Ismael Rivas - Biography
We can describe Ismael in many ways, but above all he can be identified for the strong character of his music and a style of his own that transmits to the people what he believes to be a lifestyle. Ismael began his career in 1992 in Bolshoi, his first club. Since then, he played in the best clubs of the city such as Archy, Bocaccio, OH!, Empire; thus, starting his four year path as resident of OH! Marbella. There he met several renowned international deejays such as Funk D..void, David Morales, Pete Heller, Danny Rampling and a long etcetera. Their house music style influenced Ismael and offered him the opportunity to learn directly from the best DJs. This would help him to take one of the most important steps forward in his career, working in 1997 as resident of SpaceofSound@Macumba, the Sunday morning session par excellence. Since he first began at Space of Sound@Macumba, Ismael created his own style, which has been constantly evolving from more Latin and tribal sounds in its beginnings to progressive house and to the more electronic and avant-garde new beats that characterize his current sets. Thanks to this musical evolution, he had the pleasure to share booth with such important deejays as Garnier, Deep Dish, Lawler, Satoshi Tomiie, or Cattaneo. Ismael had many more booth colleagues, even Eric Morillo, with whom he shared residency in 2002. Fortunately in 2002 he scored the Spanish residency of the famous London club Ministry of Sound in Madrid which sky rocketed his career. Apart from his residencies, Ismael had the chance to work on his sessions as a guest artist in almost every major club of our peninsula. His sets have gone beyond our borders to the turntable desks of Colombia, Israel, Morocco, Italy, Belgium, Austria Switzerland, Venezuela, Mexico, Bulgary, Romania, Dominican Republic, Usa, Uk, Tunisia, Brasil, or France. For last, in July 2007 Ismael gave another new big step, this time, plying all the summer like the official resident for the Wednesdays at the terrace in Amnesia Ibiza. Today and once left backwards his stage in Space Of Sound, Ismael begins a new stage of his career in solitary, of the hand of Factomania, the Spanish dj agency attendant to carry his booking, he usually continuos colaborating with FSM like the new resident of the club on top in Madrid People, and top festivals like Kubblers or SpS Festival. Actually, Ismael combines his work as a dj with producing, which he dived into in 2001, releasing more than 150 productions for numerous labels, in addition to remixes for James Holden, D-Formation, Julio Navas & David Amo, Coca & Villa, Wally Lopez, Steve Nocerino, Glovives, Sergio Fernandez, Daniel Portman or John Creamer. From 2004 to actually he has published for labels like The Factoria, Harem, Beat Freak, Stereo Productions, Fresco, Yoshitoshi, Go Deeva, Armada, State, Baroque, Airbus, Timbee, New York Love and more. His tracks has been included in the most important compilations, like Renaissance, Beat Freak X Aniversary, Toolroom Compilation 08, Yoshitoshi Miami sampler 08… or the next Gloval Underground for 2011. aTeamed up with Ivan Pica and Wally Lopez, Ismael has also launched FAT XL, his own label actually runs for his 09th reference and growing up. In terms of his compilations, he released the first -Space of Sound- six years ago, in Christmas 2002. Together with Oscar de Rivera then came the second one -Space UN10- released at the beginning of summer 2004. At the moment, he has released the two last volumes of Space of Sound UN10+3 and 10+4, some digital sessions mixed for The Factoria and actually, he has ready to lunch the 1st of December 2009, his first Artist album " Face Up" The factoria with 11 unreleased tracks. A finales de 2008 Ismael lanzo al mercado su propio sello, FAT XL, y a día de hoy va ya por su novena referencia.
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