Here are the links to the 2 of the most valuable singers/vocalists/composers/text arrangers and creators that I have worked with so far :

http://www.martahristea.ro/ (Marta Hristea / Rotterdam / vocalist)

http://www.ravennam.com/ (Ravenna Michalsen / United States / vocalist)

Tracklisting

1. Chilling Downstairs (intro)

2. Blu Velvet (instrumental)

3. Easy Life

4. That Thing (with Ravenna Michalsen)

5. Tell Me This (with Ravenna Michalsen)

6. Semi-Conductors (part 1)

7. Detective Clarks Green New Hat

8. Semi-Conductors (part 2)

9. Blu Velvet (with Marta Hristea)

10. You Are My Sunshine

11. Rainy Day Coffee (with Marta Hristea)

link to listen (and buy)

http://www.djtunes.com/#/xplore/6pm

Story behind it

it has been roughly produced between the year of 2005 and 2008. In the beginning there were a lot of tracks which I was planning to release as a downtempo compilation edited in Romania as "Blue Velvet". Eventually, plans changed and I wisely chose a UK editor and publisher (Seamless Recordings, based in London) and Blu Velvet became one of the tracks on the album. The name of the album, 6PM came to me when I thought of the whole bunch of the tracks, pretty easily, that late  afternoon feeling when you feel a bit more relaxed cause day is almost done, you've no much stuff to do, but sun is relaxing and you've got few more hours to chill.

The album itself is a collection of various tracks which use same quality, downtempo beats. From chilly morning sunny "You are my sunshine" to spy-breaks "Detective Clarks...", to loungey "Chilling downstairs", to electronic beats and treats in Semi-Conductors (part 1 and 2), to eclectic electronica productions with dharma music singer Ravenna Michalsen (yes, she's from the States), and finally to jazzy-downtempo-vocalish productions with Marta Hristea, it's all an all-round-original biskuit for ya :))

enjoy

http://www.djtunes.com/#/xplore/6pm

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/271166/6PM

Yes, it's officially out. Record label : Balkan Connection. Check it out here

Yes, it's officially out. Record label : Balkan Connection. Check it out here

The whole reconstruction will take a while, aprox 2-3 weeks, but i'm very curious to see how everything feels and sound after the thick wooden hardfloors is placed in and the thick insulation applied on the walls (2 walls + ceiling). I think the sound will have great personality and the masters would sound much smoother. Thanks dad :)

...on the 9th of august will be out, now it's on the promo period, check the reviews menu, i'll put the comments on there.....also the downtempo album with Seamless, will be out on major online shops (Amazon. iTunes, Beatport) starting 16th of august. Can't wait..

I got together with some friends (among which some old ones) playing cards till 4 am in our fav tea-house, I also got books as presents (yey! have a lot of nice stuff to read)

I had to do some website work for a friend so almost all the hot month of july was for this...

remix for Emma Roberts (Australia)

Another remix done for my friend Aaron Philips ; track is called Waking up inside and it's a bit of prog, a bit of simple trance on the commercial side (but not bad), and a bit of vocal on it. Very nice, happy stuff.

6 remixes finished last month and i'm now polishing them off (not releasing them yet to the labels, I need to have them in full shape, even tho' they sound good).

It seems that may this year is work month for me. 5-6 remixes from Arion Gray, already started, 2 almost finished and also 3 new tracks for Andrew's label. Lots of stuff...

I'm setting up a local romanian community of electronic music producers and activists like deejays and people that are active in the scene who write articles and take interviews.

Site is in romanian (native language) so all ye other folks who want to read on, just translate it with Google. Google Chrome browser has this option integrated so it will ask you to do so.

Website is located at the moment at http://news.itraining.ro and it is underconstruction, upgrades are being made to the site and first articles are being written.

I'll start finalizing the site when i'll have a place to host it.

It's official, Matt agreed on releasing in may this year, 2 unsigned tracks from me, which will be out on Space Radio Frequency EP (on his label), in the month of june.

Yes, spring hdd cleanup and cd backup. Wicked. I feel totally nice and organized now.
..and since no good thing doesn't come with another of the kind, i found lots of tracks that i forgot about, not finished. So now i got around 16 new unfinished tracks, most of which are downtempo, which i need to finish now and then, when i work on me computa. :) over and out

Yes, a journey through different states of aliveness, in a big chunky old dusted and jazzy city, it all happens in the afternoon, when sun is down and light is orangey-red.
Jazzy, introspection, nu-beat, etc, etc it will be out in june with Seamless, i can't wait. that's after may month, in case you forgot :)

Digital and cd support.

We had 1 sale of each track in the 1st day. Thats great :P
Keep it like this folks that and i'll be rich in the next 3 years :)

Talked to Matt about my 2 unsigned tracks and he's keen in listening them later on these days and probably sign up a new EP with him on these 2 which may or may not feature also few remixes.

April release schedule is the following :





12 april - Beatport - Viseversa (2 tracks)
Take On EP (Take on and Far away)

19 april - Beatport - Seamless Records (1 track)
Budai & Vic - Suntan Warriorz (xplore mix)

Called "Prog thing 1" and "2". Prog thing 1 is prog track not really finished up but ready to listen, bass has too many harmonics and stands out too much of the FM synthesis of which 80% of the track is made, and "2" is a techno-ish track with surpise prog elements, will let you know soon where these 2 will find their place or where I will be releasing them

Handed out 2 tracks to Andrew and he said he has an opening in the future releases so this is probably going to be out even end of march or early april.

Tracks called : Take On and Far away.

Next on Pure Substance : Kenshi EP

Kenshi is a 1 year and more old track that me and Ange (Russian singer/DJ) did so we need to get it out until it gets too old. Kenny@PureSubstance will take care of that and probably early april it will see the green light of Beatport.

Balkan Connection 1 remix done + 2 track EP and remixes out soon

Remix on Dolei - Santiago Garcia for Balkan Connection (Ogi) and also 1 EP coming out, that's spring news from me.

The EP is called Brighter Purple and has 3 tracks : Brighter Purple (progressive mix), Brighter Purple (breaks mix) and We got cash (original mix) which is housey track.

the prog. album is coming out pretty good

2 remixes for Seamless

Started working on 2 remixes for Seamless Recordings.
AmuseBoosh and Suntan Warriorz, i'm planning to do more than just 1 remix for each. Tracks sound very neat.

Start workin on my 1st concept progressive album

I've started working and it looks good, it seems ideeas keep flowing every day.

1 may 2009

Finished @ university

Yeyy! I'm finally done with 5 years university (1 had to redo cause of just one exam).
So now i'm all set up, i will take a 3 month vacation to enjoy spring and beginning of summer, it's beautiful here in this period of the year. Cheers to me :) Forest all day and walking everywhere.

Back to work

Xplore is back to work. Among few various projects including some website building, he's finished doing a Beginner Training Tutorials (7 lessons) for Reason 4.0, you can find them on iTraining.ro. Also he started working again on his tracks and looking forward to some deejay gigs soon.

Studio Upgrade

Will be out soon on Jacco@Work's own record label (Lups Records) based in Netherlands.

My version of Erk track remixed for Vise Versa Music is done. Everything will sound much better after the upgrade to my home studio is done :)

I signed my first downtempo album collection of lounge tracks produced over the last 3 years is to be released with Seamless /UK. Puro Beach has grown its reputation and it is something similar to Buddha Bar compilation and this is one of the series, alongside Bargrooves, that Seamless is getting out over the last years.



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My last work of art :P which is actually almost 1 year old is about to be released on Beatport. It is doing fine so far on promorelease.com (Canadian promo webportal), heading at no. 5 right now and will be soon out on Beatport to get into your case as well..

It consists of 5 tracks that are a blend of prog, minimal, tech and electronica with a pretty much original concept, purely simple tracks if you ask me.

So yes, check it out soon. (i will be back producing soon in after the month of august).

Respect :) ..and check on the Reviews section the reviews on it that just came in...

Did a remix for Retrobyte (Chris Norman) which is pretty much ok.

Good news.

Gudowski set me up with a remix deal for DCM's track called Dreams. I gave him 2 remixes which will be up soon on his Netlabel for you to download it for free. I will put it here in the Audio section as well in the free download section.

So...i realized that for the past 3 months i didn't write anything here.....:))

YEY....because i'm back, i needed to fill in the gap...what i did was...january : prparing for my exams, february : taking the exams.
March : got sick 2 weeks and now i'm back.

To be sure that i don't take the exams twice, i decided to take a break from the music scene, even tho' i was totally doing stuff there. So i took a break 2 months, took my exams and now i'm back.

Even tho i will be pretty busy with school until the month of july (*my last year at university, last exams, big paper to write - 70 pages or so, etc, etc) i'm totally back and also working and doing things in the music scene...cannot stay away for long anyways :)

Best thing that happened in the 3 months that i didn't write anything is the offer from Kenny (Pure Substance owner) to join his Pure.FM monthly 2 hr show as a host (which is happening actually now as well, along with german Tobias Hoppe). I was and am very happy to be part of / represent the Pure Substance team and i really hope i will bring the good vibes around along with my partner / host Tobias.

All the best to you all, happy spring and bring the happy vibes. Peace out.

Junk Science played on the 16th of december on his
show hosted on DI.FM 2 of my latest remixes (Gudowski and Python).



Anjunabeats Worldwide 049 with Junk Science (16-12-2007)

01. F-Sonik - Mad House (Masque Remix)
02. Julian Jeweil - Air Conditionne (Umek Remix)
03. Maher Daniel - Erk
04. Thomas Langner & Lucjan - Manggha
05. Leoni & Andrew K - Next To Me (Johan Vermeulen Dub)
06. Hernan Gutmer - Magic Hole
07. Claudio Bonaldi & Leonardo Roa - Global Warming (Thomas Langner Remix)
08. Jose Acosta - Unconditional Thoughts
09. Simon Firth - Unbeatable (DC Project Defeated Remix)
10. Michael Cassette - Fox And A Shooting Star
11. Gudowski - Late Night Trip (Xplore's Full On Remix)
12. Eelke Kleijn - Monsters Of The Deep (Bart Van Wissen Remix)
13. Python - Expectation (Xplore Remix)
14. Mikobene & Fusion F - Rotary
15. Johan Gielen - Okinawa Sunset (Andy Duguid Remix)
16. Maor Levi - Shapes
17. DC Project - Sacala A Bailar
18. Glenn Morrison - No Suden Moves
19. Genix - Phused (Marcus Schossow Remix)

At his last Ministry of Sound session, rumor has it Sasha's been playing one of the Python - Expectiation remixes...was that mine ? :)

Python- Expectation EP is out ( @ Pure Substance Records ).

Cool remixes, nice ep (check out 4mal remix on it, great club filler as usual, this guy never stops to amaze)

I got 8 notices in the reviews, check them out at reviews section.

The early reviews for remixes on Gudowski's Late Night Trip EP came in. Check them out at the Reviews section.
Again, very good feedback from my people :)

Carica DEEP will release my next EP (Atari 400) which will have around 5 tracks (NY6pm, Atari 400, Orange drop, One is two, Rise up).

ALL tracks are experimental for me. I know you're used to listen prog tunes or sometimes breaks but this time, on the influence of a lot of minimal going on around me, i was experimenting and so i got up these 5 tracks which will be released somewhere around 22 january in 2008.

I know minimal isn't the choice of many but we cannot neglect certain styles, we need to explore those sides too...so grab it while it's hot, they will be up on Beatport :)

Finally i got me MIDI controller (for producing not deejaying/Ableton/etc). Keyrig 49 it's a cool toy, especially because it looks awesome when you get it, you cannot even try to compare it to the pictures on the web. It's huge (almost twice as big as a standard Apple keyboard), has 49 keys (*:)) and it makes cool sounds when teamed with good software. It's a real deal :)

Umm and it's full USB (so no MIDI cables).

Finished the remix for Warner Brothers (aye, that's pretty big!) and looking forward to their response. The finished result is a drum'n'bass remix both 3:40 radio edit + 8 min extended.

I really love this one and hope i could put a sample up for you here but i haven't heard from them yet so i don't know yet if it's gonna be published at all..anyways, i'm glad i did this one remix, to me it sounds excellent. (original track is a underground dark hip-hop track with cool vocals).

The remix on the original track "Friends" from russian Arthur Deep is done.
Style is progressive but with a prog - trancier edge, on the happy side :)
I'll post the artwork on that one as soon as it's ready.

The remix is out on Beatport in 12 days (5 november).

"Road to nothing" of Namatjira (who is dutch producer by the way) is composed of 3 tracks : original mix and 2 remixes, Hernan Gutmer and me.

The original track is very well worked and samples very well chosen...i did a version with more electronic like sounds but still keeping most of the analogue-like original sounds.

Big Al / Ready Mix Records set me up for 1 hour set on House Pacifique / Montreal in his show called Ready Mix Sessions. You can listen to the set here

8 days after the set was uploaded on House Pacifique radio website we already got 35,847 downloads.

Also great feedback from the guys at House Pacifique. Respect.

Artwork is done for the 5th EP on Carica Deep (StereoK) featuring remixes on Bs As Deep's : The last angel.

Featuring 1 original track and 3 remixes, one from me.

Style of my remix is pretty much weird : not progressive house or even progressive trance or a sort of mix between electronica and one of those.

It's some sort of funky minimal grooves, (but not necesarily minimal like style).

You have to listen to the full track to know if you're gonna play it or not :)

1 remix for Python's Expectation track and 2 more remixes for Gudowski's Latenighttrip are done.

Release is scheduled somewhere in december this year or spring next year.

Dj Kira plays Aquatic People, Near the energy core and Time travel in his 1hr set called "The genre show" on aug 24 on Frisky Radio.

Respect.

2 weeks after the release, Time travel track is at #41 in Beatport's progressive house top 100.

11th of march 2007

Markus plays my new remixed track from Jose Acosta, Soundness, in his weekly set, Global Deejay Broadcast. Yeyy!!

22nd of january 2007