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Biography
Garnica was born in Merida-Venezuela back in 1981. He started to play drums with alternative rock bands while in high school, but it is 1998 when he formed a band called Submarino. They won the most important festival in Venezuela in 2000, recorded an album and toured during three years. By the mean
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Garnica was born in Merida-Venezuela back in 1981. He started to play drums with alternative rock bands while in high school, but it is 1998 when he formed a band called Submarino. They won the most important festival in Venezuela in 2000, recorded an album and toured during three years. By the meantime, Garnica was working with audio softwares for the electronic sequences in the band. In 2002 he produces ÔDe La Oscuridad Al Color EPÕ, an experimental techno work released in mp3 and spread by the web. Two tracks got licensed on CD in Venezuelan local labels. Some time later, he starts playing records in nightclubs, mainly minimal techno and tech-house music... Auftrieb, Studio 1, Force Tracks, Kompakt, Audiomatique, Bpitch, Dial, Italic, Ware, Areal, Gigolo, Regular, to name just a few, were Garnica's influences at that time. His first live act was in a private party at Hilton Hotel in Caracas, using Ableton Live 1.5 with a laptop and a midi controller, both borrowed... Since then, production became an important part of Garnica's day routine. He played in Colombia and Chile festivals one year later, getting good reputation into the southamerican scene. His productions can be found on netlabels such as Microbio, D-A-T-A and Series.
In 2004 he moved to Caracas and worked as a sound engineer in one of the most prestigious sound studio in Venezuela: Jazzmania. He also played almost every weekend in nightclubs like Elmo Bar and La Belle Epoque.
A year later he decides to live in Barcelona-Spain, he met Maurice Aymard (Galaktika Records shop owner) and gave him a demo recorded in Caracas. This demo contained some pieces like 'Lovers Sold' and 'Far Away From Home', both released in Garnica's maxi debut 'The Lucky Guy' (2006) published on Maurice's label. Galaktika's owner did not doubt Venezuelan's talent, so they started working together in the shop and label night showcases.
By 2007, Garnica 'Hielo Sobre Arena EP' (GLK012) was released with huge support from djs like Karotte, Laurent Garnier, Antony Collins, Anderson Noise, among others. Gui Boratto licensed the original track for 'Addicted Vol.2' on Platipus Records.
2008 is a great year for the producer, he gets solid in the electronic music scene and produces remixes for NOP (Japan), I–aqui Marin (Spain), Moombeam (Russia) and Robytek (Italy). 'Sweet how EP' (GLK017) is his third maxi and was supported by Deetron, Daso, Funk D Void, Paulo Olarte, Satoshie Tomie, etc. This recently work encouraged him to produce tracks for other labels like Proton Music, Tanzbar Musik, Trenton Records and many more.
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