ing 5 years ago and it slowly became more than a passion, so I decided to take the next step and, start producing. I’ve been producing for 1 and a half years, already getting my tracks played by artist like Arapu, Miroloja, Alexis Cabrera, NTFO and Rhadow.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/const–
Current city:Manchester, UK 🇬🇧🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: https://soundcloud.com/
3 releases you enjoy the most: Playedby004, Playedby008, MTMLTD003
3 Romanian artists you follow: Lizz, Cosmjn, Mihai Pol
3 international artists you follow: Traumer, Miroloja, Archie Hamilton
Most played album: MTMLTD003
Zeitgeist & Josmos – Sapolândia
Track description: This track was made in collaboration with a friend of mine and producer caller Josmos (João Pedro Boaventura), it’s a dancefloor track with breakbeat drums, spatial pads, minimalistic and hypnotic texture and glitchy FX.
About Zeitgeist
Artist biography: Born in São Paulo, Gustavo Queiroz is the name behind the project Zeitgeist and one of the creators of NINHO, a party collective based in São Paulo. He started to produce electronic music in 2014 and around 2016 started to play in parties and events.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/zeit_g
Current city: São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷
Name your last EP release: Zeitgeist, Gustave – El Laberinto (Tzinah Records)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Ashac – The Occult Soul Capsule – Overcome Underground Resistance – The Final Frontier
3 Romanian artists you follow: Jay Bliss, Raresh, Rhadoo
3 international artists you follow: HDV, 100hz, Carl Finlow
Most played album: Ashac – The Occult
Zeitgeist – Blue Field Entopic Phenomenon
Track description: This track was made only by myself a few months ago, it’s a 125 BPM dancefloor track with groovy, spatial pads and stabs, minimalistic and hypnotic texture and arrangement and some glitchy FX
About Zeitgeist
Artist biography: Born in São Paulo, Gustavo Queiroz is the name behind the project Zeitgeist and one of the creators of NINHO, a party collective based in São Paulo. He started to produce electronic music in 2014 and around 2016 started to play in parties and events.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/zeit_g
Current city: São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷
Name your last EP release: Zeitgeist, Gustave – El Laberinto (Tzinah Records)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Ashac – The Occult Soul Capsule – Overcome Underground Resistance – The Final Frontier
3 Romanian artists you follow: Jay Bliss, Raresh, Rhadoo
3 international artists you follow: HDV, 100hz, Carl Finlow
Most played album: Ashac – The Occult
Zeitgeist – Lucid Dreams
Track description: This track is going to be released in a Brazilian label called Enveloper Records, it’s a more introspective track but it has a place for dancefloors, with dreamy vocals, spatial pads, minimalistic and hypnotic texture and some glitchy FX
About Zeitgeist
Artist biography: Born in São Paulo, Gustavo Queiroz is the name behind the project Zeitgeist and one of the creators of NINHO, a party collective based in São Paulo. He started to produce electronic music in 2014 and around 2016 started to play in parties and events.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/zeit_g
Current city: São Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷
Name your last EP release: Zeitgeist, Gustave – El Laberinto (Tzinah Records)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Ashac – The Occult Soul Capsule – Overcome Underground Resistance – The Final Frontier
3 Romanian artists you follow: Jay Bliss, Raresh, Rhadoo
3 international artists you follow: HDV, 100hz, Carl Finlow
Most played album: Ashac – The Occult
Nicholls – Fractal
Track description: As above, so below.
About Nicholls
Artist biography: Soundscapes developed as an internal vision of waves and senses.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bogota, Colombia 🇨🇴
Name your last EP release: Magnetism – Soblazn music
3 Romanian artists you follow: Charlie, Lizz, Pedro
3 international artists you follow: Christopher Ledger, Takashi Himeoka, Claudia Amprimo
Most played album: The rabbit hole
BSB – Acceptance Normalized
Track description: Constant human tribal calling for acceptance throughout time and space with a little modern twist.
About BSB
Artist biography: Looking for unique music, putting his personality in his productions and remixes, getting inspired by day to day life, keeping it real!
He is a digital man moving slowly but surely in the analog realm, getting excited over art in all of its forms.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/behind-
Current city: Aiud, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: The Movement (Wize Vision Recordings)
3 releases you enjoy the most: WILLIAM CAYCEDO – BAG OF BOOM EP; VA – The Dust Off Volume Three; Sylan 101 – DUALITY OF DOUBT EP
3 Romanian artists you follow: Romansoff; Lisière Collectif; Iuly.B
3 international artists you follow: IVANO TETELEPTA; Chaos In The CBD; DISKOP
Most played album: Paul Kalkbrenner – Berlin Calling
Nicholls – Elemental
Track description: Organic description of tale that remembers us how the nature of layering sounds like an interpretation of the same universe.
About Nicholls
Artist biography: Soundscapes developed as an internal vision of waves and senses.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bogota, Colombia 🇨🇴
Name your last EP release: Magnetism – Soblazn music
3 releases you enjoy the most: Befog Quinque, V.A Skylab TVIRLTD001, Herck CV005PT1
3 Romanian artists you follow: Vincentulian, Suciu, Mihigh
3 international artists you follow: Viceversa, Ion Ludwig, Craig Richards
Most played album: The rabbit hole
Marincu – Tubism
Track description: Hypnotic stripped-down breakbeat techno created with a friend during quarantine time, then tailored by my likes. Mastered by my brother.
About Marincu
About yourself: Creating different styles of electronic music, still experimenting about a signature.
Artist biography: Making great deals of music and experimenting with different sounds and styles trying to blend everything into a coherent unity.
Portfolio link: https://marincueduard.
Current city: Apeldoorn, Netherlands 🇳🇱🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: https://www.beatport.com/
3 releases you enjoy the most: Vlad Arapasu – Atipic Lab 05; Montjuic (groove . ro010); Prelude / OXE 001
3 Romanian artists you follow: Abel Soleil; Mihigh; Barac
3 international artists you follow: East End Dubs; Archie Hamilton; Traumer
Most played album: G76 – A world without mirrors
Magnus Asberg – Ja Icht
About Magnus Asberg
Magnus Asberg Dj-Producer-Promoter at On The House Records-C-Soul & Club Magnus.
Labels: Plastic City, Viva Recordings, GreenHouse, Bogota, Household, Danzon, Green Gorilla, Bornfourth, Evasive, Tastie Music, Suited&Booted, OneThirty Recordings, Flyagaric Trax, Is This, DiY Discs, Suspect Package, Lunatic Jazz, Deep Experience, Ornate, Manuscript, 6th Sense Music, Area 38, Bounce House Recordings, JLH, People That Makes The Music, Two Forks, Cougar Trax, On The House Records
After earlier years playing hip hop, electro, Italo disco, pop& rock.
Magnus first caught the fever for house music in 1985. Since then he’s honed his craft amongst the best there is, pushing the sound everywhere and anywhere he’s been.
Unsurprisingly, a DJ career that has lasted more than 30 years has seen Magnus play at (probably) hundreds of clubs and parties all across Europe. From world-renown super-clubs like Fabric through mountain-side bars to hard-to-find warehouses in a city near you, this man has done ‘em all.
He runs On The House party’s & label.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/magnus-asberg-c-soul
Current city: Brighton, United Kingdom 🇬🇧
anddie – Beliefs Destroy Feelings
About the track: I put a lot of emotions in this track and I hope that you’ll feel that too.
Track description: No description needed.
About anddie
About yourself: Music has always been my passion for a couple of years until I decided to step into this movement.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: Lazare Hoche & S.A.M. (5) – Perfect Pushup 01; Teluric – Pulsaţii Profunde; Los Bastoneros – Perspectives EP
3 Romanian artists you follow: Mihai Pol; Los Bastoneros; Bucurie
3 international artists you follow: S.A.M.; Varhat; Janeret
Most played album: Hostom – HOSTOM – 001
Marincu – Snow White
Track description: Trippy spaced out breakbeat track inspired by walks in the forest and unexpected light in dark places.
About Marincu
About yourself: Creating and combining different types of music, aiming for the sweet spot.
Portfolio link: https://marincueduard.
Current city: Apeldoorn, Netherlands 🇳🇱🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: https://www.beatport.com/
3 releases you enjoy the most: Prelude – OXE 001; Montjuic – groove . ro010; Vlad Arapașu – Atipic Lab 05
3 Romanian artists you follow: Barac; Abel Soleil; Mihigh
3 international artists you follow: Traumer; East End Dubs; Archie Hamilton
Most played album: G76 – A world without mirrors
Savel – Spatial Awareness
Track description: Created from an array of semi-modular devices and digital drum machines, it is a melancholic progression composed out of longing, dragging pads with alert percussion.
About Savel
Artist biography: Born in Bucharest, raised with piano and violin, moved to the Netherlands and expanding the local microhouse scene.
Portfolio link: https://www.facebook.com/
Current city: Enschede, Netherlands 🇳🇱🇷🇴
Most played album: Amorf – Blending Light
MLRV & Archer Hubart – Micronesia
About the track: Deep Minimal House/127 bpm
About MLRV & Archer Hubart
About yourself: Russian duo focus on minimal house and techno. From Russia with love and passion.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/user-
Current city: Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia 🇮🇩 🇷🇺
Name your last EP release (optional): Girls EP “Brook Gee records”
3 releases you enjoy the most: Woo York – Alien worlds, Vladimir Dubyshkin – udni nashego kolhoza, Stussko – audio control EP
3 Romanian artists you follow: Dragudescu, Arapu, Priku
3 international artists you follow: Steve O Sullivan, Anton Kubikov, Drumcell
Most played album: IO Mullen – Hipnotice
bikis – projection
Track description: rhythmic atmosphere
About bikis
About yourself: On my real name Vlad, I was born and raised in Romania but I live in the United Kingdom for the last 4 years. My journey in electronic music started 8 years ago when I first heard it on a good sound system. Since then I gradually started listening, informing, mixing, and finally producing music.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/bikiz
Current city: Bishop’s Stortford, UK 🇬🇧
3 releases you enjoy the most: Loopdeville – Mazneishu, Haokah – Glacial Air, Ricardo Villalobos – Widodo
3 Romanian artists you follow: sit, arapu, sepp
3 international artists you follow: Ricardo Villalobos, Ion Ludwig, Silat Beksi
Most played album: dahlia – 994
bikis – Modelling auntie
Track description: experimental session
About bikis
About yourself: On my real name Vlad, I was born and raised in Romania but I live in the United Kingdom for the last 4 years. My journey in electronic music started 8 years ago when I first heard it on a good sound system. Since then I gradually started listening, informing, mixing, and finally producing music.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/bikiz
Current city: Bishop’s Stortford, UK 🇬🇧
3 releases you enjoy the most: Loopdeville – Mazneishu, Haokah – Glacial Air, Ricardo Villalobos – Widodo
3 Romanian artists you follow: Sit, Arapu, Sepp
3 international artists you follow: Ricardo Villalobos, Ion Ludwig, Silat Beksi
Most played album: dahlia – 994
Anddie – Lost In Space Reshape
Track description: No description needed.
About Anddie
About yourself: Music has always been my passion for a couple of years until I decided to step into this movement.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: Lazare Hoche & S.A.M. (5) – Perfect Pushup 01; Teluric – Pulsaţii Profunde; Los Bastoneros – Perspectives EP
3 Romanian artists you follow: Mihai Pol; Los Bastoneros; Bucurie
3 international artists you follow: S.A.M.; Varhat; Janeret
Most played album: Hostom – HOSTOM – 001
Jonaku – Micro Love (original mix)
About the track: This is a track I made with my Korg MicroKorg. It’s definitely floating and big enough to play at a festival in the summer…
About Jonaku
About yourself: Hey guys my name is Jonah and I’m really in love with the Romanian house scene!
Artist biography: Deep, percussive and most notably minimalistic.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/jonaku
Current city: Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
Last releases: https://soundcloud.com/kom-bass/landr-jonaku-sweep-original
3 releases you enjoy the most: Per Hammar – Pathfinder LP; Michael James – Fat Earth EP; Cristi Cons – Basorelief EP
3 Romanian artists you follow: Petre Inspirescu; Cristi Cons; Barac
3 international artists you follow: Per Hammar; SY/YSC; David Delgado
Most played album: puh… hm I would say Follow The Leader by KoRn
Jonaku & JonZen – Night (original mix)
About the track: It’s a collab with JonZen I made a few months ago, it is definitely a warm-up track it worked when I was playing it…
About Jonaku
About yourself: Hey guys my name is Jonah and I’m really in love with the Romanian house scene!
Artist biography: Deep, percussive and most notably minimalistic.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/jonaku | https://soundcloud.com/jonzen
Current city: Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪
Last releases: https://soundcloud.com/kom-bass/landr-jonaku-sweep-original
3 releases you enjoy the most: Per Hammar – Pathfinder LP; Michael James – Fat Earth EP; Cristi Cons – Basorelief EP
3 Romanian artists you follow: Petre Inspirescu; Cristi Cons; Barac
3 international artists you follow: Per Hammar; SY/YSC; David Delgado
Most played album: puh… hm I would say Follow The Leader by KoRn
Saje – Time
Track description: It’s a weird time right now. Delayed synths add unpredictability throughout the track, deep bass-line to accommodate the rest of the percussion and wavy ambience.
Pobla Mastering.
About Saje
Artist biography: Influenced by a complex array of musical taste, Saje at a young age listened to the likes of New Wave, Joy Division, The Smiths, Acid, Trance and House. Saje started as a DJ but grew fond of producing and started moulding a minimal sound. With Saje you can expect deep rich sounds, quirky sound design, and dark undertones, and oscillated bass-lines that warm the body.
Portfolio link: https://morrisseygarcia.
Current city: San Antonio, TX, US 🇺🇸
Name your last EP release: Solemn EP (Bandcamp)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Radiohead – Nude; The Smiths – This Charming Man; Joy Division – Atmosphere
3 Romanian artists you follow: Barac, Arapu, Vincentiulian
3 international artists you follow: Kirik, TIJN, Yansima
Most played album: The Smiths Meat is Murder
Sven Under – ANDEDANS
About Sven Under
About yourself: 22 years old, born and raised in a small village in northern Sweden but now I live in Malmö in the south.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Malmö, Sweden 🇸🇪
3 releases you enjoy the most: In recent times… Cop Envy – Cotton EP; RAHA & K-Sobajima – AreYouSerious? (Crihan Remix); Ada Kaleh – Pestera lui Plato / Samanul ratacit
3 Romanian artists you follow: Ada Kaleh; Egal 3 / Vid; Crihan
3 international artists you follow: (not just minimal) K-Lone; S.A.M; Ex-Terrestrial
Most played album: Dj Healer – Nothing 2 Loose
Sven Under – CHANGA
About Sven Under
About yourself: 22 years old, born and raised in a small village in northern Sweden but now I live in Malmö in the south.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Malmö, Sweden 🇸🇪
3 releases you enjoy the most: In recent times… Cop Envy – Cotton EP; RAHA & K-Sobajima – AreYouSerious? (Crihan Remix); Ada Kaleh – Pestera lui Plato / Samanul ratacit
3 Romanian artists you follow: Ada Kaleh; Egal 3 / Vid; Crihan
3 international artists you follow: (not just minimal) K-Lone; S.A.M; Ex-Terrestrial
Most played album: Dj Healer – Nothing 2 Loose
Sven Under – Öa
About Sven Under
About yourself: 22 years old, born and raised in a small village in northern Sweden but now I live in Malmö in the south.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Malmö, Sweden 🇸🇪
3 releases you enjoy the most: In recent times… Cop Envy – Cotton EP; RAHA & K-Sobajima – AreYouSerious? (Crihan Remix); Ada Kaleh – Pestera lui Plato / Samanul ratacit
3 Romanian artists you follow: Ada Kaleh; Egal 3 / Vid; Crihan
3 international artists you follow: (not just minimal) K-Lone; S.A.M; Ex-Terrestrial
Most played album: Dj Healer – Nothing 2 Loose
Nicolini & RAM.R – Project Echoes
Track description: A trippy breakbeat made to dance.
About Nicolini & RAM.R
Group description: Two Peruvian DJs & Producers inspired by Romanian minimal house.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/emilio-nicolini-camino | https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Lima, Peru 🇵🇪
3 Romanian artists you follow: Arapu, Cosmjn, Lizz
3 international artists you follow: Traumer, Silat Beksi, Mikhu
Most played album: Spirits Drifting Ep – Silat Beksi & Daniel Broesecke (Curtea Veche)
MNDLA – Dystopia
Track description: So here’s a track called ‘Dystopia’ which means an undesirable future or possibility of a post-apocalyptic future. Nothing is ever set in stone and humankind can change, find one’s soul and change the destiny of our planet. These visions can be discovered through spiritual healing plants. It’s such a profound experience that it makes people change instantly.
With this track, I wanted to create something special which felt like you’re going through space & time. A sound that had lots of emotion especially with what’s going on today. At the beginning, it feels like no hope for the future with synth sounds that cry with emotion using lots of automation, minimal drums, deep bass/sub groove. 3 minutes in the melody comes in and just raises the vibration of the whole track. It gave the track some sense of hope with birds chirping before the drop & with a little spiritual vibe to the track.
I’ve been inspired by so many genres could be a good thing or a curse but I wanted to push myself and make something new, different and forward-thinking. I created all the sounds from scratch, I rarely use presets. I wanted to create a sense of space, dynamics and use the stereo field as best of my ability.
About MNDLA
Artist biography: I’ve been making/producing all my life off & on but only really started taking it seriously in the last 2 years. I’ve spent my entire existence day & night trying to master the craft. I was obsessed with underground music. I discovered music from Romania last summer when I started to get into vinyl. I think music is so forward-thinking and from the future. It made me re-think how music should be artistic but also inspired me to push harder with sounds and grooves.
All the hard work and rejections I’ve signed to 8 different dance labels since December 2019. Even though It’s happening for me and getting signed. I’m still not satisfied. I listen carefully to new records that inspire me. I work hard every day to improve, get better and take the risk on new sounds.
Portfolio link: http://solo.to/mndla
Current city: Las Vegas, USA 🇺🇸
Name your last EP release: ‘Forever In Time’ on Vandalism Musique
3 releases you enjoy the most: Space Cadet, 2 = 1, Mir 411
3 Romanian artists you follow: Herck, Cosmjn, Guy From Downstairs
3 international artists you follow: Archie Hamilton, Janeret, Ricardo Villalobos
Empat – Reflection
Track description: Progressive beat, slowly building the energy through trippy voices and textures.
About Empat
Artist biography: Young artist from Bucharest. Started producing in 2015, being inspired by the emerging scene of minimal/micro music, finding inspiration in labels like Perlon, Mulen, Pressure Trax.
Early interactions with music made him get his unique approach towards his producing style, embracing both the light and the dark spheres of music, finding inspiration in both of them. He enjoys making all kinds of music from ambiental textures to hip-hop beats.
He released music with labels like Minimadelic Records, Baile Musik, Tzinah, Kootz, Vivus and many others.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/empat0202
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: The Muse EP (Minimadelic Records)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Suolo – MULENV008, Soul Capsule – Overcome, Guti From Downstairs – Shi Subhaus
3 Romanian artists you follow: G76, Sacke, Dragomir
3 international artists you follow: Sweely, Root, Rodrigo P
Most played album: OPMOC – Journeys
Empat – Jungle Bells
About Empat
Artist biography: Young producer from Bucharest, Romania. Started producing in 2015 influenced by the love of electronic music, when the minimal/micro-house scene was emerging. Found inspiration in labels like Perlon, Mulen, Baile.
His producing style can be very different from a track to another, approaching both the light and the dark side of music. He enjoys making all kind of music, from ambiental tracks, hip-hop beats and of course, electronic music from various genres.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/empat0202
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: The Muse EP (Minimadelic Records)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Suolo – MULENV008, Soul Capsule – Overcome, Guti From Downstairs – Shi Subhaus
3 Romanian artists you follow: G76, Sacke, Dragomir
3 international artists you follow: Sweely, Root, Rodrigo P
Most played album: OPMOC – Journeys
Empat – Dumbrava Minunata
About Empat
Artist biography: Young producer from Bucharest, Romania. Started producing in 2015 influenced by the love of electronic music, when the minimal/micro-house scene was emerging. Found inspiration in labels like Perlon, Mulen, Baile.
His producing style can be very different from a track to another, approaching both the light and the dark side of music. He enjoys making all kind of music, from ambiental tracks, hip-hop beats and of course, electronic music from various genres.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/empat0202
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: The Muse EP (Minimadelic Records)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Suolo – MULENV008, Soul Capsule – Overcome, Guti From Downstairs – Shi Subhaus
3 Romanian artists you follow: G76, Sacke, Dragomir
3 international artists you follow: Sweely, Root, Rodrigo P
Most played album: OPMOC – Journeys
ovenvite – Iso
About the track: Produced recently during this isolation period – airy pads, tight drums, and a big bassline.
Track description: I will let the music speak for itself! 🙂
About ovenvite
About yourself: I am passionate about house music and love to collect/play records.
Artist biography: (I don’t have an artist bio) In my spare time I enjoy playing/collecting records and producing music.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/owen_
Current city: Guelph, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Name your last EP release: Senna EP (GRVSTRTD002)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Classic Man – 5th Street Orchestration (Clubhouse Mix) / Cevin Fisher’s Big Freak – The Freaks Come Out (2000 Freaks Mix) / Audio Werner – Guteaussichten
3 Romanian artists you follow: Arapu, Rhadoo, Priku
3 international artists you follow: Derek Carr, Cab Drivers, Varhat
Most played album: Boo Williams – Universal Limits
ovenvite – Fidelio
About the track: Continuous groove throughout the track with warm a bassline and lots of drums.
Track description: I will let the music speak for itself! 🙂
About ovenvite
About yourself: I am passionate about house music and love to collect/play records.
Artist biography: (I don’t have an artist bio) In my spare time I enjoy playing/collecting records and producing music.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/owen_
Current city: Guelph, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Name your last EP release: Senna EP (GRVSTRTD002)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Classic Man – 5th Street Orchestration (Clubhouse Mix) / Cevin Fisher’s Big Freak – The Freaks Come Out (2000 Freaks Mix) / Audio Werner – Guteaussichten
3 Romanian artists you follow: Arapu, Rhadoo, Priku
3 international artists you follow: Derek Carr, Cab Drivers, Varhat
Most played album: Boo Williams – Universal Limits
Välth – Just looking dumb
Track description: The main idea behind the track was to create a repetitive broken beat/ breakbeat pattern with a shuffle that maintains the groove through the whole track. The role of the bass besides to cover the lower frequencies is to take a function as an ambience generating instrument. Filling the holes in the soundscape through different field recordings and natural ambiences with effect modulations was always a big favourite of mine which can be heard in this track too. The constant evolving synths try to cover the listeners as a warm and safe blanket while the lead sound gives a new dimension to the track.
About Välth
Artist biography: Välth has got in touch with electronic music in 2012. The main focus then was on dubstep and drum and bass. Dj-ing and production came in 2014. Since then he has been crafting his skill in both of the fields. In the last six years, he was experimenting with different genres and styles, such as downtempo and ambient. After he discovered the microhouse and minimal sound, he decided to try to express his thoughts and feelings through “this kind of sound” but in his own way.
In his hometown, he organized parties under the name “Spannende Elektrik” with his friend. His first release came out on their label in 2019.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/vaelth
Current city: Kempten, Germany 🇩🇪
Name your last EP release: Present EP (MEAN3001)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Crihan – Shadow Dances EP, Alci – Forgotten Time EP, Afriqua – Prophette EP
3 Romanian artists you follow: Priku, Crihan, Dragutesku
3 international artists you follow: Alci, Per Hammar, Katie Drover
Most played album: Roger Gerressen – Heading In A Backwards Direction LP
Ricardo Magallon – Solid Thought
About the track: A really spacey minimal techno sound with a variety of sounds.
Track description: It’s a track that came in inspiration to the Romanian minimal techno sounds that I’ve been intrigued by. It’s a story and analogy of dark thoughts and how to turn darkness into light, anxiety into calm, sadness into happiness and gratefulness. Sometimes dancing your problems away is the answer.
About Ricardo Magallon
A little about myself: My life is defined by music, I believe in the power of love and every day of my life I find a way to put it into sound to share with others. I love getting better every day on what I do and learning new things.
Artist biography: During his early years, he was exposed to a wide variety of music genres, from mainly Western and Eastern European Classical music to Disco, Merengue, Rock, Synth-Pop, Bachata, and many more genres. At an early age, he was taught privately Classical piano and afterwards he learned how to play the guitar which is his main instrument, developing a taste in Alternative Rock, Melodic Metal and Grunge.
He began producing for fun at the age of 13 and DJing at the age of 15. Later on, he developed a taste in Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental Rock, Shoegaze, Dream Indie, etc.. which he started producing and playing. He has also been exposed to Tribal African live music, Trance, Progressive House, Hip Hop, Reggaeton, Jamaican music and more.
Having played in different countries including the US, Dominican Republic, and Panama, with a wide music taste including Minimal, Breaks, Left-field, House, Techno, Deep House, Deep Tech and Minimal Tech, he will make you dance and give you a journey deep within music.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Miami, USA 🇺🇸
Name your last EP release: Various Artists (MNML4U)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Ode – ODEA9E4FF; Yellow Wax YW003; Piktor – Similar Feelings
3 Romanian artists you follow: Piktor; Floog; Sepp
3 international artists you follow: Kirik; Traumer; Janeret
Most played album: Zorg – Eclipse 001
Grigor Kanev – Definition Off
Track description: The track represents various influences and still has its own character. Breaky beat with a bright baseline and combination of peculiar 808 and house motives and vocal from old movies creates the atmosphere of where a definition is not needed. The production level is not a master class but as my 3rd finished project, I am satisfied even though there is a lot of room for improvement.
About Grigor Kanev
About yourself: I am a 22 years old boy who’s a hobby is finding and playing music. It is still a hobby because I am currently doing my studies but once I finish I will try to make it as a full-time job. Currently, I am in the cycle of selling and buying records, finding places to do podcasts and practising my production skills.
I like a lot of different genres of music so I try to not restrain myself.
Artist biography: I do not have any big appearances but I had a few small parties in Berlin and two times I was invited to play in Romania for @TripCathers alongside Boske and Prichindel.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/grigorkanev | https://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/grigorkanev
Current city: Berlin, Germany 🇩🇪🇧🇬
3 releases you enjoy the most: My first choice is a release from Pressure Traxx Silver Series 002, I think this records really represent how minimal has changed through the years and I kind of miss this sound. The second release is from Pleasure Club 005, the track on the records are very versatile and overall the sound and production are pretty good. And the third’s release is from Environ 002R. Again a very versatile release with super cool sounding Detroit influence made in 1996.
3 Romanian artists you follow: Rhadoo; Cap; Alexandra
3 international artists you follow: Gene on Earth; Desyn; Ricardo Villalobos
Most played album: Not dance music but… Soft Hair – Soft Hair. Nice experimental rock.
Ricardo Magallon – Synchronicity
Track description: Synchronicity is the name of the track. It’s a minimal techy sound with sporadic percussion, conversations and moments lived within it.
It’s called like that because of a lot of experiences that happened to me one linked to the other, as crazy as it sounds from being crashed in Houston before coming to Miami to conversations I heard, girls I met, circumstances that happen. I don’t believe in coincidences, not even the fact that I’m sending a second, nor that you’re reading this.
About Ricardo Magallon
A little about myself: My life is defined by music, I believe in the power of love and every day of my life I find a way to put it into sound to share with others. I love getting better every day on what I do and learning new things.
Artist biography: During his early years, he was exposed to a wide variety of music genres, from mainly Western and Eastern European Classical music to Disco, Merengue, Rock, Synth-Pop, Bachata, and many more genres. At an early age, he was taught privately Classical piano and afterwards he learned how to play the guitar which is his main instrument, developing a taste in Alternative Rock, Melodic Metal and Grunge.
He began producing for fun at the age of 13 and DJing at the age of 15. Later on, he developed a taste in Indie Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Experimental Rock, Shoegaze, Dream Indie, etc.. which he started producing and playing. He has also been exposed to Tribal African live music, Trance, Progressive House, Hip Hop, Reggaeton, Jamaican music and more.
Having played in different countries including the US, Dominican Republic, and Panama, with a wide music taste including Minimal, Breaks, Left-field, House, Techno, Deep House, Deep Tech and Minimal Tech, he will make you dance and give you a journey deep within music.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Miami, USA 🇺🇸
Name your last EP release: Various Artists (MNML4U)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Ode – ODEA9E4FF; Yellow Wax YW003; Piktor – Similar Feelings; Discret Popescu – Visa Viz
3 Romanian artists you follow: Piktor; Floog; Sepp
3 international artists you follow: Kirik; Traumer; Janeret
Most played album: Zorg – Eclipse 001
Brad – Zipper the dog
Track description: This track I made was especially for this contest and because of that, I had an immense workflow helped by the deadline. I used sh-101, tanZbar, Yamaha psr 300, Moebius as pedal effector, one u-he vst, ableton effects and a genius Rode microphone, which I used it for many of the sounds in the track. Also, I named the track like this because I used a box for glasses with a zipper. I mastered the track before sending you guys, and the guy who did it made an immense job. Thank you for your support doing this contest.
About Brad
Artist biography: Coming from Brasov, a Transylvanian city surrounded by mountains and wild bears, Marian Ioan, under the DJ name Brad (meaning fir tree) is a true rhythm mixer who is bringing fairy tales to our ears.
He was first introduced to clubs and mixing from the age of 10 by his brother, a DJ himself from whom he appropriated his first skills. About 6 years later he had already discovered techno music and its sub-genres and started mixing in unconventional parties with the Dj’s Techno Conference label in Brasov. Around the year 2005, he became resident at a local club, followed by a residency in a lounge-bar, in both “playing” with all types of music but with a clear quest to master better his skills. He shifted completely in 2009 diving into psychedelic music for a journey of discovery that lasted 5 years, until his comeback to the first love: techno.
After his exploration of diverse frequencies, he managed to create a unique style, a blend of minimal and organic spaces, peaceful rhythms and warm harmonies that raise the collective consciousness.
Keep your ears and heart open!
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/bradulescu | https://www.residentadvisor.
Current city: Brasov, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: Colorhadoo – Zanzibar, Adrian Niculae – Consensual, Dubtil – Etape
3 Romanian artists you follow: Barac, Mihai Pol, Rhadoo
3 international artists you follow: Ion ludwig, Ricardo Villalobos, Audio Werner
Most played album: Sit – Sideways
Vot’e – Yet it is (pancakes?)
Track description: the track is part of an upcoming 12” release. The track is inspired by a realisation that change is happening in an understated yet powerful way. Society may be reverting to the ways of old, for better or worse and everyone is taking part, whether they know it or not. The wheel turns yet another time.
About Vot’e
Artist biography: Vot’e is a London based producer originally from Varna, Bulgaria. His style developed through a long involvement with classical and jazz music and a strong influence from minimalism, inspired by the music sheet and dance floors of the London scene alike.
The resulting sound combines sampled and synthesised elements with upbeat but involved chord progressions and purpose-made acoustic recordings. Sounds and release titles are carefully chosen to form a continuous narrative.
Vot’e released his first 12” release on Dutch imprint Minimmal Movement in 2019.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: London, UK / Varna, Bulgaria 🇬🇧🇧🇬
Name your last EP release: Hammersmith Flyover (Minimmal Movement)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Salmanazar – Objects LP; Cristi Cons & DeWalta – between space; Soul Capsule – Law of Grace
3 Romanian artists you follow: Paul Agripa; Cosmin TRG; r.hitect
3 international artists you follow: Freddie Gibbs; Four Tet; Tyler the Creator
Most played album: Jill Scott – Beautifully Human
Vot’e – Green
Track description: the track is part of the Pure Colours EP currently in the works. The mood is one of shifting priorities creating a fresh point of view that supersedes established concepts. The track employs chords and percussions inspired by the UK garage sound and a melody with cautiously optimistic overtones.
About Vot’e
Artist biography: Vot’e is a London based producer originally from Varna, Bulgaria. His style developed through a long involvement with classical and jazz music and a strong influence from minimalism, inspired by the music sheet and dance floors of the London scene alike.
The resulting sound combines sampled and synthesised elements with upbeat but involved chord progressions and purpose-made acoustic recordings. Sounds and release titles are carefully chosen to form a continuous narrative.
Vot’e released his first 12” release on Dutch imprint Minimmal Movement in 2019.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: London, UK / Varna, Bulgaria 🇬🇧🇧🇬
Name your last EP release: Hammersmith Flyover (Minimmal Movement)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Salmanazar – Objects LP; Cristi Cons & DeWalta – between space; Soul Capsule – Law of Grace
3 Romanian artists you follow: Paul Agripa; Cosmin TRG; r.hitect
3 international artists you follow: Freddie Gibbs; Four Tet; Tyler the Creator
Most played album: Jill Scott – Beautifully Human
Vot’e – Blue
Track description: Blue is part of the Pure Colours EP currently in the works. The track’s sounds capture a light mood inspired by the concept of pure freedom of people’s choices but with a subtle dark undertone for its unintended consequences.
About Vot’e
Artist biography: Vot’e is a London based producer originally from Varna, Bulgaria. His style developed through a long involvement with classical and jazz music and a strong influence from minimalism, inspired by the music sheet and dance floors of the London scene alike.
The resulting sound combines sampled and synthesised elements with upbeat but involved chord progressions and purpose-made acoustic recordings. Sounds and release titles are carefully chosen to form a continuous narrative.
Vot’e released his first 12” release on Dutch imprint Minimmal Movement in 2019.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: London, UK / Varna, Bulgaria 🇬🇧🇧🇬
Name your last EP release: Hammersmith Flyover (Minimmal Movement)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Salmanazar – Objects LP; Cristi Cons & DeWalta – between space; Soul Capsule – Law of Grace
3 Romanian artists you follow: Paul Agripa; Cosmin TRG; r.hitect
3 international artists you follow: Freddie Gibbs; Four Tet; Tyler the Creator
Most played album: Jill Scott – Beautifully Human
Jack Cheler – Sat
Track description: I do all my tracks based on Romania, this track was no different, some metallic sounds and noises, this track was made with a more ripped bass line, a little different from the ones we’ve been hearing around, I used a sequence of timbres talking with pads, chords and efx, with this I suggest this track Aldeia (Sat in Romanian).
About Jack Cheler
Artist biography: Jackson Nichele aka Jack Cheler DJ and producer of Santa Catarina is proof that there is always room for those who immerse themselves in their work and dedicate themselves to achieve their goals, even in a market as competitive as electronic music. The love he has cultivated for music since childhood is his main guide in this professional journey that adds achievements.
Jack is one of the most experienced DJing names in the Vale do Itajaí region and meets with punctuality many of the characteristics that make up a great artist in the electronic scene.
Cheler has been intensifying his studio work and adding to all his experience at the regional and national levels, he is a rising talent, with the same brilliance in the eyes of a young man who is passionate about music and the maturity of a professional with a decade of experiences within this scenario.
Even with little study time, he has already made important releases for labels that are referenced in the area, among them Tzinah (RO), Serialism Records, Handcrafted Label, Vandalism, Welter Records, Not For Us, Tip Tap, Playperview.
Currently residing in one of the most prestigious clubs in Santa Catarina, the Matahari Super Club is located in Indaia. DJ/Producer Serialism Records, Handcrafted Records, Tzinah Records, Welter Records, Tip Tap Records, Playperview, OUIOUI, BUYAKA, Vandalism Music Group, Inwave, Not for Us Records, AIA-D, BM Records, Fragments, Kootz Records, Cabana Music, Run Records, Sloh Records, Miaw Label, Hardcultz records, SEIV. DJ/Resident Matahari Super Club.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/dj_jackcheler
Current city: Ilhota, Brazil 🇧🇷
Name your last EP release (optional): VA open calling Tzinah
3 releases you enjoy the most: totoyov interestelar, closer we get ep, Cody inner ep
3 Romanian artists you follow: Primarie, Ada Kaleh, Prykus, Mihai Popoviciu
3 international artists you follow: Ricardo, lamache, Rey mono
Most played album: VA COLLECTZINAH
Sandoo – Pull Soul
Track description: This song was made in the first weeks of home isolation when I was a bit stressed out and decided to take up producing more seriously. While practising some piano theory I discovered the notes for the bassline and the rest of the song was built around them. The end result, while not really dancefloor-oriented, manages to transmit a feeling of warm energy and hope to the listener. It’s something to listen to at sunrise, I think. The title should be translated word for word in Romanian in order to be better understood.
About Sandoo
Artist biography: I’m a 22-year-old music enthusiast from Romania. I discovered house and minimal during my bachelor years in Bucharest. Little by little, I grew to want to express myself through music too, while trying to find the sound that I like. I started DJing at friends’ parties at the end of 2018 and began producing a little while ago, as well.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/sand00
Current city: Suceava, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: arpiar 02 – Taram, SIT – Morfoza, Sahau – Montreal;
3 Romanian artists you follow: Dan Andrei, Pirvu, SIT
3 international artists you follow: Maayan Nidam, Villalobos, Fumiya Tanaka
Most played album: Perlon 10 – Superlongevity
Gjetson – Grains of sand
Track description: –
About Gjetson
I always produced music (I think I was 12-13 years old when I saw an air djing for the first time, and since then I keep trying, I keep trying), I do not know, maybe for 1 year I played cs 1.6, except for this, only music.
I started Gjetson in October 2018 when I had to think through what I want to do with my life … to produce music :))
I have succeeded in finalizing songs, getting some wow, plums, to collaborate, to talk to people, all this is starting to be fun.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/gjetsonmusic | https://gjetson.bandcamp.com/
Current city: Târgu Mureș, Romania
Sandoo – Camo Pop
Track description: In sharp contrast to the other track I sent, this one is a lot more rugged and suited to dancing. The slightly oriental bassline feels like an anchor for the whole song, while the percussion play and dissonant synths from the second half offered a chance to let loose and improvise your moves. The idea was inspired by works from Priku and Shonky.
About Sandoo
Artist biography: I’m a 22-year-old music enthusiast from Romania. I discovered house and minimal during my bachelor years in Bucharest. Little by little, I grew to want to express myself through music too, while trying to find the sound that I like. I started DJing at friends’ parties at the end of 2018 and began producing a little while ago, as well.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/sand00
Current city: Suceava, Romania 🇷🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: arpiar 02 – Taram, SIT – Morfoza, Sahau – Montreal;
3 Romanian artists you follow: Dan Andrei, Pirvu, SIT
3 international artists you follow: Maayan Nidam, Villalobos, Fumiya Tanaka
Most played album: Perlon 10 – Superlongevity
Akira S. – Infiltrating Groznyj Grad
Track description: no words needed, hope you like it.
About Akira S.
Artist biography: After spending most of his childhood living dualy in the Dominican Republic and Montreal, the young music producer, decides to pursue his dreams by solely relocating in Montreal where he did his studies as a sound engineer and Sound Designer.
It was there, under Canadian soil that the kid turns a man. Akira S. discovers a new world which induced him in all corners of electronic music. His musical repertoire started expanding as he travels the world discovering, collecting and producing his own parties.
This extensive musical digestion attenuated his musical taste to a point where it created his sound signature in the minimal music.
“Frater Perdurabo”
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/
Current city: Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸🇩🇴
3 releases you enjoy the most: Ion Ludwig – Hazeear, VA Quattroporte NM020, UN GLEICH 3 Quaker
3 Romanian artists you follow: RHADOO, CEZAR, PRIKU
3 international artists you follow: THOMAS MELCHIOR, ION LUDWIG, CRAIG RICHARDS
Most played album: DILLATRONIC – J DILLA
Akira y Cerrot – Medio Mundo
About Akira y Cerrot
Group description: just 2 friends who like to make music together
Current city: Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸
3 releases you enjoy the most: TOSW002, PTX 011, Spacetours001
3 Romanian artists you follow: BARAC, ION LUDWIG, CEZAR
3 international artists you follow: Djulz, Dewalta, Träumer
Cosmic Clap – Broken
Track description: The trippy background is combined with an energic beat. The percussion also adds a vibe to the track. The synth is flying and stays quiet discreet to keep the rhythm and energy. The beat is divided between breaky part and straight kick to add some more variation.
About Cosmic Clap
Artist biography: I’m a Dj/Producer from France.
I manage 3 different labels. One with some friends Called Ekoute Sa Poto with releases on bandcamp and two vinyl-only label called STash Trax and Peculiar Plants.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/cosmic-
Current city: Grenoble, France 🇫🇷
Name your last EP release: (URB007) Unknow Civilian
3 releases you enjoy the most: Bodeler Ridrum EP, ZTRL – Afterhours, Nikizi – 38001
3 Romanian artists you follow: Direkt, Emi, Arapu
3 international artists you follow: Silat Beksi, Ztrl, Alci
Most played album: Roy Hargrove – Roy Hargrove – The Rh Factor Hard Groove
Cosmic Clap – 107
Track description: The track is full of percussions and delays to get a trippy mood. The random glitchy voice adds some more pyschelism to it. The beats variate between breaky part for the groove and more powerful straight kicks. The synth adds some colours and rhythm to the beat. The pad coming at the end is adding a new mood to conclude on a more “flying” part.
About Cosmic Clap
Artist biography: I’m a Dj/Producer from France.
I manage 3 different labels. One with some friends Called Ekoute Sa Poto with releases on bandcamp and two vinyl-only label called STash Trax and Peculiar Plants.
Portfolio link: https://soundcloud.com/cosmic-
Current city: Grenoble, France 🇫🇷
Name your last EP release: (URB007)Unknow Civilian
3 releases you enjoy the most: Bodeler Ridrum EP, ZTRL – Afterhours, Nikizi – 38001
3 Romanian artists you follow: Direkt, Emi, Arapu
3 international artists you follow: Silat Beksi, Ztrl, Alci
Most played album: Roy Hargrove – Roy Hargrove – The Rh Factor Hard Groove
Saje – Holla
Track description: Holla takes you on a ride with rolling sequences, deep undertones and quirky, weird, sounds that bounce off each other.
About Saje
Artist biography: Influenced by a complex array of musical taste, Saje at a young age listened to the likes of New Wave, Joy Division, The Smiths, Acid, Trance and House. Saje started as a DJ but grew fond of producing and started moulding a minimal sound. With Saje you can expect deep rich sounds, quirky sound design, and dark undertones, and oscillated bass-lines that warm the body.
Portfolio links: https://soundcloud.com/s_aje | https://morrisseygarcia.wordpress.com
Current city: San Antonio, TX, US 🇺🇸
Name your last EP release: Solemn EP (Bandcamp)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Radiohead – Nude; The Smiths – This Charming Man; Joy Division – Atmosphere
3 Romanian artists you follow: Barac, Arapu, Vincentiulian
3 international artists you follow: Kirik, TIJN, Yansima
Most played album: The Smiths Meat is Murder
Spiri:tual – Noaptea Siberiană
Track description: This is our submission for your Open Call. It’s our track called ”Noaptea Siberiană” which stands for Siberian Night, a feeling throughout the track that is cold, dark and beautiful. Like dancing in the night, in the Siberian snow desert beneath the starry skies.
About Spiri:tual
About yourself: Our names are Nuaj & Niko, we had this project since 3 years ago, before that we released other music under other aliases.
With Spiri:tual we want to take people on a journey. No bangers, just pure floating soundscapes.
Artist biography: Spiri:tual is a duo of two emerging producers with a unique sound from the ever-growing ro-minimal scene.</span
Rich baselines and fast kicks while diving into haunted atmospheres are the characteristics of their sound imprint.
Spiri:tual is about getting lost in the translation of music, having a trance journey and being captured by ever-evolving landscapes.
Already with several vinyl only and digital releases on Tzinah, Unfelde, Enfasi Records, Stay Random Natasha, Na Zrak and more, the future looks very bright for these sound magic makers.
Portfolio links: https://www.soundcloud.com/
Current city: Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴
Name your last EP release: Arago EP (vinyl only on Enfasi Records)
3 releases you enjoy the most: Moment 007, Modeight 006, R.hitect 001
3 Romanian artists you follow: Vinyl Speed Adjust, Sublee, Costin RP
3 international artists you follow: Alexis Cabrera, Vincent Casanova, Jos Lok
Most played album: Vincent Casanova – Esoterica (Archipel)
Shawka – Acuario
Track description: It is the rhythm of the universe and the way that the water moves, giving us life. It is created by sounds from legendary sequencers in the history of electronic music.
About Shawka
Artist biography: It’s an experimental work in Mexico by Shawka. Combine the electronic music and the legends of Mexico as an inspiration.
Portfolio link: https://shawkaa.tumblr.com/
Current city: Mexico 🇲🇽
3 releases you enjoy the most: chicane, acelerator, behind the sun
3 international artists you follow: Nina Kraviz, Future sounds of london, Mauro Picoto
Thank you all for your captivating sounds.
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