{"id":20493,"date":"2020-06-09T13:11:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T11:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xceed.me\/blog\/?p=20493"},"modified":"2021-03-23T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T09:59:17","slug":"xceed-podcast-015-simina-grigoriu-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xceed.me\/blog\/en\/xceed-podcast-015-simina-grigoriu-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Xceed Podcast 015: Simina Grigoriu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cContagious viruses\u201d, \u201cnational hysteria\u201d, \u201cnegative emotions jumping from person to person\u201d, \u201cexcessive information bombardment\u201d. Surely, these concepts are familiar to you in times of pandemic. With them, Simina Grigoriu<\/a> takes us into a musical 1-hour journey through techno landscapes of acid air and big-room, high-introspective personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simina Grigoriu is a proven DJ and producer in the European techno movement. She was born in Bucharest on 8 May 1981, but, unlike most DJs in Romania, she did not opt for the warmth of microhouse, so characteristic in her country, but for a more aggressive and aggressive techno proposal. As many have said, Grigoriu produces \u201cboys’ techno for girls\u201d, a classification that causes us as many doubts as it causes her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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I am not sure what that really means, but I think it boils down to incorporating melodies and vocals on very hard techno tracks to create a melange of beats and feelings. You cannot sing a track -you can only sing a song. I often use samples that add depth to the most mechanical of sounds in order to soften the vibe and appeal to everyone, not just hardcore techno heads. I make my tracks \u2018songy\u2019 quite often, which adds a special \u2018something\u2019 while also making them more memorable. Sometimes. Other times, it is just straight driving beats.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Simina Grigoriu has been playing music around the planet for 13 years now. Since 2008, she has been living in Berlin, from where she runs her own label Kuukou Records<\/a>, a task she undertook in July 2016. In her one-hour mix for Xceed Night Mag<\/a>, she uses two of her most recent tracks – “Brutally Honest”, released on Tronic<\/a>, and “Battleaxe”, released on Complexed<\/a> -, as well as the also recently released “Check Yourself”, by her husband Paul Kalkbrenner, and other techno pearls that she herself highlights, such as “Induction” by Gallya or “Settle In The Sun” by Bart Skils. Of the latter, she assures that “the melody will pull on your heart strings and remind you of the 90s\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

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