Started the journey in my home City Aleppo and at home with the family: My father collection of disco and pop, 70s and 80s through the nineties, after that I started buying music tapes form different styles dominated by instrumental Jazz and new age music, I also must admit that I liked summery tunes of American deep house. At the university I started listening to heavy metal (influenced by Lebanese friend), I think that any music can be enjoyable if you learn how to listen and appreciate the good sound arrangements, as well as Jazz; we had a one month of European Jazz festival and some independent location where they hosted some American-Michigan jazz artists. The city also hosted International folk performances, dances and music, in the Citadel of Aleppo (ancient Roman theatre like stage).I personally love the dubbier deeper groovier sounds.

In my graduate years in ITALY (Trieste) I enjoyed some salsa and meringue tunes (enjoyed some nice salsa on the beach) and some melodic sexier tunes in the Italian clubs. Also some sort of international influence were strong since I have studied at the UN programme dominated by International folks, lot of social events, private and on occasions at some dedicated location in the city of Trieste, some influences from neighboring Slovenia and Croatia folk music also were interesting.

One year later I was in the former eastern German City of Halle (Saale), It was not impressive apart from some good house music in the exclusive `Kleine Saal` = `Little Room` in one of the clubs that were dominated by popular music. The last 7-8 years in The Netherlands were dominated by dance oriented music and here where I bought my turntables with my other two friends Tony and Hanneke (We called ourselves the `Trio from Rio`), we played in the south of ITALY (Syracuse) in different bars, me on the turntables, hanneke on the jambe/flute and Tony performed some capoera on the stage. After that summer, everyone went in a different direction. I kept the turntables and from there, it all went extreme, collecting Vinyl.


At the moment I am into all of these new sound arrangements from artists like Mikael Stavostrand/Jay Haze/Villalobos/losoul/Pheek/´Someone Else´ to name few, also artists on labels like Playhouse, Perlon, Tunning Spork, Circus Company,oslo and Below .

Peace,

Juan.