Curtea Veche presents another edition of their Serii Speciale, this time featuring the legend that is Reboot. 3 groovers for the dancefloor , tried and tested by some of the biggest names in the buisness.
Reboot – Serii Speciale [CVS007]
minimal house
Boo Yog – Erbil EP [PARTOUT5.02]
Second US West Coast release for Partout with Erbil EP from Boo Yog. Edited live performance to 2-track stereo at The Gateroom, PDX.
Inhere – Inhere 003 [INHERE003]
The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Inhere is a collective of like-minded artists based in Bucharest, Romania with sound inspired by analog, nature and geometry of spaces.
SIT – Invisibility Chapter I/II[SUSH045/SUSH046]
Sushitech Records presents ‘Invisibility’, the debut album from SIT aka Sideways Invisibility Theory. The DJ & producer duo is based in Bucharest and was formed in 2009 by Cristi Cons and Vlad Caia. Drawing from an early education in classical music, their influences range from ethereal jazz to experimental trip-hop.
part 1 / part 2 / full album
Inhere – Inhere 001 [INHERE001]
The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Inhere is a collective of like-minded artists based in Bucharest, Romania with sound inspired by analog, nature and geometry of spaces.
Glueped – Destiny EP [VM002]
Glueped is the collaborative alias of Mihai Mihalcea and Cristi Tudorache, better known as Teluric and Melodie. Already having released with their solo projects on some of the scenes most distinguished imprints, they have joined creative forces once again to put together an EP for Vade Mecum, an already familiar output for Teluric. The result will set you sailing in shifty winds – going from nostalgic to ecstatic, from mystery to comfort and warmth, without losing touch with the dancefloor.
Jay Bliss – Vrăjitorul din Orz LP [SG004]
Debut longplayer by Romanian DJ and producer Jay Bliss. After a few years of releasing quite a bunch of EPs on various labels, Jay Bliss has pulled down the throttle for a while. This doesn’t mean that he took time off from the studio, on the contrary, he perfected his signature sounds. Spending time to bake his own imprints aswell, its only natural that his first LP will see the light of day on Stomping Grounds. Lush and organic pads, playful textures and attention to details are the building blocks of this introspective work, divided into 6 pieces.
Villalobos – Detroit Heroes EP [MUSIK098]
The A side is a signature sounding track, the B side is unusually straight compared to most of his recent productions and builds a great tension if you let it play for a while.
Melodie – XL8R Podcast 449
“The rising Romanian offers a glimpse of his new live set in this week’s XLR8R podcast.”
VA – First Chapter [VM001]
Vade Mecum is the latin for a handbook that is intended to be carried at all times. The new Bucharest based label, a sublabel from Stomping Grounds curated by Jay Bliss, aims for the same thing, putting together for the first release three tracks that trancend time and genres. Tracks by French producer Yakine and the Romanians Teluric and Suciu.
Barac – Rawax Aira Series Vol. 4 [AIRA004]
The concept and mission of Rawax Aira Series will always be, to connect and invite great musicians who produce and create “essence of the real music’, not following the trend but let the music speak itself with groove, melody, vibe, energy and soul. Roland has made evolution in dance music all over the world in 80’s, Music needed those machines, and machines needed those creators of music. AIRA are not rehashing of the legendary original TR or TB, But respecting those great machines from the past, AIRA continues to evolve toward into the future simultaneously, newly developed, new generations tools to keep the music alive and to bring more possibilities for the future.We seeks out this exciting movement of dance music history, as the music lover who has actual experience the flow of this evolution, and connections between musicians and machines to make their musical pieces on this project to inspire listeners and to challenge the genres they represent by each series.
Ivel Tax – Idel de fel [DB009]
Disco Birds is starting the year 2015 with the label head Levente Imre Takacs aka Ivel Tax. The Romanian born producer brings up his past and current ideas into one full album release, entitled Idel de fel.
Vlad Caia – Codex EP [AMP007]
It’s been a little while since a fresh injection of refined minimal techno was issued from Vlad Caia, but now the Romanian stalwart is back with a fresh pair of subtle gems for Amphibia, with whom he dropped the Projections EP back in 2012. “Voluspa” is a cyclical workhorse powered by undulating bass synths and swirling pads with a decidedly cosmic flavour to them, working just enough dubby flourishes into the mix to keep things fluid and warm. “Behind The Black Meadow” by contrast takes a slender funk to task with the finest slithers of percussion and a yearning line in melodics as expressed through heavy doses of filtering for a truly subconscious slice of micro house.
Looper – First [L001]
Jay Bliss – Tardigrade EP [AUTO019]
Its fairly safe to say that Jay Bliss is on fire at the moment. Now he takes time out from his recently launched “Stomping Grounds” imprint to follow up on his 2013 appearance with OCH on “The Remix EP”. Here the warm, punchy 9 minute A-side creates a highly seductive floor-tension. Flip the disc over for two modern take’s on minimalism, possibly paying homage to Studio One or Basic Channel with persistent rhythms, undertones of original dub, shaken and stirred with plenty off Jay Bliss magic.
Bacauanu – Bacauanu [PLZ012]
New Romanian project called Bacauanu with some excellent hypnotic Romanian House style on Pleasure Zone label.
Alexandra – Fabric Promo Mix
Ivel Tax – Ambientum EP [DB008]
New release by Ivel Tax on his own Disco Birds. A three track release with: deep, groovy and ambient sounds to enjoy.
Alexandra @ Space Club (Bucharest) 28.11.2013
VA – Stomping Grounds 001 [SG001]
Heavy groovin 3 tracker. New imprint run by Jay Bliss, trying to find the balance between house and techno, retro and future, art and dance.
The Hipodrome Of Music 