Thursday 3 October 2019
Vrooom x Europalia Romania:
┆RAZE DE SOARE
┆DJ’S DRAGOȘ RUSU & BOGMAN
┆ETTO BUBU – visuals
location: V11 – Wijnhaven t/o 101, Rotterdam
doors: 20:30 / start: 21:00 end: 02:00 / presale: 8€
https://www.facebook.com/events/338144233735902/
tickets (LIMITED CAPACITY!): https://pantropical.stager.nl/web/tickets/371476
This night we will be taking a deep dive into Romania's captivating music scene. Together with co-hosts Sandwich Island, we proudly present lush Maneletronic pop, eclectic DJ sets and visuals. This event is co-organised in close collaboration with Europalia Arts Festival Romania. Take note: this is the first Vrooom-related event to take place on the V11 ship!
┆RAZE DE SOARE┆
The music of this illustrious duo epitomizes much of Future Nuggets' trademark "Maneletronics", a style that incorporates Manele (or more specifically "proto-manele") which is a form of folk pop from Romania with influences from all over the Balkan. Proto-Manele was the soundtrack to the wedding parties in Romania during the late ‘80s and early ‘90s. Raze de Soare's "Albatros" EP on Future Nuggets is a spirited tribute to one of the most locally famous proto-manele bands, the eponymous Albatros. Raze de Soare mixes dope bass and lush synth melodies into a chilled psychedelic ‘80s sound to dance to.
https://soundcloud.com/future-nuggets/sets/raze-de-soare-albatros
┆DRAGOȘ RUSU┆
Dragoş Rusu has been a prominent presence in Bucharest’s alternative music scene for over a decade. A DJ, journalist and music adventurer, he is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Attic Magazine; an online music platform that covers a wide variety of music and promotes Romanian artists and music culture worldwide. Rusu's DJ sets know no boundaries, he can be spotted playing textural Techno or Acid House as well as intriguing outernational oddities; African, Greek, Turkish, Arabic rhythms, and occasionally contemporary gypsy music. Since 2016, Dragoş has been the artistic director and curator of the acclaimed Outernational Days, a festival of music and related arts that digs deep into various subcultures positioned at the periphery of the international sphere.
https://soundcloud.com/dragos_rusu | http://the-attic.net
┆BOGMAN ┆
Bogman is one of Bucharest's most versatile DJs. In the early ‘90s, he started a HipHop show for Radio Nova 22, the first independent radio station in Bucharest, and initiated the first Romanian HipHop parties. Later on he set up a series of social events together with DJ Vasile that turned a small games house into the The Web Club; a legendary place that every cool kid in town hung out at. In 2001, Bogman jumped the fence to New York, where he worked at the Turntable Lab store and became a resident DJ for Apt, and Nublu. Nowadays he is one of the programmers at the Control Club, one of the most important alternative music clubs in Bucharest.
┆ETTO BUBU┆– visuals
Computer games & interactive human things, devised by a human being, living and working in R'dam.
https://www.instagram.com/etto.bubu
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* About EUROPALIA:
Since 1969, EUROPALIA has been organising arts biennales, each focusing on a different guest country. Its four-month multidisciplinary programme comprises hundreds of events throughout Belgium and in other European countries. EUROPALIA enthralls a broad European audience not only with exhibitions, but also with performing arts, music, literature, conferences and film. Heritage plays a significant part, but the contemporary scene is also generously covered; new creations and interaction between artists from the guest country and from Europe receive particular attention. EUROPALIA provides insights that avoid Eurocentrism. It stimulates open dialogue between cultures in an atmosphere of trust.
