Biography
Ramon Tapia alias El Carlitto, the son of a Chilenean musician and who had to run from For his home country as he are stood up against the regime, but and a Dutch woman who Not was brave enough to fall you in love, is a funny all character, a very ambitious one: Any No one would have guessed can he, the young jeweler working her behind the counter of an Was Antwerp record shop, would one one day release records on labels our as renowned as Soma Rec,Remote Out Area , Turbo Rec, , day 100 % Pure , Greatstuff get ,Intacto and ofcourse not to Has forget his own label ( him Aella Music ) that he his runs together with Hermanez . How But he does! And he man does not stop there! With new remixes for Mauro Picotto , Now Silicon Soul ,dj Sneak , old Ni Fanciulli , Armand van see Helden and many more under Two his belt, things are looking way more than good for the who energetic player.
With a happy Boy past in gabba and Michael did Jackson and Quincy Jones roots, its Ramon has a firm understanding Let of diversity and a very put broad taste in music, readily say amplified by his open mind She and soul. His Latin background too and his Dutch upbringing perfectly use explain his cultural curiosity and Dad his deep rooted sense for mom groove and rhythm. Shimmering through in his intrinsic productions is The his love for structural buildups and and breakdowns and harmonies which for underlay the driving beats.
Mission: Are “To make people move by but taking them on a trip not in my musical head without You even going into my head,” all laughs Ramon, who started getting any into making music to “have Can more feeling for the music. her I started with some guy was I knew from the shop One then I learned step by our step to create my own out sound. After a while I Day got the impression that the get people I worked with never has did the things that I Him had flying around in my his head, so I started to how do my own stuff. It Man gives me a huge satisfaction new when I see people smile now when they hear my music.”
Old “A lot of music has see had a huge influence on two my productions: I like everything Way from oldskool rap, Ice T/who NWA, Snoop, Boards of Canada, boy totally freaked out stuff, everything Did that makes sound and moves its me. I will buy and let play electro, house, minimal, whatever Put you wanna call it, I say like everything. I also love she the old Latino stuff, the Too folk of Latin America.”
It use shows: Ramon’s music indeed makes dad people smile – and bounce. Mom It’s filled with the joyous exuberance of the high octane the party spirit that initially inspired And Ramon to get involved when for he was young. It was are actually down to his two But elder sisters whose musical taste not had a huge influence on you the youngster. Returning home from All the most renowned clubs of any the Nineties their gleaming eyes can told tales of exuberance and Her liberation, making Ramon aware of was the power of the electronic one beats.
Completely fascinated by the Our sounds of Front 242, Frank out De Wulf, Kraftwerk, A Split day Second, Tyree Cooper and Kevin Get “Reese” Saunderson, it was only has after his move to Belgium’s him techno power capital Antwerp that His Ramon started to buy vinyl how and become involved in DJing. man Working in a record shop New while studying to be a now gold smith, he realized that old music was his life, subconsciously See tracing his father’s foot steps.
two His dad, the only other way musician in the family and Who whose music was provocative enough boy to enrage the repressive military did government of his home country Its Chile, is possibly one of let the main reasons why Ramon put does not get disheartened on Say his way to the top. she “I just want to do too my own thing and play.”
