El Poeta

Infobox musical artist
Name = El Poeta


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Origin = San Diego, California, USA
Genre = IDM, Jazz, Funk
Years_active = 2005 – present
Label = Imputor?
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Current_members = Angelo Emile Gastelum
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El Poeta is the musical alias of San Diego-based Angelo Emile Gastelum. His styles can be categorized as a mixture of jazz, indie, funk, IDM and Dub.

Quotes

"...his swirling eclectic mixes will make you lose your senses." -Justin Roberts, SD CityBeat Magazine

"...music at the speed of life." -NOSTIKA Magazine

"...as an artist in the blooming border culture, El Poeta is a musical ambassador to the U.S." -Vyuz Magazine

"...rhythms and rhymes and repetitions that separate poetry from prose, a musical quality that evokes mood and emotion..." -San Diego Union Tribune

"...all he has is sound and all we hear is a wordless ode to poetic meter." -Igloo Magazine

"...a mad scientist experimenting with sounds as colors on a palette." -Reviewer Rob

Biography

Son of a jazz guitarist, Angelo is a classically trained pianist, self taught multi-instrumentalist and producer. He spent his teen years woodshedding with an acoustic guitar. In the tradition of his native blood he studied percussion under a sacred drummer in order to one day incorporate the secrets of clave in his own music. After a period of DJ and live P.A. performances in the 1990s, Angelo focused on his own music by exploring the fusion of recording random sounds with instruments, then layering them with computer edited sequences. With no formal outline or approach he retreated to a bedroom studio for several years, patiently cultivating his own distinct sound; a melting pot of jazz-funk, nu-folk with lush avant-garde minimalism and off clave beats adorned with scattered pieces of malfunctioning machines.

The fruits of this journey can be heard in the indie-electronic swirlings and flamenco sketches of El Poeta's debut EP "Musically Speaking", released on June 7th 2005 by the indie label imputor?.

El Poeta moved to Tijuana in the winter of 2005 and immediately joined the ranks of the RadioGlobal DJ’s, playing events and collaborating with local artists. With more and more artists reaching across the international divide, El Poeta and friends formed the Borders Collapse movement --- a non-profit organization dedicated to the cross-pollination of musical culture through a series of events at venues in San Diego & Tijuana. This has created a porthole into the US specifically for cutting edge electronic musicians from Mexico to share their music. This created a porthole into the US specifically for cutting edge electronic musicians from Mexico to share their music.

El Poeta has been continually working on his avante-folk expedition since 2005 formatively titled, Save Changes?, a homage to the grueling lessons behind love lost, hard drive crashes and the importance of backing up data.

Teaming up with Editor-in-Chief Eddie Turbo in 2007 to form Dub Traffik Control, the duo's debut CD "Dub One: A Rekkad Dem Play" was featured on London/Tokyo Internet Radio Samurai.fm. In 2008 they have had 2 vinyl releases, one via the mysterious Brooklyn based BSTRD BOOTS label and another from San Diego based Gematria Records and have several releases slated for late 2008 and early 2009 with Gematria, BSTRD BOOTS & Bastard Jazz.

Discography

*"Musically Speaking" (imputor?, 2004)

*"Dub Traffik Control: DUB ONE (A Rekkad Dem Play!) (self released, 2007)

*"E7 P037A: NAC-1" (digital release, 2007)

*"DTC: BSTRD BOOTS 04" (BSTRD BOOTS, 2008)

*"Habitat Sound System: Zebras In The Dubhall (7" split)" (Gemetria, 2008)

External links

* [http://www.elpoeta.org/ Official El Poeta Website]
* [http://www.imputor.com/artists/39/El_Poeta/ El Poeta page @ imputor?]