Hello! My name is Town. Thanks for listening!

Local Records is a Romanian electronic music label which promotes homegrown electronic music producers and defines local Romanian sound.
For the past 15 years, the Romanian electronic music scene evolved in attitude and artistic awareness. The time has come to focus on the essence of a music scene – its producers. Until now, in Romania, electronic music producers have been working by themselves and sharing their music only in small circles. The public is not aware of their existence and does not perceive them as an artistic movement of any kind. This lack of communication and perspectives (the chance to be heard by a bigger audience, to have local and international success, to be appreciated, supported and promoted) discourages any future producers that are thinking to choose this direction.
Local Records wants to create an artistic community of mutual interests and to discover a new Romanian sound by encouraging producers which currently don’t have the stimuli to persevere and show their true potential.



I am currently studying Music Composition at Ohio University, but the majority of the pieces posted here have nothing at all to do with my academic work. Most of the pieces on this profile were born out of a need to stop listening to fucking Schoenberg and start writing stuff I could play for my friends to enjoy. So... enjoy.

I’m Dr.Nojoke, a Berlin-based live electronic artist performing minimal techno with polyrhythms & hypnotic groove structures.

My live sets go beyond DJ formats, combining laptop-based performance using Ableton Live with acoustic and percussive elements and external effects.

Since 2005 more than 150 releases on various labels such as CLIKNO, Archipel, Sleep Is Commercial, Klangscheiben, Goldmin, Pluie/Noir, Saraw, UNOIKI...

CLIKNO as a concept is infused by Musique Concrete, Dada, Minimalism, Kraut, Dub, polyrhythms, errors and life at all and is based on field recordings and found sounds.

www.linktr.ee/dr.nojoke

bandcamp
www.drnojoke.bandcamp.com
www.clikno.bandcamp.com
www.rand.bandcamp.com

spotify playlists
Club Architects 
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3zsE39u1QIbv0VFf9kzRCo
CLIKNO 
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1flKVXgrwFRBBiTReJiWAG
Music for Peripheries 
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5jtKoxvUAssIgDTmpdGiZa


out now:
INPI MARI 
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/inpi-mari

WRONGWRONGRIGHTRIGHT 
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/wrongwrongrightright

ILO BABO RISI 
https://stellierecords.bandcamp.com/album/dr-nojoke-ilo-babo-risi-ep-st017FUSO

FUSO 
https://archipelmusique.bandcamp.com/album/fuso

M 
https://clikno.bandcamp.com/album/m

REMIXES 2 
https://drnojoke.bandcamp.com/album/remixes-2-2

ALMA ATA OUM 
https://goldminmusic.bandcamp.com/album/alma-ata-oum

projects:
@CLIKNO label
@rand_gerdes_drnojoke "rand", duo with @jan-gerdes
@anomali solo-dronescapes
@ploberlin electronic music impro orchestra
@thepoolberlin collective
@paralelo-trioon duo with @J-Lab
@UNOIKI collective | label | network


Bio:
Dr. Nojoke is a producer, performer and musician– his live sets continually bring new and unique sounds to the table, a combination of field-recordings, self-made sounds, and highly conceptual production that redefine the way we understand electronic music.
A Berlin native and leader in directional minimal techno (or “clikno” as he describes it), Dr. Nojoke is a master of rethinking ordinary musicality and procuring new uses for the everyday.

Dr.Nojoke´s live show may feature instruments such as radio, crushed plastic bottles and souvenirs as Dr.Nojoke celebrates the joy of finding special sounds in everyday objects not usually appreciated for their musicality.

Since 2005 performances in clubs and on festivals in Brazil, South Africa, Canada, USA, UK, Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Romania, Moldova, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and throughout Germany.

More than 150 releases (EPs/albums/remixes/contributions) on labels such as CLIKNO, Archipel, Goldmin Music, Sleep is Commercial, Klangscheiben, UNOIKI, Pluie/Noir, Destroy All Monsters, Minim.all, Autist, Eintakt, Resopal ...

An eminent member of the Greek guitar fraternity, and a special presence in the field of Greek music, Kostas Grigoréas (Gree-go-ré-as) was born in Athens in 1957.  He has studied guitar, theory and music technology.
He started his guitar studies at an early age with Yannis Andreopoulos and later joined the class of famous guitarist Dimitris Fampas.  He also studied theory of music with Michalis Vourtsis, Nikiforos Nevrakis and Petros Tsitsopoulos (Diploma of Fugue). On graduating with Distinction from the National Conservatory, he continued his studies in England on a British Council scholarship. He studied Guitar and Theory at the Royal Northern College of Music under Gordon Crosskey, John Williams and pianist and conductor George Hadjinikos and was awarded the Postgraduate Diploma of the University of Manchester.
His activities include recitals and concerts, composition and song accompaniment; he is a recording artist, producer of recordings and teacher.
His long-standing collaborations as classical guitar soloist in concerts as well as recordings include most leading Greek composers and songwriters (Manos Hadjidakis, Mikis Theodorakis, Nikos Mamangakis, Yannis Spanos, Christos Leontis, Notis Mavroudis, Michalis Travlos, Lena Platonos, Kyriakos Tzortzinakis et al.), well-known singers (Savina Yannatou, Aliki Kayaloglou, Maria Dimitriadi, Nena Venetsanou, Anna Parlapanou, Flery Dandonaki, Lakis Pappas, Mariza Koch, Charis Alexiou et al.), as well as many eminent Greek and foreign musicians.
He has given recitals and recorded for radio and television in most European countries, America, Africa and the Far East.
A composer of ‘rich vision’ (according to top music critic George Leotsakos), he has contributed a substantial oeuvre to the repertoire of Greek instrumental music, with an emphasis on the repertoire of the classical guitar, either as a solo instrument or as part of an ensemble.  The bulk of his work has already been presented at concerts, in discography and on the Internet, receiving favourable reviews and applause.  Most of his works have been published, either in printed form by PAPAGRIGORIOU-NAKAS or in electronic form by Swiss publishing house MUSICANEO and French publishing house FREE-SCORES.  In 2013, his composition “My Sky’, for two guitars, was awarded a prize at an international composition contest with controlled Internet voting, organized by FREE-SCORES.
His discography as a composer and/or classical guitar soloist includes works for solo guitar, chamber music, voice and guitar duo and considerable participation in works of contemporary composers.
As a teacher, following the great tradition of Greek guitar virtuosi, and teaching both children and adults, he has created a school of distinguished guitarists, most of whom have already embarked on successful professional careers.
He teaches, and is director of studies for the guitar department, at the Pythagoreion and Peiramatikon  Psychikou conservatories in Athens and at the Polyrhythmia conservatory in the town of Preveza, where he also organizes the “Preveza Music Days” festival.
He is a member of the jury at music contests of international prestige.
In collaboration with Notis Mavroudis, he is webmaster and editor of “TaR – online musical magazine, mostly on the guitar” ( http://www.tar.gr/ )
He is a regular member of the Greek Composers’ Union.

Official website: www.grigoreas.com

THOUSAND ACRE FIELDS - AMBIENT SOUNDSCAPES

INSTAGRAM: @thousandacrefields

CONTACT: thousandacrefieldsmusic@hotmail.com

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