There are those who imitate, and those who innovate; Romanian-born, Berlin-based producer Cosmin TRG is unquestionably the latter. At this point in time you’ll find him honing a ghostly, sketchy techno blueprint that fuses shuffling drums with eerie synths, snatched vocals-as-instruments and strains of Detroit and Chicago classicism. These analog sounds are a stylistic mile away from the sound with which the man first emerged. Back in 2007, when known simply as TRG, a breakthrough came courtesy of Put You Down/Broken Hearts — the 12" that launched Hessle Audio. The ensuing years have seen Cosmin TRG’s sound in a state of constant flux, ever shifting through previously undefined sonic territory with releases on labels like Tempa, Hemlock, Hotflush, Rush Hour and Modeselektor’s 50WEAPONS.
