Venezuelan Electro producer Ara-u’s music career started in the late 90s as a key figure that brought rave culture to his home country through community and events. His early sets held between outdoor events and the country’s clubs, saw Ara-u riff between vinyl and synths with a hybrid set up of a Roland JX-305, turntables and FX seeing him make early moves into acid and breaks. He’s now been based in the UK for over two decades, being a firm part of the rave music community. For a time it was distinctly eclectic and true to the 90s spirit of openness with label Beetroot and released respected UK techno artists Jerome Hill and House of Fix. Production for a while was under the project The Dice. In this time he collaborated with General Levi, Daddy Freddy and Tenor Fly working within electronic reggae and dub. Ara-u though, at his core about analogue electro which has over the last couple of years released this passion in a series of impressive releases. His first outing with Radioactive Man on Asking For Trouble for their Plastic Attack EP. His first solo EP Black Hole came out on his newly launched label No Static /Automatic in early 2020 and carries three original tracks of raw, analogue machine music, backed up by a bass-weighted grinding remix from Carl Finlow. He showed his solo power here with firm support coming in from Radioactive Man, Jerome Hill, dBridge, Ben Pest, Alienata, Post Human, Solid blake, A- future, Granary 12 and DJ Mag. Strong foundations for this artist with roots going back three decades and a heart rooted in sound system ready electro. Since then he has release several releases on his label including an new solo Ep called Hiber nation and a charity compilation called the Exiled. Next is a new collaboration with RadioactiveMan and a new Ep by Ben Pest.