The Robots Are Coming!!

This saturday the robots beam down from another dimension (well Berlin & London) and construct their sonic stimulation console in a far reaching corner of Bucharest's Web Club. Firing laserbeams of electro and indietronics Dj's With Bad Haircuts and Logan ask you to raise a glass or two of Earth Juice (beer) and celebrate the best party this side of Mars.

Electronic Mix May

Here's a mix I did at the beginning of the month. Juicy electronic nuggets including Nathan Fake, Carl Craig, DIM, Tractile, Petter, Sebbo, Abe Duque... you get the picture.

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Bucharest Streets

3 random images from the streets of Bucharest.

Get Loaded at CERF

CERF is a consumer electronics show with a bias towards communications and telecoms. Its exhibitors making their presence known were the usual, Vodaphone, Orange, Playstation/Sony, and Romania's own RomTelecom and Cosmote. They were surrounded by a sprawling chaos of smaller contendors showing computers, things that make computers better, things that make computers faster, and some souless replicants watching the world go by not selling any of their brilliant clips that hold wires to walls. These stalls gave away balloons and twiglets while the big boys attracted the crowds with formula one racing cars, free ipods, real Romanian pop stars and lots of promotion girls wearing very badly designed 'sexy' outfits.

Get Loaded was there, squeezed inbetween it all on the ClickNet side of the RomTelecom stand. ClickNet were giving it their official launch and we were their to spice up proceedings with Party Paul and stand up comedian Bobo. Everyone put in a great performance with Paul trying his hand at geek chic, meeting his nerdy doppleganger, then dropping the act in favour of the girls and their outfits.

DJing @ Nagual Lounge

I think they call it a lounge bar, but it looks more like a club with lounges in it to me. Whatever the difference, I will be playing there from midnight. The club (sorry, lounge) is only a couple of months old, pleasing on the eye, and a pretty good choice as a thursday night warm up for the weekend. Did I mention it's free to get in. You have nothing to lose, except maybe your job the following day.

I haven't got any pics of the venue, so here's one from the beach last week.

The Virus Is Spreading

Universtatii

Cismigiu

Lipscani

Calea Victorei

Calea Victorei 2

Cubecast - Audio & Video Live Broadcast

Cubecast.net is a weekly radio show transmitting live dj sets, every thursday, from the heart of Bucharest. This week myself and Spain's Larry Karda have been invited to air our wares. Tune in from 6pm (4pm GMT) this for Larry, and 8pm (6pm GMT) for me. The station favours a more minimal flavour for their broadcasts, so expect some of that, along with techno, Detroit goodness, and some spaced out electronica. They've got a camera in the studio too, so remember to drop by and say hello.

Mum & Dad's Virgin Visit

After tipping off the Mayor of Bucharest, he jumped into his limo and ordered an immediate tidy up of the city for the arrival of two very important international jetsetters, yes, my Mum and Dad were coming for the weekend!

It was great to see them and it meant I got a chance to do the touristy things I haven't got round to doing whilst actually living here. We had a tour round the Peoples Palace, the second biggest building in the world, which is as gob-smackingly over the top inside as it is outside. Herastrau park got a visit, as did Lipscani, the old centre of town and the Peasant Museum. As that pretty much exhausts the tourist destinations of Romania's capital, we ended up checking out the brand new Ikea, bought some essentials for the house, and saw how the native's took to Swedish meatballs and lingonberry jam!

Come back soon!

Vlad The Raver

Again a bit of a late report but two weeks ago my good friend Kieran aka Dr K. was over from London. For the past two years he's celebrated his birthday with a huge party in a castle, and this year was no exception. Dj Az and the Plump Dj's came over as well to provide the beats and hundreds of people climbed up the hill to this stunning venue overlooking Brasov.

Brasov is in Transylvania and is a beautiful town, well worth a visit.

May 1st Celebrations Mamaia & Vama Veche

May 1st weekend is generally regarded as the start of summer here in Romania, and if you know what's good for you, you head down to the beach. We had a Get Loaded promotion to carry out with military precision, so we packed the car with spray cans, posters, badges, mix cds, tee shirts, lighters and the like and headed off to Mamaia and Vama Veche, two very contrasting beach destinations. Mamaia is full of 'tops off' essex ravers (romanian style of course) and Vama is full of students who trip over tents on the beach and sleep in their own vomit.

We arrived in Mamaia a day early (thursday) and spent the midnight hours spray painting the sides of barns and other roadside targets with Get Loaded graphics. A lazy friday afternoon and evening gave way to a dj set at Gossip Club in Mamaia, followed by a sunrise party on the beach. Sleeeeep.


Saturday night we headed off to Vama Veche to film two bands who had come over from London. A big hello to K-tron and Rob from 'All You Can Eat' club, and Fidel, Paul and Jeffrey from 'Applicants'. Both bands put in great shows, but quite frankly left the Romanians completly dumbfounded. We shot some great footage, grabbed a couple of crates of beer and made our way back to the bands humble rooms to drink and talk late into the night. It was a surreal experience sitting in a wooden shed-like room, conversations overlapping each other and reaching totally abstract and random conclusions, while the band members were still in on-stage garb with fake blood all over their faces.

Sunday and we were back in Mamaia dancing on the beach all day, handing out Get Loaded stuff and having a riot to some great sets from Lee Burridge and others. That night saw the headstrong off to see Dj Meat and Marco Carola from Naples, which pretty much finished everyone off for another year.
Thanks to Sascha for letting me play at their Clubbing Mag 2nd Birthday Party, "Party Like An Animal"
Partying with the animals.
Spotted in the car park at Ultima Playa Beach