Romansoff – Bean Soup LP [TONTON05]

Tudor Gheorghe, aka Romansoff, is a Bucharest DJ, producer and vinyl collector with over 13 years on the capital’s underground scene. Inspired by small local parties in the 2000s, he started collecting vinyl, then DJing, becoming a key figure who’s shared decks with international guests. Since founding his imprint Raw Tools in 2013, he’s released on Lobster Theremin’s Mork, Creme Organization, Les Yeux Orange and Solar Phenomena. In 2018 he co-founded venue Platforma Wolff, a full club by 2021, as booker and resident, hosting headliners like Prosumer, Paramida and Tornado Wallace. Versatile and creative, he stays a fixture at Bucharest’s best nights. His debut LP ‘Bean Soup’ lands on Bar Ton’s vinyl label. The A side opens with two ambient pieces: “Inception,” gritty and haunting, built from field recordings and layered chords, and the dreamier “Regulator Dial.” “Air Lock” and “DFtB” turn breaky and low-tempo, evoking early electronica. The flip moves through “Waterproof’s” downtempo electro and “Make Right,” the LP’s most club-ready cut. Title track “Bean Soup” channels early Four Tet: bleepy, minimal, emotional, while “Sunlight” closes with blissful, calming sounds, rounding out a beautifully balanced record.

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Romansoff – Bean Soup LP [TONTON05]

Moufang & Czamanski – Recreational Kraut [SR23LP01]

“Recreational Kraut”, the latest release on the recently relaunched Source Records label, is a collaboration between Jordan Czamanski (aka Jordan GCZ) and David Moufang (aka Move D). “Recreational Kraut” was recorded live in in three sessions in Jordan’s Amsterdam studio in 2018 and 2019. As the title suggests, the album flirts with the term and the “genre” krautrock and it’s prolonged, often improvised instrumental passages. The equipment used in the late 60s and early 70s was often rather conventional like electric piano, old synthesizers and electric bass guitar. The two instruments shaping the album and giving it a coherence, despite the varied styles and tempos are Czamanski’s Fender Rhodes and Moufang’s lyra-8, an 8 oscillator drone synthesizer which is played manually via touch sensors, giving it a very expressive sometimes violin-like other times outer-worldly, atonal character. The album’s 11 tracks span beat-less ambient soundscapes to jazzy psychedelia, as well as hints of house, techno, broken beat and funk.

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Moufang & Czamanski – Recreational Kraut [SR23LP01]

VA – Workshop 28 [WORKSHOP28]

YONE KO/KIKI KUDO/IKU SAKAN/YPY - WORKSHOP 28

German label Workshop offers up a four track VA packed with gold. It kicks off with the lush and ambient-laced deep house of “Strip Down to E” before taking off with the wonky chord hits, off balance drums and withering sci-fi effects of “Grand Street Piano”, which is rave re-imagined. Things get as deep as you’d expect of a track called “Cerebral Repertoire” with its crystal clear and reflective pads, then “Zero” catches you off guard with its skittish rhythms and unusual arrangement. As always here, Workshop have cooked up some truly beguiling brilliance. Excellent leftfield House compilation.

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VA – Workshop 28 [WORKSHOP28]

Metshka & Roman Delore – Stara Zagora EP [APC001]

Metshka and Roman Delore met at the heart of vibrant Paris. One was more into Djing, the other into production, but they instantly felt a strong musical connection, sharing a common vision of underwater, detailed and a bit nostalgic techno. Here they started their collaboration then created their own label, Aperçu Records. Soon after, Stara Zagora EP was born. Strongly inspired by their childhood memories, plains of Bulgaria and warm coasts of the south of France, these three tracks are a perfect representation of their mental soundscapes.

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Metshka & Roman Delore – Stara Zagora EP [APC001]