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Guti
A classically-trained jazz virtuoso and national rock ‘n’ roll hero in Argentina, Guti’s talent will leave you in no doubt of his ability to twist a snaking groove into something echoingly hypnotic. With his productions a favourite in the record boxes of artists like Loco Dice, Seth Troxler and Marco Carola, it is apparent that Guti is fast becoming a sparkling jewel in the Desolat crown.
Guti’s life story could itself be the subject of a story by Jorge Luis Borges: “I leave to several futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths.”
Born into an exceptionally musical sprawling catholic family, which included orchestra directors, saxophone players and pianists, his grandfather and uncles emigrated from Russia after the war. His mother, an education consultant, is from Uruguay. On long hot summers in that neighbouring country, Guti would steal hours alone at the piano (first teaching himself how to play at the age of five) in a big house belonging to his uncle. Finally, some years later, the family accepted that he could really play – and at the age of twelve a friend of his mother gave him his first jazz shock by challenging him to match Oscar Peterson’s performance on the Night Train record.
During the rule of the El Proceso military junta, Guti’s family fled to cities in Venezuela and Costa Rica: his story now arching across Latin America, France and Russia. As a child he soaked up poems and novels by Borges and Vargas Llosa and his father would sing him Cuban songs. He is influenced by the folk music of Argentina, which he says is both incredibly intricate and perfectly simple.
It was playing in some of the biggest stadiums in South America as a rock musician where Guti proved that he was destined to perform. Stints with ‘Jovenes Pordioseros’ and later with ‘Intoxicados’, he regularly played to crowds of 40,000 people in his native Argentina.
Following leaving ‘Intoxicados’ in 2009, Guti was in the studio of Latin Grammy-nominated producer and friend Leandro Martinez. It was here that Guti began experimenting with making house beats and singing on top. And having grown up with music, it didn’t take long before he was producing several tracks a day without breaking a sweat. Curious, ironic & creative, fusing electronic music with his jazz & latin roots, Guti quickly became one of the most eager & interesting producer of the Latino American house scene.
A heartbeat later, he’d landed a hit with Damian Schwarz on Frankfurt label ‘Raum…Musik’, and the tune was licensed by Loco Dice for his compilation The Lab. Guti passed a handful more tracks in Loco Dice’s direction, and the die was cast. Guti’s electronic career began to ignite.
The spark of discovery that comes with adventure is a driving force for Guti. And it was this that encouraged a year is 2009 of bouncing between Berlin, Athens and Paris, making tracks as he went. The later permanent relocation to Düsseldorf in 2010 to hunker down in the studio to concentrate on the Guti house and techno project has given him a base from which to continue his rise up the ranks of the electronic fraternity. Although it’s unlikely he’ll leave behind the spirit of the Latin America he knows, he is, for now at least, settled in the home of parent label.
And it from here that Guti continued to produce some of the most exciting music of his burgeoning career. Releases on the likes of Supplement Facts, Wolf + Lamb, Crosstown Rebels, Dessous, and VIVa Music have all followed as label heads clamoured for Guti’s production wizardry.
Towards the end of 2010 Guti + Dubshape released the phenomenon that was ‘Every Cow Has a Bird’. Sitting at the top of both the Resident Advisor and Beatport charts for 2 months, the track signalled his growing importance to the house music scene.
The start of 2011 has shown no let up. With his inaugural artist album ‘Patio de Juegos’ (which translates as ‘Playground’) released in March, Guti has mapped out his musical adventure with a beautiful mixture of tracks that bridge the space between the club and the living room with consummate ease. A breathtaking first album which clearly demarcates the live performer’s ability and ambition for the coming years.
