A. Paul

A. Paul

A.Paul was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1971.

His first contacts with dance rhythms were made in the late 70´s, when he started to listen to a radio show where names like Michael Jackson, George Benson, Imagination, Earth Wind & Fire or Al Jareau were playing all the time. This as, actually, his musical school.

Portugal was never a country very rich in terms of soul/funk/disco styles, but for some curious minds that knew where to find their music, was not that hard to follow the natural instinct.

In 1987, with the boom of acid-house A.Paul faced the possibility of working seriously on what was already more than a simple passion. Like a lot of Portuguese and foreign djs, he started to promote small parties with his own equipment, followed by the first gigs on a local bar.

In 1990, he was invited to play in a 1000 capacity club, where he stayed for about one year, playing a wide range of musical styles to a big crowd. During this period, Portuguese dance music had its first steps, and A.Paul tried to create his own style, although house, trance & techno weren't as distant as they are nowadays.

By the end of 93, he got himself in the middle of a new world, working in Question of Time record shop, working with J. Daniel with whom he also released his first twelve inch “Juice”, that became a milestone on his career, so unexpected was the worldwide feedback to it. This is the same year when he becomes resident dj at the mythical club called Climacz, in Lisbon.

In 1995, already responsible for the techno imports department at Illegal shop, he opts to create a record label - Squeeze Records, along with Portuguese djs Ferro and Wogz, gathering the best Portuguese artists, and keeping always an innovator charisma, fully dedicated to electronic rhythms.

In 1996, and despite he had already an established free lancer dj "way of life" (working with the best national promoters, organizations and labels, as Kaos, releasing also a few records for them), he his invited and accepts to be resident at Kremlin, probably the best Portuguese dance club at that time.

In 1997, he plays in a few events of X-Club, and after a while, join their agency for more than 2 years, where he had the chance to start playing with top international djs, seeing, listening and learning.
Still in 97, he decided to create another record label - Onhcet Records, receiving great compliments, both from the press and the djs, licensing tracks to Carl Cox & Takkyu Ishino for compilations in Japan, and being also remixed by The Advent. His debut album "Neurofunk", this time on Squeeze Records, got also a big response (it was charted 6th best album on Dj Magazine - October 98).

The year of 2001 witnessed the creation of a new project - Genesis Records, starting as an online record shop, soon becoming a record label and a proper record shop in Lisbon. Also other artistic activities were developed by A.Paul in this new century, such as graphic design, web design and journalism.

In 2002, A.Paul was invited by Cisco Ferreira (The Advent) to remix a track for his label Kombination Research.

In 2004 he creates a new label – Naked Lunch, and starts a new project with Dj Jiggy with a monthly residence at the Alcantara-Club in Lisbon www.secretsocietyclub.com - www.secretsocietyclub.com

SKILZ & STYLZ:
A.Paul is a fast 3 decks player and his style varies between minimal and harder funky techno.

AWARDS:
A.Paul was voted best portuguese techno dj in 2001, 2002 and 2003 by the readers of portuguese main dance magazine – Dance Club.