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I was born in Montevideo on the 20th of September of 1978 under the name Javier Zugarramurdi Garcia and today I like to be called by the name I choose for myself, Todo. In my mother language, that name means everything. The name came to me after being on an electronic music party in Berlin on the first of January of 2020 when I girl asked me are you an Art Director? I replied, “Soy todo” I am everything.

“I really love the idea of keeping the doors open for whatever comes in the future.”

When I was 10 years old in 1988 I remember recording cassettes with my favorite songs from the radio. And doing it every night before bedtime, with my headphones on and my eyes closed while I listened. And there my love for music began. I also remember being drawing a lot while I was listening on my walkmans to the recorded cassettes. Drawing was also something special for me, as a tool to bring to this world the images from my imagination. I remember listening to all kinds of music, and it was such an adventure to be always discovering new songs. Music was a very important part of my life.

At 15 years old in 1993 I convinced my dear mother and psychologist Mabel Garcia to get me a drum-set and I started playing in my basement for hours and hours when I met my dear friend Val Guillemette Novoa. He was coming from Buenos Aires to visit his grandmother who was living very close to my house. At that time in Uruguay with no internet, the music was coming or from parents or the radio and it was more old-school or commercial. But Val brought a whole new spectrum of music like Hendrix, Janes Addiction, Mr. Bungle, Rage, Faith no more, Beast Boys, Alice in Chains, Living Colour and all the alternative music from the 90s. That for me was a life changer.

Val came to Montevideo with his guitar, a Fender Stratocaster Plus with a Mesa Boogie amp, so we jammed for hours in my basement and smoked a lot of weed and listened to all that music. We composed a bunch of tracks and invited a bass player I knew to join the band. We named the band Bulbo Maestro, referring to the collective consciousness, is like when you ingest L.S.D. with more people and they all see the same hallucination, the master brain. We did a party on the roof of a house and we played our songs for the people. And that was my first time of many to perform in front of an audience.

Djing and Performing
By coincidence or destiny on a Thursday night around 1994, we arrived at a club with some friends, Manolo, El Flaco, Dalmiro (RIP) and others I don’t remember. When entering there it was super dark and a new kind of music was playing loud, there I saw for the first time in my life a techno DJ playing records. I felt like seeing myself on that DJ booth and there I knew I was going to do that.

Sometime after I talked with a friend, Gonzalo Baubeta, who brought 2 turntables and a mixer to Montevideo and he wanted to play the drums so we exchanged his DJ gear for my drum-set, he also handed me the first music-making software for what I will be eternally grateful.

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