Bio

Aged 25, born in a moun­tain resort from Roma­nia, he is cur­rently liv­ing in Bucharest. He likes cook­ing, the X-men, unpack­ing and unwrap­ping stuff. He hates daily news­pa­pers and television.

DJ…

Iankoo started djing when he was 15. His father owned a record store and had a good selec­tion of dance music. Dur­ing his child­hood he began gath­er­ing records for his own col­lec­tion. He grew up lis­ten­ing to Depeche Mode, Enigma and a lot of euro house and euro dance music. He played music for the first time on his father’s stereo sys­tem for school par­ties. By the time he fin­ished high school, he became noto­ri­ous in his home­town, as the freak who had all the music upfront.

Pro­ducer…

He started exper­i­ment­ing with soft­ware for com­puter music dur­ing the track­ers’ era, evolved with Cool Edit, Rea­son and Fruity Loops and finally became pro­fi­cient in Apple Logic and Able­ton Live. In the last cou­ple of years he has been con­stanly chang­ing his genre, start­ing with trance and psy back in the day, play­ing ATB, Astral Pro­jec­tion or Infected Mush­room until now, when he finally set­tled on deep house and tech house. Mean­while he started pro­duc­ing a party and also a “radio show”: Groove Drips Night and Groove Drips Cloudcast. Groove Drips Night brings together djs that play deep house and tech; Groove Drips Cloud­cast is an one hour weekly mix that fea­tures the lat­est tech house, tribal and deep house music. His new year res­o­lu­tion for 2011 is to release one ep made of 4 tunes on the first semes­ter and one by the end of the year.

Record Col­lec­tor…

Since his child­hood until present he has been col­lect­ing records: not only vinyl, but also cd maxi sin­gles; lately he became a fan of the oughties, and he is col­lect­ing vinyl records from that era.

The elec­tronic music indus­try is evolv­ing with a fast pace. It is instru­men­tal for you as a dj and pro­ducer to keep up with it with­out leav­ing behing the human touch. Look around you, try and find inspi­ra­tion for your cre­ations in the things that sur­round you and you will surely suc­ceed to sur­prise your audi­ence, also rais­ing the line and improv­ing the over­all quality.

Iankoo, March 2011