Warmer Climes (name inspired by the Boat Club song/Seagull-logo inspired by Shout Out Louds debut album) is a Romanian blog about the importance of being free and fascinating Music. Warmer Climes aka 25-year-old Vlad Stoian works as a Music journalist in Bucharest, Eastern Europe. On Warmer Climes he mostly expresses his neverending tropical needs and love tribute for Scandinavia and unique Music. The blog contains rare interviews with brilliant musicians around the globe and various projects like the IMAGINARY series Warmer Mixtapes or the Q&A episodes Facts & Figures, where he calls the most amazing art creators of the moment to open their hearts in a special way and write intimate things about themselves.




Eskobar ♥ Fredrick Carlsson ♥ Bolywool ♥ Bryce Afonso ♥ Joachim Willumsen ♥ Lajven ♥ Steve Kilbey/The Church ♥ Ghost Hunter ♥ Jens Lekman ♥ Endiamonds/Archipelago ♥ Pinto ♥ Damon Moon And The Whispering Drifters ♥ Robert Svensson/Mixtapes And Cellmates/Hyper Heart ♥ Red Sleeping Beauty/Acid House Kings ♥ Butterflies Bones ♥ Kalle J/Karl X Johan ♥ Tomas Halberstad ♥ Sunshower Orphans ♥ Hot Casandra/Trouble Is/Go To Berlin/The Amsterdams/Kumm ♥ Cold Cave ♥ The Weather ♥ Lindstrøm ♥ MODERNLESS ♥ PATS ♥ Rafael Anton Irisarri/The Sight Below ♥ The A-Sides/Sun Airway ♥ Nicolas Makelberge ♥ Anton Kristiansson/Charlie ♥ CFCF ♥ The Brightside Suicides ♥ Lake Heartbeat ♥ Phaseone ♥ Panache ♥ The Laze ♥ Thieves Like Us ♥ Sally Shapiro/Johan Agebjörn ♥ Pallers ♥ ROOS ♥ Via Audio ♥ BANDJO ♥ Hanna Lovisa ♥ A Thousand Names/Funk Legacy/Modjo ♥ MillionYoung ♥ Suburban Kids With Biblical Names ♥ The Wagner Logic ♥ Benoît Pioulard ♥ Le Days ♥ Portrait Painter(s) ♥ Horse Shoes ♥ Dntel/James Figurine/Figurine/Strictly Ballroom/Headset/Antihouse/The Postal Service ♥ The !ntellivisionary ♥ Cut City ♥ Monogold ♥ A Sunny Day In Glasgow ♥ Air France ♥ Awesome New Republic ♥ The Van Allen Belt ♥ Samamidon/Sam Amidon ♥ The Morning Paper/Sail A Whale ♥ Leonard Kaage & The Kin ♥ Makthaverskan ♥ Teengirl Fantasy ♥ Jihae ♥ The New Waves ♥ Kuryakin ♥ Avner ♥ Amanda Zelina ♥ The Kodaks ♥ Summer Cats ♥ Horse Shoes/The Drums ♥ Tape Deck Mountain ♥ MIRRORS ♥ Northern Portrait/Champagne Riot ♥ Hammarin & Robin ♥ Meanderthals (Rune Lindbæk + Idjut Boys) ♥ Technoir MA ♥ Rikers ♥ Black Holy ♥ Tanlines/Professor Murder ♥ Stay Ali ♥ Shane Alexander ♥ Midnight Masses ♥ The Early Days ♥ Afraid Of Stairs ♥ The Depreciation Guild/The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart ♥ Edwin Van Cleef ♥ Joensuu 1685 ♥ Fear Of Tigers ♥ Friday Bridge ♥ Parker Lewis ♥ Desmond & The Tutus ♥ Cough Cool/Blackhawks/Nude Beach ♥ Coralcola ♥ Ishivu ♥ Channel In Channel Out ♥ Hear Hums ♥ Eleanor Seabird ♥ thrifty astronaut ♥ Swedish For Beginners ♥ Taken By Trees/The Concretes ♥ The Hairs/Cowards/Knight School ♥ Simpático/Sweet William/Other People's Children/Luxury Gap/Par Avion/Mist & Sea/School Of Two/Pretty Boy Crossover/Panoptique Electrical ♥ WILDLIFE! ♥ Airport Angst ♥ Karibien/Kap Verde/prds ♥ Tears Run Rings/The Autocollants/Evening Lights/Monterey ♥ Brob Ront Experiment ♥ The Bilinda Butchers ♥ The Talking Two ♥ Dazzle Ships ♥ Hideous Men ♥ Fiveng ♥ RxRy ♥ Brusque Twins ♥ This Is Head ♥ Friend ♥ Hard Mix ♥ MINKS ♥ The Embassy/The Crêpes ♥ Astro ♥ Psychobuildings/Silk Flowers ♥ Visions Of Trees ♥ Saloon/Arthur And Martha ♥ Elika ♥ Young Galaxy ♥ Barretso ♥ Biker Boy ♥ the cq ♥ This Final Frame ♥ Kites Sail High ♥ District Columbia ♥ Tqqundo Frrrrr ♥ Obsidian Pond/Leveret ♥ Mathemagic ♥ Joel Alme/Spring In Paris/Hästpojken ♥ Robot Koch/Jahcoozi ♥ Water Borders/Didi Mao/Late Young ♥ Universal Studios Florida ♥ Knuckles ♥ OK Go ♥ Myles Cooper ♥ Jay-Jay Johanson ♥ The Honeydrips/Dorotea ♥ Gentle Touch ♥ The Phantom's Revenge ♥ Coma Cinema/Persona La Ave/The September 11ths ♥ Owl Vision ♥ Lead Balloons/Golden Glow ♥ The Young Friends ♥ The Concretes/Milberg ♥ Nervous Nellie ♥ Electric Sunset/Drone Ranger/Desolation Wilderness ♥ Amanda Palmer/The Dresden Dolls/Evelyn Evelyn ♥ The Bridal Shop/Sunday Forever ♥ Phillip Oskar Augustin ♥ Poka/Fairlight/Stella Starz ♥ Luna Is Honey ♥ Baths ♥ Overthrill ♥ Verious ♥ Jeremy Jay ♥ Former Ghosts/This Song Is A Mess But So Am I ♥ Soft Metals ♥ Spirituals ♥ Liquid Days ♥ Ghost Wave ♥ not an Airplane ♥ Teen Daze/Little Chords/Two Bicycles ♥ Elite Gymnastics ♥ Liquid Vega ♥ Signals/The Mae Shi ♥ Mark McGuire/Emeralds/DJ Road Chief/Sun Watcher/Skyramps/Amazing Births/Free Time/Inner Tube ♥ Las Robertas ♥ Kevin Greenspon ♥ Vehicle Blues ♥ BYODeath ♥ In-Flight Safety ♥ Florene ♥ Detectives Salvajes ♥ Captain Ahab ♥ Brothertiger ♥ The Super Vacations ♥ Ruckus Roboticus ♥ Justin Faust ♥ Languis/Psychic Powers/Pharaohs ♥ Bear Driver ♥ Low Sea ♥ Gem Club ♥ La Big Vic ♥ Motorama ♥ Dan Mangan ♥ Coltrane Motion ♥ Prince Rama ♥ PVT/Pivot ♥ Erik De Vahl ♥ Splash Wave ♥ Laurel Halo ♥ Wild Moccasins ♥ Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs ♥ Boat Club/IKONS/Citylights ♥ Welcome Back Sailors ♥ The Carbuncles ♥ Prizes ♥ Lost Boy? ♥ Cosimo ♥ Le Futur Pompiste/Burning Hearts ♥ Bodebrixen ♥ Kite Club ♥ The Gaa Gaa's ♥ Montgomery Clunk/Contorsionist ♥ Young Liars ♥ Audience/Since 1902 ♥ Foxes In Fiction ♥ Fort Fairfield ♥ Holy Family ♥ Power Animal ♥ Flash Palace ♥ DUZHEKNEW ♥ Soft Cat ♥ The Present Moment ♥ Autre Ne Veut ♥ LAY BAC ♥ Clubfeet ♥ +Blissed Out+ ♥ Jef Barbara ♥ Yellow Ostrich ♥ Teenage Reverb ♥ Roman Photos/Feast Of Violet ♥ Baron ♥ Detachments ♥ Keith Canisius/Rumskib ♥ DCLXVI ♥ § ♥ Plastic Flowers ♥ A Swarm Of The Sun ♥ Vidderna ♥ The Magician/Aeroplane ♥ Slow Dancing Society ♥ Grand Trine ♥ Missy Mazzoli/Victoire ♥ WESTKUST ♥ Jóvenes Y Sexys/Algodón Egipcio ♥ ALTAR EAGLE/The North Sea ♥ Atlas Young ♥ Scott Churchman ♥ DannielRadall ♥ Not Squares ♥ Peter Morén/Tutankamon/Peter Bjorn And John ♥ Time Wharp ♥ Flight Facilities ♥ Neon Vision/Drumatix Six ♥ The Superimposers ♥ Waskerley Way ♥ A Band Called Quinn ♥ Little Silver Tabby ♥ Diamond Rings/The D’Urbervilles ♥ Ʌ ♥ Pink Priest/Gremlynz/Malibu Wands ♥ Sigheto/School Of Seven Bells ♥ Shout Out Louds/Tutankamon/We Are Serenades ♥ Evan Voytas ♥ le Verita ♥ Dead Leaf Echo ♥ late light ♥ Porcelain Raft ♥ f4690t/ponyboy/___N___ ♥ Heavy Hawaii/Fantastic Magic ♥ Human Resources ♥ Mutual Benefit ♥ Teaadora Nikolova ♥ Azure Blue/Laurel Music/Irene ♥ Ilya Santana ♥ Rodion ♥ Tallin Daggers ♥ Voxhaul Broadcast ♥ My Little Pony ♥ Wonder Bear ♥ Keep Shelly In Athens ♥ Soda Shop/Selebrities ♥ Sumsun ♥ ✝NO VIRGIN✝ ♥ The Miracles Club ♥ Mondo Teeno ♥ Mascara/Mastok ♥ Walls/Allez-Allez/Snoretex ♥ The Pillars Of Creation ♥ FAUXMUSICA/Sacred Star ♥ Apollo Run ♥ Solar Bears ♥ The Stills ♥ Young Magic ♥ Party Girl ♥ Trouble Is/Go To Berlin ♥ Dirty Beaches ♥ Christian Kjellvander ♥ Borusiade/Hector/Stereonucleose ♥ Kyle Andrews ♥ Pat Parra ♥ Dark Colour ♥ Toro Y Moi/Les Sins ♥ Southern Shores ♥ worriedaboutsatan ♥ Keenhouse ♥ Velella Velella ♥ Ulrich Schnauss/A Shoreline Dream/Long-View/Engineers ♥ Penguin Prison ♥ Bikini ♥ Moullinex ♥ YAWN ♥ Matthew Joel/Bank Heist ♥ Sun Angels ♥ Nebulosa/The Amsterdams ♥ Branches ♥ p e a c e FIRE ♥ Teddiedrum ♥ Wolf Gang ♥ The Go! Team ♥ Adventure ♥ Bear Hands ♥ I'm From Barcelona ♥ World Tour ♥ Holy Spirits ♥ Vektordrum/VEKTROID ♥ Hermanos Inglesos ♥ Austin Cesear/Chocobo/Range Rover ♥ Relative/Yallay ♥ affair ♥ U.S. Royalty ♥ Ben Butler & Mousepad ♥ Aeroplane ♥ Futurecop! ♥ Harald Björk ♥ Willy Joy ♥ Aeromaschine ♥ SymbolOne ♥ Grouplove ♥ Svala/Scope/Bubbleflies/Steed Lord ♥ Jack Campbell ♥ Hatchback ♥ Red Rack'Em/Hot Coins ♥ Jay Brannan ♥ Turbotito/Guns 'n' Bombs/The Hammers/Djosos Krost/Ludo X/Ima Robot/Paradise Boys/The Calculators/Poolside ♥ Monster Paws ♥ Sons Of Rico ♥ This Vision ♥ 1000 Names ♥ Kid Counselor ♥ BOY MTN/Wayne Water ♥ Omebi/Telepathik Friend/OS OVNI ♥ Monsieur Adi ♥ Hissy Fit/Port City ♥ Downtown Party Network ♥ BNJMN ♥ Alexis Blair Penney ♥ Redondo Beach ♥ My Panda Shall Fly ♥ Salva ♥ Anus Against Nature ♥ Ghibli/Jaded Hipster Choir ♥ Boxcutter ♥ Christoph Andersson ♥ d'Eon ♥ wait what ♥ Love Distance ♥ Obey City ♥ Hiawata! ♥ Tiger Love ♥ Work Drugs ♥ Rocco Raimundo ♥ Pennan Brae ♥ Gamble & Burke ♥ Jimmy Edgar ♥ Cosy Mozzy/Mustang ♥ Le Prix ♥ Haules Baules ♥ Hyetal ♥ Shisa ♥ Hleger/Le Elbow/Tjut Dream§ ♥ WhoMadeWho ♥ High Places ♥ Gigamesh/DiscoTech/Señor Stereo ♥ Franz Ferdinand/Box Codax ♥ Vakula ♥ Jeremy Glenn ♥ Montt Mardié/Monty ♥ Montauk ♥ Fish Go Deep ♥ Beaumont ♥ Courtship ♥ Honeydrum ♥ Lovebirds ♥ Tyson ♥ Alameda ♥ SNEAKPEEK ♥ Luisterwaar ♥ Fallulah ♥ Lady Lazarus ♥ Raadsel ♥ Kijk Een Ster ♥ Times New Viking ♥ Mitzi ♥ VVV ♥ Kyla La Grange ♥ Topdesk/Confetti Gang/True Villain ♥ New Savages ♥ Tiger Baby ♥ Francis Inferno Orchestra ♥ Anxious Forbes ♥ Anna von Hausswolff ♥ Homework ♥ Balder- ♥ Dr. Shinto ♥ Frida Selander ♥ B-Ju ♥ Samuel ♥ I AM WATER ♥ ∆dmin ♥ Arkatronix/Electronic Deer ♥ Body Cheetah/Father Longlegs ♥ Acid House Kings/Poprace/Club 8/Pallers/The Legends ♥ Lydia Cole ♥ Shake Aletti ♥ Kimbra ♥ Miguel Migs/Petalpusher ♥ Kid Smpl ♥ Flume/What So? Not ♥ Buddhist Army/Arthur's Landing ♥ James Curd/Greenskeepers ♥ Drop Out Orchestra ♥ Andrew Clarke ♥ Dennis Kane/Citizen Kane ♥ Philip Gayle ♥ Traci Lords ♥ Elizabeth Rose ♥ In Tall Buildings/Icy Demons ♥ BETAMAXX ♥ Miss Bee/musicformovingimage/Crooked Baby ♥ the boy called hedge/$chwarzer Freitag ♥ The Parallax View/Dealer Shades ♥ The Legendary 1979 Orchestra ♥ Baron von Luxxury ♥ Tiedye ♥ Scenic ♥ Dan Melchior/Dan Melchior's Broke Revue/Dan Melchior und Das Menace ♥ Bluejay ♥ The City And Horses ♥ Snow Walls ♥ Marius Våreid/Zauberfluten/Ytre Rymden Dansskola ♥ Rainbo Video ♥ au delà de Stockholm/Sameblod ♥ Petter Seander/Sleeping Beauty ♥ Yesjar ♥ Malkovich Music/B.L.X. ♥ Michael Myerz ♥ Lockbox ♥ Temple Songs ♥ Mic Newman ♥ Adrian Lux ♥ Jean Nipon/I.Y.M (Important Youth Movement)/Teamtendo ♥ Schoolcraft ♥ Carl Miller ♥ Bones ♥ Duvchi ♥ Call Super ♥ THE HARDKISS ♥ Jamie N Commons ♥ Sexton Blake/Starfucker ♥ Bunny Lake ♥ Février/34 ♥ Stompbox/Atsubox ♥ Rameses B ♥ Krusht ♥ Babes/News Girls/Rhone ♥ Dale Goodridge ♥ Nottee ♥ My Brightest Diamond ♥ /Please/ ♥ Pional ♥ Karma Kid/Olive Lian ♥ DJ Vadim/Andre Gurov/Little Aida/The Isolationist/One Self/The Electric ♥ S U R F I N G/Cadillac ♥ The Pale Corners ♥ Best Dressed Dog ♥ dreamcrusher ♥ Tom Parker ♥ Future Trends ♥ Little Boots/Dead Disco ♥ Pony Pony Run Run/Anoraak ♥ Maribou State ♥ The Whendays ♥ Antonia ♥ Thiefist/Pan/Fire For Effect/SSION ♥ Blue Stork/A Blue Stork Is Born By A Moonlight Tower/Billy!/Wyrd Starchild Sisters/Héliopolis ♥ raox ♥ Coton/Malcolm/D_tekt/Kelton Prima ♥ Trésors ♥ Sobrenadar ♥ Wax Monsters/Whitey & The Cadillac Franks ♥ Pandr Eyez ♥ Pictureplane
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"I’ve been fascinated with Vlad Stoian, the mad scientist behind the mixtape focused blog Warmer Climes for what feels like forever. I love the concept behind Warmer Climes and the detail and care Vlad takes to make each mix special. Vlad Stoian is a intriguing study in his own right. His phantasmagoria of an Internet existence is so much of his own creation. It’s something everyone living in this digital world can relate to on some level, and in the bigger picture of things, it’s a fascinating way to look at our Freedom Of Choice as individuals and as a Human Race. Everything and nothing matters. It’s all excess, unless we choose to attach meaning to it. Vlad strives to share his every thought without deleting and re-writing, un-sending, or any other form of editing, in an attempt to paint a picture of one man’s life, and let you, the fan, friend, acquaintance, enemy, whatever, decide what, if anything about him his worth holding on to. It’s not spam, unless you decide it is. Vlad’s openness, fearlessness and refusal to be anything but himself is awe-inspiring. You can’t fake the sunshine. Vlad and Warmer Climes embody what is means to create your own reality, and for that I thank him." (Andriana Albert aka Gluttony Is The New Black)

"Lov u fam." (Brandon McCartney aka Lil B)

"It felt like it was the first and last time someone actually took care of the origins of a sound, so it had to be the good ones! It's all about honesty." (Kevin Houston aka Heblank of Nizari 1411 and Housetone)

"He is a connoisseur of things good here in Life. He has the sensibility of a poet, a magician of words - he makes meaning out of meaninglessness. An Eastern lantern, lighting up dark places for us all, especially during Christmas!!" (Nicolas Makelberge)

"I get over 200 requests like these per day and I almost always turn them down. In his case I decided to make an exception because I liked his blog. And instead of making a list of songs, something that would take me 5 mins I sat down and I created an ORIGINAL PIECE for him." (Jens Lekman)

"This guy seems really poetry." (Ashland Mines aka Total Freedom)

 "He is very poetry." (Travis Egedy aka Pictureplane)

Dazed Digital: ...your favourite website?
Serge G. of The Whendays: Warmer-Climes.blogspot.com
Filip S. of The Whendays: Tie between Facebook & Warmer Climes

"I probably went through about... 40 of the imaginary mixtapes in that night, the first night I made Music. I just kept reading them, the artist didn't matter, I just loved reading through them, they inspired me. And Vlad created them, so Warmer Climes & Vlad have inspired this music project of mine. I did want to do a project, yes, badly but without Vlad it would not have been started probably until years from now. Now I think he has helped me a lot in Life because now Music Production is a very possible career choice for me. It was already an idea, but now I have the knowledge and I will continue to gain the knowledge. By the time college comes I'll be a mastermind at this. This is the best blog I know of!" (Reed Faulk aka Mötsu)

"It's seriously one of the best blog ideas that I've ever seen! Warmer Climes is so good and unique. Makes the World more exciting." (Máté Janky aka Alley Catss)

"I love the concept!" (Antoine Bédard aka Montag)

"Fantastic." (Hidden Shoal Recordings)

"I think it's a really good, clever and original idea." (Charley Bickers)

"Fun creative idea!" (Johan Urbom, Mikaela Urbom's aka Coco manager)

"A brilliant idea!... A perfect dialogue between reader and writer." (Fredrik Lindson of The Crêpes and The Embassy)

"His blog is really awesome and passionate and filled with beautiful expressions and photos and artists. It's so amazing that even though he feels so far from so much... He is actually quite connected to almost everything, and he is doing it in a great way." (Tim Fletcher of The Stills)

"His blog is a fantastic treasure. I was honored." (Aisha Devi Enz aka Kate Wax)

"I think that his legitimacy and urgency are admirable." (Robert Smith aka V†LENCE)

"So many people cannot even carry on conversations in person one ounce as interesting as what Vlad explores and incites in people; he has connected with the core of something very significant. I am truly comforted by having this task from him at hand, to pour my energies into the stories and meanings and memories of so many songs that continue to shape, uplift, comfort, and challenge my brain, heart and soul. Thank you Vlad for asking such a thoughtful question, and for allowing so many musicians to share a part of their imagination with the Universe. So refreshing to veer from the standard fare of What Are Your Biggest Influences? and List Your Top 10 Desert Island Discs! It is an honor for me to have my voice included within his legendary blog." (Jennifer Baron aka The Garment District of The Ladybug Transistor)

"This shit is tight as fuck!" (Carl Miller)

"The World needs more Vlad Stoians!" (Bryce Linde aka Fortune Howl)

"Amazing stuff, stands out from the rest." (Carlos Serrano)

"As lovers of Music, it is great to have the opportunity to discuss Music which has inspired us and I really enjoyed being part of this program." (Emma Hewitt of Missing Hours)

"He's a collector of people and their stories. I like that." (Ben Mertens of 4cuteanimalsounds)

"This dood is dope." (John Murphy Jr. aka Ghetto Ass Glenn/Junior John/Enron Hubbard)

"I never read blogs serious until I found Warmer Climes..." (Matthew Gallagher of Wax Monsters and Whitey & The Cadillac Franks)

"His posts and site are aesthetically beautiful. It makes a difference when someone cares as much as he does for the Music. It means what he is posting is not horse shit. It has meaning. It means he has an opinion and that is fucking gold, baby!!!" (Sean Sullivan of Two People Playing Music)

"I just love this concept, and he's got such a great group of contributors it would be foolish of me to pass on this. I totally dig what's goin' on over at Warmer Climes." (Greg Henry aka Greg Enemy)

"It's a great thing. It's a great blog... One of the best I've seen in a minute. Gets to the heart of Music." (Michael Joseph Lane aka Neuport)

"The site is aesthetically brilliant, and the calibre of artists involved is breath taking." (Sam Knowles aka Karma Kid of Olive Lian)

"MINDBLOWING!" (Shir Khan of Exploited Records)

"A really enthusiast blogger!" (Vito De Luca aka Aeroplane)

"...The dynamic and dare I say temperamental Warmer Climes' Vlad Stoian... Hailing from Romania, Vlad Stoian is probably one of the best and most outspoken Music bloggers of our generation." (Jesse Kivel of Kisses and Princeton)

"His blog is incredible, well designed, concise, just fucking cool in general." (Matthew Gallagher aka ///HEAT STROKE///)

"I was wondering how he heard about us. I don't know who this guy is (either), but yesterday I was thinking about a Music critic who was saying how he didn't like 'Fake Experimental' Music... And I guess Music writers get pretty wrapped up in what they do and don't like (to listen to), but it made me realize that everyone doesn't make Music for other people to hear... Sometimes people make the Music they want to make maybe even without thinking about how it is going to sound to someone else in that moment or later, as a recording... To a Music critic." (Jean Smith of Mecca Normal)

"This blog is probably the best Music blog on the planet. I'm surprised I haven't come across it before." (Jordon Saxton aka Viers)

"He's a true hero. Loving the blog, man. Think he has a lot of passion and style. Much love and respect." (Chris Davids of Maribou State)

"Warmer Climes is about connecting with real people who give a shit. Vlad is passionate about Music and musicians of all kinds. No one's too big or too small. They are real to him... And that goes a long way." (Matthew Joseph Kamm of TELETHON)

"People need to read these kinds of blogs! So rare..." (Ant Pomponio of S U R F I N G and Cadillac)

"I'm just stoked that he gave us this opportunity and I'm so pleased to be asked to be a part of such a cool site, cool idea, and cool person." (Justin Sweatt of Xander Harris)

"He's a man with a heart... With a soul... He's a real man... The little angel from Romania!" (Malcolm Dakeyo aka Kelton Prima)

"I am very impressed by his involvement, style and verve." (Christian Fuchs of Bunny Lake)

"It has to take willing martyrs like him to suffer for the rest of us so we can really figure out what matters in the contemporary Music atmosphere." (William Sarradet of Count Backwards)

"How is it that some hip Romanian 20-something can be so intimately familiar with American Pop-culture while most of us Americans can know nothing of Romania? Why do you speak more fluent and elegant English than most people in the United States? How can we have done this to you, Vlad Stoian, from all the way over here, on the other side of the World?" (Robert Thomas Cunningham, blogger)

"More people should know about this, it's a really eye opening blog and people should be exposed to this." (Marcel Everett aka WATEVR/XXYYXX/CVL† SH‡†/†FREE SHADE† of Esmeralda and Beds)

"I think people are so cold and isolated emotionally now that they want to latch on to warm things. Genuine things that other people love. I think he has a good way of externalizing all his passions. People live vicariously through him. It really troubles me to know that the freedom he poses in his externalized personality has not brought him happiness. I envy his openness to the World. He's making other people feel warm even if it's not working on him. I truly do respect what he's doing. He is my guru of self-expression and he doesn't even know it." (Brian Flynn aka Pink Noise Ordinance of Ded Pimpin and ESMK)

"The first snowflakes that fell over Bucharest caught me working on something really special for the Warmer Climes blog. It's a cool idea! I have to create an imaginary mixtape with my top 10 personal favourite songs and write a couple of words about each and every one of them. It's sooo hard to decide on only 10 songs, but it's nice to be part of this game together with so many talented artists such as Franz Ferdinand, Starfucker and Sally Shapiro. Which would be your top 10 favourite songs??" (Viky Red)

"I think this is innovative as hell!! A very smart blog." (Ben Miller aka WasabeWan/AUD1 of Silk Stress)

"SO excited and honored to be a part of this incredibly inventive series!" (ONTHE88)

"I totally love the blog and the concept. It's beautiful, personal, and meaningful." (Zevi W. aka Babes)

"He's an honest person. I respect his views a lot." (Rameses Booth aka Rameses B)

"Vlad Stoian, best blogger in East Europe." (Nicholas Harrison of Scenic)

"Looks so crisp & professional. It's art!" (Pennan Brae)

"He seems to have a great understanding for Music & art." (Jens Duvsjö aka Duvchi)

"A gentleman and a scholar... The incomparable Vlad Stoian put me up on his blog." (Dan Melchior)

"Vlad Stoian is the Klaus Kinski of the indie world!..." (Johan Harlén of Emotion Records)

"Impressive work, a real difference!" (Marius Våreid of Ytre Rymden Dansskola)

"I found his blog from halfway around the World!... So he must be doing something right." (Jacob Andrew McPherson of Pulp Lab)

"It took sometime but after a lot of thought it came to me that if someone is listening to my music then they want to know what the background behind me as an artist is and what drives me to create Music. Massive respect for everything he's doing... He's subtly helping unheard artists such as myself whilst at the same time expressing his passion for Music and its meaning. Vlad is helping people to realise dreams in such a way, that not even he realises what he is doing." (James Rice aka Stompbox of Atsubox)

"Vlad has a very credible blog here, with an excellent set of previous mixtapes, worth doing!" (James Parrish of Prescription PR)

"Looks like he put a lot of work into this, fascinating..." (Ben Shenton aka The Main Stem)

"This is so awesome!!! I love the design!!! It's perfect Pop Art!... Follow Warmer Climes for the finest collection of Indie Pop Music and Indie Pop Art! Go for the mix tapes, stay for the aesthetic!" (Marc Louis Cantone of The City And Horses)

"I appreciate him spreading all of this Music (I don't just mean mine; it's very cool that he put so much effort into getting people heard... I think that the only thing musicians really have to talk about is Music, and I dig that he gives them a space to do that)..." (Jolan Lewis aka Temple Songs)

"He gave my message the right transcription! A perfect story! Since John Peel, there seemed to be no further Music jounalists with that great passion in Music. But he is one of them! He can ascend his throne!" (Bernhard Mueller aka the boy called hedge of $chwarzer Freitag)

"What he's doing is art. All these other motherfuckers are just writing what they think, but he's writing what the artist think. He's not a taste maker. He's a taste presenter. The way Music should be shown. I'm going to promote the fuck out of his blog." (James Miller Krištofik aka Body Cheetah/Father Longlegs)

"Vlad is a Romanian boy filled with melancholy and longings for sunny days and comforting places. He runs a very unique website/blog - Warmer Climes - where he asks musicians (independent, mainstream, known, unknown and everything in between) to name their favourite songs. All the 'mixtapes' are surrounded by pretty images of beaches, islands, swimming pools, boys in swimming suits... The design and graphic composition of the page is extremely beautiful and coherent. Every time I go there, I feel like I'm transported to his universe of vibrant colors, good Music and endless sunny days." (Felipe Brandalise of Chaotisch Und Charmant)

"As you can see, my concept for Collected Genius is an almost complete rip-off of Warmer Climes, the main difference being our site won't be gay. I'm dog tired of sites with a bunch of navbars and links and intricate designs that give you a headache, and detract the focus from the main event, which should be the content itself. On the Warmer Climes site, all the site design effort has instead gone into the actual content - the images and videos and text and fonts. He takes time to come up with real good-looking, high-resolution images, and instead of just using the stock blog titles, he integrates each post title into the actual image itself. I think that instead of paying some dude to make us a fancy site and then uploading some 44kb pic for each post, we should keep the actual site bare bones and spend that time and, if necessary, money, on making real well-shot or well-drawn high-quality images for each post, as if we were going to use them for 12-inch covers. That way the focus remains on the work we put out, and people will actually want to hold on the images, right-click and keep them, and we can use them for single artwork, use them in all our promotions. See how that guy makes big images out of song lyrics? That's the kind of shit we could be doing to bring attention to this genius shit we write." (Collected Genius)

"Maybe it’s the trippy contrast of yellow dayglo and baby blue, but there’s something intriguing about the New LoFi. With solid content and a magazine-esque aesthetic, this blog never fails to deliver on covering new and notable unsigned bands, djs, and producers. Blogs with similar missions worth looking into are Gotta Dance Dirty and Warmer Climes. The common theme of all these publications is the discovery of great Music to help you chill out and dance, perfect for the weekend." (Pulplab)

"That's what makes the World bad: Everyone is sad or fake happy. It generates a bad global environment. But the people on his blog all seem so interesting. They appeal to me. They make me wonder what they see in their lives. I hate the blogosphere. It's just all For-A-Day based. It's like every other blog is just interested in the action of the person. Not the thought behind it. Not the person. It's all just HEY, YOU WILL LIKE THIS BECAUSE IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT MY BLOG THIS IS PROBABLY MOST ACCESSIBLE TO YOU. Not HEY, YOU COULD LEARN SOMETHING FOR ONCE." (Beau Dreamm)

"WOOOOOWWWWW! I'm looking through this and it's EXCELLENT! His blog is absolutely marvellous. I'll be sure to promote him! If I ever have a release that I'd like promoted a little bit, I'll be sure to let him know. He should keep doing what he's doing, because he's REALLY GOOD at it." (Thomas Schoolcraft aka Schoolcraft)

"It's one of the coolest ideas I have seen in a very long time!" (James Hand aka ▲❏l❍❏▼❏❍l❏▲)

"In this modern age of intangibility, where every moment is captured and shared in bursts and blurbs, nothing could be more relevant than Warmer Climes." (Christian Church)

"They should do a documentary about him. I just think that journalists or whatever that is really passionate and interested in the topic that they're writing about are great. Journalists that do a lot of research..." (Tobias Gerhardsson of World Tour)

"Really love what he's doing. Great work!" (Cam Merton of Hidden Shoal Recordings)

"After a good amount of perusal, I can honestly say that his website is one of the coolest things I have seen on the Internet. I think that he had tapped into something that could be the future of Music journalism." (Doug Kaplan of The Earth Is A Man)

"I really love his idea. I think it's great and personal and actually MEANS something, compared to so much of the bullshit that's out there." (PLAENS)

"I feel this to be a special privilege being on his blog and hope I can continue to inspire his musical dreams in the future." (Jeremy Glenn)

"I was privileged enough to be featured on Warmer Climes." (Rocco Raimundo)

"So honored to be a part of this legendary series!" (Willy Joy)

"This is awesome! I like the art and type he did. Imaginary mixtape series. Peep this cool blog!" (Salva)

"Most impressive blog I've seen in a while." (Abel)

"Warmer Climes is a great project and I am thrilled he wanted me to be involved." (William Yates aka Memotone)

"Marvellous! Amazing! Wonderful effort... It was such a nice thing to be asked to do and we really did enjoy it a lot! It's really nice to be able to talk about the songs in that way, and he clearly put much effort into the blog, it looks great!" (Shake Aletti)

"The super cool 'top 10 songs' blog!" (Gamble & Burke)

"Looks damn good!" (The Cyclist)

"Really enjoyable concept and really made me have to think. Blog is looking very good!" (Adam Wickens aka ∆dmin)

"I love his approach on getting to know artists. The best way to understand people's Music is getting to know their roots." (Austyn Sullivan)

"I'm very glad about this, as I always wanted to be on Warmer Climes since discovered it a time back, posts looks beautiful and love all colors and typography..." (Le Prix)

"Love this concept. It's very cool. And his blog seems to be THE ONE on the net!" (Berou)

"His idea is for now one of the most original and friendly I saw by far." (Pyramid)

"I really appreciate everything... He's the shit!" (Shisa)

"Big fan of his stuff... More people should have such compassion for Music as him." (Hleger)

"It was a big pleasure to do this..." (Jeppe Kjellberg of WhoMadeWho)

"Blog looks great!" (Brenmar)

"I thank him very much for this exclusive original idea! I felt love all over it when I made my tracklist!" (Luisterwaar)

"Very nice blog..." (Mustang)

"Quite an impressive collection!" (Lovebirds)

"I think it looks great." (Boxcutter)

"One of my favorite blogs around..." (Christoph Andersson)

"Wow! This is incredible! The graphics and colours are incredible. He has a great talent. Amazing, wonderful and inspiring!" (My Panda Shall Fly)

"Once again: Really lovin' the blog, gives me warm feelin'! The graphic thing is mega! He's quite on point with what he's doing!!!" (Margarit Aleksiev of 1000 Names)

"Blogs aren’t usually interesting, but in its run-down, Eastern European exile, Warmer Climes seems like Chillwave’s only shot at ever being anything approaching a political gesture." (Kev Kharas of VICE)

"A blogger that seems to exist on this planet only for the love of Music and what it does to his soul. He’s one of the more interesting/passionate/scary forces within the Music blogosphere." (Richard Thane of The Line Of Best Fit)

"How did he work to get all those people involved in the Loredana remix record? I know he has the energy to lift a mountain - and he is also absolutely nuts, hehe - but really. It's impressive. And Pitchfork did a piece on 'Rain Rain Remixed'?! That's fab." (Tobias Isaksson of Azure Blue and Irene)

"It's a great track from a great compilation—Makelberge's interpretation is one of 50 (fifty!) featured on Rain Rain Remixed, curated by Warmer Climes figurehead/hero Vlad Stoian." (RCRD LBL)"Brutally honest yet a bit vulnerable and truthful. It's a rare thing, you know?..." (Cascine Records/Freeman PR)

"Vlad... The most balearic guy in Eastern Europe!" (Saulty of Downtown Party Network)

"Vlad is a legend, so enthusiastic!" (Nicholas Futcher of Kite Club)

"Bringing warmness and a semblance of hope/heart back into Music and musicians... Forget cool and distant and fashionable, here is Warmer Climes." (Jason Sweeney of Panoptique Electrical)

"It's a great honour to be in one of the most honest and kindest blogs out there and his support means a lot to us." (affair)

 "Seems like a sweet, small world of friends who enjoy great Music." (Aaron Neveu of The GQ)

"If you enjoy that clean-cut, minimalist blog, then Warmer Climes should be bookmarked on your computer. This blogger keeps you interested by posting beautiful pictures, (interesting) interviews, and groovin' mixtapes. All of three of these media outlets that the blogger posts somehow express a unique sense of freedom. It's really a good experience every time I visit this blog." (Luke Goddard of The Blue Indian)


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If you have seen The Virgin Suicides remember the scene where the boys and girls are calling each other and playing records for each other.
Do you remember it?
This is what WARMER CLIMES is about!
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TOGETHER FOREVER
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