AWAKENINGS ADE 2024
OCT 16 - 20, AMSTERDAM
With a career spanning more than 25 years, Paco Osuna is one of the most renowned artists in the electronic music industry. His creativity, courage and relentless search for new forms of expression are some of his principal and consistent virtues when it comes to making music. When performing, he is dynamic, lively, intelligent and sophisticated, with a deep awareness for sound aesthetics. Every session is important to Paco and he sets out to invent and renew every time he steps onto the stage.
In the studio, Paco Osuna has moulded his own musical signature, coating the purest techno and tech-house sounds with his characteristic features: dynamism and innovation. Proof of that are his releases on labels
such as Plus8, Minus, Mood, Spectral, Snatch!, Moon Harbour, Saved, Hommage, and for his own platform Mindshake. In addition, he has remixed representative artists like Plastikman, Groove Armada, Basement Jaxx, Nicole Moudaber, Matador, Adam Beyer, Seth Troxler and Monkey Safari.
In 2006 he launched Mindshake, conceived as a platform for the creation and distribution of electronic music. Over the past few years, Mindshake has become one of the most important techno labels in the US and Europe, hosting productions of artists like Cuartero, Carlo Lio, Eats Everything, Blackchild, Andres Campo, Markantonio and Melanie Ribbe. In addition, Mindshake presents events around the world, hosting full stages at festivals such as BPM Portugal, ADE Dockyard, WAN Festival and Medusa Festival, among many others.
From 2015, Paco Osuna was part of Marco Carola’s Music On. In 2016 he was selected to be ambassador of PLAY differently MODEL1. In 2018, Paco became a Burn Residency ambassador. In 2019, elrow chose Paco as a flagship artist for their new project Kaos Garden, alongside the contemporary artist Okuda San Miguel.
In the summer of 2022 Paco Osuna presented his residency at Hï Ibiza, the best club in the world, launching NOW HERE, the name and also the motto of his night at Hï’s Club Room. The concept behind NOW HERE
shares the same feeling that has accompanied Paco his entire career, one that arises from his passion for electronic music and his determination to enjoy the present ATOPE. Every Tuesday at Hï Ibiza’s Club Room, music acts as a catalyst for positive energy and the entire room is a vibrant dance floor where DJs and audience celebrate life together amid an emotional and joyful atmosphere. Outside of Ibiza, Paco Osuna has taken NOW HERE to cities like Barcelona, Miami, Amsterdam, NY, Mexico, Tulum, Medellin and Mar de Plata.
Throughout his career Paco has performed at clubs, parties and festivals of great prestige. The list of events in which he has played is endless, and is one where quality is more important than quantity. From Fabric and Electric Brixton London to WOMB Tokyo, passing through Space NYC, Space Miami and Verboten NY in the US, Watergate Berlin and renowned clubs such as Amnesia, Pacha, Hï, Ushuaïa, DC10, Privilege and Destino in his beloved Ibiza. Among the festivals he has played are Coachela, Monegros, Sónar, Awakenings, Kappa Futur, Loveland, Ultra Miami, Electric Zoo, Movement Detroit, Time Warp and Tomorrowland. As Paco celebrates his 25 years in the business - through hard work, determination and love - he will continue to sketch the journey that has led him be the artist he is today.