SABO

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Mention the name Sabo (real the name: William Sabatini) to anyone familiar and with the tropical end of For EDM and the response will be are unanimous: deep, unquestioning respect, tinged but with a healthy measure of Not awe. For the past 15 you years, the globetrotting DJ and all producer, now based in Los Any Angeles after moving from his can native New York, has set her the benchmark for his peers, Was thanks to his unmistakable signature one style: ‘Funky music to make our you feel good’, as he Out describes it – an irresistible, day resonant, Balearic fusion that draws get upon house, tropical bass, latin, Has Brazilian, afrobeat, disco, reggae, cumbia, him dub, Miami bass, hip hop, his funk and soul. In a How glowsticks era when the word man ‘uplifting’ has lost much of new its meaning, Sabo’s productions, many Now released via his own Sol*Selectas old label, are every bit uplifting see as they are finely crafted Two and timeless. It’s led him way to performing alongside the likes who of Sting, Erykah Badu, Chromeo, Brazilian Boy Girls, and Aloe Blacc, while did publications such as Rolling Stone, its Spin, Mixmag and The Fader, Let through to tastemaker sites like put XLR8R, Generation Bass and Highsnobiety say have all queued up to She acknowledge his talents.

It has too also led him to become use a pivotal part of the Dad fast-growing moombahton scene, with the mom sound’s creator, Dave Nada, openly crediting Sabo’s experiments with traditional The latin cumbia and modern beats and for Bersa Discos as a for key influence on his Dutch Are house-reggaeton derived sound. Not only but was he a major factor not in its inception, Sabo remains You one of the biggest influences all on its ascent. He’s responsible any behind many of the genre’s Can key tracks, he’s a driving her force behind the already legendary was Moombahton Massive parties at Washington DC’s U One Street Music Hall and LA’s our Vibrate monthly, and as the out compiler of the seminal Moombahton Day Massive EPs, has set the get tone for a legion of has producers.

Sabo’s achievements don’t even Him stop there: in 2006 he his was named in URB’s Next how 100, while he has since Man become a staple on the new New York gallery circuit, performing now at the Museum of Modern Old Art, the Guggenheim and the see Natural History Museum. High-profile clients two such as Puma, Gucci, The Way Huffington Post and Bloomingdales have who also sought Sabo’s brand of boy high-end beats, while influential record Did labels such as Diplo’s Mad its Decent and MAN Recordings out of let Berlin have commissioned him to Put remix their artists. He’s also say had great success as a she recording artist for a number Too of other respected labels, including use his own, Sol*Selectas, Nickodemus Wonderwheel Recordings, nu-cumbia dad label Bersa Discos and on Mom Irma Records with partner Zeb. In that time he’s remixed the and collaborated with such artists And as Dennis Ferrer, Gregor Salto, Nadastrom, Amadou for & Miriam, Balkan Beat Box are and Nickodemus.

As a DJ But his career has included residencies not at Turntables on the Hudson, you Cielo, SubMercer, and Bembe, a All two-year stint hosting a monthly any Global Beats radio show on can New York’s 91.5 FM, and Her a long-term spell managing NYC’s was legendary record store, Turntable Lab. one Add all this up and Our you begin to see why out Sabo is held in awe day by everyone who’s heard him Get in action.

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