Jinger Artist Bio

Romain Reynaud is the man behind Jinger aKA Traumer, and several other aliases, too. The Frenchman, now a Paris resident, grew up in Avignon, a city in southeastern France’s Provence region, before relocating to the capital in the name of music. He also works as Romain Poncet and Sergie Rezza, the latter in collaboration with Cyril Etienne des Rosaies (a.k.a DJ Deep).

You have to wind back to 2011 for Traumer’s debut, a heavy-hitting record on Skryptöm, where he quickly released a string of straight techno EPs. It’s an aesthetic that bears little resemblance to the Traumer of now; around 2016, the Traumer sound became intricate and groovy, hypnotic and subtle. Behind this change lay a growing interest in the minimal rhythms coming out of Bucharest, in particular those of Rhadoo, Raresh, and Petre Inspirescu, and so he launched Gettraum, a platform for these new sounds, with a sublime three-track EP of elegant minimal house. “My sound has recently moved a bit but I guess it always did and it will always do,” Traumer recalled in 2017. “I was listening to that stuff [minimal house] for a while, way before producing or even playing it.”

Since then, Traumer’s works have established Gettraum as a fountain of fine minimal-leaning productions. The pulsating bassline of “Ijah” makes you want to listen again, again, and again; check out the chiseled drums of “Whisky Roll”; and close your eyes to the sultry, hypnotizing vocals of “Lucea.” Those who’ve taken a liking to these groove-laden sounds can almost buy a Traumer record on sight.

More recently, Traumer contributed a track to XLR8R+ alongside works from Pola and Kate Simko. “Transit,” which can be streamed below, will be recognized by those who have seen him DJ recently because it’s one of those groovy rollers that’ll work anytime, anywhere. It was produced in Noumea, New-Caledonia on the first stop of Traumer’s recent tour in Oceania. “As the sun was definitely too strong for my pale skin, I stayed in the room and did some music,” he recalls. He ended up with “Transit” but didn’t name it because he still wasn’t sure on it. “Later the same day, I tried it out at the party and it worked super well,” he adds. “So I decided to call it after the party’s name, Transit, as a tribute to this party and its promoters I loved so much!”

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