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As part of developing the TMA-1, we‘re cooperating with a wide range of talented DJ’s so that we can test our product. We’re doing this to gain the best possible insight into how we can improve functionalities and sound. Last week we received the first little test batch and they were immediately sent out to our testers. Over the next month, they’ll be playing with them and providing us feedback along the way.

This weekend we hooked up with some of them in Bucharest (Sunwaves Festival at Mamaia) and London (On & On at Fabric) to talk over the project with them, and follow their first little test session.

Below are some pics and explanation. More pics are uploaded to our facebook page.

29.04.10

11.15am

Heading to the Airport catching a flight to Bucharest – typically, we almost missed it.

2.45pm

Landing in Bucharest, renting a Chevy Cruiser and heading straight into town to meet up with a group of Zander’s old friends. Zander used to live and work in Bucharest. 

3.30pm

Visiting Milos’ new pop-up shop Titanic, hanging out in a really cosy backyard garden (apparently the only one in Bucharest), drinking home brew Slivovitz and eating super delicious shitcakes (cakes baked to look like poo). 

7.30pm

We headed on to a Vernissage of a strange no-goal show, drinking more Slivovitz, meeting our good partners from Clockwise, meeting Bogdan (DJ Slick) who used to manage the legendary TurnTableLab at Manhatten. Bogdan is now back in Bucharest with his family. 

8.45pm

Went for a super dinner at the local restaurant called Harbour. We had the best rolled up sausages ever, with traditional Balkan style potatoes baked super slowly (low heat) with bacon, onion and added spray of finely chopped dill on top. That dill on top was amazing, probably (and quite surprising really) the best combination we’ve tried in a long time. Even Rene Redzepi (our newly renounced World best chef – congrats) could learn from this. 

01.00am

Getting out of Harbour heading towards a little villa club (Ota) nearby for a few more beers. 

02.45am

Getting kind of blurry on the way back to Milos’ studio, where we slept over with Roller girl Surina and her crazy cat. On the way back we passed the square where Ceaucescu held his last speech before being picked up by a chopper, flown away with his wife, handed over to the army and eventually sentenced to death. We also had an argument about the size of the Palace of Parliament build under Ceaucescu. Zander meant to know that it is the second largest building in the world after Pentagon. We didn't believe him one bit, but it turned out he was right. Shit!

30.04.10

09.30am

Went out for a butter croissant, a Quiche Loraine and a double espresso while talking over the plan of the day.

11.30am

Heading off to Mamaia. Cornell, Zanders friend and photo wizard, drove. Passing loads of beautiful settings, a nuclear power plant and even vineyards (never tried Rumanian wine) before heading into Mamaia. Mamaia is Miami of the Black Sea. 

04.30pm

Meeting up with Tata (head of Sunrise and Sunwaves). Production guy with a huge P (P for Ponytail) - Zep go home. Getting installed at the Hotel Palas, visiting the venues and getting the last little details planned.

11.30pm

Seth, Ricardo, Zip and the rest land from Berlin and we join them to the venue. We give Seth a quick little introduction and leave him at the decks. Tata provides us backstage passes for us to get the best possible documentation. Zander and Cornell goes crazy with their 5D and 550D respectively. Seth keeps playing for hours and showes these really funky moves, as if he’s pounding the deck. Priceless. We met a few different people, Ricardo’s manager Malle and a few others. They where all quite interested in our little project ...

06.30am

Seth is still going. We are leaving the venue to get some rest at the hotel. It’s been some long days and Ulrik and I are driving back to Bucharest to catch a flight into London. 

01.05.10

11.00am

Heading out of Manaia, rock-paper-scisosred the drivers seat. I lost. Thank God for getting us into Bucharest Airport without knowing the route at all. Boarded the flight and here we are in the Tube heading into London to meet up with Ulriks old time buddy Jesal.

To be continued ...

Speaking of the Oscars, congrats to Joachim back by the way, who won an Oscar for best short film - The New Tenants - thumbs up!!

Click on the picture below to view the article from E! Online...

The Last Night

Exhibition: 25.03.2010 > 28.04.2010

Opening: Thursday the 25th of March 2010 > 18.00

Tracklist:

1. Acoustic Lady – Hudson Mohawke
2. My Halo – Atlas Sound
3. Bitterljuv – Lugnet
4. She’s The One (Original Mix) – Caribou
5. Flajd – Lugnet
6. Opium – Svengali
7. I Found The F [Original By Broadcast] (Original Mix) – Gravenhurst
8. Melody Melody – Giana Factory
9. Crystalised – The XX
10. Everytime I’m With You (Ft. Jason Lytle) – Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse
11. Operation Costs – Lusine
12. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Servo
13. Blue Steel – Bot’Ox
14. Brown Rice – Don Cherry

The first one is inspired by the legendary Nike Air Trainer 1 tennis shoe that we've all  - including John McEnroe - played with/in back in the days. It came out in 1987 as a cross trainer shoe project, but soon became a hit as a tennis shoe and it was even used in the NBA at one point. The idea and colourway has been re-launched several times, but nothing really matches the good old original one. Hope you like our translation.

The second vesion of our new pipes is inspired by the one an only beer - Gold Tuborg! Also known as "the golden lady" the beer hit the market in 1895 and was actually meant for export markets. Instead it quickly became only a national product for the Danes - and they/we loved it (we have no intentions of following this market strategy though). At the old A-house, where we used to have our club, we served the gold beer instead of regular pilsner and we even served it in a can (as the one you see on the picture). People loved it and Tuborg realized that this beer had been down-prioritized way too much through out the years. The second year of our clubs existence, we had Tuborg convinced to make us customized Gold Tuborg vending machines, which became a great success. Today these vending machines are spread all over town as an alternative to line up in the bar. Anyway hope you like the two new colours, they are available in our webshop and soon also in shops world wide. Cheers! (Skål!)