Deep Contour & Restless Planet Present: Mihai Popoviciu

Coming hot off the heels of their first underground show, Deep Contour brings you their next party in collaboration with Restless Planet!

We will have the legend Mihai Popoviciu perform a dazzling DJ set along with some of Seattle's best deep house selectors. After watching Mihai's Music is for Lovers set, we knew how much fun it would be to bring him to Seattle to spread that positive energy. The pairing of these two crews were the perfect promoters to bring in Mihai, as his sound envelopes the minimal house sounds of Restless Planet and the deep groove sounds of Deep Contour. All systems are a go in transporting our audience to sonic realms beyond comprehension.

Every artist has a signature. Mihai Popoviciu is no exception. For over a decade the amiable Romanian producer and DJ has built a body of work characterised by deep grooves, crisp precision,and irresistible energy. Mihai's singularvision was born in his hometown Sibiu (still his home base) which, at thetime, lay on the fringes of Europe's thriving dance scene. It was the early '90s. Electronic music was flooding London, Ibiza, Berlin but only a trickle reached his ears. "We would tape German TV shows onto cassettes and listen over and over," he recalls. With no clubs, record shops or dance culture to speak of Mihai's dream of being anelectronic artist seemed remote. He studied architecture and briefly worked in the field, but it was house and techno, not house-building, that was his true calling . "I couldn't DJ, because there were no clubs," he says with a chuckle. But he could buy software, so he started making records. Lots of records. Sometimes one per day, for months on end. The work of the determined young artist began to catch people's ears. His first track was signed to International Deejay Gigolo in 2005, and dozens of releases followed on imprints including Bondage, Highgrade, Poker Flat, Bedrock, Dessous and also his ownlabel Cyclic, established in 2012.This calm determination became Mihai's trademark as his career blossomed from production to DJing. After honing his skills in the studio he learned to DJ (on borrowed decks) and began drawing attention in Romania and across Europe. Playing international gigs was a big move for someone who grew up only seeing clubs on TV but Mihai stepped up with professional aplomb. His CV now includes the best clubs in Europe and around the world, from Berghain and Watergatein Berlin; to London's Fabric and The Egg; to D-Edge, São Paulo; DC-10, Ibiza; and more. Mihai's ambition with every track and every DJ set, is to transmit the joy and energy that fuels his dream. "It feels great to see people dancing, smiling, having a good time. No matter what I do, that's the main thing." He is equally at home in underground clubs or on festival stages. The one thing that stays the same is his artistry and irresistible delight in music. "Mihai was on his sound from the beginning," says friend and booking agent Benny Grauer. "It has a unique quality. Any time you hear it you know, "That's Mihai". He's done it for years, and it is perfect."