"how can gypsy music and modern club-sounds
go together without losing their essence?"
Stani Vana, Vienna based producer, dj and musician answered this question with !Dela Dap ´s first album “Cigani Rusza + Angelo“, released in 2004. To get there he undertook a two year
plus musical journey ac companied by lots of actual travelling to capture the magic of his childhood.
Vana was then deeply touched by the wor ld and music of three Roma families that lived in the neighborhood.
A rich music full of melancholy, pain, beauty and s ensuality. Music that very likely always has been present during
Vana´s own musical trip, that found him heavily involved i n the electronical sounds and beats that provided
the soundtrack for a club-scene that imagined the dancefloor as some sort of urban utopia, where daily life
and the distance between people were transcended. The desire to bring these wo
rlds together laid the roots for the “Urban Gypsy Sound“, that !Dela Dap defined. The traditional Roma music and it´s i
nstruments meet beats and electronic sounds, styles of music finally blended without losing their own identity and dig nity.
Melinda Stoika added her fresh and unconventional phrasing of the lyrics, all sung in Romanese, reflecting her life´s
experience as a Romni living in the urban centers of Budapest and Vienna. Tibor Barkoczy (piano, arrangements) kicked o
pen the door to jazz and Pista brought in his Cimbal and viennese charms. The journey had reached it´s end! “Angelo“, “A
maro Shavo“ or the masterly exercise in downtempo, “Me Kamav Tu“ got popular in the european club scene, starting in
Hungary. Gypsy music was touched by remix- and club-culture for the first time which is a perfect reason to include t
he remixes of “Amaro Shavo“ by N.O.H.A. and “Angelo“ by Karuan in this new edition of “Cigani Rusza + Angelo“. The tre
asure that this music and Roma culture in general are began finding a new audience through !Dela Dap´s visionary and ori
ginal sound.
