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.
minimal house
Cristi Cons – Suspecte EP [EKLO027]
Eklo is proud to welcome a new member in his family, Cristi Cons from Romania shows us his classy forward house music add to his classical music background & universe.
Cally – Venture EP [NEOSTRICTLY006]
Strictly Chosen presents the sixth release on it’s sublablel Neo Strictly. This time is an EP with 4 hypnotic deep minimal groovin shit by Romanian Cally.
Jay Bliss @ Space Club (Bucharest) 13.09.2013
MarcMan – Rasarit EP [AOS002]
Brand new sub-label of the long-standing and highly respected Adult Only imprint from Chris Carrier. This release features the talentated young Romanian MarcMan.
OCH vs Jay Bliss – The Remix EP [AUTO015]
OCH has a strong pedigree of collaborations with fellow underground stalwart Jay Bliss the latest to share space on a Autoreply record with the label boss. Bliss should be known to many as the co-owner of Electrique Boutique alongside Markus Homm, for a long time the only vinyl outlet in Romania, and his discography makes for impressive reading these days. Recent times have seen Mr Bliss share record space with the likes of Skudge and Petre Inspirescu on respected imprints like 20:20 Vision, All Inn, Hudd Traxx and Fear Of Flying. AUTO 015 kicks off with a bouncy rework of OCH’s “Scammell” from Bliss featuring sub-aqua sound-scapes and sonar blips on an instantly playable US inspired groove. OCH’s original has a distinctly liquid approach possibly referencing the work of LTJ Bukem and Good Looking over techno framework. Jay’s main offering “Men Are From Mars” is sexy controlled acid which OCH shifts up a gear for peak time floor-play layering the original TB303 patterns to thundering climax. Road-tested on Eleven Club, Tokyo’s Alpha System’s custom speakers.
Ivel Tax – Nest01 [DB007]
Nest is a new place where music is born. This is the second part, with three tracks from Romanian Ivel Tax. The nesting continues.
MarcMan – Recif EP [DRUMMA006]
After the huge success of MarcMan’s first EP with Drumma Records, the Romanian talent comes back with four tracks. In this EP we have four strong tracks that represent the artists eclectic perspective of electronic music. Sometimes MarcMan will show an industrial side with raw speech and sometimes he will express a rhythmic and harmonic intention.
Petre Inspirescu – Fabric 68 [FABRIC135]
The Romanian Petre Inspirescu has exclusively used his own unreleased productions for fabric 68 makes. Petre’s recent and newfound love and appreciation of classical music permeates the deep structures and rhythms of fabric 68. Everything about the music that makes up the mix is long and liquid, silky and sinewy, with myriad different bass, instrumental and percussive threads wobbling and scurrying their way along.
“I recorded the mix at home and arranged only from my own productions, as I wanted to try to offer a more classical touch to the music I make for the dancefloor and to present it to people. Some of the songs were recorded more than one year ago, maybe two, and some recently. The songs include recordings with a trio (violin, cello, piano) in my studio, other instruments, voice (soprano) and modular sounds.”
Marcman – Dici EP [PARAGRAM002]
Next Paragram release is the debut EP from the Romanian based Marcman. Marcman’s tracks are always a mixture between dancefloor moovers including groovy rhythms and big baselines. ‘Dici’ combines a super bass pumping tool that make you move even in in the most remote corner of the club, while ‘Arficeva’ and ‘Rigid’ gives priority to the hypnotic effect of the groove combined with mighty dub chords.
Vlad Caia – Swan Lake [PNR002]
Pluie/Noir is back with a two-track EP from the Romanian Vlad Caia. Swan Lake shows with finesse his staggering skills to craft cinematographic atmospheres in danceable patterns, bending musical styles and constantly reminding us that club music can be so much more. Both sides share the same classical-inspired background while still being quite different in mood and lightness. Striking at 14 minutes each, the progression on these tracks remain sophisticated and visionary, messing with your head and heart in unexpected ways. ‘Swan Lake’ is a delicate yet striking piece, with a precise yet unusual drum-programming and intelligent classical-music sampling. The flip-side ‘Eternal Sunshine’ is a darker toned track, with slight-flashes of acid in it’s core bass-line and ever-lifting tense chords that unexpectedly rumble between the intense atmosphere and lift both your body and soul.
SIT – Kamuza EP [NAU001]
SIT aka Sideways Invisibility Theory are back on Romania’s new Neural label. The duo have molded their own particular brand of minimalistic house, a glorious concoction of organic beats and glitched-out melodies. “Moai” boasts one of those irresistibly addictive basslines that pounces forth with elegance, moving progressively beneath the jumble of percussion sounding something like Villalobos in one of his more animated moods. “Mazuka” treads down more experimental paths, with the hi-hats making themselves clearly audible amid the woozing synth which drains in an out of the beat.
Zip – Fabric 67 [FABRIC133]
Thomas Franzmann has long been a dark horse of underground club music. Though he keeps a lower profile than some of his peers, his contributions to esoteric house and techno over the past decade plus have made him a cult favorite. As one of the founders of Perlon, he released much of minimal and microhouse’s creme de la creme. He also happens to be an exceptional DJ, especially when the situation calls for the deeper and weirder side of things. In the club, Zip is known for lacing his sets with unreleased or never-to-be-released tracks that keep trainspotters on their toes. He takes a different tack with fabric 67, sticking mostly to records that aren’t so hard to get your hands on (curiously enough, there’s only one Perlon track). “I did the mix with two record players, two CD players and my favourite mixer. I was alone in my studio and it felt just like it did when I was doing a mixtape ages ago,” Franzmann says of the mix. “Only this one comes with slightly more pressure [laughs]…” [RA]
VID & Andrew Grant – Inlove / Fear [WRR025]
VID is a new project by Romanian young talent Sorin Rastoaca, know also as EGAL 3. Here he teams up with his friend Andrew Grant for some refreshing beats. A collaboration between Andrew and Sorin really grabs you without letting go with it’s intense subby rumbling groove and tight dubby transitions. “Dinamic” and “Inlove” are testaments of Sorin’s musical integrity yet at early age, and shows obvious inspiration from classic American techno, and modern dub techno, yet still delivering something that is housy and totally current.
Vlad Caia – Connection EP [GILESKU003]
Gilesku Records announces new upcoming limited vinyl release with young talented and promising Romanian artist Vlad Caia.
Jay Bliss – Pandorum EP [AIBLACK0086]
All Inn represents the Romanian Jay Bliss in the 8th round of Black series. “Kokkoo For Coco Puffs” gives a repetitive hypnosis to the dancefloors in more than 13 minutes. After the long tracker trip on the flipside “War of the Worlds” comes front of us with dry and housey rhythms filled with funk, and “Mission Control” closes the line with its perfect toolistic sound for main-time djsets.
SIT – Morfoza EP [AMPHIA003]
Stripped down & trippy house and techno from Romania’s Amphia. SIT – the pairing of Vlad Caia & Cristi Cons – delivers some breathtakingly beautiful results.
Matt Star – Bring Night Citylights EP [MAIN009]
The ninth release from the Mainrecords shop, on its eponymous titled label comes in the form of three tracks of slick late night electro from Matt Star, plus a remix from Perseus Traxx. Happily blurring boundaries between house and electro, with its tight, crisp beats the release exudes a form of stripped back and honest late night cool with basses that bubble in a way sometimes reminiscent of Ed DMX, while others lend more of a Chicago feel accompanied by rolling toms. Synth lines and arpeggiations cut in and out of subtle modulations giving the feel of anticipation one gets while tearing along the motorways of a city, late at night, the lights of the city and other vehicles brightly darting by, streaking and reflecting across the cars windscreen.
Inner – Equalia EP [NEOSTRICTLY002]
Strictly Chosen presents the second release on it’s sublablel Neo Strictly. This time is the young Romanian Inner with three groovin’ minimal dubby techhouse tracks.
Matt O’Brien – Remixes From The Periphery [OK005]
For the latest Offkey release, we turned to some of our favourite producers to remix our previous release, ‘From The Periphery’. Remixers for this ep are: Schatrax, Todd Sines, KiNK and The Subliminal Kid.
The Hipodrome Of Music 