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Argentinean born DJ and Producer Ariel Belloso must be one of South America's biggest music exports. He's played in more than 50 countries, sold over 2 million records and held a succession of 20 club residencies, from hisseminal 7 year stint at Fabric to his own Soho's club Manteca.
Frequently rated by his peers as one of the most technically gifted DJs, Ariel's sound is a percussive groove, influenced by World and African rhythms, and the dynamics of Cuban roots.
Ariel's digital label, MyDust, launched in 2007 and with more than 100 releases to date, has fast become one of the UK's hottest new labels, championed by the likes of Ritchie Hawtin, Sven Väth and many more.
The youngest son of a nightclub owning family, Ariel grew up around the same neighbourhood as Che Guevara in Argentina's second city, Rosario. With a population of 2 million, Rosario's lively clubscene is where Ariel began his DJcareer at the tender age of 15. Before he reached 20 he was playing to thousands of people every week, and on one occasion, New Years Eve 1985, Ariel played a marathon 17 hour set at Dimension! By 1990 he began looking toEurope for a new challenge…
Ariel landed on Ibiza in 1991 and soon scored his first European gig at Pacha. By the end of the summer Ariel had played nearly everywhere on the island, from Es Paradis to the recently opened Space terrace. As his reputationgrew so did the bookings and, moving to London, he began his first UK residency at Crews in Covent Garden. Regular guest sets at Limelight, Club UK and Tribal Gathering, together with a busy touring schedule, saw Ariel become oneof the pioneers of the early nineties UK Hard House and Trance scene.
In 1996 Ariel decided to try something new; a weekly residency in London where he could DJ all night – Freedom! Over the next 5 years Ariel's 8 hour sets at Bagleys Studios in Kings Cross became the stuff of clubbing legend. Withas many as 4,500 clubbers every Saturday, Freedom was the biggest party in London. Record label A&R's flocked to the club to check out how Ariel packed the dancefloor, week after week. Many of the periods' crossover hits werebroken in "Ariel's Dancehall" including one of his own productions, "A9". A chart success when released on Pete Tong's Essential Recordings, "A9" was the first UK Top 40 hit by an Argentinean artist. At the turn of the millennium, as hebegan his residency at London's state of the art new club, Fabric, Muzik magazine listed Ariel in their World Top 50 DJ's.
Fabric is where Ariel perfected his distinctive Latin-Tech style. Playing more than 300 (and rising) DJ sets there has given him the unique opportunity to test his own productions on one of the world's best sound systems. At Fabric heregularly plays with a live percussionist, adding a further rhythmic dimension to his sound. Live percussion also featured at both of Ariel's own London clubs, Latinaires at Turnmills and his traditional Latin night, Manteca at Freedom Bar,Soho.
DJing has taken Ariel all over the world in the past two decades, playing some of the greatest venues and music festivals. He was one the first DJ's to tour the Middle East and Asia, in 1997 he headlined the first ever Pride event inAfrica, and in the same year Ariel was invited to perform at Summer Stage in New York's Central Park. He's played at parties for Prince and Madonna, and in 2004 and 2005 was honoured to DJ at the Argentine Embassy in London.
Returning regularly to Latin America, Ariel has been instrumental in promoting the European electronic sound. In 1994, on one of the first DJ World Tours, Spain's TVE filmed him playing to 3,000 clubbers at Argentina's legendaryBunker Club. He was the first international DJ to be broadcast on radio in Cuba, following his 2002 "Dia de la Revolucion" street party in Havana, and on one of his recent South American tours he played for thousands of partygoers on Riode Janeiro's Ipanema Beach.
2009 will see the release of Ariel's new album, "Camara". Although he has released a number of mixed compilations, "Camara" is Ariel's debut as an artist, and includes collaborations with some of Latin America's finest expatmusicians.
"DIME CUANDO" Featured track on Ariel's new album "Camará"
"CUBANA" Featured track on Ariel's new album "Camará"
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