not a bar, not a listening bar, not a day club and definitely not a nightclub

TON TON is the label arm of BAR TON in Bucharest. It operates at the intersection of memory and material, capturing the ephemeral moods of the bar’s soundscape in carefully pressed records: unadorned in design, precise in intent, and made to quietly endure—objects of subtle, lasting allure.

The first four releases can be found and purchased at the bar or on Bandcamp:

TON TON 01: Traces of the Wind — Petre Inspirescu
TON TON 02: Kamino — RH1
TON TON 03: Island Closest To Heaven — Liar
TON TON 04: Calypso — Plevna

For Booking : boruborusiade@gmail.com
Born in Bucharest in 1984, Miruna Boruzescu, better known as Borusiade, began DJing in 2002, soon becoming one of the pioneering female DJs in Bucharest’s alternative club scene. With a background in film direction and a keen appreciation for raw electronic sounds, Borusiade blended these passions into distinct, atmospheric musical compositions and DJ sets that made waves in the electronic music landscape.
After relocating to Berlin, Borusiade embarked on a journey of musical experimentation, developing a signature sound that’s both dark and melodic, underpinned by resonant bass lines and hypnotic, immersive themes. Since 2016, Borusiade has released a diverse catalog of critically acclaimed works, including several EPs and three LPs, on internationally respected labels like Dark Entries (US), Ostgut Ton Unterton (DE), Cómeme (MX), Cititrax (US), Pinkman (NL), and Correspondant (FR). This year, they unveil their latest album, The Fall - A Series of Documented Experiences, through Dark Entries, bringing a fresh layer to their evolving sound.
Beyond recorded music, Borusiade extends their talents to interdisciplinary collaborations, composing for theater and contemporary dance, and lending their unique sound design to art installations and experimental films. These collaborations underscore Borusiade’s role as a versatile artist with a vision that transcends the boundaries of traditional music.

Smooth Genestar is a project serious addicted to Downbeat, Downtempo, Lounge, Chillout and Easy Listening with passion. The roots and influences are reaching back to the mid 90s, with the legendary CD-series like "Space Night", Labels like "Elektrolux" and inspiring artists like "Saafi Brothers", "Aural Float", "Fresh Moods", "Nightmares on Wax","Pascal Feos" and "Amphotic", just to name a few...

The project "Smooth Genestar" was founded in 2006 by Marco Köller (Cologne, Germany) to give the Downbeat- and Chillout- flavoured tracks an own identity beside the output of his 2 other projects "New Age Hippies" (Psytrance) and "Smooth" (Progressive & DubTechno).

Since 2009, he operates the free Netlabel "CYAN Music" in cooperation with Jaja, and has released there many free tracks under creative-commons licences...

Since the release of their first album in 2003 Marconi Union have stealthily developed an international reputation for their unique fusion of ambient electronica and live instrumentation.

They have recorded for a number of labels and released four highly acclaimed albums as well as contributing to innumerable compilations, art projects, film and TV.

In 2010 founder members, Richard Talbot and Jamie Crossley invited Duncan Meadows to join them and they continue to explore new ideas and sounds.

Marie Davidson / Pierre Guerineau

Some are born to sweet delight
Some are born to endless night

Chicane (Nicholas Bracegirdle) is one of the most prolific producers, composers and hit makers born out of nineties club culture and the trance music scene.

He has six albums under his belt since his seminal debut in 1997 ‘Far From The Maddening Crowds’ which gave him his first UK top 20 chart position with the ground breaking ‘Offshore’. 

Chicane has also co-written and produced for Bryan Adams, Cher, Natasha Bedingfield, Paul Young, William Orbit, Ferry Corsten, Owl City, Kate Walsh, Christian Burns and Armin Van Buuren.  

For booking enquiries, please email Lindsay Maclaren >http://bit.ly/1KJ1OF3
Email: Lindsay@mn2s.com
Tel: +44 (0)207 234 9468

<a href='http://gigs.gigatools.com/u/minilogue' target='_new'>minilogue's Upcoming Gigs </a>Saturday 08 February, 2014 <a href='http://www.trouwamsterdam.nl' target='_new'>Trouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands</a> <a href='http://www.gigatools.com' target='_new'>Powered by GigaTools</a> Blomma

Everything comes in its own time: a wordly wisdom that Marcus Henriksson and Sebastian Mullaert aka Minilogue take for granted. Since their foundation in the year 1997 they emerged to one of the most respected and hard to pigeonhole electronic music acts world-wide. And that not only because in each of their artistic expressions you can feel their effortless passion for what they do - whether live or magnetized on a medium. Also because they do not stick to any stylistic niche to mark their territory. House, techno, ambient, trance, and lately jazz are equal parts in their creations.

The most effective bunched proof for their musical universalism was marked in 2008 with the release of their debut album „Animals““ on Cocoon. Since then a string of Ep’s on labels like Mule, Wagon Repair, Traum Schallplatten, and their own imprint Minilogue continued their story in sound in which everything is made out of the present moment. Also the jazz infused album „Bring Out The Imps“ that they recorded under the alias IMPS with two jazz musicians and a heartfelt collaboration album with the Japanese producer Kuniyuki entered their discography.

And between all their work they constantly performed their intense improvised live shows all around the globe. Privatly they formed themself a life far beyond the big city lights, out in the Swedish woods in the north of Malmö. Here they live a life where the inner gets the outer and where their way of creating is far away from Zeitgeist zones in which musical trends pass by like seasons. In the past five years they met every now and then when it felt like hooking up in the studio, jammed on their equipment without a clear goal in mind and recorded each unique moment that was guided by the experience of the single day of life that marked their souls when they came together. In past months they went through the archives of their creative comments on our time, that been born in moments where time was not on the agenda. In that time just music called the tune and as a result of this pure form of conversation between two souls their second album „Blomma“ emerged.

The title of the album isn’t just a name. The Swedish word „blomma“ represents two meanings in one: to bloom and the flower. The flower and the blooming are deeply tied to each other - as for Minilogue the process of making music and the temporary result of the process is one too, the album title matches perfectly with their aim of beeing aimless. Out of this attitude towards making music again a heterogeneous longplayer arose that does not work like a regulary formatted club music album. It comes in two parts that both have two faces within themself which are constantly shifting: dance oriented rhythm parts and airy layered ambient atmospheres – always intensely tuneful, musical, and shapely.

All eight tracks underpin the wisdom that says that in the moment of deep creativity you disappear. Because no ego can be heard and all grooves, melodies, field-recordings, samples, and chords work like a single colour of a musical painting that is full of versatile electric elements und unnatural sounds. Sounds that only evolve if those who create them are far away from knowing that they create. A state of mind that Minilogue bound on a double album that is just there to let the music speak. That is why again you can’t see their faces on the cover. Instead pictures of the nature that surrounds them in their everyday life stimulate the fancy of the listener while his ears get lost in a gentle amalgamation of rhythm and sound that conveys the impression that it just flew through the bodies of both while their extremities instantly used each instrument around – from the computer to the synth, from percussions to piano.

Nothing you can hear on the album is edited or post produced – it all sounds exactly like it was when the atoms of these two individuals danced together. The result is a record with no real beginning or end. An album that tells unconscious an epic story about the path it took to make it. With each atmospheric turn it blooms like an unreal sound fairytale which leaves much space for the listeners individual imagination. You can dance to it, you can ease, you can loose your feeling towards time and space. Whatever happens – in one moment suddenly Minilogue are very close, even if they are not present.

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