Ara
is considered amongst the cream of international electronic music
artists. His many world wide tour dates include massive festivals
like the ULTRA Music Festival in Miami to being a regular at
Christian Smith’s Tronic Treatment parties in NYC (his hometown),
Miami and Detroit, to gigs at respected clubs and parties world wide
such as Pacha and Gatecrasher, to several gigs in Ibiza and just
about every continent in the world. His contributions to the global
music scene include releases and remixes on globally respected labels
like Terminal M, Circle Music, Advanced and Liftin’. His tracks, as
well as others from his own label Gotham Grooves, gets played,
charted, and appears on CDs by DJ’s Carl Cox , Richie Hawtin, DJ
Hell, Dave Clarke, Ben Sims, Eric Sneo , Max Graham, Alex Flatner, DJ
Mayuri, DJ Lucca, and others.
He
Previous artist names include Agent Orange with an upbeat, funky, Techno
sound, and as ARA with an Electro-House and pumping Minimal sound. He’s
been dedicated to producing his own music as well as managing Gotham
Grooves since 2000. With Gotham, he went full force to push Techno in the
US and created the opportunity to sign hot US talent along side
international all-stars like, Valentino Kanzyani, Bryan Zentz, Danilo
Vigorito and Tim Xavier along with his own releases. He also ran the
"Tech-Support" nights, one of NYC’s most respected weekly
techno events, where he showcased many local talents alongside cream
of the crop international artists including Adam Beyer, Space DJz,
W.J. Henze (aka Gecko), Oliver Ho, Deetron, Christian Smith, Ben Sims
and more.
In the summer of 2006 he moved his studio to
Barcelona where he continues his projects and performs DJ gigs around
the city and the rest of Europe more than ever.
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