Mixhell
"IS DA BOOOOOOOM!!!!"
Location: Sao Paulo
Website: http://myspace.com/mixhell
Bio: Iggor and Laima Cavalera are a husband-and-wife dance music group from Sao Paolo, Brazil. They have released 10 original tracks, remixed over 25 songs, and ... (more)
have been remixed over 20 times.
When Iggor was 15 he founded Sepultura with his brother Max. During the next 20 years Iggor sold over 15 million albums, toured stadiums around the world, and is generally acknowledged to be one of the greatest heavy metal drummers of all time.
In 2006 Iggor grew tired of Sepultura and was ready to take some much needed time off. But he soon discovered the joy of dance music. He and Laima began making tracks, DJing, and linking up with some of dance music heaviest hitters. Before long they were being mentored and championed by Soulwax/2ManyDJs, Justice, MSTRKRFT, Diplo, James Murphy and Busy P.
Mixhell has played over 100 gigs in Europe, selling out venues while refining their spectacular live show. In it, Iggor and Laima both DJ, side-by-side, playing their own edits and enhancing the records they play with original percussion they’ve recorded themselves, triggered by an MPC. But what makes them really stand out from all other dance acts is when Iggor leaves his turntables and gets behind his drum kit, which he prefers to play in the middle of the dance floor - like Girl Talk and Dan Deacon.
Pounding on drums live, tattoos and muscles bulging, Iggor incites the
crowd, who, dancing all around him, becomes part of the show, turning
the dance floor into a mosh pit. It’s an incredible thing to behold. Many dance artists have introduced live instrumentation to their sets. None have ever had the power and intensity, and rock as hard, as Mixhell.
Iggor and Laima are warm and fun, enthusiastic, positive, attractive
and engaging. They have 5 children, 4 from separate marriages and
a young boy together.
Iggor’s story, his journey from metal to dance music, from being in the biggest band ever from Brazil to starting anew, from touring with Napalm Death and Motorhead to touring with Justice and Soulwax, is remarkable.
He’s been on the road for 25 years and has the stories to tell. Their upcoming projects range from tracks with 2ManyDJs and Crookers to museum installations to documentaries with Brazilian models, plus new
tracks, new releases, new remixes, new mixes, and their debut album, executive produced by Dave and Steph from Soulwax. They are also on the cutting-edge of a new dance scene coming out of Brazil, collaborating with everyone we’ll be talking about next year and the year after that.
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