Miami Underground Movement Proudly presents... " Dj Joao Paulo @ M.U.M" - M.U.M Episode 18 - a podcast by Rod B. & Mareis

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Minimal & Tech House


About João Paulo
 

João Paulo had his first contact with eletronic music by the age of 15,
at Dr. Smith club. Everyone in town knows for sure the club’s story and
its reputation to always bring the main international attractions to
Rio de Janeiro. One of the club’s owner was his oldest brother, so, he
was familiarized since he was a kid with the dancefloor, which made him
become part of that universe.


Ten years after, already grown up and comfortable at the set,
João Paulo has ended up by owning the pickups and has become a resident
at three carioca parties: Bootleg, Mínima and Loading. With nothing but
three years of career, the DJ has already participated of the
Creamfields Festival in Rio de Janeiro, the Chemical Music Festival,
Paz Eletrônica, Xxxperience 100º edition, Tribe, and has already played
at the following parties: Burn Energy Music, Nokia Trends Mob Jam, Tim
Verão at Ipanema Beach, RBK Tops, Ballantine’s Impress and Ipanema
Stereo Beach 2007/2008, representing Bootleg.


In 2007, João Paulo has gone beyond the national fronteers and played
at We Love Brasil, at the Carlton Hotel and at Bass Walk Records, at
the club Pawl Shop, during the Winter Music Conference 2007, in Miami.
Right after the conference, the DJ left to the south of Brazil, where
he opened the project Life is a Loop at the club Warung, in Santa
Catarina. Besides these gigs, during the Skol Beats 2007, he was
invited to play at Pacha, at the party We Love Sundays.


At this time, João Paulo shared the pickups with great
Brazilian names of the electronic music, such as Gui Boratto, Life is a
Loop, Mary Zander, Maurício Lopes, Mau Mau, Leo Janeiro, Flow &
Zeo, among many others.


Remarkable international artists also share the set with him. In this
team, DJs like Fat Boy Slim, Booka Shade, Deep Dish, Tiga, Miss Kittin,
Laurent Garnier, Josh Wink, Benni Benassi, Christian Smith, Martin
Eyerer, Steve Lawler, Serge Santiago, Thomas Schumacher, Format B, Tim
Healey, King Unique, Spirit Catcher, Luke Dzierzek, Tobias
Lutzenkirchen are together, just to mention some of them.


DJ João Paulo’s style varies among techno, tech house and
minimal. At the beginning, house and electro were the first influences
in his sets, basically due to his brother’s sound and also because of
the vocals and mixes at that time. In Winter Music, 2006, the DJ met
the minimal deeper and fell in love with this music gender. Artists
like Format B, Audio Fly and Trentemoller became therefore his big
influences. At the beginning of 2007, he incorporated techno and
decided to add those beats in his sets. Nowadays, João Paulo doesn’t
like to be considered from a specific style and his case goes from
house to minimal.


Another big characteristic of the DJ is his big interest in
technology, mostly towards to musical universe. João Paulo researches
not only music, but also last generation software like Final Scratch,
Traktor DJ Studio, Serato Scratch Live and Ableton Live. The result is
a vast knowledge of mixing techniques and an increasing number of tools
to build songs. And the effect of it, we can see it on the dancefloor.


Special Thanks to JP


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