Mihai Popoviciu, from Sibiu in Romania, is considered one of the most innovative eastern European producers of electronic music today. He was born in Romania in 1981 and was drawn to the fast-growing rave scene of the 90’s. He started producing music in 2001 being influenced by the techno and house virus and it took many years of experiments untill he came up with his first vinyl release on DJ Hell’s imprint Gigolo Records in 2005. Since then he has steadily added chapters to his personal success story with solo projects and those with partners like Markus Homm or Jay Bliss. In June 2007, his EP "First Contact" was released on Pascal Feos' label Level Non Zero Recordings. Mihai joined the Highgrade family together with Markus Homm in late 2007 and from then on the duo have had several successful releases on the Berlin based imprint like “Deaf Sniper”, “Lagoon” or “Urban Ballroom”. In 2009 the discographic activity of Mihai got very intense with releases on highly respected european labels such as Fear Of Flying, Hudd Traxx, Bang Bang or Diynamic. The club hit Bis Co (produced together with Markus and Jay Bliss) was featured in all major dance charts across Europe and confirmed once again his fine producing skills. When teaming up with Jay Bliss the duo call themselves Hermannstadt Collective, a dj and producing team that has made big waves on the dancefloors all over the world with tracks like “Raw Fruit”, “Thirst Day” or “Safety Match”. Mr. Popoviciu is the kind of producer that likes to innovate and to allways refine his varied sound pallette surprising the audiance in the best way. 
It’s not a big surprise that Mihai’s reputation as a DJ grew fast in the past years taking him to Europe’s most important clubs and venues. His flavourous dj sets have a distinctive peronal touch delivering you a perfectly balanced mixture of groovy beats, warm pads and musical emotiones that will get you addicted. 

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"Cosmic Cowboys" is a project born from the different styles of two young venetian artists: Nicola Sansoni aka Randomatique and Kaled Jabari aka Kaledj. Big friends since they were 10 years old, they got involved into electronic music since they were 15. Influenced at first by artists as Ian Pooley, Dj Deep, Chicken Lips, Frankie Knucles and then by names as Minilogue, Ripperton, Trentemoller, Martin Buttrich and Royksopp they developed a style that couldn't be defined with other term than "cosmic", edging between deep-house, dub and melodic tech-house with their quintessential romantic touch, always able to create a special intensity in their music. Their first EP "Rent a Starship" was released in december 2008 on the prestigious german label Ostwind Records being reviewed also on the spanish Deejay Magazine as one of the best records of the year.

2009 was the time for the 23 years old Nico & Kaled to make more steps with releases as the "Dusk EP" on Kollektiv Turmstrasse's imprint "Musik Gewinnt Freunde" together with singles and remixes for important labels as Resopal, Trenton, and Ostwind LTD among the others while 2010 has been the year which they got a real international popularity with works for labels as Traum Schallplatten, Kutchuli, Plastic City. Time Has Changed, ProgCity Deep, Galaktika, Pour Le Merite and again on Ostwind, Trenton and MGF , appearing also on the Cocoon Compilation with their side project "Reisak Corporation". Together with these releases Kaled and Nico realized also many tracks for their own label "Kina Music", created together with their friends Re-UP, a project that started in November 2008, and also for their brand new imprint "Back and Forth" starting in January 2011 that will surely be an highlight in the european underground discography for the next years.

Beside the productions also their popularity as djs and live performers grew up thanks to their party "Origami" and to their performances in many clubs and events in Italy and in other european countries as Germany, Russia, France, Spain, Greece, Austria, United Kingdom and Switzerland with their groovy sound behind the turntables and with their breathtaking harmonies while live performing.

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