Xplore
[  ] Romania  Born in Pitesti, Romania, Xplore showed his interest in music early, taking up piano and theory courses. His love for music was then for classics and also new comers in rock music. He started collecting music that he liked and after finishing music school, he started getting interested in computers. His interest then moved from rock music to electronic music that was made at that time on Atari computers, in so called "trackers" which allowed you to create a 4 or 8 track music composition, respectively on 4 and 8 tracks. His interest rose more as he got in contact with the local demoscene that was organising PC-parties, meaning contests in which people presented animated graphics and music, made for the PC scene, at that time.
He got toghether with a group called Plastic Surgery (later Transdimensional) and started creating music for 3d animated demos that were purely hard-coded in assembler and such programming languages. After a few years he got in contact with a music studio and started producing his own tracks using a few pieces of good hardware and software that allowed him to make a transition from Atari-made-music to the underground main scene, at that time. He went and started to produce tracks in drum'n'bass, speed garage, deep house, tech house and trance.
After a few years he moved to beautiful Vancouver. There he got in contact with several deejays and that's the place where he first puts his hand on a vinyl. He also met a lot of the local drum'n'bass scene which is pretty big there, including deejays, producers, good vibe people. After 3 years spent there, he moved back to Romania deciding that is the time to come back to his old love, producing music. The scene was better than when he left it which was good news. He gets back with old friends and starts producing after waiting practically 3 years for it.
In the month of October, after one year since he got back, he gets set for 1 hour set at the TMBase festival which is a massive festival that's being held in Romania each year at Timisoara where he played a mix made up of his own produced tracks. After the festival he starts producing remixes for various artists such as V-Sag, Moonbeam and Kemek.
Later, in December, same year, he gets the attention of Pure Substance Records and signs up for 5 years, starting his releases with an EP along with well-known russian guys DP-6.
In spring 2006, he also gets the attention of David, label founder of Fiberline Records with his progressive breaks remix for Kemek - Shibuya.
Following this remix, Xplore is working with a lot of artists in doing remix work such as Blake Jarrel, Narek, Jose Acosta, Soak, Moonbeam, Bs as deep and Python.
In 2007 he released Blue Haze EP at the beginning of the year with Underground Lessons Digital / Greece, Andrew K's own record label + a few other remixes.
He's also planning the release of much awaited Time Travel EP with Pure Substance Digital (containing Time Travel, also featured on Hernan Cattaneo's Sequential 2 album, Near the energy core and Aquatic People) and Minimal Works EP (containing around 5 tracks) which will be released mid-september with Carica Deep.
He attended so far to one radio show, supported by D-Phrag which invited him as a guest mix for one hour set on Frisky Radio, which had been broadcasted to over 1159 listeners. Looking forward for the Ready Mix Records show on Pacifique Radio over in Montreal :)
Currently he has released under Renaissance / UK, Pure Substance Digital / Malaysia, Carica Deep / Greece, Underground Lessons / Greece and Fiberline Audio / US.
What to expect is more releases and a lot of remix works with music minded people from all over the world.
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