Born in Madrid at the beginning of the eighties, Victor Santana works
as dj, producer and manager his own label Chaval records. Grown
under the musical influence of hip hop, jazz, funk and reggae, and
soon after by early techno, his musical debut starts as a child,
playing his first Casio mini keyboard.
Profesionally his career starts in 1999 playing techno vinyls and
creating The Park collective, organisig parties in the Madrid area,
sharing decks with dj's as Marco Carola, Mistress Barbara,Jim
Masters, Adam Beyer, Oliver Ho, James Ruskin, Regis or the 65 D
Mavericks amongst others.
After some time promoting parties all over the country, he decides to
focus on music production, starting sound design studies and buying
his first synthesizers with Detriot techno as the main influence.
In 2004 Chaval records was born, with the aim of releasing analog
machine made music as a fight against the digital era. Focused on
the physical side of music, releases only vinyls and Cd, being Victor
the personal distributor of the message, travelling over the world
selling his records directly to record stores, from Berlin to Detroit through
Amsterdam or Chicago, receiving awesome feedbacks from key
players in the scene.
Now his main activity is to prepare an all hardware live set plus live
musicians, adding Sax, Cello, violins, piano & rhodes and continuing
spreading his analog message all over the techno world.
Born in Madrid at the beginning of the eighties, Victor Santana works
as dj, producer and manager his own label Chaval records. Grown
under the musical influence of hip hop, jazz, funk and reggae, and
soon after by early techno, his musical debut starts as a child,
playing his first Casio mini keyboard.
Profesionally his career starts in 1999 playing techno vinyls and
creating The Park collective, organisig parties in the Madrid area,
sharing decks with dj's as Marco Carola, Mistress Barbara,Jim
Masters, Adam Beyer, Oliver Ho, James Ruskin, Regis or the 65 D
Mavericks amongst others.
After some time promoting parties all over the country, he decides to
focus on music production, starting sound design studies and buying
his first synthesizers with Detriot techno as the main influence.
In 2004 Chaval records was born, with the aim of releasing analog
machine made music as a fight against the digital era. Focused on
the physical side of music, releases only vinyls and Cd, being Victor
the personal distributor of the message, travelling over the world
selling his records directly to record stores, from Berlin to Detroit through
Amsterdam or Chicago, receiving awesome feedbacks from key
players in the scene.
Now his main activity is to prepare an all hardware live set plus live
musicians, adding Sax, Cello, violins, piano & rhodes and continuing
spreading his analog message all over the techno world.