Claudio Brio had just turned a young man in the beggining of the 80..s and had
the previlege to experience all the creative boom of bands of this decade.
Claudio was much influenced by the bands that where doin experiences with sequencers. Some of the pioneers in using this equipments on stage, such as Kraftwerk, New Order, Depeche Mode, DEVO, Tears for Fears, the Cure, and Pet Shop Boys. All of them later on caused impact in the Global Music Scene, but in the begginnig of the 80..s, in exception of Kraftwerk that was already more than 10 years on the road and ahead, the others was just a new stylle of bands, with strange guys and strange attitute, shorter hairs and less ego, that was performing for the first time a band without the traditional set of drums, guitar, bass, synth and singer. For the first time, bands started to present in a way that was not performing all the instruments. What you were hearing was much more than was been performed on the stage. The machines had for the first time control of the compass, the humans were for the first time, following a machine arranje.
This particular group of bands had such a strong influence, that Brio, his brother Marcelo and two other friends, created the Technopop band "Install" in 1986. The band performed in parites, bars and clubs of São Paulo, such as US Beef Rock, Victoria Pub and Woodstock, untill 1990. When the integrants were graduating in their Universities and decided to stop perfoming.
Brio selected bellow videos from the tracks that mostly had impact in his musical direction, from each group named before. So relax and have a good travel back to the 80..s, using Claudio Brio..s ears.
Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator Live 1981
Depeche Mode - Puppets - late 1981
Devo - Thats Good - 1982-1983
The Cure - The Walk - Live 1983
New Order live, 1984, 'Blue Monday'
Claudio Brio returned to his artistic career in 1999, as a dj. After a successfull career as an engineer and business consultant, Claudio decided to make a drastic change in his life and returned to be an artist.
Claudio Brio was very much influenced, in the begginnig of his dj career, by the progressive trance released in North Europe around the millenium turn, from labels such as Flying Rhyno (UK), Spirall Traxx (SWE), Iboga (DK) and Spirit Zone (DE).
The musical connections established with North Europe had mostly influenced Brio and after 4 years as dj and promoter, during the summer of 2003/2004, Claudio Brio founded Tropical Beats in partnership with James Monro (UK), Jokke Ilsoe (DK) and Chris Melchior (DK). Claudio has been very much connected to the underground labels and artistis from Germany & Scandinavia in the last years.
Most of his stylle is influenced by the music played and produced in the underground of cities in Norht Europe, in special Berlin and Copenhagen. Where he had more oportunities to visit.
This long and straight conection to the electronic music is blended with his natural brasilian influence, bringing to his music a combination of all the technology and technological direction required by the electronic music with the brasilian rhythm and sexy atmosphere.
Is impossible to say just one name of stylle that can define his music, Claudio Brio uses all the references that he expirienced in what he writes and play. For the ones that prefer names than beats, we can try to define the stylle of his music as:
Claudio Brio dj set - Tech House, Minimal, Electro
Corejoy - Tech House, Minimal & Techno
Alpha Drive - Deep House & Progressive House
Trautonium - Progressive Trance
Green Lake EP - Drag N Drop Records UK - beatport.com - dj download - Juno
click on the cover to access the EP page on beatport.com
Green Lake (Original Mix)
Green Lake (Wasabi Remix)
Green Lake (Spikers Remix)
Here We Go EP - TB Records - beatport.com
click on the cover to access the EP page on beatport.com
Here We Go (Original Mix)
Here We Go (James Monro Remix)
Here We Go (El Kore Remix)
Here We Go (Tech System Remix)
Goin On - TB Records - V/A comp "Nectar" by James Monro - 2006
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Corejoy is the live act and main project of Claudio Brio, that stared to write material under the Corejoy name, back on 2005 and have been releasing on Tropical Beats (TB Records) since than.
Corejoy started as a live act in September of 2006 and have been performing around Brasil in open air parties and clubs, highlighting his performance at Virada Cultural Festival in São Paulo for more than 10.000 people.
For Corejoy live set, Brio uses all the arsenal of loops and compositions created in the studio, where he brings a very versatile set up, presenting loops and samples of his tracks mixed and arranjed LIVE in Ableton Live & midi controllers, making every presentation unique and special tuned for the dance-floor.
Claudio Brio started in the electronic music as a producer and midi programmer in a techno-pop band in the end of the 80’s, by the time that he was graduating in mechanical engineering school. After working 9 years as an engineer, in the end of the 90’s he started to play as a dj. Since than, he has performed on the circuit of clubs, parties and festivals around Brazil and yearly in most of the bigger Brazilian open air events events such as XXXperience, Tribe, Solaris Dance Festival, Universo Paralello Festival, Trancendance Festival and Cachoeira Alta Festival to name a few.
In the circuit of Clubs, Brio started to play in the legendary Clubs of the end of 90..s in São Paulo, as U-Turn & Manga Rosa, and have performed around the country in the last years in Clubs such as Fiction (GO), Kraft (Campinas), Club E (BH), 180 Graus (Ubatuba-SP), Fishbone (Bizios-RJ), Delux.E (Campinas-SP), Club Diesel (Campinas) and a 8 months residency at D-Edge (SP) during the weekly night Up Grade powered by Tropical Beats. Claudio Brio was also resident during 3 years of Club Tronic @ Radio Energia 97FM, playing weekly for more than one million listeners.
Claudio Brio started to play internationally as a dj in 2005 @ Culture Box Club (Copenhagen) and in the “ever Greeen Party a la Brasil” in Christiania (DK). Brio returned to Europe in 2007 to play in the Hangar Club (Berlin) and again in a Christiania after party.
Born in Rio de Janeiro and living in Sao Paulo where he directs Tropical Beats and Sonic Alliance. Booking Agency, Record label and Distribution Companies that he has in partnership with James Monro (UK), Jokke Ilsoe (DK), Marian Flow (BR), Zeo (BR), Nico Defrost (DK) and Bo Hoj Jensen (DK), Brio also spend his time in the studio, producing for “Corejoy” and for his other projects as “Alpha Drive” and “Trautonium”.
Corejoy is the main, live act and solo (minimal/electro/tribal). Alpha Drive is where he puts his deep house and tribal house tunes, and Trautonium is a project that Brio has in partnership with dj Feio (Wired Music), dedicated to faster bpms.
As a dj, Brio also can use Ableton Live and his midi controllers to reach a higher level of presentation or in the traditional way with Vynils and/or CDJs. No mater what format, Claudio Brio flows as a dj, between minimal, tech-house and tribal, presenting some of the newest tunes from the artists globally associated to Tropical Beats.
iNminimax is SUPPORTED by: Richie Hawtin, Paco Osuna, Joseph Capriati, Popof, Ramon Tapia, Gary Beck, Someone Else, Kaiserdisco, Monoloc, Alex Costa, Victor Ruiz, DJ 40oz., D.Ramirez, pÃr grindvik, and many many more...
iNminimax is SUPPORTED by: Richie Hawtin, Paco Osuna, Joseph Capriati, Popof, Ramon Tapia, Gary Beck, Someone Else, Kaiserdisco, Monoloc, Alex Costa, Victor Ruiz, DJ 40oz., D.Ramirez, pÃr grindvik, and many many more...
Você é nosso convidado para a festa de comemoração dos seis anos de realizações e conquistas da Tropical Beats, reunindo um time seleto de artistas que promete aquecer a pista do Sonique. O evento acontece na quinta-feira dia 29 de Outubro - à partir das 20h00 - na Rua Bela Cintra, 461.
We are very excited to announce that our 2nd album is finally ready!
"Expander" is out now @ Dacru Records.
It's a remix special with remixes to and by Protoculture, Silicon Sound, Talamasca, DNA, Chronos, Lamat, Electro Sun and more...
All info you can find on myspace, www.dacru.be or on our facebook.
You can listen to some tracks in our myspace music player!
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