TRG | ja

House/ Techno/ Experimental 50 Weapons/ Rush Hour/ There are those who imitate, and those who innovate: Romanian born, Berlin based producer Cosmin Nicolae is unquestionably the latter. At this point in time you’ll find him honing a ghostly, sketchy techno blueprint that fuses shuffling drums with eerie synths, snatched vocals-as-instruments and strains of Detroit and Chicago classicism. These analogue sounds arrive on labels like connoisseur Dutch imprint Rush Hour as well as Modeselektor’s 50 Weapons and Untold’s hotter-than-hot Hemlock, but are a stylistic mile away from the sound with which the man first emerged. Back in 2007, when known simply...

Cosmin Nicolae's debut first as TRG came in 2002 at the TMBASE Festival in Timisoara, Romania. He is one of the first musicians to have constantly released records outside Romania and play a key-role in contemporary electronic music. TRG has caused a stir not only in the bass-heavy music scene, but also in most electronica areas which share a passion for fresh new sounds, addictive grooves and dancefloor-shattering basslines. His first 12" on Hessle Audio garnered the attention of BBC Radio 1's Mary Anne Hobbs among others, and labels soon got on his case: Hotflush, Cool&Deadly, This Is Music, Against...