Fact: ……. EVOCAST Episode 006
Artist: ….. The Model
Label: …… None (Podcast)
Released: … 25-02-2008
Lenght: ….. 01:05:07 h
Type: ……. audio/x-m4a , enhanced podcast

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Good guys never make it to the top. Ours is an era in which most of the people who ‘break through’ barely deserve to be allowed to live, never mind have their own radio shows. However, the rise and rise of The Model has been almost enough to rekindle my faith in that old adage about cream floating to the surface. His biography is starting to look unnervingly like the kind of Mid-West fairy story that all-American mothers tell their God-fearing, homeland-loving kids before they go to bed.
Given that 99% of the radio jocks and big name DJs in Romania couldn’t tell you the difference between prog-house and prog-rock, The Model’s sudden burst onto the Romanian scene was long overdue. However, it was The Model signing to Gigolo Records back in 2005 that came as the first real vindication of that all-too illusory ‘ladder of success’. Though it might have been a pleasant surprise, I can’t say that it’s been entirely unexpected.
From the first time that he started listening to electronic music in 1995, inspired by a trip to the States, to his first experiences in production five years later, The Model has displayed an all-consuming passion for what he does. It was the unavailability of the music that had so inspired him in the US that drove him to his first, more industrial sounding sonic experiments. As the neo-liberal mantra goes, Radu was simply plugging a gap in the market. The same goes for his establishment of his own Elektro.Casnice label in the same year: nobody else was making use of the huge pool of talent that existed in the Sibiu area. Radu managed not only to develop a powerful group identity for the artists he drew around him, but also managed to provide huge motivation towards their collective success.
The first Romanian producer to get signed to Gigolo; the first Romanian producer to have a release on the seminal techno label Traum; The Model is not only blazing a trail, but bringing others with him. It’s no surprise then, that Elektro.Casnice label-mate Mihai Popviciu and Masstyk were signed to Gigolo alongside The Model. I can’t even pretend to know what to expect from him next. If he announced that he was going to write the Great American Novel, or start an oil company, I’d probably believe him. And although I still don’t believe that good guys make it to the top, if the Model keeps going like this, I might just have to revise my ideas.\r\nWords: Tom Wilson [march 2006]

001 Mihai Popoviciu - one last laser dance [ELEKTRO.CASNICE]
002 Marc Romboy – awakening [Mtrcty]
003 Harry Romero - i go back (Wink hypnotic interpretation) [Subliminal]
004 Unknown - C [IsThis]
005 Rebecca von Kalinowsky – dance [Gigolo]
006 Rythmetix – rhytmatic [Next Plateau]
007 Format B - full house [Opposum]
008 Boom Bip - one of eleven [Lex]
009 Green Velvet - the choice [Cajual]
010 Masstyk - last time [ELEKTRO.CASNICE]
011 Grand Theft Audio feat. Alexander Stone - our band [Persona]
012 Casino Music - viol af dis [Everloving]
013 Das Komitee – pop [ELEKTRO.CASNICE]
014 M and G - when i let you down [Skylax]
015 Soulphiction - days of feeling sad [Sonar Kollectiv]
016 Rude 66 – hell [Vynalogica]
017 Zombie Nation – gizmode [UKW]
018 The Model - star’’s end tazenda [Underl_ne]
019 The Model - follow up [DualBlock]
020 Rom.Telekomm – romokom [ELEKTRO.CASNICE]