Demo Aligual Ambients Drum Machine

In to the wild

Japan

Ribot

Haze

Sertralin

Skyfly

Elegant destroy

Spring live

Sumer in winter

Summer in winter

Funny monsters

Josep Lluis Manen, “Pepo”, (Barcelona 1980), is an artist by vocation. With special training in sound engineering. He also studied illustration, guitar and music theory for 12 years to then begin to develop and create his artistic being within the fields of music, painting, sculpture and photography. All this experience has always been translated into “sound" an always looking for "analog environments" in its realization. At 18 he experimented with electronics and formed RID 4, group whose musical output was based on the experimentation and creation of ambient sounds that enabled him to continue dabbling with electronic sounds, but at this time, under the influence of intelligent D&B and the Breaks.

All this has led “Pepo” to a particular style under the names of his alterego "Therapy" and "DJ Therapy” under whom he played numerous live gigs in clubs and festivals nationally and internationally such as: Electric Motel, Comvent of Saint Augustine, Niu, Nits to Caixa Forum, Discipline, Sala Mephisto, Apollo, Bass line, Xpressing Undergraund, Bastard Art Festival, (ITA) Parasite (NL), Open Atelier (NL). During this time Pepo plays solo and quite often also sharing stage with artist like Justin Robertson, Jack Raymond, and the break music project HOT Maracas formed by Dj Ma-Z and Pepo himself.

In 2004 Pepo creates "Tension studio" in Barcelona to later move to Amsterdam where he is dedicated to sound design and music creation for commercials. Its customers include: Tous, Nokia, Wageningen University, MACBA CCCB, Miró Museum, Wieden + Kennedy, TV3, CECC , Art Aids Foundation. While working on commercial commissions he as well provides services for recording bands, voiceovers, dubbing, soundtrack for film and live sound.

With its own vision and influenced by his life with the arts, his artistic being has a particular style and song writing ability that today allows him to offer "organic sounds" recreating vibrations, natural sounds and images through the help of instruments like guitar, bass, keyboards, midi controllers...

Such experience can be appreciated in his last set of experimental music that is entitled "ALIGUAL". 

www.tensionstudio.com/aligual


