26.7.2013 Phantastische Bredouille im Garten (Festival), Pratersauna, Wien Einstellungen

[mr.magenta]

Petre Inspirescu

In his adoptive town, Bucharest, Pedro aka Petre Inspirescu has long been a pivotal figure alongside his frequent accomplices Rhadoo and Raresh. He started djing in 1999, in the long regretted Web Club.

Four years ago he became resident at Circoloco, Dc10 Ibiza and since then, his way of feeling and understanding electronic music changed completely. In the last three years, his appearances throughout the whole world have brought his name to many listeners' lips, heightening interest in the fertile Romanian scene, an unexpected outpost of advanced electronic music.

From the very beginning Pedro has been strongly affected by deep house tunes and the multitude variety of grooves - not only in electronic music. His DJ sets are as sonically baffling as they are irresistibly groovy; as a producer, his tracks are as unhinged as they are methodical. He equally owns the label [a:rpia:r], with Rhadoo and Raresh , other details being completely useless. If you listened to him at least once, you know what we're talking about!

[Neo]

DeWalta

With a background like DeWalta’s, the stage was set long ago for this yougin to blast some serious
holes in the fabric of music, time, and space. DeWalta a.k.a. David Koch budded from a large family in
southern Germany filled with theater, literature, and music. Early schooling came in the form of the
interdisciplinary Waldorf School (also home to electronic pioneers Abe Duque and John Selway)
tasked with nothing less than helping young people fulfill their unique destinies.

With the school’s emphasis on artistic and imaginative endeavors in elementary education, David
started with French horn at age 7 leading to his first orchestral and ensemble performances.
Meanwhile David’s grandfather was a music journalist who first exposed him to early American jazz on
old lacquer records and later the music of the beatnik movement of the 1950’s.
At age 10 David started to teach himself jazz. By 13 he engaged in known local jazz clubs playing on
sessions which lead to his first musical scholarship where he met his first inspiring instructors. Parallel
to his jazz studies David picked up on good ol’ American P-Funk, hip hop, and some pop\rock.
Additionally David started to tour globally with classical symphonic orchestras, and in the off season
started to earn money performing in young jazz ensembles.

In 1999 David moved to Berlin to attend an elite music conservatory and continued to play jazz taking
part in Berlin’s young jazz scene. Just 2 years later he left the high school conservatory to attend the
Hans Eissler Music College for jazz and pop where he studied saxophone, piano, composition, and
music theory. Of course here he also found many suitable ensembles to play with ranging in style from
big band and free jazz, to funk and Latin music.

By 2003, as was common for many gifted musicians, David started the doubt the necessity of musical
education. Though trained as an instrumentalist for most of his life, he felt limited by traditional
performance with control of just one element of a piece. The emphasis of improvisation in jazz led him
to experimentation, composition, and giving into the natural genesis of producing his own music. He
started to acquire studio equipment, experimented with different sounds, founded a disco band, and
made his first forays into producing electronic music events. Berlin was also a vinyl paradise which
David did not overlook quickly amassing a collection delving deeper into electronic music. His eclectic
endeavors continued to dominate composing theatrical music, expanding his studio, studying jazz at
the music college, and partaking in the bohemian urban paradise that was and still is Berlin.
David continued to expand his studio, improved his production skills, and advanced his productions.
By 2007 he founded his Meander label and began releasing his first electronic records. Just a year
later long time friend and Vakant big daddy snapped up David leading to the drop of the
‘Salgaro/Farina’ EP (VA021) on the world’s dance floors. With a bass presence not easily described in
words and the musical expanse that floats on top of his debut Vakant release, DeWalta became
instantly known to all those seeking massive funk with their freak. With so much music already under
his belt and the platform that is Vakant, we envision a mad scramble of the world’s sound technicians
to technically accommodate such a talent in the time to come.