VINTAGE CULTURE DJ MAG N.9 WORLD RANKING
Today October 20th has been published the list of the top 100 DJs worldwide in the DJ Mag and we want to share with all of you our great joy and our pride to have in the Ibiza Bpm family several of them, which have reached top positions and have weekly programs in our schedule.
We must also say that many of the artists included in the list have played on Ibiza Bpm Radio as guests of other artists, labels, radio shows or parties.
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Artists who have more than demonstrated their technique and musical knowledge, who are part of the station since its inception and who share with our beloved audience their know how and their good music week after week.
We are talking about Vintage Culture, the young producer, entrepreneur, record label owner, owner of the “Só track boa” party and great artist born in Brazil.
VINTAGE CULTURE
From: Brazil
DJ style: “House, tech-house, melodic house.”
Scheduled on Ibiza Bpm Radio :
CET , Saturdays at 22:00 h,
Thursdays at 0:.00 h
( Reprise )
Best known for: “Moving between different genres and playing long sets from dusk until dawn.”
Back — and up another spot — in the Top 10 of the Top 100 DJs poll for the second year running, it's not hard to figure out how Brazilian DJ and producer Vintage Culture continues to climb the poll year-on-year. In 2015, he appeared at No. 118, and he's evolved year on year. In 2023 he told DJ Mag that he felt his sound had “become more global”, having held down his residency at Hï Ibiza, while also playing Tomorrowland, Coachella, Creamfields and Ultra Music Conference . And this year, he proved us right.
Vintage Culture (real name: Lukas Rafael Ruiz Hespanhol) was born in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, but grew up just across the border in Katueté, a farming city in Paraguay. It has few more than 10,000 inhabitants, and a Google image search for it reveals nothing more than dirt track roads and a few buildings.
Speaking in DJ Mag’s cover story earlier this year, he said: “If you saw it, man, you would think, ‘How did this kid get to where he is?’ Life is crazy man, life is crazy.” And crazy it continues to be.
In 2024, Vintage Culture returned to the White Isle for another residency at Hï Ibiza alongside FISHER, while also making stops at Tomorrowland’s CORE Tulum, Marco Carola’s Music On, Awakenings Festival, and Kappa FuturFestival. His touring schedule is also a showcase of Vintage Culture’s diversity: playing alongside Patrick Topping at a Trick event one week, and on a Sunwaves line-up the next.
During his own event, Vintage Is A Festival, which he soundtracked in Brazil for 12 hours in front of 20,000 diehard fans from sunset to well after sunrise, Vintage Culture revealed that 2024 would see the release of his debut album (and self-appointed career highlight), ‘Promised Land’.
Crafted over four years and now out in the world, Vintage Culture’s debut album featured a slew of solo productions alongside over 20 collaborators, including The Temper Trap, Goodboys and Emery Taylor, citing inspiration from the electronic elements of Avicii, Camelphat and Artbat, alongside the guitars of New Order and Kraftwerk’s groove. Beginnings as a bedroom producer creating remixes of chart tracks echo throughout the album — Vintage Culture intuitively knows what sounds work well together — and it's another testament to how deep his love for music runs.
What’s next for Vintage Culture? Who knows. But you can be certain it’ll be unexpected.
