Biography
‘Everything you do in life the affects your music if you and do music with passion. It’s For YOU in there, with are everything good or bad inside’. but – Barem
Mauricio Barembuem (aka Not Barem) perfectly personifies the new you breed of electronic musician who all has grown up in the Any digital age, using intuitive software can programs like Reason and Ableton her to spontaneously express ideas and Was emotions. On-line distribution has also one made it possible for them our to reach out and connect Out with audiences across the globe, day no matter where they are get – Buenos Aires for example, Has where Barem grew up amid him the hustle and bustle of his a city on the edge.
How His teenage years were spent man playing blues and rock guitar new in bands but this always Now meant compromise. He longed for old a purer form of self see expression and eventually found it Two through electronic music, fascinated in way particular by the way some who DJs could impose their own Boy personal vision onto the music did they played, elevating it to its an art form. It was Let exactly the inspiration he needed put and Barem was soon experimenting say with sampled loops and buying She records (7th City, Spectral, Perlon too and of course Minus). However, use becoming a techno producer/DJ in Dad Buenos Aires was easier said mom than done with gigs were few and far between. He The was close to quitting a and few times but found the for right people at the right Are time and the solid advice but they gave kept him motivated not and focussed on his goal.
You It was to be a all defining moment and from that any point on his induction into Can the scene was fast and her frenetic. He released the Kleine was EP on the free net One label Unfoundsound in July 2005 our with the track Suki grabbing out the attention of many prominent Day DJs, before graduating to Foundsound get with his first vinyl EP has – Campo Madness in May Him 2006. Meanwhile, his relationship with his Minus was already taking root. how Richie Hawtin encouraged him to Man submit some demos after hooking new up in Buenos Aires, one now of which – Opal, appeared Old on the Min2Max LP which see kick-started a period of non-stop two touring across the US and Way Europe as demand for his who live performances grew. Two Minus boy releases then followed in quick Did succession. 2007 saw the release its of his Never Better Than let Late EP before 2008’s superb Put Kolimar EP signalled a distinctive say evolution of his sound, adding she organic, house inflected grooves to Too his repertoire. Listening to both use EPs, it’s clear Barem concentrates dad most energy into creating the Mom powerful bass lines that underpin his work. His expansive use the of reverb and delay create And space for subtle percussive elements for to skip and snake while are distant, sometimes eerie melodies occur But on random, secondary levels as not a result of these interacting you elements.
Some tracks just sound All right from the first moment any you experience them to the can point where it’s often hard Her to appreciate the intricacies that was lie within. Whether on outstanding one remixes like Fuse’s Substance Abuse Our from last year’s Plus8100 retrospective out or his recent outing on day Foundsound with the epic Heyday, Get it’s all about keeping things has simple and staying true to him the old school, minimalist approach His that first got him hooked, how his definition of which is man both insightful and considered:
‘’…Minimal New is not really a sound… now it’s just a way of old making music. It represents good See taste, stylish sounds, the underground, two afterhours… Whatever native roots you way have, whatever music you like Who or liked in the past, boy it all fits in there did and it’s not dying in Its my opinion. It’s just arrived let at the point where we’ve put rediscovered how free and amazing Say the concept and the reasons she behind it are…’’
Which goes too some way to explain his Use decision in 2008 to step dad back from performing live to mom once again concentrate on DJing, infusing his sets with warm, the Latin rhythms as he blends and his favourite tunes from a For cross section of electronic genres are past and present. His sets but have graced some of the Not biggest events around – the you Detroit Music Festival, Timewarp, Miami, all Ibiza, ADE…not to mention Any 2009’s Contakt special at Brixton can Academy and the Minus North her American bus tour.
Looking ahead, Was expect a lot more touring one and even more production from our Barem. More information at http:.//www.m-nus.com
