David Granha

Escrito en Artistas el 15 de Junio, 2007

David Granha nace en Cangas en el año 1983. Ya desde niño se siente atraído por la música, rebuscando entre los vinilos de su padre y los cassettes de su tío, en los cuales vienen impresas sus primeras influencias musicales, tan distantes como influyentes, de la talla de Mike Oldfield, Jean Michelle Jarre, Dire Straits o grupos como Metallica, Pantera, Sepultura o Def con Dos. El tiempo pasa y consigo se lleva estos principios, llevándolo hacia otras tendencias mas modernas, y que por aquel entonces, aún más guitarrera, de formaciones como podían ser Deftones, Korn o Rage Against the Machine .

Ala edad de 15 años sus gustos comienzan a sufrir modificaciones, mucho más basados en la electrónica, sin alejarse tampoco del todo del campo musical que trataba con anterioridad, pero sí una presencia latente de instrumentos electrónicos, destacando: The Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Orbital o Underworld.

Este cambio en sus gustos lo obligan, a la edad de 16 años, a comprarse una Roland MC-303, con la cual comienza a experimentar nuevas sensaciones, que le abren un abanico de posibilidades que antes desconocía, y con la que comienza a hacer sus primeros patrones . En esta etapa sus gustos se basan en el techno, o quizás en el hard-techno, con percusiones muy rápidas y duras, incluso oscuras, y en ocasiones minimalistas.

Con la 303 se pasa tres años, durante los cuales realiza sus primeros lives, junto con Artus, Danko y Gavu, que en esa epoformaciónca ocupan un espacio fundamental en su formación musical y con los que coincide en festivales como el Terra de Sons, o locales como Area Brava, que dieron un poco de vida a la cultura electrónica de la península del Morrazo . Al final de esta etapa decide estudiar sonido en donde enriquece sus oídos, y realmente empieza a asimilar de otra forma la producción musical, más centrado y alejado de de los sonidos a los que estaba acostumbrado, la influencia del house.

A la edad de 19 años se compra sus primeros platos, y con los cuales ya ha tocado gran variedad de estilos que abarcan al techno, hard-techno, latín house, funk, jazzy, tribal, hard-house, progressive house, brakes o electro. A los platos ha pinchado en salas como: Nom, Dedos, Area Brava, A Raiña Lupa, Portobelo, Exclusive, La Quinta Dimensión, Seven, Salitre, Strong, Gling Glong, Badulake, y en festivales como el Terra de Sons o el de Area Cova.

Actualmente compone temas por ordenador; sus producciones van desde el progressive house, el brake, electro-house o el minimal, siempre con pinceladas electrónicas, y rasgos melódicos, que son, los que de alguna manera definen y completan.

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David Granha was born in Cangas do Morrazo (Spain) in 1983. Music has attracted to him since he was a child and looked around searching carefully among his father´s vinyls or his uncles tapes, under which his musical influences, as distant as influential, have been printed out on him from singers the stature of mike Oldfield, Jean Michelle Jarre as well as groups like Dire Straits, Metallica, Pantera, Sepulture or Def con Dos. Time goes by and carries with it those principles, taking him to more modern tendencies, even more guitarists, of groups like Deftones, Korn, or Rage Against the Machine.
At the age of 15, his taste started to undergo some changes, mainly based on the electronics, not very far from the previous musical field, but with a latent presence of electronic instruments, emphasizing: The Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Orbital or Underworld. This change of tastes forces him, at the age of 16, to buy a Roland MC-303, with which he begins to experience new sensations that show him a wide variety of possibilities he didn´t know before, and with which he stars to do his first patterns. On this stage his tastes are based on techno, or perhaps on hard-techno with very fast, hard and dark percussions, sometimes minimalistic.
He spends three years with his 303, During that period he performs his first lives together with Artus, Gunpowder Deluxe and Gavu. Who they all play a very important role in his musical growth.
Sometimes, they even run into him in music festivals such as “Terra de Sons” or premises like “Area Brava”, which have supplied the Morrazo with a bit of electronic life.
At the end of this stage he decides to study sound technician and at the same time to enrich his ear. He actually begins to assimilate the musical production in a different way: much more centred and far away from the sounds he was used to, that´s to say, the House Music influence.
When he was 19, he buys his first turntable, with which he has already played a great variety of styles including Techno, Hard-Techno, Latin-House, Funk, Jazz, Tribal, Progressive House, Breaks or Electro in places like NOM, Dedos, Area Brava, A Raiña Lupa, Portobelo, Exclusive, La Quinta Dimension, Seven, Salitre Club, Strong, Gling Glong, Badulake and festivals such as Terra de Sons or Areacova Beach Party.
Nowadays he composes some songs on the computer, his productions extend to Progressive House, Breaks, Electro-House or Minimal, always with electronic touches and melodic features, which are the ones that define and complete his style someohow.
So far he has already released his first EP “Sokia” and the second one, “where´s Respect” for the Swish label “Acid Milk Recordings”.

Releases:

(TR004) Always Alone

Remixes:

(TR005) Diego Iglesias - Rheumatic (David Granha Remix)

(TR010) Jesus F. - La Isla De Nokosare (David Granha Rework)

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