It has been 4 years since I made the last ‘review of the year …’ or ‘best of … ‘ list and it was not planned for 2017, but looking back at last year somehow the music scene shifted in a good way. From the music point of view, I think we are living better times now, we can see a revival of the old school electro and acid house, afrobeat is still hot, EBM is going strong.
Musical Tasting is a series of events, a collaboration between Asociatia My Transylvania and The Hipodrome Of Music, aiming to promote countries, regions and their musical genres, combining auditions with traditional recipes from the area, cooked with as many local and seasonal ingredients. We will have musical and culinary trips in Turkey, Lebanon, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Belgium, Cuba, Israel Greece or Romania.
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Musical Tasting is a series of events, a collaboration between Asociatia My Transylvania and The Hipodrome Of Music, aiming to promote countries, regions and their musical genres, combining auditions with traditional recipes from the area, cooked with as many local and seasonal ingredients. We will have musical and culinary trips in Turkey, Lebanon, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Belgium, Cuba, Israel Greece or Romania.
Continue reading “Musical Tasting #1: Turkey @ Syndicat Gourmet (Sibiu) 17.11.2017”
In the last years more and more Romanian artists are making their voice heard across the electronic music palette.
Romania is well known for the minimal/micro-house/Romanian-techno and tech-house music, but now we have artist that experiment and dive into other sounds, the kind of sounds we love at the Hipodrome of Music.
Full 3 hours recorded in Cluj in January 2017. A thanks to the Hipodrome and Gazette crews. Great bunker venue & great crowd (a couple of jumping needles towards the end when the room itself was particularly jumping).
After more than 4 years, John Heckle returns to Sibiu. Since then, the Merseyside artist has been busy reinforcing his producer abilities of house and techno with more releases on Tabernacle, M>O>S, Altered Moods, Scenery, Lunar Disko, Midnight Shift, Mathematics, Bedouin and from 2014 mostly championing his new project Head Front Panel with a string of 12 releases on the Tabernacle sub-label and performing live and spinning records all over the world from Singapore to Moscow and from Berlin to Indonesia.
The 20th podcast from the Hipodrome Series makes a premiere, is actually the first female dj that has a podcast on our site. Roxxete aka Roxana Zangar is a young dj from Cluj, but she is making a name for herself for quite some years already. Her style is very melodic, strongly rhythmic, with great attention to detail. With a strong curiosity for the spiritual side of music, she believes in sharing her feelings, moods and beliefs through sound.
adub aka Adrian Ban, is a known character in Sibiu, both on the clubbing scene, where he is present for years, and on the indie scene, Adi is the drummer of some Sibiu bands like I’m The Trip and Guilty Lemon. Since last summer he and Toygun form the DJ duo called Disconnected, a project where they mix and also produce together and organize parties.
adub is making his debut on the hipodrome in a few weeks, at a party in The Shelter from Cluj. Here is a taste of what to expect.
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