Sometimes, when a close friend visits me for a chat, I am asking him for at least five of his favorite tracks – then I connect the controller, add some of my fav. tunes, and record a [private] mixtape – only for us & friends.
The same happened in the evening of February 11, 2022 when Alex Ardelean paid me a visit. We love music in general, but Alex is very fond of the classical style. Ergo, a new experimental idea, which, besides his [rare] visit, made my blood pressure significantly higher.
In the beginning of 2022, the world was just coming back to life from the pandemic, in a pretty dizzy manner. You’ll probably hear this in [part I] – recorded in one take, with no edits — allowing every transition, mistake, surprise and moment of intuition to remain exactly as it happened.
Four years later, in May 2026, I returned to the same concept – this time alone, trying to keep its classical essence. Now I went even further, including other electronic [sub]genres (broken beat, dub, techno, house, pop, downtempo etc), plus more classical music I particularly enjoy, from Chopin to George Enescu, or Mozart.
[part II] is longer, more emotional, and plays a lot with the BPM, sometimes seriously fluctuating during the same track.
It’s a restless selection, connecting different places, memories, and emotions – quite a lot happened since the first recording.
In this second part there is also music from România, das Land, in dem ich geboren wurde, still close to my heart as a beautiful, warm, tough, but unforgettable place. Deutschland is present as well – my adopted home since 2013.
The rest is inside the music ↴
↳ let’s start with the present [part II – recorded in May 2026]
[part II – #043 – 2026] playlist:
M83 – Solitude (Felsmann + Tiley Reinterpretation) (Official Audio) – M83
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi – Swamp
Fryderyk Chopin – Prelude no. 13 in F-sharp major: Lento
Björk – Human Behaviour
George Enescu – Romanian Rhapsody #1 In A, Op. 11/1
Cirez.D – Teaser
Blake Baxter – Our Luv
Fryderyk Chopin – Prelude no. 22 in G minor: Molto agitato
Thievery Corporation – Lebanese Blonde
Transparent Sound – Punk Mother Fucker
Boards of Canada – An Eagle in Your Mind
Fryderyk Chopin – Prelude no. 23 in F major: Moderato
Björk – Come To Me
Burial and Four Tet – Nova
Philippe Entremont – Mozart: Piano Sonata in F Major, K.332: III. Allegro assai
Orbe – W9Y
George Enescu – Symphony #2 In A, Op. 17 – 2. Andante Giusto
nthng – With You
Black Devil – “H” Friend
Muslimgauze – RMT Tape13 B1
Groove Armada – Edge Hill
Underworld – Dark and Long (Dark Train) (2011 edit)
Philippe Entremont – Mozart: Piano Sonata in F Major, K.332: I. Allegro
Luigi Madonna – Zonder
Björk – Hunter
[part I – February 2022] ↴
↳ [actual foto – first recording experiment]
[part I] playlist:
TTØRA – 1D114
Philipp Adam – Gravity
Akim Hash – Stars Secret Garden
Winter 3 – Recomposed Vivaldi’s Four Seasons (2012)
The Allegorist – Marching Crowd
Peter Kirn – Quandary
Shostakovich String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 122 – 5. Humoresque Allegro
Fenin – Rollin
TTØRA – KiK
Philip Glass Music in Fifths (June 1969)
photo: Florin Tulbure