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BIOGRAPHY

After a scant two years kicking around Miami and DJing scattered gigs there and abroad, Miguel Colmenares fell in with a techno-loving crowd, founded the music-and-art crew Future Collective, and got his hands on production software-from there, it was only a matter of months before labels and listeners alike fell for the Venezuelan producer's singular brand of intensely syncopated minimalism. Inspired as much by Latin bandleaders like Cheo Feliciano and Eddie Palmieri as by fellow South American technophiles Ricardo Villalobos and Pier Bucci, Colmenares emerged fully formed, armed to the hilt with percussive grooves that bounce like digitized conga drums shimmying through a steel pipeline.

Colmenares' 2006 debut, the slithering come-on of "Sure You Do," caught the ear of Sweden-based label Subtropical Records. (Matthew Dear has been known to drop that particular track into his sets, calling Colmenares "a perfectionist of the simple yet oh-so-addictive house groove."). Lately, Colmenares has been constructing his elegant odysseys the old-fashioned way. "I've started doing more jam sessions in the studio where I just turn the machines on and start recording long parts on the sequencer, drum machines, and real synths. I've found it's a lot more interactive, as well as a lot more open to error...which in techno can sometimes be good!"
Now relocated to Spain, Miguel plans on developing a live set with a combination of software and hardware, as well as releasing further material and collaborations on labels such as Produkt Schallplatten, Manual Music and Neovinyl Recordings.

MUSIC

DISCOGRAPHY 

Sure You Do EP (File, MP3, EP) Subtropical Records 2006
Dancing Guaguanco In Space (File, MP3, Album) Pinksilver Net 2007
Manualidades EP (5xFile, MP3, 320) Manual Music 2008
Sirve? (5xFile, MP3) Produkt Schallplatten 2008
Un-Certain Mambo-Roto (4xFile, MP3, 320) Neovinyl Recordings 2009
Segunda Mano EP (4xFile, MP3, 320) Melomane 2010

Back to the grind ep ( Mp3,320) Homemade Records

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