MADURO
Hailing from the Washington DC area, the artist who calls himself Maduro blends textured dark world fusion electronic music with breakbeat and breakcore elements. His work has been popularized by renowned belly dancers performing and teaching to his work around the world and thus has often been categorized as a bellydance electronic musician. He has appeared on compilations with the likes of Venetian Snares, Amon Tobin, Bassnectar, and Muslimgauze and on DVD dance productions with Wumpskut, Terrorfakt and Enduser. Talking about Maduro's music, Bob Duskas, owner of the renowned San Francisco-based Six Degrees Records (The Orb, Banco de Gaia, Azam Ali) stated, "If you ever wondered what Trent Reznor might sound like if he incorporated global sounds into his musical palette, you may want to delve deeper into Maduro's repertoire."
Maduro's 2008 album Siege has been regarded as a breakthrough production mixing live world instrumentation with breakcore progressions, bit reduction, and musique concrète. His follow on 2008 EP "Fin de Siecle" (or "End of the Century" in French) was recorded primarily with tracker programs using Thomas Edison phonograph cylinder samples from the early 1900s. The 2009 release "Your Devices" with Boston-based Notecrusher appeared on BBC with its world dubstep tones and his forthcoming 2010 full-length release "Reveries" has been much anticipated. His sound embodies ethnic instrumentation with deconstruction and things carnivalesque.
Contact Maduro at maduro[at]gmail[dot]com