MEDNAS, Guest Mix - MMP Radio, EP020

11/06/20 • 57 min

Introducing Episode 020 of our weekly music podcast, Miami Music Partners Radio, featuring a special 1-hour set by this week's guest DJ, LIV Miami resident, MEDNAS.

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ARTIST, GUEST BIO. - MEDNAS:

better known Mednas, is a DJ and producer originally from Casablanca, Morocco. He is the resident DJ of the Miami club, LIV. His track "Derby" with Nima Nesta was on the Beatport Top Ten chart and has been supported by EDM DJs such as Tiësto, Avicii, Erick Morillo, Roger Sanchez, Third Party, Junior Sanchez, and Morgan Page. His remix of Parker Ighile's "So Beautiful" with Henrix was supported by Nicki Minaj. Mednas specializes in tech house, progressive house and electro house.

Though clubs all over the world know him as Mednas, he wasn't always known by that name. He was born Mehdi Nassiri, facing the sea, in beautiful Casablanca, Morocco. Casablanca itself has always played an important role in popular culture. It became famous in the 1940s thanks to the Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman film of the same name. Throughout its history it had been the birthplace or home to many famous people - from film star Jean Reno to automobile designer Frank Stephenson to poet Abdallah Zrika.

Along the way Nassiri was practically destined to make it onto that last - it's just that nobody involved really knew it at the time.

Music had always been an important part of Nassiri's life, for as far back as he could remember. His mother spent time as a sound engineer for Moroccan Radio, among other jobs. He was even enrolled at an early age into a conservatory to learn the piano, but he didn't stay very long - something bigger awaited.

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Introducing Episode 020 of our weekly music podcast, Miami Music Partners Radio, featuring a special 1-hour set by this week's guest DJ, LIV Miami resident, MEDNAS.

ARTIST, GUEST BIO. - MEDNAS:

Along the way Nassiri was practically destined to make it onto that last - it's just that nobody involved really knew it at the time.

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Sparrow and Barbossa, Guest Mix - MMP Radio, EP019

Introducing Episode 019 of our weekly music podcast, Miami Music Partners Radio, featuring a special 1-hour set by this week's guest DJ duo, SPARROW AND BARBOSSA.

ARTIST, GUEST BIO. - SPARROW & BARBOSSA:

Sparrow & Barbossa is a DJ and producer duo formed by the Swiss Bryan Coletta and the Uruguayan Emiliano Haberli; co-owners of Inward Records alongside Pippi Ciez and ST53.

Bryan is a pianist and comes from a musical family; his father is the legendary guitarist Francis Coletta who worked with artists like Whitney Houston, Quincy Jones, or Frank Sinatra.

Emiliano was born and raised in an Uruguay region dominated by African colonials and got widely influenced by "The Culture Of Candombe", a pure African tribal rhythm from colonialism.

Since a very young age, Bryan has been influenced by Soul, Jazz, and Funk, which he uses in his creations with his great capacity for improvisation and versatility. Emiliano moved to Europe 15 years ago, where he connected with the electronic music scene, starting to form his style in the music world, playing drums for DJ Chus & Joeski on their classic track called 'El Amor.'

Together, Bryan and Emiliano form Sparrow & Barbossa, creating a fusion between organic and electronic progressive sounds. Their age difference has a positive influence on both their releases and performance. While Bryan brings the freshness of modern sounds and melodies, Emiliano fine-tunes the rhythmic part and builds up his knowledge throughout the years. Globe-trotters, they're true lovers of ethnic and lost cultures, devoted to transmit this legacy through electronic music.

Sparrow & Barbossa are most known for their version of Mory Kante' Yeke' released on Enzo Sifredi's label Wired, that charted #1 Afro House and their remix of Fatoumata Diawara's 'Nterini' signed on MoBlack that charted #2 Afro House.

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MARKEM, Guest Mix - MMP Radio, EP021

Introducing Episode 021 of our weekly music podcast, Miami Music Partners Radio, featuring a special 1-hour set by this week's guest DJ, MARKEM.

ARTIST, GUEST BIO. - MARKEM:

With releases on the likes of Ultra Records, Strictly Rhythm, Spinnin’ Records, Nervous Records, Stereo, Blanco Y Negro and Tiesto’s AFTR:HRS, performances at Nikki Beach, Club Space and Storyland Festival, and support from dance music titans Steve Angello, Ferry Corsten, Sunny James & Ryan Marciano, Fedde Le Grand and more, it’s safe to say Markem - previously known as Mark.M - is one of the most exciting young producer/DJs to rise through the South American ranks in a long time.

Born in Caracas, Venezuela but raised in Miami, Florida, at the tender age of just 15 Markem cut his teeth as a club promoter inside the city’s glittering nightlife. By 18, he’d progressed from the ticket office to the DJ booth, becoming one of Miami’s hottest resident DJs, including a regular slot at legendary venue Club Space where he regularly shared the decks with world-class heavyweights like Martinez Brothers, Steve Angello, Erick Morillo & Chus & Ceballos , to name just a few.

Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t long before the rising star was booked to perform further afield, with a tour diary that now takes in shows all over South America, North America and Europe. In the studio, Markem has proved to be equally as prolific. His very first production, the 2010 hit ‘Party In Miami’, spent three weeks in the Beatport Top 3, quickly establishing him as one to watch. Collaborations with David Tort and Moska, and remixes for Erick Morillo (‘I Like To Move It’) and Cedric Gervais & Mya (‘Love Is The Answer’) showed both his versatility and his natural ability to create huge house cuts.

In 2017, Dutch icon Tiesto signed Markem’s Tort collaboration ‘Strangers’ to his AFTR:HRS imprint - at the time of going to print, the single spent almost a year on the Beatport Top 100 and racked up over 8 million plays on Spotify alone. Markem has more new music to share with his growing army of fans, much of it coming via his own label HoTL Records. A creative project set up with long-time music partner David Tort, the imprint has swiftly come to stand for freedom of musical expression, not limited to style or trend but rather just focusing only on the belief that music is made to move the body. In their words, it’s a pure and simple commitment to “release whatever the fuck we want”. It really doesn’t get much more dance floor than that.

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