| Hernán Cattáneo | |
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Hernán Cattáneo in Toronto |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Genres | Progressive House, Deep House, Funky House, Tribal House, Minimal House, Tech House, Electro House, House, Breaks, Techno |
| Occupations | DJ / Producer |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Website | www.hernancattaneo.com |
Hernán Cattáneo is an Argentine house DJ.
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Hernán Cattáneo was born in Buenos Aires, where he grew up listening to bands like Simply Red, Level 42, Depeche Mode and New Order while carefully studying Billboard magazine, the only source of information that was readily available at the time. In 1987, one of his friends visited New York and returned with some vinyl records. These records were Hernán’s first exposure to Chicago House. During that period, Frankie Knuckles, who had a huge influence on Hernán and his career, broke into the scene and quickly became an icon of the house genre. The way Frankie Knuckles and artists like Inner City and Derrick May brought together the energy of European electronic music with the soul of North American music left an impact on Hernán and set the foundations for his career.[1]
Hernán became a DJ after being inspired by a collection of Chicago house records brought back from the United States by a friend, featuring artists such as Frankie Knuckles and Inner City. This music played a role in the music he now plays. Hernán describes the music he plays as deep, progressive, funky and tribal house.
In 1996, he won the residency at Clubland Pacha in Buenos Aires. His performances were a great success and led to Cattáneo being invited to DJ at clubs around the Americas. Clubland eventually attracted big-name DJs, such as Sasha, John Digweed, Dave Seaman and Paul Oakenfold who played alongside Hernán. Oakenfold was impressed and signed Hernán Cattáneo to his Perfecto Records label and they toured together in Europe and the United States from 1997 to 1999.
By 2000, Cattáneo was becoming a major name on the world club circuit. Underground releases entitled Clubland Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 created an underground buzz. Also, Ministry magazine released one of his mixes called Funky, Deep & Tribal in 2001. In 2002 he produced the international hit "Deep Funk", released his first mix compilation entitled "Perfecto Presents South America" on Paul Oakenfold's label, and won the "Best Newcomer DJ" at the Pacha Ibiza Awards. Since releasing his first compilation, he has played about 120 shows a year on every continent around the world.
As a DJ with an ever increasing fanbase, he rose to #22 and then to #6 on the DJ Mag poll of the Top 100 DJs. In addition to appearing repeatedly on John Digweed's Kiss 100 Show, Hernán started a weekly residency show in London which also enjoys great success. Entitled Sequential (like two of his mix compilations) it has been broadcast on Metrodance 95.1 FM every Saturday since 2002. In early 2004, he followed up his first mix compilation with the Renaissance Master's Series Volume One, after which he toured extensively promoting the album on the Renaissance Master's Tour. In early 2005, Hernán released the Renaissance Master's Series Volume 2.
Cattáneo is a major supporter of other Argentinian producers and DJs who have been influenced and inspired by him, including Oliverio, Manuel Sofia, Deep Mariano, Martín García, Juan Deminicis, Pablo Acenso, Yamil Colucci among others. 2005 included a major production release by the name of Warsaw (on John Digweed's Bedrock Records), remixing work on numerous tracks with John Tonks as well as extensive worldwide touring. His fourth compilation and his third for the Renaissance imprint, entitled Sequential, was released in April 2006 to positive reviews. As with previous compilation albums, Cattáneo embarked on the Sequential world tour. In May 2007 he released Sequential Volume 2, which was once again followed by another worldwide tour to promote the compilation.[2]
On 1 May 2008, Metrodance 95.1 FM, which had been airing Cattáneo's Sequential show for approximately six years, dropped the program based on the decision of new ownership to change the musical direction of the station. No new outlet for the show has been set.
In 2009, to celebrate the release of their 50th album, Renaissance Recordings chose Hernan Cattaneo to headline the album. The album, Renaissance: The Masters Series, Part 13, came out in June.
In 2010 Hernan delivered another mixed compilation called Parallel, his fourth double album for Renaissance's Masters Series. He is travelling the world spreading his sound: usually playing in the United Kingdom, Spain, Greece, Australia, Brazil, Japan, Argentina, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Colombia, Romania, France, the Netherlands, Poland, Tunisia, Turkey, Belgium, Dubai (United Arab Emirates), and the United States. He played in India for the first time in his life in 2010.[3]
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The detailed discography of Hernán Cattáneo, including productions and remixes is available at Discogs.
In 2009 he launched his own record label, which releases in digital format.[4] Sudbeat[5] releases have been charted by Neil Quigley, Henry Saiz, Guy J and 133 other DJs.[6]