Adi Dumitra, the founder of Only Records, was born back in 1974 and started listening to electronic music when he was quite young. As he discovered new genres of fine house music, he started promoting that sound locally. In due time, he began traveling frequently on gigs. As his passion for house music morphed into something bigger, he and his friends supported the scene by experiencing live sets by world-class DJs in different clubs all over Europe. In 1999 he decided to start mixing his own style of dance music, which could be described as a deep, hypnotic and mesmerizing house.

But that is not all. During his sets, he paints the room with the sound of techy flavours, hence concocting a roller coaster ride through all the genres with his music. With his own record labels at his disposal ( Only Records - the first ever Romanian label focusing on releasing the best underground house music and SNEJL ? a sister label started in 2007which came out as a neccessity to express a different side of the music genres, the more weirder, intelligent and experimental one, so we're focused on more like unique, original and self-esteemed sounds ... coming from deep roots through tech, techno, electronica, minimal and the ever-changing house), he allowed many new talents to display their artistic expressions through them a label which got enormous support and feedback from the biggest names in the industry including John Digweed, Sasha, Hernan Cattaneo, Laurent Garnier, Satoshi Tomiie, Sander Kleinenberg, Nick Warren, Desyn Masiello, Pete Tong, and includes artists under roster like : Taho, Estroe, Ozgur Can, Deep Mariano, Ludovic Vendi, Dinamoe, Claudio Mate, Dilo, Rouzbeh Delavari, Subksy, Livio & Roby, Introvert, Soundexile, Claes Rosen, Christian Malloni and many more�

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Baila Radu a.k.a Toygun dj and producer, born in Sibiu, Romania in 1987. His first contact with electronic music was back in 2000 trough a couple of albums signed by Laurent Garnier. After a couple of years he starts producing his own tracks and later on releases music in colaboration with Mihai Popoviciu & Jay Bliss signed at labels like: Hudd Traxx, Smoke City Music, Immigrant, Momentum...

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Marius Visan aka Zizou is a romanian dj that took contact with electronic music in the mid '90.Influenced by Robert Miles,John Digweed,Sasha,Danny Howells he bought in 2005 professional dj tools. As a dj, Zizou likes to build up his sets in order to tell the audience a unique story of music from deep house & progressive to tech house and techno. In the last years he played in several clubs like : Web,Silver,Cocoloco (ex Kado),Fuchsia,DeBufet, Office (Ploiesti), OK (Ploiesti),La Mansarda and Flow. From March 2009 he has a monthly radio show.February last year he was invited at Frisky Radio.This year started with more gigs.One of this gigs was an event with Henry Saiz.

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With an eye for details and fueled by my passion for the everyday sounds that we usually come across without giving them the slightest attention, I started to compose my music.

Sometimes, depending on the mood or the complexity that we are prepared to see in the songs we listen to, some of my tracks might be misinterpreted or misunderstood. For me, the complexity of the sounds and the uncommon and unlimited ways they could be combined is very inspiring and enchanting and listening to such sounds coming together as a complete track is an absolutely vibrating experience.

I see music as the perfect way to unleash your energy, to empower and to energize the people on the dance floor. A great philosopher once said music represents the soul of the Universe, the wings of thought, the wind of imagination, the charm of youth, giving life and joy to all things.

The Prodigy and their music stimulated my composing skills, at the very beginning. I was fascinated about how they had managed to weave the sounds in their songs to create the music that I still consider to be at the core of my inspiration and that is what has guided me to become a self improving tech house dj, a progressive house dj and a techno dj.

2007 was the year when my first video was released. It proved to be a great success and it appeared on several TV channels. The track went on air at the local and national radios, making it in the playlists especially after being performed at the opening of a prestigious Club. The title says a lot: Hypnotic. It is both the name of the Club and of the track.

http://www.gomymusic.com

www.facebook.com/gomymusiccom

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Snatt & Vix are a successful DJ duo from Romania who contributed greatly over the years to increasing the good reputation of a dreamy and euforic musical genre on the local and the international EDM scene by creating unique trance beats powerful enough to engender deep feelings of relief and mind excitement. For them trance has become a religion and a life style!

Though they have developed and practiced their skills as DJs on many occasions before, since 2008 they started to organize and promote a series of successful parties to build up their unique brand of "TrancENDancE" bringing good international trance DJs to Romania suh as Roger Shah, Richard Durand and Stoneface & Terminal. The ascendance culminated in 2009 with their performance at Arenele Romane Bucharest next to Lange and Ferry Corsten, two true trance legends, event organized by The Mission.

Snatt & Vix radio show "TrancENDancE ArenA" broadcasted by Radio Zu for over a year has been moved to Vibe FM, the most popular EDM radio station in Romania, a huge opportunity to promote their concept. (every Sunday between 6 and 8 PM on VIBE FM).

Several other important steps in developing their musical career were taken in 2010 when Snatt & Vix performed at Arenele Romane during a 4 hours set introducing Paul Van Dyk in front of over 5000 euforic people and at Navodari beach introducing Tiesto, the famous DJ, where they succeeded to create an incediary atmosphere in front of a huge crowd of 10.000 people presenting a set of over 5 hours.

Meanwhile, "TrancENDancE" parties continued to bring to Studio Martin club (Bucharest) fascinating international guests like Myon & Shane 54, First State, Ronski Speed, Jochen Miller, Ashley Wallbridge, Daniel Kandi, Mark Sherry and even the magnificent Markus Schulz during his Global DJ Broadcast World Tour.

www.snattandvix.com

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My name is Pribu Bogdan Alexandru and I play music under the name Dj Butoane. My contact with electronic music dates back to 2004. In 2007 I started to seriously mix the grooves and being doing it ever since. I've played at a couple of parties, most of them organized by my friends. For 2 years now I'm weekly doing mixes for a Radio based in Romania in a show called "Illegal Grooves". During my musical experience I've been influenced by artists like Digweed, Cattaneo, Steve Lawler, Nick Warren, Seb Fontaine, Luke fair when it comes to club music but also got attracted by experimentalists as Moby, Groove Armada, Mylo, New Order or Crystal Method. In all this time my style suffered some changes influenced of course also by the evolution of the electronic music. A connection was bound between me and progressive house, which evolved with time into a style characterized by progressive tech blended with hypnotic techno sometimes deep otherwise dub. I love and respect music and that's why I am always happy to play anything that catches my ear considering it as a challenge everytime and giving it my best. I've had my first Guest Mix with Frisky about a year ago. I am really happy to play again for this amazing Radio.

Health, Love, Music & Peace !

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Florin Marica (MARIKA) is one of the few DJ's, producers, and promoters, who got himself profoundly involved in the underground music phenomenon from Romania, in the 1990's. In the 1990's Marika together with Cristian Paduraru were the founders of the band Fire in Water, which won them two important awards - one at Assos New Talent Festival, and the other one at the Klub Bizzar show on Atomic TV.

Fun Radio, 2M+ (Activ FM), Pro Fm Dance are just some of the radio stations where Marika promoted selections of electronic a that were made according to the listeners' needs, but focusing on important contributors of this genre, from Romania. Producers, promoters and everyone who gravitated around the electronic music universe were invited in the framework of Marika's radio shows, which were also the background for live performances and mixes. Between 1998 and 2004 Marika was editor and producer for the shows Metropolis and Rockada on the first Romanian TV music channel: Atomic TV. In 2005 Marika reaches up to the final of a well-known national DJ contest - Heineken - being frequently invited to the majority of Romanian clubs, before this contest-tour and even more afterwards. Also in 2005 Marika begins his collaboration with Expirat Club and Other Side, each Wednesday night being supported and entitled Selectro: DJ Marika & Guests. The guests are DJ's, local and foreign producers from the electronic music industry, DJ sets or live performances.

In 2010 Selectro is invited to organize its own scene, with local and foreign guests, on the platform of Sunwaves Music Festival. And also in 2010 Selectro gets the award for the "Best concept for a series of parties in Romania" at the Nights.ro Awards. Selectro is also the name of Marika's radio show every Monday night on VibeFM. ( www.vibefm.ro )

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Sipos Attila, aka Vygo, was born in Brasov, Romania in 1983. He started enjoying electronic music in high school listening to the Ministry of Sound shows on local radio stations. He began playing at private parties, few years later organizing and playing at the series of parties "DubWorks" and "Experiment" having breakbeat and drumandbass guest DJs from around Romania. Feeling the need to complete the music from the parties with something "for the eye" he started doing visuals. In 2006 he became resident VJ in Theatre Club, but he was also playing at afterhours. In 2007 got the 4th at "Best VJ" cathegory at "Nights.ro Awards". In june 2006 at "MTV DJ Awards" he became 2nd in the same cathegory. In 2008 he reached the 2nd place at the "Best VJ in Romania in 2007" cathegory. Between 2007 and 2008 he has was resident VJ in hUSH HUSH Club in Brasov. After this period he left VJing behind and started focusing more on DJing. Between 2008 and 2010 he was resident DJ in "The Moose" (club owned by The Mission) making warmups for Audiofly, Satoshi Tomiie, Djuma Soundsystem and playing with the majority of the romanian DJs. In january 2010 he took part as DJ and organiser at the Castle Party in Busteni playing with Nima Gorji, Jose de Divina, Pagal, Jay Bliss. In 2010 he was nominated again at "Nights.ro Awards" reaching the 7th place at "Best resident" cathegory, 11th place at "Best breakthrough" and 2nd place at "Best flyer". Since february 2010 he organises the "OBO thursdays", bringing every thursday local and national DJs to OBO café, and to Prava Club from the beginning of 2011. In 2011 he reached the 7th place at "Best breakthrough in 2010" at "Nights.ro Awards". In may 2011 he played at The Mission In Deep&Dance 1st of may festival at Black Sea. Now he began producing and pretty soon he'll release his first EP.

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Transylvanian brothers Vio and Dacian started Dual Shaman out of pure love for electronic music, creating and performing a blend of sublime,esoteric melodies, haunting atmosphere and dark,throbbing rhytms. Apart from producing music,they're also involved in creating sample libraries for numerous sound design companies,such as Sounds to Sample,Zero-G,Sony Creative Software,Sample Magic and Wave Alchemy.

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Takacs Levente, aka: ivel Tax, was born in Romania. In the beginning he started by playing music at private parties, and later becoming resident DJ at clubs in Transylvania. DJing dance music in clubs and radio stations pushed him further into the music industry. During his experience he discovered and understood the beauty of the electronic sounds, and as a result he plays a combination of house, deep techno and minimal.

Admittedly he tries to combine them to make the perfect show for any crowd. He has the passion for electronic music, and has the patience of an open minded person, which trained him to listen to all kinds and different genres of music, preparing him for anything dance floor has to offer.

His current Green Apple radio show goes from strength to strength, as does the support for his own productions. On the production side we can point to the "Brotherhood" released on Terpsichore Records which had the sadness-tinged honor of hosting a remix from the legendary, Aaron-Carl. Funky Church released on All Inn Black, with huge feedback and support from international DJ's and media! Locked In Studio EP released on Studio Soulrock! Despite his youth the disc jockey has a unique confidence dealing with what he loves without any trace of pretension!

He also runs Disco Birds, an underground record label!

www.facebook.com/discobirds

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Sonicvibe started making music in late 90s building up his discography, being caned by top trance dj's, then eventually winning 1st place on the Heineken Music Thirst National DJ/Producer Competition in his country, being able to play on the same stage with great artists like: Morcheeba, Yonderboi, Phil Hartnoll, Livio & Roby, Marco Carola, Lemon8, Johan Gielen, Above & Beyond, Markus Homm, Born 2 Funk, Simon Baker, Bill Patrick and many many more.

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... remember this name, you will definitely hear it in the up coming years. He is one of the newcomers...but he's hear to stay!

Byby was born in 1984, in Bucharest and he discovered his passion for electronic music early in the days, when he was only 15 years old. He soon realized that this is what he wants to do with his life. And so, after only two more years of mixing, he managed to make a name for himself and to play in almost all the clubs in Bucharest and all across the country, along side famous DJs.

Byby has a very unique style as he plays his music with such joy and enthusiasm. All these combined with his abililty to interact with the crowd makes that dancefloor rocking, creating a mad frenzy. His music is synonymous with happiness, blending a unique mixture of styles from deep house to tech house.

Things are really starting to look bright for Byby. This spring he'll get the chance to play at some big events where artists like : Ricardo Villalobos, Lee Burridge, Bill Patrick, Steve Lawler, Danny Howells, Nima Gorji, Loco Dice, Sven Vath, Onur Ozer,Audiofly,Kabale und Liebe (NL),Oxia (France),Luca Marano & Larsen,Markus Homm are invited as they will all play for the romanian 4 days festival, by the seaside, so well known to clubers all across the world.

Radio shows are really starting to look appealing to Byby, as he won a guest slot in Adi Dumitra's Conversions radio show (Frisky Radio) this March, by winning the Conversion competion. He's also invited by Amelie at her radio show Supernature on Proton radio and he's also preparing some sets for Ibiza Global Radio. In september he will start his own show @ One Underground, every Sunday from 8 p.m. and every friday at Dance fm from 00.00

Check him out in the near future, as he is now working at his first EP and it's promising to be a real blast!

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George D aka Groven is a Romanian dj that took contact with electronic music in the mid '90 by listening to a variety of genres, from trip-hop, chill out to jungle. From the year 2000 he begins producing techno, but only at a personal level, experimental. Slowly he started his way as a dj and from the year 2002 he begins doing various mixes using Traktor, approaching genres like techno, progressive-house and deep-house. This is also the year when he gets under the wing of a (by-now) consecrated romanian dj, mixing in various location in Bucharest, in clubs like Studio Martin,Escape and other small clubs. After few years of pause, he's coming back in 2008, mixing in Club OK, Club Flow, Open Pub and is participating at House Parade Romania 2010. In 2011,he's mixing along side Henry Saiz, at Club Space, Bucharest, under Dance Camp Events, a promoter from Romania. He has also his own show at Insomnia FM, called Beatific.

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Born in Pitesti, Romania, he showed early his interest in music, starting taking up piano and theory lessons at age of 10. His love for music was then for classics and also rock music bands from heavy metal to plain rock and alternative. He had a vinyl with Queen's greatest hits, side A and B which he listened until it got worn out if that would be possible.

At the time, there were the 90's and british-based MTV was broadcasting in Romania, so he could watch all the real shows that were at the time in London, including all the 80's and 90's great musicians, from which he drew a lot of inspiration.

He started collecting rock music that his cousin was recording for him on cassette tapes. After finishing music school, he suddenly got in touch with the personal computers and since he applied for computer science special class in highschool which he got in the 4th, his attention was directed from rock music to electronic music. That was made at that time on Atari and Amiga computers, in so called "trackers" which allowed you to create a 4 or 8 track music composition, respectively on 4 and 8 tracks. In his first tracks, Xpl was using short samples triggered from a sample-based software, drum loops and various voices that he got from his cheap tape player, processed with few simple effects.

The good thing about these music composer softwares was that they allowed you to see how other electronic music composers did their music and also you got full access to samples inside the tune, so he got the chance to see how "tracked" music it's beeing done. So his interest rose more and soon he got in contact with the local demoscene that was organising PC-parties, meaning contests in which people presented animated graphics and music, made for the PC scene, at that time. He gets toghether with a group called Plastic Surgery (later named Transdimensional) and started creating music for 3d animated demos that were purely hard-coded in assembler and C++.

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