Paulo Nascimento

Joao Paulo Goncalves Nascimento , better known as Paulo Nascimento, is a Portuguese electronic music producer and artist. He is the co-founder of Access 58 Records and Mutant Soul Records. He has produced over 100 tracks and has released records on labels such as Music Man, Intec, Mental Groove, Primary, React, Eukatech, Artform, Mentor, Pocket, On Test, Pure Plastic, Front Room, News, Trust The DJ, V2, XXX, Primal/ Pure Sonik, DJ Magazine, Intergroove, Molecular, Area Code +221, Next Era and others. He was the first artist ever to perform live electronic music in the night clubs of Madeira, Portugal.

Biography

Paulo was born in Madalena do Mar, Madeira, Portugal to his mother Clarisse De Sousa Goncalves Nascimento and his father Joao Jardim Nascimento. He grew up with a brother, Luis, and three sisters, Clarisse, Gabriela and Angelica. He moved to London, England in 1991 where he lives with his wife, Stephanie, and daughter, Sofia.

Access 58

Formed in 1997 by Paulo Nascimento and Phil Quenum, Access 58 soon established itself as one of the most powerful forces in techno in Europe. They released over 70 tracks under the name before taking a break. In 2003 Quenum went back to Switzerland and formed Cadenza Records with Luciano while Paulo stayed in London taking care of business... Access 58 tunes were hammered every single week by all the respected DJs in the techno scene such as : Jeff Mills, Carl Cox, Derrick May, Mr C, Laurent Garnier, Billy Nasty, Colin Dale and Adam Beyer ... to mention just a few. Access 58 also performed LIVE! Their fire-funk techno were experienced by thousands all around Europe in clubs and events such as The End, Ultimate Base, I Love Techno, and Tresor... Access 58 remixers and collaborators were Umek, Cari Lekebusch, The Advent, Steve Stoll, Pacou, Jamie Anderson, Colin Dale, Trevor Rockcliffe, Marco Lenzi, Mark Broom, Mark Williams and others. Access 58 were the first (and probably the only) artists to perform live on the Colin Dale's legendary "Abstract Dance" weelky radio program on Kiss FM in London, England.

Mutant Soul Records

Paulo formed Mutant Soul Records in 2001 with Phil. This label was the antidote to the fast techno world of Access 58. The duo has teamed up with classical / jazz trained Portuguese keyboardist Nuno Filipe for the Jaam project, a cross between downtempo, house, broken beat and jazz. They released a series of 12" called "Blue Series EPs" before Phil departed to Switzerland and Nuno to Portugal in 2003 , to concentrate on solo projects.The releases featuring Erik Truffaz, Eska, Etmo and Simbad also grabbed excellent remixes by Gerd, Rollercone, Alex Attias, Jimpster and Shur-I-Kan. Their records were very well received by the press and were played and charted by DJs such as: Gilles Petterson, Charles Webster, Laurent Garnier and others.

Discography