Diogo Ribeiro

Diogo Ribeiro

With more than 15 years of a solid career, going through his early years in the progressive trance scene, with more than 50 tracks under his belt, between full length albums, EP’s and Vinyl, Diogo can nowadays be considered a reference in Electronic Dance Music production both in Portugal and internationally. always striving to innovate, in a perpetual creative search, fusing styles and acoustic textures from Techno, Dub, Tech-House, Dubstep, Progressive , Deep-House and World Music, all wrapped with his singular elements and structure, that imprints his compositions.
Presented his first progressive trance act D-tector back in 1998, releasing several tracks on labels such as Neurobiotic, Flow , Nanobeat, Millennium, Solarsiv, Sounds of Sanity, Progressive Grooves, JER or Liquid, an artist album was released on 2003 as Faktor-D, a minimal trance side project, deploying the chance to tour from New York - USA, Cancun – Mexico, Zurich - Switzerland, Valencia - Spain, Split - Croatia and all over Portugal.
At the moment he’s been busy with his A&R for 24 Hours Records, releasing a mixture of top class artists, and upcoming talents.
Since the beginning of the year most of his time has been between his Studio in Sintra, and on stage. Some collaborations with other artists, such as the release of “Cartel de Cali” on BlauBeat/Baroque rec in March with DJ Pena, and the upcoming remix of Spikers, “Lockpicker” on Open rec., meanwhile a full length album is being planned..

Played in some of the best venues and festivals:


Boom Festival 7 times, 3 of them in the Main Floor.
Freedom Festival 2007 e 2009, 2011.
After Freedom 2011
Sinergia Festival 2009
Utopia Festival
Festival Avis a Rasgar
After-Boom 2006, 2010
Transit Festival – Valencia – Espanha.
Omnitribe / Flow rec. - Brooklyn, Nova Iorque, USA
Solarsiv Festival – Split - Croacia
Mandala – Cancun, Mexico
Spaz – Zurique - Suiça

and some of the most representative clubs in Lisbon such as Op-art, Club Lua, Europa Club, Lx Factory, Tuatara, Armazém F, Bacalhoeiro, Souk, Left, Lisboa club, in Porto, Maré Alta and Porto Rio, and in many other places in Portugal like, Evora, Portimão, Lagos, Albufeira, Porto-de-Mós, Penafiel, Covilhã, Cartaxo, just to name a few.

Besides his “native” project he also is working on Cooltour going through Deep-House, Dub/Dubstep and Downtempo with Pedro Caetano on the vocals and Melodica, and Pedro Sotiry on the keyboards, travelling around Portugal in many clubs and Festivals, like the Boom Festival 2008, After Boom 2006 and 2010, Freedom Festival 2009 and 2011, Festival Avis a Rasgar, Sociedade Harmonia Eborense, and many, many more.




Discography:

Albums:
Faktor-D "Licked Flow Records
V/A's:
PPG Neurobiotics rec.
Rootn´ Shootn’ Nanobeat rec.
Scooter Intruder Flow rec.
Tonic Millenium rec.
Ventil Yellow Sunshine Explosion
Auto Exec Vidisco
Questions Flow Records
Leg Blender Sounds of Sanity rec.
Square Roots Solarsiv rec.
Smoke Liquid rec.
Solar Echoplast rec.



EP's
Wookam Progressive Grooves
Stream Progressive Grooves
Strange Progressive Grooves
Blow my Mind JER Recordings
Tropico Resopal Schallware
Drible Resopal Schallware
Where's the antidote Resopal Schallware
Kavuki Progressive Grooves
Bruise 24 Hours rec.
Slim 24 Hours rec.
Movimento 24 Hours rec.
Roman 24 Hours rec.
Classroom 24 Hours rec.
Cartel de Cali com DJ Pena Blaubeat (Baroque)
Black Smokers Blaubeat (Baroque)
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Vinyl
12" "lost and Found"
Lost and Found (Original mix) Method / Baroque rec..
Sangria (Original mix) Method / Baroque rec. .
Dodds (Original mix) Method / Baroque rec..

Remixes
Spikers – Lockpicker (Diogo Ribeiro rmx) Open rec.
SQL – Time is art (Diogo Ribeiro rmx) Tribal Vision
Nano Mechanic – Chimera (Diogo Ribeiro rmx) 24 Hours rec.
Gil Mahadeva – Highlights (Diogo Ribeiro rmx) 24 Hours rec.
Mikalogic – Crime Partners (Diogo Rib.rmx) Hush rec
Daniel Mehes – Idleness (D.R. & Pena rmx) Flow Vinyl
Soundprank – Storm (Diogo Ribeiro rmx) Spherax rec
Kaesar – Africa Minha (Diogo Ribeiro rmx) 24 Hours rec.
Kaesar & Pedro Zoy – 8 Ball (Diogo Rib rmx) Wolf Music
21Street - H2so4 (Diogo Ribeiro rmx) Future Synth