Wellyington
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- Brazilian born Wellington Almeida aka Wellyington is a young house music artist based in Barcelona that opened his wings for the underground dance music in 2011 playing in local events and clubs in Joinville, Brazil. A man with serious production skill..Over the past few years, Wellyington has become one of the shooting stars of the international dance music scene. His impact has been so great that Maceo Plex of Ellum claimed during the Burn Studio Residency 2013 in Ibiza: “Thanks to Wellyington, I know that the new generation will do good things for the future of electronic music”. And not just Plex, the entire Burn gang and headmasters including Solomun, DJ Steve Lawler and Fatboy Slim have become fervent supporters of Wellyington's warm, melodic, deep, yet driving sound. Who is the man behind the music and feeling that is currently gaining strong support from established DJs and music fans alike around the globe? Wellington Almeida as Welly is known to his parents, is originally from São Gonçalo, a seaside metropolitan city in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After an eclectic musical youth and a move to Foz do Iguaçu, a border city between Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina, Wellyington first popped up on the electronic music scene in 2008 working behind the scene in the label Glamjam run by Jennifer Schorsch. In 2010 Welly moved to Joinville, the main industrial city in Santa Catarina, Brazil where he met local artists that became his main motivators to join the scene as producer and DJ. Wellyington debuted in the stage in December, 2011 playing in a underground event in São Francisco do Sul, a touristic island in Santa Catarina, Brazil. Wellyington gained immediate respect from artist, promoters and fans with melodic deep sounds going to a completely different pattern compared to what other DJs were playing in the region at that time. So it was no surprise that in 2012 he was considered one of the best new faces artists in Brazil playing in acclaimed clubs like the iconic Warung Beach Club, and conceptual clubs Soul Club and Balihai run by Fernando and Julian Olsen Wellyington also knows his onions as a DJ which has been proven over time with his classification as best DJ in Brazil by Coca-Cola music asset and Burn Studios Residency in 2013. This opened his career in the international scene offering him an opportunity to play and learn with legends in Ibiza opening season of the same year. Four months later Welly exhilarated again after being chosen by MTV to play at Someone Like Me party in Mexico City. With his ever growing reputation, Welly soon attracted interested from artists worldwide and became a regular collaborator with producers around the world including Andrei Andrion, Rafael Vieira, Phil Bell, Steve Epico and Matheus Duarte. All of his great experiences as a musician and artist start to culminate now in Wellyington's first EP, 'Destnik' on Sweep The Floor Records. Fully aware that the sound identity is still the most important statement of a musician, Wellyington succeeds in this field with flying colours by not falling into the obvious traps of making a “deep techno” EP with tracks that all seem to sound that same. Similar to his labelmate and buddy Andrei Andrion, Welly manages to expand his stylistic palette to more than “just” dance or club music. Instead he creates his own distinct sound and musical vision with bittersweet melodies and atmospheric moods that should appeal to ravers and more pop trained ears alike. On the EP Welly brings the perfection of what he began to explore in his collaborations, especially by using his own chords and unique musical instruments as a transmitter to communicate with his audience. But let the Brazilian man speak for himself: “I'm making music for my own ears, I never know if the audience will like it and to be honest it's not what I expect when I am creating something new, it's all like a laboratory for my own knowledge and pleasure that in the end becomes music that people feel connected to. I may wake up in the morning feeling cheesy and work in a more emotional resonance or come back to my flat at night with the energy to work in more techno sounds. I have no rules to follow, I am adept to the DIY trying to make my own music, the stuff I like to listen to everyday. It means a lot for me to be connected with myself and have the ability to listen to a new sound I just created and enjoy it, I am always my first critic and if the sound isn't going where I want I simply move on to something new. I don't want perfectionism, I just want to feel my own identity in my music, and my taste is serious business for me.”