We're glad to deliver our mid year release with Melina Blanco. She's a producer and DJ from San José, Costa Rica. In her productions and performances, she explores electronic music that goes from ambient, downtempo, techno and more.
Her interest in music began with film. Thanks to the soundtrack and incidental music of some movies, she felt inspired to create her own music for audiovisual projects at some point. Her first EP, Lila in 2019, is oriented towards ambient and soundscape.
Other of her songs in the following years, such as I am empty, XU and Sentido also focus on this type of music.
In 2020, she released her second EP, Éter, on the Chilean label Life Bypass.
It contains elements of ambient and downtempo. In 2021, she collaborated with the MADC (Museum of Contemporary Art and Design) by creating a song for a work by artist Patricia Belli. Recently, she collaborated with a remix of the track Vicios del Alma, by producer Byron Alvarado.
As her tastes change and she experiments with new sounds and techniques, her intention is to produce music that doesn't focus on a specific genre or style, but on emotion and experimentation.
"I made Air between March and June 2021, for a long time I have been very interested in experimenting with sounds that reflect the idea of making music that is subtle and in a certain minimalist way. Since I started producing music, my way of creating something almost always starts with finding an atmosphere that I like and from that, I add more elements and create the structure. In a certain way, I perceive Air as an intention of wanting to continue experimenting with the type of music I did for my previous EP, Éter. During the creation of Air, I thought of open spaces and nature mainly." - Words by Melina
Ineffable 2022
credits
released June 22, 2022
W&P: Melina Blanco
Mix: Melina Blanco
Master: Mike Gutiérrez
Artwork: Gabriel Soto
Electronic music producer, live act and DJ based in Portugal.
Her music shifts in different directions of style and energy. Ambient and techno are among the genres that can be heard in her previous and current works.
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