Misc Management & FBI present:
the man who brought you knights of the jaguar...
ROLANDO aka The Aztec Mystic (Underground Resistance - Los Hermanos - Detroit)
Supported by:
Oded Peled (Misc Management)
Lil' Tony (Rose Garden)
MONO:
RED BULL NEW TALENT DJ's - Hosted by Unik
Check them out at www.redbullnewtalentdjs.fi
DATE. 14.7.2005
TIME. 22-04
PLACE. Rose Garden, Iso Roobertinkatu 10
PRICE. 8 Euros
BIOGRAPHY
ROLAND ROCHA AKA ROLANDO WAS BORN IN 1970'S SOUTHWEST DETROIT. HE GREW UP IN THE MAINLY HISPANIC DISTRICT OF THE CITY, WHICH TO THIS DAY IS DOMINATED BY MEXICAN MIGRANTS LOOKING FOR WORK IN THE HEAVILY INDUSTRIAL CITY.
FROM AN EARLY AGE HE WAS INFLUENCED BY HIS MUSICAL CULTURE WITH IT'S ROOTS IN LATIN AMERICAN RHYTHMS AND PERCUSSION. HE WAS GREATLY ENCOURAGED BY HIS ENTHUSISATIC FATHER, ALSO A WELL KNOWN LOCAL MUSICIAN AND AS A YOUNG TEENAGER HE PURSUED HIS OWN INTEREST IN MUSIC AND BECAME A WELL KNOWN AND RESPECTED DJ WITHIN HIS OWN RIGHT.
IT WAS IN THE MID EIGHTIES THAT HE WAS SO INSPIRED WHEN HE HEARD JEFF MILLS SPIN (AT THE TIME HE WAS KNOWN AS "THE WIZARD") THAT HE QUICKLY UNEARTHED THE NEW RADICAL AND GROUND BREAKING SOUNDS OF TECHNO. THEN BY CHANCE, THROUGH A MUTUAL FRIEND RUBEN GONZALEZ, HE WAS INTRODUCED TO THE FORMIDABLE "MAD"MIKE BANKS AND WAS PROMPTLY (TO HIS DELIGHT) ASKED TO BECOME A MEMBER OF THE INFAMOUS AND ENIGMATIC UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE CREW.
SOON AFTERWARDS CAME HIS FIRST EVER OPPORTUNITY TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC AND WOW AUDIENCES WORLDWIDE WITH HIS MILD MANNER AND NOW INFAMOUS SPEEDY TURNTABLE PROFICIENCY; SKILLFULLY MEANDERING FROM FUNKY HOUSE, GUT VIBRATING ELECTRO, THE GREAT TECHNO CLASSICS AND NEW SOULFUL MELODIC TECHNO - EARNING HIM RESPECT AND NOTORIETY WITHIN THE INDUSTRY AS A WHOLE.
JAGUAR BROKE THE ICE CRITICALLY ALTHOUGH NOT ROLANDO'S FIRST RELEASE ON UR, IT TURNED ARCHAIC PERCEPTIONS OF TECHNO ON THEIR HEAD. IT BROKE THROUGH INTO ALL OTHER GENRES OF DANCE MUSIC AND BECAME A CLASSIC IN THE BOXES OF MANY NOTEWORTHY DJ'S; SUCH AS KEVORKIAN, GARNIER, MORILLO, TENAGLIA - EVEN OAKENFOLD AND GILES PETERSON.
THE HEADLINING ENSUING BATTLE AGAINST CORPORATE GOLIATH'S SONY, WAS EVENTUALLY WON (EVEN IF ONLY MORALLY ) BY THE SHEAR DETERMINATION OF THE SMALL INDEPENDENT LABEL (UNDERGROUND RESISTANCE) AND WITH THE STEADFAST SUPPORT OF ANGRY ACTIVIST FANS WORLWIDE; PROVING THEMSELVES ONCE AGAIN TO BE A MUCH LOVED AND RESPECTED FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH.
THEN ROLANDO LAUNCHED HIS OWN LABEL "LOS HERMANOS" WITH PARTNERS GERALD MITCHELL AND MIKE BANKS . ALREADY THE LABEL HAS A NUMBER OF MUCH ACCLAIMED RELEASES UNDER IT'S BELT WITH ROLANDO IT'S AMBASSADOR AT IT'S FOREFRONT.
NOW, ROLANDO IS FREE - NO LONGER A MEMBER OF UR HE CONTINUES SOLO, AS A DJ, PRODUCER AND REMIXER ENTERING AN EXCITING AND NEW PHASE IN HIS ALMOST 20YR LONG CAREER.
DISCOGRAPHY
UR AZTEC MYSTIC EP. UR035
UR AZTLAN EP. UR015
UR MI RAZA (interstellar fugitives album) UR045
UR KNIGHTS OF THE JAGUAR EP. UR049
UR REVENGE OF THE JAGUAR EP. UR2000
UR AZTEC MYSTIC MIX CD
UR UR Z TRACKS vol. 1,2&3 UR ZT1,2,3
UR AZTEC MYSTIC MIX CD URCD049
UR VIBRATIONS MIX CD URCD 3000
UR AGUILA EP. UR059
LOS HERMANOS BIRTH OF 3000 EP. LH1
LOS HERMANOS A: QUETZAL, B: TESCAT LH2
LOS HERMANOS TRES LH3
LOS HERMANOS INFLUENCE EP. LH4
430WEST JAGUAR EP. 4W350
430WEST JAGUAR CD 4W CD4049
SWEAT RECORDS SWEAT MIX vol.1 (HOUSE) SWEAT CD 1
NRK ROLANDO (MIX CD) nite:life 016 NRKMX016
REMIXES
KLING KLANG EXPO 2000 KRAFTWERK
SOMA VIRTUOSO SLAM
LOGISTIC BLACKSTAGE RE-WORKS "WORKING NIGHT" JOHN THOMAS - LOG 026
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