Baiuca live A/V + Dj Nigga Fox + Dj Firmeza

Can a beatbox dance to the rhythm of the traditional Galician Muiñeira? Can the rhythms of the day before yesterday sound like those of the day after tomorrow? How do you define the boundaries between traditional music, folktronica, club music, world music, field recordings and the beat of the machine? The Rías Baixas are our Amazons. BAIUCA, a new project captained by Alejandro Guillán (previously known for projects such as Alex Casanova) makes it very clear, as he successfully combines the most advanced and  avant-garde electronic music with the wildest and purest roots of his native Galicia.

A neotraditionalist reboot that keeps the cable grounded at the roots but that connects with the most advanced tendencies of electronic music: with both cultural and political vindication, as well as a new interpretation of traditional symbols, taking them to the terrain of the contemporary; through a sound pairing in which both traditional instruments are used (scallop shells, flutes, Galician bagpipes, tambourines, ocarinas and voices, which were recorded by the vocalists from the Asociación Cultural Xirandela…); as well as as synthesizers and machines that take us to techno, global bass or the ruminations of house music from an almost anthropological and sociopolitical perspective.

With his O Meu Estilo 12'' EP debut released in 2013, DJ Nigga Fox crashed the gates as part of Lisbon's Principe Discos crew who have been showing an exciting youth and sonic culture nurtured out of the Portuguese capital urban and suburban areas into a EU widespread diaspora. His follow up on Príncipe in 2015, the extraordinary and next level 12'' EP entitled "Noite e Dia", had Resident Advisor praising "the four tracks [of the EP] are so bizarre and delirious they're almost intimidating, and yet they're exuberant in a way that could liberate dance floors."

In early 2017, he followed with the one sided 12'' "15 Barras", a soundtrack to an unrealized collaborative installation. The long form composition in it is a four-part movement of virulent acid, screeching strings and crowd noise unfolding over a seamless 15 minute arrangement, pushing his music to new conceptual limits. His by now generous live curriculum includes thunderous performances at Sónar Barcelona and Roskilde Festival among other festivals, besides slaying the Berghain crowd on a mythical Janus night in Berlin's techno cathedral and delivering epic performances out of Euroland such as at NAAFI Residencia at Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City or at MONA FOMA weekender Faux Mo in Hobart, Tasmania, as part of his debut East Asia and Oceania tour in early 2018.

His new EP, the magnus opus ‘Crânio’, was released last 9th March on Warp Records. Six tracks of shapeshifting dancefloor psychedelia, or as Phil Sherburne aptly introduced it for his Pitchfork review "for his first release on Warp, the batida and electronic musician puts forth his own meticulous, otherworldly sound and reconnects with the avant-dance spirit of the label’s early years."

DJ Firmeza proudly heralds from the Quinta do Mocho hood, where originators Nervoso and Marfox reside too, and is a revered and unmatchable DJ in the large community and youth culture living the 'Ghetto Sound of Lisbon' (RA sic), with a unique percussive-heavy trance-inducing style to the art of mixing, which also makes him an acclaimed regular on Príncipe's monthly residency at the Musicbox club in Lisbon. In 2015, Príncipe released his first and much acclaimed 12'' of his own material entitled "Alma Do Meu Pai". He has been progressively acquiring a flare for playing out in a fair amplitude of contexts and settings, from a Berlin Schinkel Pavillon terrace party to a Bienne geodesic compound in the woods, besides performances at Krakow's Unsound to Lowlands festivals or last year’s wrap up party at Germany’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In the last months of 2017, he released "Pai Nosso", a short film centered on his present day life directed by New-Yorker Clayton Vomero.