DJ Bitman (born José Antonio Bravo; 1975), also known as Latin Bitman or simply Bitman, is a Chilean

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

producer, composer and DJ. He is known for his work combining electronic music with funk, hip hop and Latin American rhythms. Bitman is one of the most well-known Chilean DJs on the international scene, has a successful solo career and has collaborated with many other artists from different genres, such as

Sen Dog Senen Reyes (born November 22, 1965), also known by his stage name Sen Dog, is a Cuban-American rapper and musician who is best known as a member of the rap group Cypress Hill and as the lead vocalist for the heavy metal band Powerflo. He has be ...

and

Eric Bobo The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...

from

Cypress Hill Cypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California. They have sold over 20 million albums worldwide and have multi-platinum and platinum albums. They are considered to be among the main progenitors of West Coast and 1990 ...

Francisca Valenzuela Francisca Valenzuela (; born March 17, 1987 in San Francisco, California) is an American-born Chilean singer, poet, and multi-instrumentalist. Valenzuela was born and raised in San Francisco, California, where she resided until the age of 12, bef ...

DJ Raff A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience. Types of DJs include radio DJs (who host programs on music radio stations), club DJs (who work at a nightclub or music festival), mobile D ...

Los Tetas Los Tetas is a Chilean funk band formed in 1994 by four musicians: Pepino (drums), Rulo (bass), C-Funk (Guitar, keyboard and vocals) and Tea Time (scratch and vocals). The group's first single, "Corazón de Sandía", was a summer hit from thei ...

and

Anita Tijoux Anamaría Tijoux Merino (; born 12 June 1977), commonly known by her stage name Ana Tijoux or Anita Tijoux, is a Chilean-French singer and musician. She became famous in Latin America as the MC of hip-hop group Makiza during the late 1990s. In ...

.Latin Bitman .
musicapopular.cl David Ponce retrieved on March 14, 2014 Bitman has performed in many locations around the world including some of the biggest music festivals, including

Lollapalooza Lollapalooza (Lolla) is an annual American four-day music festival held in Grant Park in Chicago. It originally started as a touring event in 1991 but several years later made Chicago the permanent location for the annual music festival. Musi ...

in Chicago,

Lollapalooza Chile Lollapalooza Chile is the Chile-based version of the popular music festival Lollapalooza (). It is held in Santiago, Chile. History The annual festival launched in April 2011 in Santiago’s O'Higgins Park and features alternative rock, Heavy m ...

, and Cypress Hill's Smokeout Festival. One of his most famous tracks is part of the soundtrack of the popular football video game by

EA Sports EA Sports is a division of Electronic Arts that develops and publishes sports video games. Formerly a marketing gimmick of Electronic Arts, in which they tried to imitate real-life sports networks by calling themselves the "EA Sports Network" ...

: "Get on the Floor" in ''

FIFA 07 ''FIFA 07'' (also known as ''FIFA Football 07'' and ''FIFA 07 Soccer'') is a football simulation video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports label. It was the last game in the ''FIFA'' series to be relea ...

''. "Me Gustan" in '' FIFA 09'', "The Instrumento" in ''

2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa , image = 2010 FIFA World Cup.svg , size = 200px , caption = ''Ke Nako. (Tswana and Sotho for "It's time") Celebrate Africa's Humanity'It's time. Celebrate Africa's Humanity'' (English)''Dis tyd. Vier Afrika se mensd ...

and "Bitbossa" in '' 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil''. Get on the Floor also featured in the reality tv show, '' The Chicas Project''.

Career

José Antonio Bravo was born in

Arica Arica ( ; ) is a Communes of Chile, commune and a port city with a population of 222,619 in the Arica Province of northern Chile's Arica y Parinacota Region. It is Chile's northernmost city, being located only south of the border with Peru. The ...

, a city in the extreme northern region of

Arica y Parinacota Region The Arica y Parinacota Region ( es, link=no, Región de Arica y Parinacota ) is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions. It comprises two provinces, Arica and Parinacota. It borders Peru's Department of Tacna to the north, Bolivi ...

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

in 1975. Bitman moved to Santiago in the 1990s to study and then work as a designer. There he met architect Christian Powditch, with whom he began to explore music composition with very simple software. The duo eventually acquired the name “Bitman & Roban” (a play on Batman & Robin). The sound of their first album “Hurtos” (“Robberies”, 2000) was very close to Hip Hop. On their second album, “Robar es natural” (“Stealing is natural”, 2002), the duo included real voices and instruments, changing the previous purely digitally constructed sound. In 2003, DJ Bitman released his first solo album, “Sunset beats” (2003) with the collaboration of jazz bassist Roberto Titae Lindl (

Los Tres Los Tres also known as The Tr3s or The 3, is a Chilean rock band. The band was formed in 1987 in Concepción by Álvaro Henríquez, Roberto Lindl, Francisco Molina and later Ángel Parra Jr. joined. They are one of the most influential rock ...

) and members of

Tiro de Gracia Tiro de Gracia is a Chilean Hip-Hop group formed by the MC's: Lenwa Dura and Zaturno "Tiro de Gracia" was known for their raw lyrical style. They initially performed using cassette tapes looped by "DJ Raff" former member of " La Pozze Latina ...

and

. “Música para después de almuerzo” (“Music for after lunch”, 2005) was his third album with Bitman & Roban, this time as a whole band instead of a duo. In 2006, he collaborated as a producer in the album “Quintana Roo” (R-H), a side project, and in 2007 released “Latin Bitman”, a mix of electronic bases and acoustic instruments such as (

Double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

Marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

Guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

Piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

and

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

). This produced an exotic sound that resembles

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major ...

bossa nova Bossa nova () is a style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is mainly characterized by a "different beat" that altered the harmonies with the introduction of unconventional chords and an innovativ ...

funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ...

, chachachá and

mambo Mambo most often refers to: *Mambo (music), a Cuban musical form *Mambo (dance), a dance corresponding to mambo music Mambo may also refer to: Music *Mambo section, a section in arrangements of some types of Afro-Caribbean music, particular ...

. In live performances, Latin Bitman is supported by an orchestra. “Colour” (2009) repeated the technique of including different elements and takes this even further. It also included Bitman’s first collaboration with

on the track "Help me”. In 2011, Bitman teamed up with Eric Bobo of

to form the group Ritmo Machine, which released the album "Welcome To The Ritmo Machine" in November 2011. Since 2011, he has collaborated on the soundtracks of several international films, including Aftershock (2012), Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2012), From Prada to Nada (2011).

Discography

Albums

* Sunset Beats (2003 – Big Sur Records) * Latin Bitman (2007 - Nacional Records NCL 20002) * Colour (2009 - Nacional Records NCNL 20032) * Airplane (2015 – Nacional Records PICD 000260)

Compilations

* 10 years mixtape (2013 - Independent)

Singles, EPs and others

* Homenaje a Los Jaivas (2006 - La Oreja) * Quintana Roo – RH (2006 - Nacional Records) * Catedral en coma. Vol. 3 (2008 - Independent) * Fuerza Chile (2010 - Independent) * EP: el compilado (2012 - Independent) ;Soundtracks * Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus (2012) (as DJ Bitman, "Bundle (4to Poder Ruff)", "Like It") / (writer: "Bundle (4to Poder Ruff)", "Like It" - as DJ Bitman) * Aftershock (2012) (performer: "Help Me") / (writer: "Help Me") * Revenge Pilot (2011), (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode) -... (performer: "Summertime" - uncredited) * From Prada to Nada (2011) (performer: "Help Me") * Dexter (2010) (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2010) (writer - 1 episode, 2010) - Circle Us (2010) (performer: "I Wanna Wake You Up" - uncredited) / (writer: "I Wanna Wake You Up" - uncredited) * Antipop (2010) (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode) - Hip Hop en Chile (2010) ... (performer: "Help Me", "La rosa de los vientos", "Tropilove").

References

External links

Latin Bitman Official Website

Profile at Last FM

Latin Bitman at Discogs.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bitman, DJ 1975 births Living people Chilean musicians German techno musicians People from Arica Nacional Records artists