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Around the time my parents bought their first pc, a Pentium 100 with 64 mb ram running windows 95, I switched from protracker on the Amiga to fasttracker II for my music. 

No more one megabyte songs in 8 bit sound quality and four mono track limit, but the luxury of enough tracks & sample memory to use in 16 bit stereo :) . Of course I abused this newfound freedom, lifting a lot of loops from the Hip Hop music I was into at the time with often questionable results. Creating sort of like party jams, reminiscent of early Frankie Cutlass or watered down Fatman Scoop/Crooklyn Clan instrumentals. Basically a mix of unobscured familiar loops playing in succession without worrying about copyright. 

As there weren't cd-burners yet, and the tracks were too big to fit onto a 3.5 inch disk, a lot of attempts at music have died with the harddisk of the machine, but some have been recovered as I sometimes recorded tracks to decrepit cassette tapes, like this compilation of hip hop'ish & jungly tracks made between 1997 - 1999.

Samplebased Boombap electronica: 
@jonas-from-nijmegen

Glitchhousebreakbeatdance: 
@oelek

Arty-farty cinematic sounddesign:
@r_jonas_arty_farty2 (*newer)
@r_jonas_arty_farty

Remix selections:
@plugexpertremix2 (*newer)
@plugexpertremix

Plugexpert:
@plugexpert2014left (2014/left-overs)
@plugexpert201213 (2012/13)
@plugexpert2011 (2011)
@plugexpert201011 (2010/11)
@plugexpert010203 (2001/02/03)
@plugexpert2001 (2001)
@r_jonas_2000 (2000)

93'-95' Jungle gabber tracker music:
@richard_jonas_trackers

Acting as DJ since 1994, Bruno Soares, aka DJ Arlequim, is a Brazilian DJ who has always been passionate to grooves.
During his childhood in Brasilia (Brazil), back in the 80's, he was strongly  influenced by electro-funk. Today, DJ Arlequim plays House, Funk and Disco.

In the 2000s, he was one of electronic music DJs who was responsible for the boom of electronic music scene in the Northeast of Brazil, being the creator of Undergroove / Pragatecno movements.
He has performed in major cities of Brazil, Europe and Canada. He is an audio engineer graduated by IAV (São Paulo, Brazil) and Microfusa (Madrid, Spain).

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DJ desde 1994, o brasileiro Bruno Soares, aka Dj Arlequim, sempre foi um apaixonado por grooves. Durante sua infância, na década de 80 em Brasilia-DF, teve forte influência do electro-funk. Hoje, toca House, Funk e Disco.

Morou 7 anos em Fortaleza e por lá foi um dos DJs responsáveis pelo "boom" da cena de música eletrônica no nordeste do Brasil com o coletivo Undergroove / Pragatecno.

Além de DJ, possui formações em cursos de audio pelo Instituto de Áudio e Video - IAV (São Paulo-BR) e Microfusa (Madrid-ES). Atualmente é o “braço” da produção musical no trio Funk The System, no qual já fez duas turnês internacionais pela Europa e Canadá.


Others projects: 

http://soundcloud.com/funkthesystem

http://soundcloud.com/2punch


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