After a scant two years kicking around Miami and DJing scattered gigs there and abroad, Miguel Colmenares fell in with a techno-loving crowd, founded the music-and-art crew Future Collective, and got his hands on production software—from there, it was only a matter of months before labels and listeners alike fell for the Venezuelan producer’s singular brand of intensely syncopated minimalism. Inspired as much by Latin bandleaders like Cheo Feliciano and Eddie Palmieri as by fellow South American technophiles Ricardo Villalobos and Pier Bucci, Colmenares emerged fully formed, armed to the hilt with percussive grooves that bounce like digitized conga drums shimmying through a steel pipeline.
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