PRZTZ
Prztz is the house music project of Eduardo Marote, a well respected Brazilian producer that has worked with some of brazilian drum and bass' big boys and now turns his hand onto the house scene.
His first EP was "Everybody", released on Classic in November 2004. "The King" and "Everybody" were tracks dropped by DJs like Derrick Carter, Sneak, Heather and many others all around the world. Prztz is part of Jamanta Crew, a brazilian house music collective with fellows Droors and DJ Rod.
Eduardo Marote was born in Sao Paulo, a city that has spawned such electronic music talents as DJ Marky, DJ Patife and Renato Cohen.
A piano student since six years of age and an adolescent at the end of the seventies, Eduardo liked the samba of Chico Buarque, however, his head was assaulted by some unrelated attackers: Disco-Funk, Kraftwerk, Talking Head's film "Stop Making Sense" ( and their occasional keyboard player, Bernie Worrell), James Brown, Early Hip Hop and Electro, Acid House, Sampledelia. Result?
In 99 he completely lost it, going on wild hallucinogenic trips that brought him back to the world of electronic music. Starting with the release of a 12 inch by Renato Cohen, the principal techno producer in Brazil, he eventually gravitated to drum & bass. Along with DJ Marky, DJ Patife and singer Fernanda Porto, Eduardo produced "So tinha que ser com voce", a dn'b version of a Tom Jobim tune that helped catapult the international careers of Marky and Patife.
However, in all the parties Eduardo went to with his friends, in all the chill-outs where they chilled out, one style ruled : house music. Eduardo decided it was time to go back to his electronic roots, stop producing for others and return to his career as producer of his own music.
From this group of friends who were into house music an internet list was created that gave fruit to a partnership between Eduardo and the producers Rafael Droors and DJ Rod, who later would become the Jamanta Crew collective. The name is a Brazilian slang refering to the post party spaced-out state people too often find themselves in.
The Prztz sound was discovered by the DJs Luke Solomon and Heather, who were given the track "Everybody" at the 2004 WMC and integrated it into their sets. And thus, closing the deal for their first EP with Classic was only a matter of time. Now is time for his second release on So Sound Recordings.
The house of Prztz and his friends is extremely funky, quirky and always with a Brazilian touch. Despite being influenced by all things British and American, these guys are very Brazilian, they love football, sun and dressing in the classic Brazilian uniform of slackness - shorts and flip-flops!
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