Javier Zugarramurdi

Javier Zugarramurdi is a Uruguayan multi-disciplinary artist Dj and music producer artist based in Berlin. Javier was involved in music since he was 12 years old playing different kinds of alternative music in summer parties and then in concerts of band's 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 find himself in an underground electronic music party in where the french Dj Bruno Gervais was playing and Javier discovers techno music. Inmediatly he buys turntables and a bunch of records in Buenos Aires (There was 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 get 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 he's computer. After graduation in 2002 things started to get complicated in Uruguay with the big sud-american economic crisis and Javier decided to try Europe in the summer of 2003. There he discovers a new kind of modern electronic music by the hands of Ricardo Villalobos in Ibiza in where he also get a Dj residence in the Pin-Up Ibiza Club. After an amazing summer playing in the white island, Barcelona and Milan Javier returns to his country in 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 hole generation of Dj's and producers there.
In 2004 Javier goes back to Ibiza and spend's 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 lunch records like vclub004 and vclub006. He also gets the invitation to lunch a track in vclub003 with Luc Ringeisen and Petre Inspirescu but he denies it.
“If I put some music in a record.. it just need to be something truly good.. imagine my kids digging for records in a shop in 20 years.. and they find my record.. it just need to be perfect then..”
After being bored of the ups and downs of living on an island in where there is almost nothing in the winters and completely craziness in the summers Javier moves to Barcelona in 2007 to find a more lineal life and starts a project involving music production, installations and visual design called multitactix-media. He signs a contract with junodownload to get to lunch 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 in 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 start 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) in where a computer sends MIDI signals to a modular synth to generate various sounds and at the same time this signals are received by another computer to translate the sounds and automations into moving images synched in real time. The result is an experimental analog-audio HD visual installation 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 witch gear is used on the music he listens to he creates the 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.." in where many well known artists from Berlin opens their studio doors for the world to show they're 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 this tracks will be released on his own and upcoming vinyl only record label called: Repique.
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