A calm and dark mix of electro and breaks

To sit at a table set with the sounds of 214 (TwoFourteen) is to be served hungry-man portions of honey-buttered electro beats, side dishes of synth-line treats, and dollops of IDM-get-down. Like most musicians, Chris Roman’s path is rooted in a veritable melting pot of sounds. Some of the influences are obvious. Others not so much so.

His Puerto Rican birthright and Miami upbringing ring apparent when he’s pumping out sci-fi roller disco sounds, but when his vibe turns to the cold dark comfort of Detroit-esque minimal mind funk, it would seem this man forgets from whence he came. It’s a memory lapse that sounds like a lapdance in the side room of a space ship. More importantly, it’s a memory lapse that works. It’s not so much a lapse then as a love of diversity, a creative finesse with a variety of good tastes.

TwoFourteen effortlessly blends lush Latin roots with robo-transformer trips, always maintaining a skillful balance between the nasty, the not-right, the cold, hard, and just-right – all at the same time. He’s got plenty of tricks up his proverbial record sleeve. And he’s been pulling them out for years now.

Wherever you can find it, count on TwoFourteen for premium blend electro and assorted savory flavors from the future

1. Daega SoundSystem - Mercury Sky - unreleased
2. Fulgeance - Ann Arbor (Jimmy Edgar remix) - One Handed Music
3. Clubroot - Dry Cured - Lo Dubs
4. J.Phlip - Droppin Bombs on your Momz - Dirtybird
5. Christian Martin - Polar Bear - Dirtybird
6. Booka Shade - The Door - Get Physical
7. Alpha 606 & Sync 24 - Forest Communication - Cultivated Electronics
8. Jean-Louis Huhta - Space - H Productions
9. Pain Struck Stanley Dumb - Sub Conscious - Wide
10. Pariah - Orpheus - R & S Records
11. 214 - The Spores are Coming - unreleased
12. SST & Glitch - Snail Trail - Apparatus Recordings
13. Simulant - Wav Form - Scopex
14. ERP - Sensory Process - Semantica
15. Hiroshi Watanabe - Genesis (Beatless version) - Klik Records