Welcoming Tao Andra as the 44th guest on the inTension Podcast!

The Romanian artist synthesizes her hyperactive yet sensitive personality into her music, ranging from high-energy to dark and groovy Techno.

Her musical journey began in the Netherlands during her university years, where she became completely immersed in the Dutch Techno scene. She describes that experience as, “you feel like you’ve been roaming around all your life and all of a sudden you find where you belong. It was all about the music.”

She started collecting vinyl and spent a lot of time at record shops in Amsterdam, teaching herself how to DJ. A common trait in her life, many of her skills are self-taught. Techno resonates with her hyperactive personality and sensitive nature, which is reflected in how she builds her sets. The musical journeys she creates are always a mix of high energy, groove, and emotional moments.

Her recent release, “Gracias a la Vida,” gained global attention after Indira Paganotto played her track at MainStage Tomorrowland. In the aftermath, Andra has been featured in Rolling Stone, CNN Latin America, Rock & Pop, and La Nación.

Tao Andra has brought her timeless sound to many corners of the world, from Brazil to Australia, Germany to India, and Albania to Chile.

Follow Tao Andra here:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/taoandra

inTension Podcast 044 - Tao Andra

Welcome to inTension, a fast paced Techno concept and podcast that celebrates the vibrant underground Romanian Rave Culture. Dive into the world of relentless beats influenced by Hypnotic, Acid, Trance, Industrial and PSY vibes as we feature both local talents and renowned artists from around the world, providing you with an exceptional listening experience that will have you craving more.

Contact us here: crew@intension.ro

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Other guest appearances have been made in Germany, the USA, the UK and France.
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Genres : Mainly Techno, Trance. Occasionally, Melodic House & Techno, Hard Dance, Hardcore, Neo Rave, other.

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Tao Andra on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@taoandra_music

Tao Andra is a Romanian artist based in Lisbon. She synthesizes her hyperactive but sensitive personality into her music, blending different genres into her high energy performances. 

Her musical journey began in The Netherlands during her university years. Right away she became completely immersed in the Dutch Techno scene.

She describes the experience as “It feels like you finally find where you belong.”

She started to collect music on vinyl while teaching herself how to DJ. That is a common trait in her life, a lot of her skills are self-taught.

Techno speaks to her hyperactive personality, but sensitive nature. And that is how she builds her sets. The musical journeys she creates are always a mix between high energy, groove and emotional moments.

Her release “Gracias a la Vida” got global attention after Indira Paganotto played her track at MainStage Tomorrowland. In the aftermath, Andra has been featured in the Rolling Stone, CNN, and La Nácion. 

This year,  Charlotte de Witte has also been supporting her music, playing  her track "Brain Train" during the  closing of the MainStage at Tomorrowland. 

Tao Andra has brought her timeless sound to many corners of the world. From Brazil to Australia, Germany to India, Argentina to Japan.

Instagram:  instagram.com/taoandra
Facebook: Tao Andra DJ

Genocide, June 2025:
Israel is only the executioner, every nation which has armed that country in the past year is an accessory to that genocide, an accomplice, a facilitator.  We cannot talk about war crimes because when you target unarmed civilians, mostly women and children, we are talking about a massacre, like terrorists do, not a war. The people who orchestrated that massacre, in the US, the most duplicitous, followed by those of the UK, Germany, France, and probably a few lesser ones should be tried for crimes against humanity just as well as Netanyahu and his cabinet, because it has been going on for two years, generously reported by media of all kinds, so the enablers knew exactly how the arms were to be used, as a tool for revenge, domination, and humiliation of the Palestinian people.  The conflict has ceased to be about the defense of anything for months.

The parties responsible have made a mockery of decency, morals, fairness, proportion, or justice, not to mention empathy.  Of what little there was, these concepts will be a lot longer to come back than they were to be struck down.  

Is it 1984 already?!?!
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I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
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This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

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You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
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My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
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I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
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Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.