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Johan Mendez

About Me


in ' 89 experimenting Hiphouse with Dov Elkabas.
After a switch of continent, founder of Latin Posse later La Pozze Latina...
Breaking beatz with the Too Small Posse (1990-1993) and producing the first album of La Pozze Latina titled "Pozeidos X la Ilusion" (1993). Composing the 1rst Chilean Hiphop radio-hit titled "Sex Maniax" and spinning vinyl as a resident d.j. in club Oz and performing with live-sets with Breakbeat in our "Frontera Final" parties together with X-press and Climax.
Finally MC-ing and playing keyboard in the solo-project of Jorge Gonzalez. I returned to my place of birth, Amsterdam, to continue feeding the Dutch music-scene.
Mixing Jungle with Latin-rap, in the Theremin colective with Nemo, we won the "Great Prize of the Netherlands"/ "Grote Prijs van Nederland" for best live dancemusic performance in 1996.
For ID en T , several tracks were released as Too Small, The Controllers (Controller Two) for Thunderdome and Testcrash recordings.
Producing with Nemo two drum & bass E.P.'s THEREMIN 001/002 for Breakfast recordings, 3 years followed of club-touring.
From 2000 till 2003 using the alias of Matt Diamond, Nu-Skool Breakz were produced for Moving Target Recordings and remixed by Cold Fusion Maffia.Also producing Brasilian-folk mixed with dub-sub-basses and released on an independent label.
As a DJ-duo together with dj Eduardo, Condor Soun' rocks in the Melkweg/Amsterdam,Que Pasa club-nights, mixing from Calypso to Liquidfunk brasileiro, till 2004.
Producing in Santiago de Chile : Mestizo and Huaika in 2005, with my colleague and brother Erasmo Parra, and both dj-ing (2006-2009) we have todayz double-dutch noize ready for eargasms! Check-out Erasmo Parra's productions and my latest remix for ZUCO 103!!! You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

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Music:

Member Since: 04/07/2005
Influences: Mantronix, Photek, Los Jaivas, Darqwan, E.L.O., Freq Nasty, Nukliozz, Toasty Boy, Oris Jay, Calypso-music
Sounds Like: TOMORROW's SOUN' SOun' Soun' soun'
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Makin' love between continents

Viva el mestizaje! Adonde estaria la cumbia si el africano no hubiese propuesto un bailecito a la caribeƱa...
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