Matias Aguayo

Matias Aguayo doesn't like to make commitments. He simply doesn't like to be nailed down. Type in "Aguayo" on Discogs, and you'll get knocked down by the variety of musical genres standing beside his name – from electronic to folk, through to reggae and country. Constantly between South America and Europe, Matias Aguayo is known for being one the main figures consistently released by the legendary record label Kompakt and considered important for his contribution to minimal styles of electronic club music. No matter the tag placed on his tracks, the primary focus and platform for building his music is, what he has always considered his main instrument, his voice. Calling upon his young adult background within the theatre (where he was directing, acting, and performing) Aguayo uses his voice to slip into different roles and imitate sounds to creating an aural illusion. This allows him to use a handful of machines and a microphone, to creating sonic ambiguity between vocals and instrumentation, bringing a surge of spontaneity to his recordings and intensely reactive improvisational element live sets as he feeds off the audience and layers his narratives.