Lapti - Enter/ Lulaby
Zentrum Für Elektronische Musik - Digital and Subharmonic Workshop
OL - Terrible Night
Actress - Ivy May Gilpin
Jus’ Ed - Jus Ed’s Aerial
Knowone - 007
STL - Nite Train
Aaron Dilloway - Psychic Driving Tapes Excerpt 3
Simon Fisher Turner - Shishapangma
Ondo Fudd - Blue Dot
Tolouse Low Trax - Rushing into Water
Lawrence - Pond
SW - B2 Reminder Part 3 
Jus Ed - Thrilla
Tim Wright - Can't Stop (Schatrax Mix)
A Made Up Sound, Svn & Dynamo Dreesen - Untitled
Horacio - Durango
Mono Junk - Channel B
Jacek Sienkiewicz ‎– Drifting (Villalobos Mix)
Beatrice Dillon - Face A
Body Boys - First Time
Sanasol - Five AM
Arthur Boto Conley’s Music Workshop
 

Cosmin TRG X Call Super - NTS 21.01.2016

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former 1020 Resident , now on the lam
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As a producer, DJ & label owner Cosmin Nicolae’s dedication to developing a rich and wholly personal artistic landscape provides the driving force behind one of dance music’s most unique & industrious individuals.

Opening the door on Hessle Audio over a decade ago - an outlet that has gone on to become a defining voice within electronic music in the 21st Century, Nicolae’s list of affiliations reads like a who’s who of top tier contemporary dance music record labels. Appearances on Amsterdam’s Rush Hour and Gerd Janson’s Running Back, as well as a brace of singles alongside LP’s Gordian and Simulat on the now defunct 50 Weapons - not to mention work for Semantica and Bleep, have cemented Cosmin TRG deep in the psyche of the ever shifting amoeba that is the dance music zeitgeist.

In many ways, what lies at the heart of Nicolae’s work - beyond the extraordinary pairing of high end sound design and club functionality, is an innate ability to bind his discography - to create a streamlined sonic vision without compromise, one that moves with purpose and vigour outwards to explore in depth structures that exist on the very periphery of House & Techno, Ambient & experimental electronics - but maintain a unique and recognisable finish. Few artists could boast a discography that marries 2016’s ubiquitous In Your Body, an anthemic spoken- word-meets-Tool-Techno leviathan released via Nicolae’s own club-focused Sportiv outlet, with Semnal - a gloriously executed LP of shifting, otherworldly Experimental music delivered under the artist’s given name via the Opal Tapes label.

Cult concept missive Hope This Finds You Well, Nicolae’s 2019 reflection on corporate culture furthers this same dichotomy - a stunning wide-angle Ambient LP on Fizic - the label operated by the artist as a home to more conceptual iterations, that followed hot on the footsteps of a remix for Bpitch founder Ellen Alien & the fourth instalment on Sportiv - both offerings heady club constructions in their own right.

On the road, both DJ sets and live performances mirror this healthy sentiment - with Nicolae as comfortable on main stages showcasing his take on hyper-modern propulsive Techno, as he is presenting the low slung avant-garde preoccupations of his more leftfield alias’. There’s the constant feeling that both these practices feed back into one another, and that from each respective vantage point, Cosmin TRG is able to make the kind of dynamic & intuitive artistic decisions that few can - keeping his work fresh & current without concession - ceding to his own desire to further his vision as a creator of sonic abstraction without losing sight of the dance floor.

Record slinging since 2008.

Resident: VAULT. / Champagne / Mødular.

Creative Director: @vertigo-festival

Running: @citybowlwaxnetwork

Bookings: riley@curatoragency.co.za

Released music on City Bowl Wax Network, Drawner Records, PRX Records, MALöR, Koncept & Knowledge Recordings.

2023
24.01 VAULT Hard w/ Rebekah [UK], Cape Town
24.02 VAULT w/ Tripeo & Laura Van Hal, Cape Town
30.03 VAULT w/DVS1, Cape Town
16.04 VAULT w/Vil, Cape Town
21.05 VAULT x Scene w/ Dasha Rush & Alan Oldham, Cape Town
31.12 Search Festival, Swellendam


2022

16.12 Thank Me Later Festival, Durban
10.12 Future Frequency Festival, CPT
19.11 VAULT showcase w/ Deniro [NL] @ Smalltown Beat (B2B MVLS), Swellendam 
21.10 Orphic ADE @ Mary Go Wild, Amsterdam
13.10 D59B, Berlin (Listening Set)
12.10 New Faces @ Tresor, Berlin
01.10 Rave club, CPT
30.09 Sonar, District, CPT
12.09 VAULT w/ Justine Perry, Modular, CPT
20.08 VAULT @ Modular
29.07 VAULT @ Modular (b2b MVLS)
17.07 TOYTOY @ And, JHB
07.07 Xylem @ Modular
24.06 Linked & Gardeners Club, Paarden Island
24.06 VAULT @ Modular
03.06 Modular presents Wehbba
21.05 VAULT w/ Kaiser, Modular
29.04 VAULT @ Modular
22.04 Database @ Modular
09.04 Spilt Milk Festival, CPT
08.04 Gardeners Club, CPT (Postponed)
25.03 VAULT @ Modular
12.03 Champagne @ Modular
28.01 VAULT @ Modular
15.01 MUUD @ And, JHB


2021
24.01 VAULT @ Modular
26.11 VAULT @ Modular
30.10 Friends of Friends, Colourbox
29.10 VAULT @ Modular
15.10 Gardeners Club, CPT
09.10 Modular Club Night
11.09 TOYTOY @ And, JHB
29.05 Modular Club Night
17.04 Stereo Culture, CPT
04.04 Modular Open Air 3.0
27.03 MUUD @ Huula, JHB

2020
31.01 VAULT, ZA
22.02 3 Years of Modular, ZA
28.02 VAULT
20.03 VAULT w/ Deano [Cancelled]
26.03 Modular w/ Faretrade [Cancelled]
04.04 Planet Rose w/ Bjarki & Remco Beekwilder, NL [Cancelled]
05.05 Orphic 006, NL [Cancelled]
11.04 Basis w/ Function, NL [Cancelled]
27.04 8Bahn Kingsday w/ D.Dan & TAFKAMP, NL [Cancelled]
2020
07.11 Modular Open Air 1.0

2019
13.12 VAULT x 8Bahn w/  Dimi Angelis [NL], SA
15.11  VAULT x 8Bahn w/ Tripeo [NL], Dimi Angelis [NL], SA
15.11  VAULT, Mødular, SA
11.10  VAULT pres. Rene Wise [UK], Mødular, SA
07.11  Arkology x Smalltown Beat, Warehouse, CPT
23.08 VAULT, Mødular, CPT 
16.08 Knowledge pres. Deano & Friends, Mødular, CPT
01.08 Database pres. Stephanie Sykes [UK], CPT
28-06 VAULT pres. Vincent Neumann [DE], Mødular, CPT
08-06 Acid Garden Party, Mødular, CPT
25-05 VAULT, Mødular, CPT 
27-10  Club 8Bahn x Bad Habits, Willemeen, NL
26-04 8Bahn with Ben Sim [UK] & Adiel [ITA],  Luxor Live, NL
26-04 Operator Radio, Rotterdam, NL 
19-04 Reset , CPT
 12-04 3 Years Of VAULT, Mødular, CPT
 29-03 VAULT pres Viktoria [DE], Mødular, CPT 
22-02 VAULT pres Lewis Fautzi [PT], Mødular, CPT
 16-02 Knowledge pres. Kaiser [ITL], Mødular, CPT 
02-02 Origin Festival, Helderstroom
 25-01 VAULT, Mødular, CPT

2018:
31-12 Kinky Summer NYE, Paarl
28-12 Killer Robot pres Evigt Morker, Mødular, CPT
21-12  VAULT pres Shlomo [FR], Mødular, CPT
13-12 Mass, Mødular, CPT
09-11 VAULT pres Antigone [FR], Mødular, CPT
01-11 Database, Mødular, CPT
29-09 Portland Programme, Reset, CPT
21 -09 Knowledge Imprint Launch, Mødular, CPT
15-09 Thrum Room, Inner City, CPT
14-09 VAULT pres Exos [Iceland], Mødular, CPT
11-08 VAULT pres DVS1 [US], Mødular, CPT
27-07 VAULT, Mødular, CPT
27-07 VAULT, Mødular, CPT
04-05 VAULT, Mødular, CPT
14-04 Overtime, Fiction CPT
06-04 Cape Town Electronic Music Festival 
30-03 VAULT pres MCMLXXXV [DE], Mødular, CPT
17-03 Knowledge pres. Bas Amro [NL], Mødular, CPT
23-03 VAULT pres SPFDJ [DE], Mødular, CPT
02-02 Modular with Erta Ale [DE]
26-01 VAULT pres Talismann [NL], Mødular, CPT
01-01 Modular pres JED

2017:
09-12 VAULT pres Anthony Parasole [US], Mødular, CPT
01-12 Synergy Live Festival, Stellenbosch
24-11 Reset , CPT
13-10 BNKR, 89 on Long, CPT
07-10 140p, Mødular, CPT
29-09 VAULT Acid Night, Mødular, CPT
25-08 Champagne Invites, Mødular, CPT
28-07 VAULT, Mødular, CPT
30-06 Champagne Invites, Mødular, CPT
19-05 Knowledge, Mødular, CPT
12-05 VAULT, Mødular, CPT
14-04 Spilt Milk Festival, CPT