Paradaiz Tape Masina - Preset Wave Mixtape

Paradaiz Tape Mașina presents a new mixtape comprising Romanian oriental music from the archives.

The project is an ongoing art history project set to preserve, archive and analyse the very poorly studied and almost forgotten, yet fairly exotic and successful oriental party music (or Proto-manele) scene set in Romania's pre Revolution and economic transition years.

This scene which built its own system of production and distribution, functioned as a counter-culture, far away from the mainstream media interest and rejected by intellectuals and opinion-makers. This lo-fi oriental music scene ultimately paved the way to the professional Manele pop industry that today produces arguably the most popular music in the country.