One World - Part 1
Updated 13 June 2002
Part 1 of the One World Sonar special showcased DJs and music from Venezuela and Argentina. Venezuela's Escuadron Sudaca label showcased live music from Babylon Motorhome and Wyz, plus DJ sets from Lopez and Junz, and Argentina's Fragil presented music from Fantasias Animadas and Audioperu. Watch video from their sets and find out what they had to say...
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Wyz - Venezuela
 "For my set, I played a bit of breakbeat and drum & bass. The drum & bass scene started in Venezuela in 1998, and it's good. It started out really small - two people - and then it started getting bigger, and now it's cool. I try to bring a little of my music, the Venezuelan music, the music from my people, and mix it together with drum & bass to give it a bit of funkiness.
 Wyz on stage
Wyz dancers
"I didn't get to see a lot of people before my set, because I was nervous. This is my first time at Sonar, and the talent is top - all the guys from Ninja Tune, top talent - three days of madness! I hope you like my music!"
DJ Lopez - Caracas, Venezuela
 "I play experimental music - electro-breaks and experimental beats - every month in a party in Caracas. This is the first time I've come to a huge festival, and it's very exciting! It's too hot and my vinyl started to warp. It's really cool at Sonar - really good people and a lot of music I've never seen before."
Babylon Motorhome - Venezuela
 "Europe is so different from South America and Europe is so friendly. Today in Sonar, we played a mix of many different kinds of music. We played dub along with a mixture of styles, a real chillout kind of thing, that people could just sit and listen to. We have all kinds of influences in our music - drum & bass, reggae, lounge, rock. We have 9 people playing at the same time, and it's a mixture of things. It's all improvised, so all these element come out."
DJ Junz - Caracas, Venezuela
 "I play a lot of salsa, drum & bass, trip hop and a little jazz. In the intro to my set, I play samples of salsa and native drums from Venezuela. It's electronic music with samples. In Venezuela, generally people listen to merengue and salsa, because it's not a big country. We are the first ones to make drum & bass and trip hop and hip hop popular. The first electronic music in Venezuela was hard techno. People came from London, from Goa, and from Europe with techno and Goa trance. But our crew was the first with electo, trip-hop, new skool breaks, and we mix all the stuff."
Audioperu - Argentina
 "I play a kind of electronic punk music. I think Sonar is the most important electronic festival in the world. The artists are new and from all over. It's such good organisation, it sounds great, it's hot - I love it! I want to hear Tuxedomoon from San Francisco. They're my idols from the early Eighties, and I want to hear the Pet Shop Boys because they are the fathers of dance! Not many people like electronic music in Argentina, and the artist are really poor people, because nobody pays us to play. I'm from Argentina, not from Peru, and my name was a joke by my friends because they said I looked like a Peruvian boy! I had a punk hairdo when I was a kid, and everyone said to me that I looked like a Peruvian!"
Audioperu on stage
Audioperu light show
Fantasias Animadas - Buenos Aries, Argentina
 "I played today here at SonarDome. I do electronic music from Argentina, and I describe my music as intelligent techno. I play live electronic music with my computer - that is the best way to interact with the sounds I make! This festival is very important to all the electronic musicians of the world, because we have lots of opportunities to make our music known to a lot of people, and especially from Argentina!
Fantasias Animadas on stage
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