Rafael Moraes - House, Deephouse - DJ Sets

Right at the beginning it was the verb. In the character`s case here stated, the verb was followed by other sounds, musicals, and its corresponding senses. To start with, a vast family record collection that has followed him since his cradle time. Music has always been all around the musician and Dj Rafael Moraes. From this very close relationship with books, records and posters related to music together with concerts, festivals and of course flash and bone real musicians such as Elis... Read more Right at the beginning it was the verb. In the character`s case here stated, the verb was followed by other sounds, musicals, and its corresponding senses. To start with, a vast family record collection that has followed him since his cradle time. Music has always been all around the musician and Dj Rafael Moraes. From this very close relationship with books, records and posters related to music together with concerts, festivals and of course flash and bone real musicians such as Elis Regina, Tom Zé, Renato Teixeira, Arrigo Barnabe amongst others, emerged little by little and gradually his own way to canalize his great passion for music. Without any pressure from his family to become a musician but with a lot of encouragement in the form of musical instruments being given to him as gifts, however, with no commitment to learning how to play them at all. He lived his teenage hood through the first strokes of night life from the today`s cultural and artistic area of São Paulo "Vila Madalena" in the mid eighties what was for him the perfect environment to take his first steps into the music scene and his own career. Rafael attended a two year music course at the "Tom Jobim Music University” which has given him a more academic approach to music; it was a brush-up period in his learning process. The experience worked also as a good alibi and free pass to what would be a radical decision in his life years ahead, when he decided to drop out of his previously chosen university course. He had attended to nearly four years of a Social Science degree at the Catholic University in São Paulo, but he quick just before graduating. The decision for music was then made. The winds were blowing to deferent directions in the early nineties, when he started to rehearsal his solo flight as a DJ combining his love for percussion in multi technical performances; from those times up to the present moment he has played with many outstanding musicians using his turn-tables and his percussion. Many well none Brazilian musicians and bands such as Paula Lima and Elza Soares have shared the stage with Rafael to play a wide variety of musical styles. Moving to the frenetic clubbing scene Rafael could be heard at various São Paulo based night clubs. He has played some wicked sets at Pacha, Vegas, Disco, Lotus, Lov E, and has his monthly party at Royal Club, “Go Deep!”. He also is part of the very known “Sunday Sessions”, a blend of nujazz, broken beats & deep house party. In two years this party brought to the São Paulo crowd the finest in DJs that the city had listened far. Names like Osunlade, Timmy Regisford, Charles Spencer, Benji B amongst others helped to build the name of this party, and also to develop properly the underground scene. Around the globe, he played his deeper sounds in big cities as Paris, London and New York, and in the last two years at the Miami Winter Music Conference, at Loveslap and Yoruba/Aquabooty Parties. In 2003 Rafael launched “Beats Eldorado” a radio show, each and every Thursday and Saturday at eleven o`clock PM that belongs to one of the best radio stations in Brazil, Eldorado FM. Rafael rinse out top nujazz, broken beat, future soul and house music tunes. On it`s third year, the show had interviewed and played the sounds of names like Jazzanova, Wagon Cookin`, Tortured Soul, Osunlade, Timmy Regisford, Victor Simoneli, Charles Spencer, Jammie Thines, Halo Varga and many others. For the grand finale of this resume the Dj and Producer Rafael Moraes is one of the three memberes of the project entitled "Nomumbah", along side Alexandre Reis e Andre Torquato. Together they present “Love Moves” their debut album on Yoruba Records. Nomumbah is a trio steep in Brazilian tradition, yet there is nothing traditional about them. The groups bridging of jazzy elements, broken rhythms, latin overtones and deep house while still capturing the essence of Brazils cultural beauty, has enabled them to do what very few Brazilian musicians have accomplished with electronic music. Mostly known for their rework of Lo Borges Tudo Que Voce Podia Ser, which appeared on the Ibara: River Crossing and Yoruba Records: Cinco Anos compilation, and now on Louie Vega`s In the House ( Defected ) the group has received critical acclaim from the likes of Jazzanova, Louie Vega, Henrik Schwarz and Atjazz amongst others. Show less