Yesterday Lavinia, a good friend that is quite familiar with the local electronic music scene, took me to a seven hour DJ/VJ performance with many local artists and some from abroad. The event took place in another old villa transformed into a mix of art exhibition and small concert venue. An interested changing crowd was sitting or standing on the floor infront of the stage and screen. About fifteen different DJ/VJ sets gave a good overview about what’s going on in Romania’s avant-garde clubs at the moment: IDM, Experimental, Breakbeat, Ambient, “Illbient”, Noise, Gabba, Glitch, Punkability, “Extended Drones”, 8bit Music.. My clear favourite was heavy-weight Gojura with Kosak who were playing their IDM/Illbient, a Breakbeat/Drum and Bass like mix with heart-stopping gaps, loops, delays and jumps and dirty, endlessly distorted beats and samples, spiced with pure electronic noise and things that sounded much like broken mp3 files. Hard to describe, but it was very uplifting and dancable. Listen to SomaFM‘s cliqhop and you’ll get an idea. In the afternoon there was some talks and presentations. One remarkable thing was the Vegetable Orchestra of the Transacoutic Research Institute in Vienna. The song that was played from CD was an example of their dance music entirely made with the sounds of vegetables. After their concerts they chop up their instuments and cook a soup for the audience. Vegan music! (“Music not bombs”?) – Bon appetit!