Mihai Pol — Romanian Minimal Techno DJ and Producer
Mihai Pol is a Romanian minimal techno DJ and producer — part of the generation that proves rominimal isn’t locked in the past. Alongside Pirvu, NTFO, and Floog, he’s carrying the sound forward without betraying what makes it work: the space, the swing, the refusal of drama.
The Music
His productions are syncopated, jazz-inflected, alive. Where a lot of minimal techno works through accumulation — another layer, another texture — Mihai Pol leans on feel. The swing that drives his tracks isn’t programmed so much as intuited. It moves the way Jazz The Rabbit moves: skipping, stumbling, having a good time without needing to announce it.
That groove — unhurried but insistent — is what connects his work to the deeper rominimal tradition, even as his approach sounds distinctly his own. Seven tracks across the Curtea Veche family, and each one carries the same unmistakable ear. His music makes minimal sound like it’s enjoying itself.
The Breakthrough
2023 was when it became undeniable. He’d dropped an IT career to pursue music full-time, and the decision showed in the output.
Atipic Lab 18 (August 2023) — two tracks, Southwest and Granular Lullaby — was the moment the community stopped treating him as a name to watch and started treating him as a name that mattered. The Atipic endorsement carries weight; Priku runs that label with genuine selectivity, and Mihai Pol earned the catalogue number.
That year he also appeared on Storytellers (the Addicted EP, STORY002 on vinyl), plus releases spanning Tzinah, Curtea Veche, Aurum, and Hashplant. Five different platforms in twelve months. By year’s end he was being described as one of the flag-bearers of the rominimal sound.
Labels
His work sits across the Curtea Veche family — the Wales-based vinyl label that presses deep, patient minimal for DJs who know what they’re looking for — and Atipic, Priku’s Bucharest imprint that’s been shaping the scene’s second and third wave since 2016. Both labels demand a specific kind of focus, and his output on each holds to it.
Key tracks include Bluestep and Jazz The Rabbit on Curtea Veche.
2025 and Onwards
The momentum hasn’t slowed. The Nineteen EP on Griffith (GRF001, April 2025) marked a new label connection. A collaboration with Silat Beksi on Hypnodose — Hypnocurrency Vol. 1 (November 2025) — added another strand. Remixes on Bohrium White. Jazz The Rabbit had already become a quiet classic in rominimal DJ bags; the wider catalogue is catching up.
He’s the most prolific emerging voice in the scene right now, and prolific in the right way — across labels, across formats, each release earning its place rather than filling a release schedule.
For the full picture of where he sits in the scene, the rominimal artist directory maps the connections. And the labels guide covers Curtea Veche and Atipic in depth — the two imprints where most of his best work has landed.
