1- Name and home adress My name is Manuel Sofia. I live in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the place where I was born but I also passed 4 years of my life in Barcelona, Spain.

2- How did everything started? Well… I was lucky because my brother was already a dj before I started so I had the chance to watch at him playing and also access to music it wasn’t easy to get in that time. Hernan Cattaneo gave me as a present my first vinyls, my brother teached me how to play and some short time after I was doing some warm ups on clubs in Buenos Aires.

3-How´s the scene in your country and south america? There are a lot of mainstream events right now and I think the quality went down a little bit but I must confess playing in Argentina is always good for any dj as the crowd is super passionate about music.

4-What do you hear at home and some influences? I listen from Jazz or Bossa to Punk rock… I’m a huge fan of Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Smiths, New Order, Massive Attack, Air, Radiohead… As I’m a big fan of music, melodies and the way of communication music has, I think that influenced me on trying to do more melodic electronic music. Of course I love Techno House from Chicago or Detroit and that influenced me big time on what I do now as well. Everything helped me in some way.

5- What´s your musical style? Well, that’s kind of hard to say. I like many styles of music and I enjoy playing and making them all. I get easily bored so I need to be on constant movement. Anyway my roots are House music, and what I usually do and like comes from there. Techno house, progressive house, tech house, etc… Music it’s music and tagging it’s not what I like the most.

6 -Favourite food and drink? I love eating! I think my favorite meal it’s proper Sushi and Argentinian “Asado” (meat). I like red wine but I don’t drink to much…

5-You have been doing some amazing music for Cattaneo´s Sudbeat, Rennaissance, Natura Sonoris, Flow, etc… any future plans? we heard there´s a future debut album coming… Yeah. Hernan requested me to remix one of his tracks and make an original one for his Parallel Compilation on Renaissance. Aside being a good friend, Hernan is someone I always admire so being asked to do these tracks for him was a big pleasure and honor for me. An Endless Forest (the track I did for his comp) it’s also coming as an ep on Sudbeat with a remix from Robert Babicz as well. As for the album, yes, it’s true, I’m working on it since some time now and that’s the reason why I decided to focus on that and stop making eps for a while. The album will be released on Flow and I hope to have it ready soon! It was an idea I had for a while, then Pena offered me to do it so everything went perfect, the label was interested, I had the idea in my head and now I’m working on it.

6- First time in Portugal? what do you expect and think about? It’s my second time in Portugal. The first one was almost 3 years ago in Porto. I have good friends over there like Pena and Kasey Taylor so I’m excited to go and have some fun in Lisbon. Everybody says amazing stuff of the city and the people so I’m more than happy of having the chance to play there.

7- Your favorite party and country/club to play. This is a hard one. I think I had my best dj experiences in Poland, Argentina and France. I like small clubs, with people full of energy but playing in Love Parade in 2008 or other big festivals it’s also fun.

SEXTA FEIRA 29 OUTUBRO / LX FACTORY (NCS)

MANUEL SOFIA AKA MOS  (flow, global underground, sudbeat ) Argentina

Diogo Ribeiro Live (flow, 24hours)

Pena (flow)

Manuel Lobo (wolf) vs Lama (fenix proj)

entrada: 12 flows c/ dto a 2 bebidas leves

Com a chegada próxima de Guy J a Portugal, a sua estreia em Lisboa pela mão da Flow Deluxe, a Visions foi entrevistar este artista israelita para uma grande reportagem.  Estando a trabalhar com os melhores músicos, como John Digweed e a passos de lançar o próximo álbum a Visions faz um preview do que vem aí. 

V – O teu som tem grande singularidade…  

GUY – Sim, é uma mistura de diferentes estilos de House, neste momento estou a incluir mais instrumentos dos mais variados estilos musicais.  

V – A faixa Ballroom é magnífica, como é que nasceu esta malha?  

GUY – A inspiração para esta faixa veio da necessidade de fazer algo diferente, algo mais dark. É bom ter faixas diferentes para momentos diferentes.  

V – Como é que é trabalhar com grandes nomes como John Digweed?  

GUY – É uma grande experiencia, estou a aprender muito com ele e a receber muito apoio e claro ele foi sempre alguém que eu admirei muito, é fantástico trabalhar com ele.  

V – Para 2010, o que vem aí?  

GUY – O meu próximo álbum na Bedrock está a ser processado neste momento, estou muito contente pela maneira como tudo está a ser processado. Acabei também algumas rmxs que estão quase a sair, para Henry Saiz , Way Out West, Faith Records , Sahar Z 7, Guy Mantzur and for Jori Hulkkonen.  

V – Andas pelo mundo inteiro, mas qual o país que te agrada mais?  

GUY – Argentina. Em geral a América do sul toda tem uma grande vibe.  

V – Cerveja, whisky, vodka ou sumo?  

GUY – “Whisky on the rox”  (risos).