MarioX
Born in Madrid, raised in Barcelona and abducted by "La Ruta del Bacalao" in Valencia, he began his interest in music very young when at school he saw a friend with a Casiotone. After begging his father to buy him one, his father (very wisely) offered him to buy him a Casiotone, or to buy him a Yamaha synthesizer if he began music lessons. Evidently, he decided that the Yamaha was a better option and began music lessons.
After some years, he began Hammond's method for playing electronic organ. Afterwards, that Yamaha synth was substituted by a Viscount electronic organ. He kept music lessons for several years so he was able to learn classic and modern harmony among other things.
It was at the age of 17 when he played his first live with a group at school playing basically rock music. Then managed to get a Yamaha DS55 synth besides the Viscount (he owns both uptodate).
At the age of 19 his first computer with soundcard came, so he became quickly fond of trackers. Later on became tired of them because he didn't like how they sounded and only kept practicing playing music with his synth connected via midi to the soundcard without even sequencing.
It was in December of 2006 when he was proposed to build Rithmus. He began with Reason at first, moving to Cubase SX3 later on and spending some money in a Kord Kaoss Pad 2, an M-Audio Axiom 61 and a Korg Electribe EMX1 to improve his productions.
You will clearly identify his melodic trance tunes full of hypnotic pads and basslines with influences of several electronic producers from Jean Michel Jarré to Front 242 going through psytrance producers such as Astral Projection or Growling Machines.
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