Hector  London, United Kingdom

Anyone who has heard Hector play out will know that despite the ‘minimal’ tag associated with many of his gigs, the music he plays can only truly be called one thing: HOUSE.

A resident at London’s Dig Your Own Rave and Kubicle nights, not to mention his own regular SONIC party, Hector has rapidly emerged as one of the most interesting, enjoyable and effective DJs out there, and a stalwart on the vibrant London scene. Mixing up styles and moods but never losing sight of the dancefloor, Hector’s selection nods to house music’s past but always demonstrates a full engagement with its future; and his sets can be relied upon to inject the party with a unique energy. This well-honed sense of what works has led to Hector’s first forays into production, with releases for Crosstown Rebels and Dinky’s Horizontal imprint already on the way.

Hector hails from Guadalajara in the centre of Mexico, and began DJing at the age of 16 when he heard visiting European DJs play on their rare trips to his city. Inspired by the sounds of Carl Craig, Moodymann, the Timewriter & Terry Lee Brown Jnr., Hector soon came to realize that his future lay in music. Unable to get hold of a pair of decks in his native country, he came to England, fell in love with the music scene and promptly decided to stay.

A pair of 1210s later and firmly established in London, Hector made several trips to Ibiza, working his way industriously up the DJ ladder and spinning all over the island. On one of these trips he met and befriended Simon Rigg, boss of Phonica Records (the record-buying nucleus of London’s house and techno community), and on his return to London he started a part-time job at the shop. Hector’s enthusiasm and knowledge of, and passion for, music was obvious and he has since become one of the shop’s most well-known faces.

What Hector learned from Phonica about music and promotion enabled him to take his career to the next level; whilst working there he met the promoters of Kubicle, leading to his residency at the legendary afterhours. He soon after founded his own night SONIC at the T Bar, and took at another residency at Crosstown Rebel Matthew Styles’ Dig Your Own Rave; subsequent gigs at Fabric, ----- and ------ have followed.

It was at Kubicle that Hector really found his groove – an original, personal mix of cutting-edge, deep minimal sounds and classic house records; his three different residencies have also given him the chance to properly road-test his own productions – tracks which will soon be released on Crosstown Rebels, Horizontal and Phonica’s own nascent label.