Javier Zugarramurdi
Javier Zugarramurdi
Javier Zugarramurdi | |
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| Birth name | Javier Zugarramurdi |
| Also known as | Mariano Tanais, Bajotierra, Xavier Hort Ulmen, Truco, Xavi Zeta, Akisum. |
| Born | 1978 (age 47–48) |
| Origin |  Montevideo, Uruguay |
| Genres | Microhouse Minimal Techno Techno |
| Occupation(s) | Disc jockey Record producer Designer |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Labels | mtx Boreoe Desmo Records Repique |
| Associated acts | ONA |
| Website | contumancia.com |
Life and work
Javier Zugarramurdi is a Uruguayan multi-disciplinary artist, Dj and music producer based in Berlin. Javier was involved in music since he was 12 years old, playing different kinds of alternative music at summer parties and then in concerts of bands like Platano Macho or Elefante. He studied drums at the age of 15 and created the band Bulbo Maestro with guitarist friend Val Guillemete Novoa and bassist Gaston Otero. At 18 years old, Javier accidentally found himself at an underground electronic music party where the French Dj Bruno Gervais was playing, and Javier discovered techno music. Immediately he bought turntables and a bunch of records in Buenos Aires (there were no record shops in Uruguay) to start spinning them in the best electronic music parties in town with party promoter Mario Polak and others.
After 2 years of playing, Javier got priced with the Dj revelation award in the Zion awards in Montevideo. At the same time, he was studying a career in visual communication and producing music with his computer. After graduation in 2002, things started to get complicated in Uruguay with the big South-American economic crisis, and Javier decided to try Europe in the summer of 2003. There he discovered a new kind of modern electronic music, minimal techno, by the hands of Ricardo Villalobos in Ibiza, where he also got a Dj residence at the Pin-Up Ibiza Club. After an amazing summer playing in the white island, Barcelona and Milan, Javier returns to his country where another summer was starting to introduce the new music to his crowd in Uruguay, to establish this music in Montevideo, inspiring with his talent and passion for music to a whole generation of Dj's and producers there.
In 2004, Javier goes back to Ibiza and spends 3 years living there, playing music around and working in the Vinyl Club Record store with Dj Luc Ringeisen on helping with the creation of the identity of the new Vinyl Club Recordings record label and making the Uruguayan and Argentinian connection to launch records like vclub004 and vclub006. He also gets the invitation to launch a track in vclub003 with Luc Ringeisen and Petre Inspirescu but he denies it.
“If I put some music in a record, it just needs to be something truly good. Imagine my kids digging for records in a shop in 20 years, and they find my record, it just needs to be perfect then.”
After being bored of the ups and downs of living on an island where there is almost nothing in the winters and complete craziness in the summers, Javier moves to Barcelona in 2007 to find a more linear life and starts a project involving music production, installations and visual design called multitactix-media. He signs a contract with Juno Records to get to launch more than 30 releases under the multitactix music division MTX with collaborations and remixes from many artists from Uruguay and Argentina. In Barcelona, besides his regular Djing gigs, he creates the Vinyl Club Recodings and MTX night in the BLVD club to present a concept party named OUTIN where he screens moving images of outside nature inside the club to a wall and different hanging cardboard objects to generate a feel of being in beautiful landscapes while being indoors.
After 3 years living in Barcelona, now the European economic crisis hits Spain hardly, and Javier moves to Berlin. In Berlin, Javier discovers modular synthesizers and starts to work hardly on sound design, music production and also media design to end up combining them to give birth to his new project ONA (visiONAudio) where a computer sends MIDI signals to a modular synth to generate various sounds and at the same time these signals are received by another computer to translate the sounds and automations into moving images synced in real time. The result is an experimental analog-audio HD visual installation art showing images of the flora and fauna of our beautiful planet earth.
Besides ONA, after not finding much information on the web of things like "How to connect an Oscillator with an ADSR and a VCA with a MIDI to CV" or just trying to find information on which gear is used on the music he listens to, he creates an online magazine called JAUS (www.jaus.co). Now in JAUS you can find the missing information on the internet and also reviews on vinyl records, tips on modular gear and the new series of interviews called "In the studio with.." where many well known artists from Berlin opens their studio doors for the world to show their gear and how they do it to rock the house.
As for music production, Javier has already recorded many new tracks fusing on some of them the afro-Uruguayan genre Candombe and modern electronics. Some of these tracks will be released on his own and upcoming vinyl only record label called: Repique.
Discography
Albums
- Inmenso (2014)
- Microfonk (2014)
Singles and EPs
- Fakedriver (2007)
- Lyckiddito EP (2007)
- Rimbombantes (2007)
- U U A A EP (2007)
- Mateando (2008)
- Acapulco Gold EP (2008)
- Flying (2008)
- Acapulco Gold EP (2008)
- Kilimanjaro (2008)
- Misifus (2009)
- 35 Loops' (2009)
- Saturn EP (2010)
- The Fat Drums (2011)
- Gensisto (2013)
- Manarea (2013)
Remixes
- 2013 Trio de cajon - "Mariposita"
- 2014 Trio de cajon - "Baldosas flojas"
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References
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