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Spyro

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About Me

-MUSIC SHOWCASE-


Graduate as "Bachelor in Music under composition area" at the IUDEM, Caracas. Spyro has worked in areas such as movies, short films, TV spots and documentaries, theater, art exhibitions, plain gigs and fashion shows
His recent works includes the soundtrack and sound design for "Plan B" a local action movie. Also 2D Animation and music/effects for the "Prolapio" series of humour shortfilms, many TV spots for clients including Toyota, Ford, Schick, Coca-Cola, Glade, Pfizer and Kosiuko.
In 2005 after his participation in the Red Bull Music Academy on Seattle, Spyro is very proud to release a 5 Songs EP called "Biodegradable" with the label Yoruba Records, owned by his fellow friend, great musician and master DJ, Mr. Osunlade
Participations:
Festivals / Events:
2007 - Schmiede - Hallein, Salzburg, Austria.
2007 - Sonar Festival - Barcelona, Spain.
2006 - Schmiede - Hallein, Salzburg, Austria.
2006 - Platano Verde 8 - Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela.
2005 - Red Bull Music Academy - Seattle, Washington, USA.
2005 - Frequency - Caracas, Venezuela.
Albums / Compilations:
2007 - Chuck Norris "Houdini" - Spyro Remix
2007 - Los amigos invisibles "Amar es algo mas" - Spyro Remix
2007 - "Cave Canem" (Beware of the dog) - Axis of evil 12inch (Estrela Records, Salzburg Austria)
2006 - "Quinta Anauco - Raspaito de Tamarindo" Nueva Onda Nueva (compilation, Fundación Nuevas Bandas, Caracas)
2006 - "Biodegradable" EP (Yoruba Records, NY/Greece)
2006 - "Miami Spice" - "Miami Spice" 12inch (Estrela Records, Salzburg Austria)
2006 - "Tonada del Cabrestero" - "Simon Remixes" (Mega FM, Caracas)
2006 - "Paz Inferior" - "Caracas" (MiniCord compilation, Caracas)
2005 - "Bad Habit" - "Dance Venezuela" (Gozadera records, LA/Caracas)
2005 - "I Guess" - "Chill Out Venezuela" (Gozadera Records, LA/Caracas)
2005 - "Songs for my children" - "RBMA 2005" (RBMA - Seattle/Austria)
SEE/HEAR COMPLETE LIST IN THE SHOWCASE ABOVE
Spyro also spend a lot of time making VST plug-ins for his brand called KlangLabs, his most known plug-ins are "Vokko" a stereo vocoder, "StompBud" a virtual "body sounds" sample player, and "BackMan" a realtime in-sync backwards audio processor.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/5/2006
Band Website: spyrofunk.com
Band Members:

Composer / Producer - Graduate on composition from the University Institute of Music Studies, IUDEM

Member of YorubaRecords since Nov. 2005

Check out the NUEVA ONDA NUEVA: ELECTRONIC ALDEMARO compilation CD, tribute to our beloved Aldemaro Romero and his musical legacy.

Spyro is featured on this album with his "Quinta Anauco - Raspaito de Tamarindo"



We are proud to announce the release of "Plan B", a full feature movie from our beloved friend, director Alejandro Wiedemann.

This movie already won two prizes for "Best Actress" and "Best Opera Prima"

It was a great honor to make the SoundTrack for this great production.

Congratulations!

"PLAN B" MORE INFO HERE



New "Biodegradable" EP out NOW!

LISTEN / PURCHASE


New "MIAMI SPICE" Compilation (Estrela - Austria) out NOW! in europe

"Dig some digital scratching?"


Tutorial: How to use the Fruity Scratcher
Portishead "Only You" Scratch routine
The Herbaliser "Sensual Woman" Scratch routine
Just freestyling. This one has distorted ratio, but still viewable

one more, not related to the scratcher, is "making a electro "benassi" bassline"
Influences: The herbaliser

Cut Chemist

Portishead

The cinematic orchestra

Beastie Boys

Bjork

HelpCat

Ska Cubano

The Skatalites

Bostich and Fussible - Nortec

Thievery Corporation

Tipsy (whom sampled Juan Garcia Esquivel)

Amon Tobin

Dimitri From Paris

Public Enemy

Cypress Hill (old records)

Juan Garcia Esquivel

Daft Punk

Massive Attack

Farben

Metro Area

Klaus Nomi

The Schizophonics

Ricardo Villalobos

King Tubby

Augustus Pablo

Mr. Oizo (just flat beat)

Mecano

Steve Reich

Sergei Rachmaninov

Igor Stravinsky

Modest Moussorgsky

Johann Sebastian Bach

Krystov Penderecki

Frederick Chopin

Franz Liszt

Alexander Borodin

Maurice Ravel

Alonso Toro

Eduardo Kusnir

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Ernesto Lecuona

Buena Vista Social Club

Alan Parsons Project (The turn of a friendly card)

Vangelis

Jean Michel Jarré

Muzzy Marcelino

Les Baxter

Ray Charles

The Beatles (Sargent Pepper)

Pink Floyd

Supertramp

Peter Gabriel

Michael Jackson (early albums)

Toquinho e Vinicious de Moraes

Les Luthiers

Antônio Carlos Jobim

Dobrek Bistro

Henri Mancini


Sounds Like:
Something to hang out, smoke and trip.

Music to make love

Record Label: Yoruba Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

IPOSTEL APESTA HAGAMOS UN BOICOT

Acabo de llegar de Ipostel y dada mi indignación, quiero comentarles mi experiencia y decirles de antemano, que Ipostel lo que maneja es un vil chantaje.Hace unos dias hice un pedido a USA, una intefa...
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Check out this event: Yoruba Records - SPYRO - Biodegradable

SPYRO   - "BIODEGRADABLE" EP is out NOW.LISTEN / PURCHASE...
Posted by Spyro on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 04:50:00 PST

MUSIC SHOWCASE

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Posted by Spyro on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:31:00 PST