Hugo Durán was born in Mexico City, 1975. Hugo starts his musical education as a bass player at the age of 11. Raised in a Cuban musician family, he s strongly influenced by jazz improvisation and afro caribbean rhythms.
Without leaving his instrumental formation he start to work with electronic devices such as analog synthesizers, samplers and effects but was until he bounce all that elements into a computer when he start his development as a composer. He started to play live laptop with his long time nickname "kong" and transforming his sound to his actual blend; recently he left his nickname for use his real name.
He has played in all the most important places in Mexico and since early 2007 he has been doing gigs and producing in Europe based in Berlin following the creative atmosphere that has predominance there.
*Actually is working on projects that includes music for films, keep on doing tracks and his own record label: NEPTUNE LABEL.**upcoming releases 2009:*glue soul ep. on safari*
*underline relaunch comp. on underline*
*ala de mosca ep. on underline*
*fury will save the day ep. on neptune**
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Member Since: 9/17/2006
Band Members: Hugo Duran
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Sounds Like: Aphrodisiac
Record Label: Neptune, Underl_ne, Safari, Eintakt
Type of Label: Indie