Mendes
Born in Portugal, African by heart, Thai by nature. Receiving a ZX Spectrum 128k in 1990, was the spark for Marcos to embrace the technological side of life and start programming in Pascal and Basic 3+. Having always a special aptitude for anything that had a circuit imprinted on it, he pursuited to study basic electronics and computer technologies, having studied several language codes and coursed at Dubai with Nokia engineers for micro-electronics. A career on radio technologies would eventually arouse, having the hype of its career heading a response team in Nokia-Siemens Portugal.
Between interludes of trying to achieve a successful life in the corporate world, the interest for music was a blessing, having then skipped classes to learn how to play guitar and is today he is still learning to master several types of percussion drums.
It's now 20 years since he first bought a sweated pair of Technics 1210 and started to mix his first records from labels like Axis, Tresor, Plus 8 or NovaMute, having completely changed his way of seeing and listening to music, after being introduced to the nuances of house and rhythms of techno music from the music producers at that time.
Since then, he has mingled between a myriad of never definitive projects, like DJ residencies, at several clubs in Lisbon and Algarve, with the support of some of the most influent DJ artists at that time. Some of residencies include the infamous O2 club in Lisbon or the less unpretentious Privé at Lagos, Algarve.
After clubbing has a DJ for several years - having never considering himself a professional - he would still share the booth and performed on same events with names like Silicone Soul, Jeff Mills, Jesus Del Campo or the Portuguese very own Dj Vibe or Mário Roque AKA Xman.
Meanwhile, professionally, life has brought him success - by his own definition - and some peace of mind, by engineering and optimizing servers for Google. His last 4 years in Thailand have defined him as the person he is today, spiritually and therefore musically. Having now built several successful businesses in Thailand and with his own customers worldwide related, he is now fully committed with all his resources on building UMT.Radio.
Alice Valerie Yalcin Efe, aka biskuwi, is a Stockholm based female electronic music producer whose involvement with music has spanned more than 20 years. Her musical journey commenced at 7, when she started playing with toy pianos and pretty much anything that could produce notes. Shortly after, she found herself ...
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