CRUD0 presents: Sound of Bogotá - with Paula Vélez, Varju & Giovani

SONIDO DE BOGOTÁ IS A DEDICATION TO THE CITY AND THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC CULTURE THAT CONTINUES TO SHAPE OUR IDENTITY. THIS SPECIAL EDITION BRINGS TO NEW YORK A SELECTION OF ARTISTS REPRESENTING DIFFERENT GENERATIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF BOGOTÁ’S TECHNO SOUND. A REFLECTION OF THE MUSIC, THE SPACES AND THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE MADE THE CITY AN ESSENTIAL PART OF OUR HISTORY.

BORN IN NEW YORK, ROOTED IN BOGOTÁ, CRUD0 WAS FOUNDED ON AN UNDERSTANDING OF TECHNO AS MORE THAN ENTERTAINMENT, A DISCIPLINE AND A COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE CENTERED ON THE DANCE FLOOR. OVER DECADES, BOGOTÁ HAS DEVELOPED A DISTINCT MUSICAL LANGUAGE THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION, INDEPENDENCE AND A RESISTANCE TO COMMERCIAL CONVENTIONS. A SCENE BUILT ON ITS OWN TERMS, WITHOUT COMPROMISING ITS ORIGINAL VISION.

THIS PHILOSOPHY REMAINS CENTRAL TO CRUD0, INFORMING ITS CURATORIAL DIRECTION AND ITS COMMITMENT TO LONG HOURS, UNCOMPROMISING SOUND AND A PROTECTED DANCE FLOOR.

SELECTORS

PAULA VÉLEZ

A TRUE REPRESENTATIVE OF BOGOTÁ’S TECHNO SOUND, PAULA VÉLEZ HAS BEEN AN ACTIVE FORCE IN COLOMBIA’S ELECTRONIC MUSIC SCENE SINCE 2005. HER JOURNEY BEGAN WITH ACID COMMANDERS, A FOUR-TURNTABLE ACID TECHNO PROJECT THAT SHAPED HER DEEP CONNECTION TO VINYL AND THE RAW FOUNDATIONS OF THE GENRE.

IN 2008, SHE LAUNCHED HER SOLO PROJECT, CITRIK POLLY, EXPLORING NEW DIMENSIONS OF TECHNO WHILE ESTABLISHING BULLET, A FEMALE DJ COLLECTIVE AND EVENT PLATFORM. HER WORK EXTENDED INTO VENEZUELA AND LATER EUROPE, WHERE SHE BECAME INVOLVED WITH MADRID’S KILLSOUND COLLECTIVE AND MELTING POT RECORDS, PERFORMING ACROSS SPAIN AND BERLIN.

AFTER FOUR YEARS IN EUROPE, PAULA RETURNED TO COLOMBIA, PERFORMING AT BAUM, TATACOA FESTIVAL, BLACK BOX FESTIVAL AND RADIKAL STYLES, WHILE REMAINING CONNECTED TO KEY PLATFORMS SUCH AS THC, BOGOTRAX AND INDUSTRIAL GIRLS. HER INTERNATIONAL JOURNEY ALSO INCLUDES NEW YORK, BOSTON, ECUADOR AND COSTA RICA.

WITH TWO DECADES BEHIND THE DECKS, PAULA VÉLEZ REMAINS A DISTINCTIVE REPRESENTATIVE OF COLOMBIAN TECHNO AND ITS ROOTS.

VARJU

BORN IN BOGOTÁ, VARJU REPRESENTS THE CURRENT IDENTITY OF THE CITY’S TECHNO SOUND. INFLUENCED BY THE RAW ENERGY OF ROCK AND METAL, HIS MUSICAL APPROACH MOVES THROUGH HYPNOTIC, MENTAL, ATMOSPHERIC AND RAW TECHNO, BUILT ON DEEP GROOVES, SUBTLE MELODIC PROGRESSIONS AND PRECISE RHYTHMIC STRUCTURES. HIS DJ SETS GO BEYOND CONVENTIONAL MIXING, DEVELOPING CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED NARRATIVES THROUGH TENSION, MOVEMENT AND SONIC EXPLORATION.

AS A PRODUCER, VARJU CONTINUES TO DEVELOP HIS OWN SONIC IDENTITY, EXPLORING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN TECHNO AND EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONIC MUSIC. BEYOND THE BOOTH, HE PLAYS AN ACTIVE ROLE IN BOGOTÁ’S ELECTRONIC MUSIC CULTURE THROUGH HIS WORK WITH GRV.DVSN AND BAUM BOGOTÁ.

HIS JOURNEY HAS LED HIM TO SHARE THE STAGE WITH ARTISTS SUCH AS OSCAR MULERO, ADRIANA LOPEZ, THE ADVENT, CLAUDIO PRC, TOMMY FOUR SEVEN, PETER VAN HOESEN, RENE WISE, TEMUDO AND QUELZA, ESTABLISHING HIM AS PART OF A GENERATION SHAPING THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF COLOMBIAN TECHNO.

GIOVANI

EMERGING FROM BOGOTÁ’S FORMATIVE YEARS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC, GIOVANI BELONGS TO A GENERATION OF ARTISTS WHO HELPED ESTABLISH THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE CITY’S TECHNO CULTURE. ACTIVE SINCE 2000, HIS EARLY YEARS WERE SHAPED BY A GROWING NETWORK OF INDEPENDENT CLUBS AND DANCE FLOORS. IN 2003, VICTORIES AT THE HUMAN PATTERN AND THE RIDDLE DJ CONTESTS LED TO HIS FIRST RESIDENCY AT SUBROYAL, A KEY CHAPTER IN HIS DEVELOPMENT BEHIND THE DECKS.

DRAWING FROM ELECTRO, TECHNO, HOUSE AND BREAKS, HIS SELECTIONS REFLECTED THE MUSICAL DIVERSITY OF BOGOTÁ’S EARLY ELECTRONIC MOVEMENT. THROUGH APPEARANCES AT MONITOR, BARBARELLA, ARENA, LA SALA AND 4ROOMS, GIOVANI BECAME PART OF A CLUB CULTURE THAT WOULD CONTINUE TO DEFINE THE CITY’S ELECTRONIC MUSIC IDENTITY.

WITH OVER TWO DECADES BEHIND THE DECKS, GIOVANI REMAINS A DIRECT CONNECTION BETWEEN BOGOTÁ’S TECHNO ROOTS AND NEW YORK’S DANCE FLOORS.

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