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Leaving Buenos Aires? Don’t forget your luggage!

12 March, 2008 | 11.48PM

Section: Music News Topics: South American Music Conference
Written by: Zack Rico

When we arrived in Buenos Aires last Thursday for the South American Music Conference our luggage didn’t show up.

So it makes some sense that the missing bags should appear just as we’re leaving the country.

After all, frustration ain’t really frustration without irony thrown into the mix.

Oh well, at least we won’t have any dirty washing to do when we get home.

Thanks for keeping up with our live SAMC blog, we hope you enjoyed the exclusive interviews and found our coverage insightful.

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SAMC organizer Mariano Trocca

12 March, 2008 | 11.31AM

Section: Music News Topics: South American Music Conference
Written by: Christen Reutens

With the South American Music Conference well and truly wrapped up there was just one person left that we needed to speak to.

We bagged a ride with Mariano Trocca, the organizer of SAMC, to Buenos Aires airport to catch our flight back to the Northern hemisphere.

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SAMC interview: Victoria R

12 March, 2008 | 2.28AM

Section: Music News Topics: South American Music Conference
Written by: Terry Church

Victoria R is a rising star of the tech house underground in Argentina, so we grabbed five minutes with her to find out more about her style of DJing and production.

She had just stepped off a bus after a 13 hour journey coming back from a gig in Patagonia, in southern Argentina, but still looks every bit the model that she used to be before jacking in the modeling career for music a few years ago.

She’s a 21-year-old Argentinian, but her heritage is Greek, Italian and Yugoslavian.

Pissed Off in Buenos Aires: meet the Off Side Brothers

11 March, 2008 | 8.09PM

Section: Music News Topics: South American Music Conference
Written by: Zack Rico

Beatportal grabbed lunch with Manuel aka MOS and his older brother Oliverio from Off Side / Pissed Off Records in the trendy district of Palermo, in Buenos Aires.

With posh clothing stores like Diesel, boutique fashion shops and bars with tables on the sidewalk it felt more like Milan or Soho in London, than South America.

In between big glugs of red wine, the brothers explained all about their record label, and the events that pushed them both into electronic music.

SAMC interview: Dokser of Dual Musik

11 March, 2008 | 3.56PM

Section: Music News Topics: South American Music Conference
Written by: Terry Church

Another hot Argentinean techno talent worth checking out is Dokser, who runs the label Dual Musik.

With releases on Off Side, Pissed Off and Minisketch he has built up a name for himself as a new South American producer with the studio skills to match.

Beatportal sat down with Dokser in Buenos Aires to find out more about his sound and his label.

Industry Boy’s version of SAMC

11 March, 2008 | 11.05AM

Section: Music News Topics: Industry Boy Blog, South American Music Conference
Written by: Industry Boy

Industry Boy’s trip to the South American Music Conference started with some helpful advice from previous visitors to Buenos Aires.

The list of To Dos is short and to the point.

*Eat steak
*Go to an underground afterhours club called Cocoliche
*Meet a beautiful Argentinean girl (there are loads of them apparently)

Steak wouldn’t be a problem and Cocoliche looked like an easy one, so I put all my concentration into the final and most important task.

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Interview: Argentinean techno hero Jonas Kopp

11 March, 2008 | 9.30AM

Section: Music News Topics: South American Music Conference
Written by: Terry Church

Wherever Beatportal went in Buenos Aires during the South American Music Conference, the same name kept being mentioned. Jonas Kopp.

You want to know who’s hot in Argentinean techno? Check out Jonas Kopp (pronounced ‘h’onas).

When we caught him playing on the techno stage during the main SAMC event, he tore it up with a bleepy Adam Beyer-esque techno set that had the crowd dancing strong with its unexpected rhythms and build ups.

The anticipation he created from spinning jiggly beats and throbbing basslines was impressive.

We finally bag an interview with Jonas Kopp on our last day in Buenos Aires with the help of a translator.

Top South American label: El Salvador’s Istmo Music

10 March, 2008 | 7.04AM

Section: Music News Topics: South American Music Conference
Written by: Terry Church

Beatportal caught up with Fernando Kriete from El Salvador to find out all about his record label group Istmo Music, which is home to three of Central America’s biggest labels for trance and progressive house - Dub Tech Recordings, Itzamna and Istmo.

“We launched Istmo Music to create a platform to support and expose South American talent especially Central American talent, on an local and international level,” says Fernando.

Jonas Kopp live @ SAMC

10 March, 2008 | 2.05AM

Section: Videos Topics: South American Music Conference
Written by: Terry Church

Jonas Kopp is one of Argentina’s top techno talents with releases on Spectral Sound, Dual Musik and Vinyl Club.

Here’s a video we took of him dropping a storming techno bleeper on stage at the South America Music Conference last night.

Rolling with Ferry Corsten @ SAMC

9 March, 2008 | 8.52PM

Section: Music News Topics: South American Music Conference
Written by: Zack Rico

At the main SAMC event last night, we rolled with Dutch trance superstar Ferry Corsten for a bit.

Everywhere Ferry went he got hounded by girls desperate to have their photos taken with him.

“Argentina is the only country where dance music is bigger than hip hop, it’s great,” he said, in between signing autographs and posing for photos.

Anthony Pappa loves Buenos Aires

9 March, 2008 | 11.26AM

Section: Music News Topics: South American Music Conference
Written by: Zack Rico

We bumped into all round good bloke Anthony Pappa on the way to the SAMC main event last night, and he revealed that Buenos Aires is his favourite place to spin at.

“The city is such a passionate place, it’s a DJ’s dream,” he said.

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SAMC club review: Marco Carola @ Bahrein

8 March, 2008 | 10.50PM

Section: Music News Topics: Industry Boy Blog, South American Music Conference
Written by: Industry Boy

Bahrein is packed.

Tonight’s main performer, Marco Carola, caught a leg from Italy to join what’s become this annual event known as SAMC.

And the crowd is clearly appreciative.

The ex-pat who never came home from SAMC

8 March, 2008 | 12.49PM

Section: Music News Topics: South American Music Conference
Written by: Terry Church

Meet Katrin Richter, the German ex-pat who came to the first ever South American Music Conference in 2004 and never went home.

After being an editor for four years, she now freelances for Germany’s Raveline magazine and writes a monthly column about South America as well as interviewing local talents, such as Barem, Violett, Franco Cinelli and Santos Resiak.

Her story is like something that happens in those romantic novels. It’s also an enlightening tale of how Buenos Aires, a special place, manages to keep international travelers in a firm check.

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Venezuela: the economics behind piracy

8 March, 2008 | 4.09AM

Section: Music News Topics: South American Music Conference
Written by: Christen Reutens

With its political and economic instability, Venezuela’s DJs, producers, club promoters and artists are struggling, as I found out chatting to Venezuelan producer Moreon aka Gustavo R. Moreno.

President Hugo Chavez has crippled the electronic music scene indirectly.

“We don’t care who is president, or who is in government. We just want to make music, DJ and have good parties,” he says.

Meet Buenos Aires’ hottest trance duo: Heatbeat

7 March, 2008 | 9.30PM

Section: Music News Topics: South American Music Conference
Written by: Zack Rico

From the underground trance clubs of Buenos Aires, Heatbeat have risen to become one of the hottest new names in trance music.

The duo of Agustin Servente (21 years old) and Matias Faint (23) has everyone from Armin Van Buuren, Paul Van Dyk and Ferry Corsten excited - every one of Judge Jules’ radio shows in the last three months has featured a Heatbeat tune [except one].

We grabbed Heatbeat to find out more about their past and Buenos Aires’ trance scene.