How was growing up in Bogotá at the time you did and where did you go after that?

I was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in the late 80's and lived there until I turned 18, then went to university abroad. Growing up in Bogotá in the 90's and early 2000's was a weird but exciting place. The stories of violence and fear became mixed up with the excitement of your teenage years, as well as the love/hate relationship that is born out of a city that seems dangerous but extremely seductive at the same time. For example discovering music scenes like punk rock in my early teens, when I started drumming and practicing with bands or electronic music a few years later, became acts of rebellion in and of themselves. The people that I have instinctively shared this feeling with are those that grew up in cities like Beirut or Tel Aviv - culturally rich and economically active metropolis which lived within national contexts of violence and warfare, and in which in the back of everyone's mind was the feeling that every time you went out to party or to a concert it could be your last time.  

After that I went to university in the States, to Washington D.C and shortly after I started working for the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Colombia, where I was sent to the Embassy of Colombia in Rome, where I worked as a diplomat for almost 5 years. This period was extremely special and sweet for me. Discovering an incredible city, country and culture, letting 'romanitá' seep into my veins every single day. It is truly a beautiful thing when one starts thinking in a language that's not your own and in Rome that started happening to me since early on. It was also here in Rome that I had my first turntable and mixer DJ setup at home and where I had my first ever paid DJ gig, at a place called Cohouse Pigneto, which was yet another mind-bending and life-changing experience. The energy, gratefulness, and pure joy of mixing two records together in front of a receptive and dancing crowd, and then getting paid for it (!!) is a really incredible experience.  

 Then in a 2016 trip to Japan with my best friend, the famous Felipe "El Chiguiro" Mejia, I visited a listening bar, or audiophile café for the first time. It was another life-changing moment and led to a period of kind of weird research in audio equipment, both old and new, especially in the two years after that in which I lived in New York. Going to audio shows, visiting second-hand stores and collectors of audio gear, led to some really incredible discoveries but also some very awkward moments. In the end of all this, it ignited an idea in me that led to the creation of a new project in the company of some incredible friends that are now business partners.

What motivated you to get started with your next project?

That trip to Japan in 2016 and the similar energy that I found in my business partner, Joaquim Quadros. 

What's the Band / Music Style / Music Artist that inspires you?

That's a totally mutable and dynamic question, whose answer changes from day to day, week to week, and year to year. Presently I am finding a lot of inspiration in avant garde artists from the 1970's in different European countries, but Italy in particular, that blended sonic experimentation, analog equipment, with traditional instruments, psychedelia and spirituality. Those years which combined the end of the hippie movement with the first few years of analog instruments like synthesizers and the blending of Eastern and Western sounds produced an incredible wealth of great music. It was also a moment when some notable record labels, like Cramps, KPM, CAM and several others were supporting excellent artists and built some outstanding and surprising catalogues. 

Any guilty pleasure worth mentioning?

A good pastel de bacalhao and a cold coca cola from a glass bottle is an odd pleasure that I have become weirdly addicted to in Lisbon.