Englishmen In Bucuresti

The media assault continues (hee hee). Tom Wilson and I will be featured in Glamour Magazine for their special music issue which is out later this month. Below are some photos from the shoot, taken at Embryo. Unfortunately when we arrived at the venue it looked more like a building site than a nightclub, as they are renovating it. But we managed to clear the dust from the bar upstairs and strike a few poses. Huge thanks to Bogdana for leading the initiative and sitting with us on a lazy sunday afternoon while we drank tea and interviewed each other in a very haphazard way.






All clothes: models own. Mop courtesy of the cleaner.

Embryo Photos

Photos by Sharky
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New Wave PArty Freaks VS Dancefloor Destroyers

Video Flyer for my party tomorrow night at Embryo.
See you on the dancefloor!

Embryo this Friday 01/02/08

Dj Logan @ Embryo
Friday 1st February

Dark Disco / Post-Punk / Acid House

Embryo this Saturday

BALEARIC-COSMIC-ITALO-TECHNO-DISCO-ALL-NIGHT-LONG!!!!

J. Saintil & Tom Wilson @ Embryo

The Robotnick Dance

Well, if Derrick May is the Godfather Of Techno, then Alexander Robotnick must be the Grandfather Of Italo Disco. We were fortunate enough to be graced with his presence last saturday at Embryo for what I believe was his virgin appearance in the city. He played a nostalgic set of italo classics and some more upfront reinterpritations of the sound he championed in the pre-house days of the mid to late eighties. The tag 'Grandfather' comes not from the fact he is getting on a bit, but from the way he danced behind his laptop: swaying from side to side like a fragile puppet whose strings had just been cut, intererupted sporadically with funky air-guitar poses, the ash continually falling from his cigarette.

Someone else who is rapidly reaching that age is Mr John Riley, whose birthday we were celebrating. Happy birthday John, hope you enjoyed it!! A mention must be also given to "The Model" from the International Gigolo records camp, whose birthday it was too.

Last Saturday Embryo Pics

Cinty Ionescu - phantom Knob Twiddler. DJ's beware.



Last Saturday at Embryo was a resounding success. Mo spun a spacey, classic, cosmic, balearic, whatever you want to call it set of original tunes, and although the crowd had probably never heard any of them before, you can see the reaction on people's faces was favourable. Tom "Pentangle" Wilson started the proceedings and I finished everyone off at the end. I won't go into trainspotter mode regarding how great the music was. Suffice to say it was diverse yet cohesive, and if you're looking for a quality night with a social, stylish crowd, you'd do a lot worse than to give this a try.

Hopefully we'll be bringing more hot international DJ action over to Embryo very soon. Check back for news. Also check Mo's band out, A Mountain Of One on their myspace page here and say hello.

Embryo This Saturday

A Mountain Of One are, along with Quiet Village Project and the like,
leading the British Balearic Renaisance, forging a sound akin to a
cosmic psychedelic rock disco.

We are priviliged to welcome 'A Mountain Of Ones'" Mo Morris to
Bucharest this coming Saturday to play alongside UK escapees Logan &
Tom Wilson.

"Statuesque and epic- Big things to come... The sound of England dreaming"
I-D Magazine.

*'Record of the week' "A Mountain Of One's début really is quite
special... This is gonna get a lot of people talking. Essential."
Rough Trade Records, London.

*You'll fall in love with A Mountain Of One – these already sound like
Balearic classics." Vice Magazine.

*'Record of the week'
Piccadilly Records, Manchester.

*A Mountain Of One have already been compared to Arthur Lee, Santana &
Pink Floyd. "Which is nice in one respect, but also kind of
ludicrous... and yet understandable."
Fact Magazine