Hi there, electric people of Colombia and the world. I am Nato Cardona,
in today’s episode I want to introduce you to an artist that loves to be free, live without limits, and experiments with music.
Alejo Freeze is a Dj/producer from Manizales, and with the metallic riffs of his guitar he inspires himself to create electronic music.
Welcome to Sistema Eco
 
The Roquesa, the incredible place where I am today is located in Milan sector, in Manizales city,
and it has a lot of common things with Alejo Freeze,
here reigns the irreverence, the speed and we roll in high revolutions.
Although we can take a moment to know this restaurant-bar,
where a clay oven gives us a delicious gastronomic offer with pizzas for everybody taste.
But that is not it, The Roquesa is the perfect place to enjoy a view to the mountains, perform events,
take an exquisite malt whiskey, and listen to what our invited artist must tell us.
Alejo: Well, I am a person that likes to do experiments with things,
with everything, (laughs)
with music, with my daily life, I am very creative,
I can’t stay in one place and be wondering in my thoughts,
I have to be doing something all the time...
so I think that is how I define myself
Well, my music influences when I compose I do everything from rock and metal,
so first I compose in my guitar and then I take what I did to MIDI I put the synthesizers, then I record a battery beat.
Everything I do is from the guitar and rock,
so I am trying to head my genre to the deep, the acid, the techno.
And artist that I am following right now as references, I really love Gesaffelstein,
because he does a genre that I like a lot and the sound he has is awesome, so that is what I am following.
 
 
 
 
 
The song Within of Daft Punk was a cover I made in 2014,
when I first heard the album of Daft Punk, was that song the one who took my attention,
was that song the one who took my attention,
as much, that I wanted to do the cover
and that’s where my taste for the equipment MIDI, the synthesizers, and the electronic music started.
So, this cover has a big meaning, because it has taken me to many places around the world, not physically,
but the video has been in a lot of websites, in brands of MIDI controllers,
that has given me recognition on the web.
The integration of the machines to the music I have been doing was not easy,
because I was always an electric guitar player, it was my profession my whole life since I was 13 years old,
and when I was 23 years old I started to experiment with something new,
I wanted to complement what I do beside playing the guitar
and I started to do research about the MIDI controllers
and it was a process…..to learn how to do many things at the same time.
I studied a lot live loop, and well, it was not easy, but I got there with the tools that I have.
The locations I use for my videos,
usually are made at my own recording studio,
in different places because I’ve lived in different places,
and I always adapt the space to create my music, and that’s where I have made my videos.
One of my favorite videos is a cover I did of Knife Party, like a remix,
I did it in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires in a place that is called “The woman’s bridge”,
and it was great because the illumination at night hours start changing in the city by different moments,
and it was perfect with the beat of the song, and it was a great coincidence.
Is a cover that I did from a song of Knife Party in a Pad Control, of Korg.
I divided the song in different sectors of the pads, add some percussion and start playing with it.
The scene of Manizales and the Coffee Region, from my point of view
I think is good when we talk about the conventional DJ, Playing music, and mix music in a party,
that has always been a union that will always have its place on the scene and with the public.
But for us, the ones that make live sets, and live acts,
is complicated because there is no culture on the public of see and listen to electronic music
made from the production and live.
So, I think is a little bit hard,
but we are working with other crazy people here in Manizales, that are doing Live Acts,
so we are hoping that soon we can get into the public to show them and make them more interested in Live music,
same as a conventional rock band or other genres
Important, we should learn to appreciate the live music, specially the live sets that our local Dj/Producers offer us.
Here I am with the barman of The Roquesa,
learning to prepare some of the classic cocktails,
and asking him to share with me one or another little secret
to do those delicious cocktails that we can only find here.
By now I will stay here to enjoy this charming place,
remember they are waiting for you here, to live without limits,
follow us on our Social Networks,  do not take off from this Electronic System
and be aware of everything that Alejo Freez offers us.
Bye!
On my studio, I am preparing a Live Set,
but I am trying to make it as bigger as I can,
so I am trying to involve a Live Percussion, electric guitar, voices, syths, MIDI controllers,
I am trying to create a set of one hour, but with a lot of stuff on it,
that I can be playing and moving a lot on stage.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
