PRESENTS
Martelo
(UK)

Like most people that move around a lot as a child, Martelo sees the world with wide eyes and takes influence from all aspects of life. Growing up on Bill Withers and Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson and Paul Simon then taking teenage trips through punk and grunge to drum and bass, garage and hip hop has no doubt had an influence on his music taste and DJ/production style. “i play world music, but not the snobby stuff. Hood music from the global underground.. from the favelas to the projects to the tower blocks”

Martelo was grafting on the Sony/BMG street team and DJing on promo tours for Justin Timberlake, 50 Cent, DMX and Destinys Child as well as holding down a weekly residency at Ministry of Sound and two shows on pirate stations freeze and Bassline all by the age of 20.

In the years since then he has become known as part of the yOyO family having blown the roof off time and again and represented the night on many occasions. He has been the International Tour DJ for Santigold since 2007, as recommended by Diplo, and has played festivals all over the planet from Coachella (LA) to Summersonic (Japan) to Field Day (Aus) right back to Glastonbury (England).

Last year alone he was asked to open up for Jay-Z twice and was said to be a major highlight at 2009′s Exit fetsival in Serbia. He is also part of “The End Of The World” with Toddla T and Oneman, they toured europe in 2009 and look set to repeat that in 2011.

Martelo had a smash in 2010 with the club banger ‘Wasted’ released on Hervé’s Cheap Thrills label.. His sound has constantly developed, though still bass heavy and club orientated. Nowadays he is in the studio whenever not in the clubs and Toddla T, Oneman and Boy 8-Bit are all people Martelo is working with in 2010 with releases expected by the end of the summer.

He has also been recommended by the Mixcloud community as the most popular in the indie section for the last few months running.

check out Martelo mixes here: www.mixcloud.com/martelo
check out Martelo tracks here: www.soundcloud.com/iammartelo & www.myspace.com/mrmartelo

Tracklist
01 – Ghost Rider – Supra1
02 – I Swear Down 0.2 – Melé
03 – Rendezvous (Jay Weed remix) – Douster
04 – Study War (Savage Skulls Remix) – Moby
05 – Yesman VIP – Seiji
06 – Funky Flex (C.R.S.T Remix) – Lil Silva
07 – Pirog (Dubbel Dutch remix) – Manaré
08 – Single Ladies, Single Fellas – Diamond K & Al Ripken Jr
09 – Shade On – Girl Unit
10 – Dirty – Jammin’
11 – Abre A Rodinha – Taty e as Gulosas e Roba Cena
12 – Night Skanker – Lil Silva
13 – Quasar (Dubbel Dutch Edit) – Silkie
14 – Bruk – Jackal Youth
15 – Kitamanda – Roulet
16 – Rain City – Starkey
17 – Oba – Denon Squad
18 – Blood Pressure feat. Riko – TeeD
19 – Electric Boogaloo (Roller Express Remix) – Wiley
20 – ScrewDriver – Rude Kid

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by Ana Gilbert on Jun 3, 2010