>>David.G.Albalat aKa YTO

David G Albalat aka Dj Yto,is born in Barcelona on March 1, 1978 , from very small his life surrounded with music, vinils and tapes. His interest for the music begins thanks to her sister, who in the 80s was listening to infinity of electronic groups of music and who was crossing the whole scene acid, Acid-House and House of Barcelona.

Yto only was doing that to steal tapes from her and vinils to listen to them. With 14 years he starts frequenting Bcn's different clubs, as Studio 54, between others. Yto don´t stop of knowing new music and he starts familiarizing with the different sounds of the epoch, but he has just found neither the music, nor the environment that he likes.

To the age of 16 years, Yto discovers the "raves",techno music(especially Detroit Techno),house, techno house and the side of music more underground, starts knowing dj's as Derrik May, Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin, John Aquaviva, Laurient Garnier... Yto begins to go to clubs and raves of Catalonia as the Club Moog, Discotheque Woman Caballero, Fellini, Cyberian, Apolo, La Via, La sala del cel and raves of Tazmaniak and Victimas del Techno. Yto likes this sound and he loves the sense that there contribute these partys and the songs of music techno and hardtechno. Begins a new cycle and a new life for him.

To the age of 18 years his first decks and mixer are bought by the passion of mixing and listening to the music that so much had changed his life and that so much he liked. His technic cualities starts working and in the compilation of different hits techno-house, techno and hardtechno of the moment, his first suitcase was maked.

it´s in 1998, when he decides to make a holiday party with his friends to show the learned, which he could do and to create in order that the people were amusing herself, he was carrying away him to see to re-go to the people and to see they were spending it as well... finally he was feeling realized.

From this partys, Yto gets hooked up to mounting partys; to see as the people was amusing myself and to be a participant of it, was carrying away him. Fruit of this passion, it is when the group decides to mount "acidosis". They are years of work to mount numerous raves in Catalonia , London and difrerentes communities of Spain , For him they were years of learning and hard work together with his collective friends: Rulo, Kryz, Wendy, Barny, Galin....

In the year 2000 Yto joins with Kryz to offer a new set in his partys of acidose and different raves of the region of Catalonia, which is invited by groups as Tazmaniac, Victims of the Techno, Offensive Teknopunk, Sound Confundent, Insert sound, Acid-rain, High Voltage, Enga Sound,Dyskonform,Sound Division... The set was consisting by Kryz's live together with Yto to the control of two decks with one mixer . He is who gives to performance effects, scratches and mixing songs on the Kryz's direct one. This marked one before and one later in Yto's career, to the end he was creating, not mixing, he was charmed with it and the people were enjoying it, since it was something new and worthy of seeing. It´s here when Kryz and Yto, after they live performance, grow and grow up to the point of there being contracted by different discotheques as L'Eix club (Vic), Discotheque Beatulo (BCN), Room KGB (BCN), Cube (BCN), La Cova (BCN), Cyberian (BCN), Inercia (BCN), Queens (Terrassa), Palm Beach (Girona), La sala del Cel (Girona),and more... And guested to infinity of private partys and raves (Anti-sonar 02,03,04,05, Anti-benicasim 03,04, Mipanas, Cornella partys 03,04, Torello's Festival 04, Akelarre (Cervera), etc. Really they were pioneering on having offered this type of sets, it was something different and that accompanied of his Madnesses at the cabin were doing that the people were spending well him.

They were starting growing as artists, offering good music and a good performance. Kryz and Yto don´t stop doing skittles offering his live and mixing with artists of the height of Chris Lberator, Dave the Drummer, Ant, The Geezer, Jeff Amadeus and all the artists of Acid techno of London, musical style of the acidosis group and for which they were going years betting.

Yto,at the same time, recaptures his career like only dj and begins to act in clubs of the Catalan coast mixing: house, electro, minimal, techno, hardtechno, it leads him to learning the different skills of the different musical styles. In the year 2003, Yto meets Marcos Blendmark,Galician Dj champion of the Spanish Dmc awards, who beat was combining the hardtechno with jungle, scratches and infinity of effects realized with the deck and the mixer literally. Yto sees for the first time as a dj does music with the decks .. this is incredible for him!!

Yto starts being employed with Marcos Blendmark at the Sugar club (Raveland), the first place where he will be resident together with Marcos Blendmark and where decides that he wants to be proffesional dj. They are times to learn close to Frames and steeping as a small child all the advices, experiences and maturity like a dj, with marcos, he learns very much with him and of him, as for technic and to be able to do in the meetings, going and being the person in charge of a cabin at the professional level ..,

Yto mix with infinity artists of thetechno, hardtechno scene, and does, close to Marcos, that Sugar club(Raveland) does a famous club to itself for the more undergroundCatalunya's people.

Yto starts being a professional dj and he knows a new style, the Schranz. In the year 2005 he decides to separate of acidosis collective, and stops mounting free partys to follow his proffesional career for the Catalunya's different clubs. it´s the moment when he creates Sonotech-crew, his new brandmark and his new project, this time in solitarily as dj but together with his girlfriend, who is a great help for him.

Yto does infinity of performances and catches different residences in discotheques, (Room Loops, Nsp club, Hypnotik, Rachdingue..., it´s from here, when for the demand of performances that has, he decides To mount a booking agency of dj's and to give opportunities to different dj's with experience of the regional scene of techno, hardtechno, acid techno,schranz and hardtek-drum´n bass..

Sonotech-crew not stop of doing partys in Catalunya's and Spain different clubs. It´s in the year 2007 when Sonotech-crew is consolidated as agency of dj's and starts working with the most important discotheques of Spain :Rachdingue, The Cova, Room Campus, Torn de Nit, Blau club, Yasta club, Sector Oceano, Room Quilombo,Discotheque Orbit...  

In this year, Yto parks his career as dj to recover the artistic director's work of the booking, to go and make the contractings of the artists that he have in the booking and to organize the different party sthat Sonotech-crew does all over the country. The demand of work is important. Yto learns to take his carreer together with the administration of the agency and it is there when he decides to tackle his new career.

Yto mixes all the styles: minimal-techno, electro-minimal, electro, electro-house, house, techno, hardtechno, acidtechno, schranz, hardtek and acts in the best discotheques of the scene minimal, techno, hardtechno and schranz.

After 10 years of experience as a dj, Yto shared cabin with Chris Liberator, Dave the Drummer, Ant, The geezer aka Guy Mcaffer,Valentino Kanzyani, Dj Rush, PetDuo, Lexis, Killswitch & Reset, Felix Krocher, Robert Natus, Sven wittekind, Waldhaus & Weichentechnik, Kaoz, Eto & Gab, Joc, Spy, Semma,Sandy Warez, Darius Gee, Arkus P, X-Tension, Amok, Matt Wesel, Guiggo(Narkotek), Weaser (Narkotek), Osmik, Masoville, Gotek, Kiki, Sasha funk,Marco Antona, Marco Nastic, Javi Lago, Raul Mezcolanza Aka Ciclofans,Richiegee,Necrodur,ManelMan,Marcosblendmark,Elektrik,Kik´s,Uri-66,Ivan Lopez,Paulo Tella.....

Is currently in the roster of sonotech-crew Booking in Spain and he is directly management for this agency.

RECRUITMENT for Spain: yto@sonotech-crew.com

RECRUITMENT for Europe: info@madhouserecordings.com

http://www.myspace.com/ytosonotech