Lisbon-based DJ & producer. Lux Frágil resident DJ (@lux)

15 years definitely doesn’t seem like a long time for Inês Duarte to be pursuing a DJ career, but the truth is she’s no longer the 18 year-old clubber who was the first to arrive at the dancefloor and the last to leave. The sudden "click" of wanting to make people happy while sharing the music she loved—you won’t find her playing a record she doesn’t agree with—was bound to happen, and the rest is history. With a notable passion and knowledge of House Music in its various aspects, she blends it more and more with a neo-progressive sound, with Techno that need not be fast to captivate, and together with Breakbeat, Acid and Trancey tinges that, rest assured, do not fall into dubious territories. Being an habituéé of booths all over, the dream job arrives in 2018: a full residency at the renowned Lisbon club Lux-Frágil, the place she pinpoints as fundamental in her schooling as a DJ. A vocal activist for long DJ sets, you might find her playing for 7 hours, but she’ll be just as delighted proving that the art of the warmup is not lost. All in all, she defines herself as a DJ of “moments", if you leave at the end with clear moments in your head (be they of joy, ecstasy, togetherness, or even anguish), well, mission accomplished. With a Music Technology education under her belt, it not only translates to extreme care about sound when playing but also to producing her music without caring for formulas other than expressing what’s in her head. After having held shows at Antena 3 Madeira Rádio and Area3000 (Australia), she now hosts a weekly show at Pattern Radio Lisbon, with a wonky voice but the urge to keep on presenting from the most cutting-edge to the most classic sounds.

LuxFrágil's resident dj

An explosive revelation in the portuguese DJ scene in recent years and a key player in the local underground, Varela has something important to say through music. An indirect but studious disciple of greats like Levan or Ron Hardy, Varela is the new and the old school all at the same time. There's something eternal and classic about what he does behind the mixer; a profoundly honest connection to music that doesn't deviate for one second from its emancipatory and transcendent purpose. Those who have seen him command a dancefloor recently have witnessed the shamanic mastery with which he directs the energy and bodies towards an intoxicating unison. It's all intuition, exchange and empathy when he mixes a Ron Trent classic with any hot new track, with a resolve that forces you to pay attention.

DJ, producer, label co-owner at @alphabetstreetmusic
Bookings: ys.interbooking@gmail.com
Portugal - jc@disquietagency.com

booking: booking@boysnoize.com
remix request: info@gunrosedj.com

Bookings:  talent@ill-pitched.com

Tour Dates
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Born in the early eighties in Lisbon via Goa, Marco Antão is the man behind the name SwitchDance - a monicker adapted from a skateboarding manoeuvre. He is a resident at Lisbon’s notorious Lux Frágil and is widely regarded as being one of Portugal’s finest and most adventurous DJ’s and producers, renowned for his highly eclectic, profoundly hypnotic sets. Known for his diverse musical palette and boundless creativity, Switchdance ultimately seeks to challenge audiences, all the while enticing them with a combination of music that draws equally from a comfortably familiar past and a distant alien future. Any and all boundaries are promptly discarded and conventions that seem to limit many other DJ’s are overcome with impressive confidence and audacity.
His residency at the aforementioned Lux Frágil has allowed him to share the booth with all of his favourite musicians and main influences. He has played at every significant club and festival in Portugal as well as all over Europe and was invited by the Red Bull Music Academy to play at two editions of Boiler Room. 
Taking his love of psychedelic arpeggios, gothic melodies and dusty drum machine-driven percussive moments, he distills and restructures these elements into a unique sound elegantly displayed in his productions showcased on labels such as Karakter, Beachcoma, Areal and, most recently, Innervisions - one of the biggest labels in modern electronic music. His track “O Amolador”, featured on the Secret Weapons 9 compilation, merges mysterious eastern melodies and kraut-rock inspired synths with samples that speak directly to the nostalgia of his youth growing up in Lisbon. It was this distinctive synergy that captured the imaginations of label heads Dixon and Âme along with countless others. With the success of “O Amolador”, Switchdance has been revealed as one of the most promising talents to come out of Portugal in decades.

the time we spend together on a dance floor matters

Resident DJ at @lux in Lisbon.

Founder / Curator of Subliminar at Lux

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