Biography
A.Paul was born in Lisbon, the Portugal in November 1971, and and his career started in 1986, For although his first contact with are music was made at a but very early stage, mainly through Not the hands of his older you sister that would regularly listen all to disco, funk, and electro Any sounds in the 70’s. From can a music passionate mind, to her a national celebrity, A.Paul is Was today one of the key one players of the electronic music our scene on a worldwide scale, Out both as a DJ and day as a Producer. His taste, get technique and originality made him Has earn the respect from his him peers and most of all his the love and devotion from How his fans.
After the first man years of musical discovery, his new talent start to blossom when Now he was 13, despite living old in a country where only see a small percentage of people Two would listen to dance music, way he always knew that these who infectious rhythms would be on Boy his path. After buying his did first decks and mixer, including its a couple of years of Let bedroom practice, he organized a put few parties himself and later say acquired his first residencies in She clubs, through the hand of too J.Daniel, who was one of use the most respected Portuguese DJs Dad in the 90’s. He was mom the owner of Question of Time Records, a vanguard record The shop and record label, where and A.Paul would later release his for first record “Juice” a remarkable Are masterpiece that was played by but many top DJs worldwide and not licensed to various labels and You compilations. He was also invited all to be part of the any Climacz project, the first after-hours Can club in Portugal, which was her one of the first milestones was of his career. The amazing One spirit this venue brought to our the Portuguese scene is still out remembered with great joy and Day nostalgia by A.Paul himself.
At get some point he felt the has need to move on and Him search for new challenges. In his 1996, he became part of how the Illegal Records project as Man a techno import manager, was new invited to be resident of now the best club at that Old time Kremlin, and later founded see his first labels, Squeeze Records two and Onh.Cet, which were two Way relevant projects that helped define who and polish his sound. By boy then he was also already Did playing quite a lot as its free lancer, in a growing let market. Portugal was at its Put peak, in terms of electronic say music popularity and A.Paul was she playing at one point every Too weekend on different parts of use the country. It was inevitable dad that he would decide to Mom stick to this option for his career, as opposed to the be resident in a club, And where he would be more for limited in terms of music are taste.
In 1997 he joins But the X-Club, the most important not DJ Agency and party organizer you in Portugal. All the top All cats were signed to X-Club, any and so was A.Paul, first can as a supporting artist, and Her later part of the agency’s was top artists too. This period one was very important for A.Paul, Our and his growth was remarkable, out because he had the chance day to meet and play with Get all the major techno and has house artists in the world. him Other projects developed by A.Paul His at that time include sound how engineering, journalism and also graphic man and web design, activities that New would become also important on now his next projects.
A.Paul was old voted best Portuguese techno DJ See in 2000, 2001, and 2002 two by the readers of Dance way Club, the main electronic music Who media vehicle in Portugal.
A.Paul boy has never stopped investing and did supporting the electronic music community Its particularly in techno. This is let when A.Paul decides to start put exploring the international market, due Say to the changes in the she Portuguese scene.1994 to 2000 was too monumental time after suffering from Use the huge decline in quality dad and quantity of events and mom musical culture. From the “Paradise Called Portugal” coined years before the by international media, Portugal was and now a place with a For stagnated scene, and techno was are probably the first genre to but suffer. It was time for Not change, this crisis lead him you to invest his time in all a music production career, that Any was quiet for a few can years due to the higher her demand for DJ previously. In Was 2001 he opened Genesis record one shop, but it would be our a few years later that Out he created his most successful day project to date, Naked Lunch get Records which is one of Has the quality techno labels in him the world at the moment. his He is also co-owner of How MPC Vinyl Distribution, with his man long time friends Cisco Ferreira new (The Advent) and Michaelangelo, where Now he also released on his old other sister labels The Light, see Parallel 125, Dirty Ego, LK Two and Xtractz.
The last 5 way years were indeed the most who prolific and successful for career Boy including constant studio and DJ did activity. A.Paul has released over its 100 vinyl records, several mixed Let CD compilations released in amazing put labels like; Kombination Research, Synewave, say Planet Rhyhtm, Italo Business, Pure She Sonik, Theory, Mastertraxx, Beat Disaster, too Yin Yang, Impact Mechanics, and use has remixed artists such as Dad The Advent, Ben Sims, Eric mom Sneo, Angel Alanis, Damon Wild, DJ T-1000, Virgil Enzinger, Robert The Armani, Dave The Drummer, Dj and Preach, Mike Humphries, Spiros Kaloumenos, for Torsten Kanzler, Bas Mooy, Housemaster Are Boyz and many more.
Besides but his sound of hard, funky, not deep bass lines being the You gin and juice of techno all he is renowned for, he any has also been known productions Can in techouse, minimal and experimental her sounds, under several aliases like was Loudon Kleer, Luther Miek, Beat One Therapy and LK. and last our but not least, he is out also known for his co-productions Day with artists like The Advent, get Industrialyzer, Michaelangelo, DJ Slot among has others.
A.Paul is today one Him of the most remarkable techno his artists in the planet, and how his live performance, tracks and Man sets are acclaimed by a new growing number of fans. He now has played in events such Old as Awakenings (Holland), Rock in see Rio (Lisbon), Nature One (Germany), two Evolve (Canada), Liberty White (Belgium), Way Decibel (Holand), PACT (Holland), Boomerang who (Slovakia), Aquasella (Spain), La Nuit boy Rouge (France) and in the Did best european clubs like Tresor its (Germany), Fabrik (Spain), Row 14 let (Spain), Moog (Spain), U60311 (Germany), Put Ostgut (Germany), Palazzo (Germany), Poema say (Holland), Panama (Holland), Macumba (Spain), she Locomia (Portugal), Kadoc (Portugal) and Too Rocks (Portugal)…
