Bio

Agustín Saravi DJing

I started DJing at 15 in Buenos Aires, before I was old enough to get into a lot of the places I play now. I learned at friends' parties and birthdays, trying things and getting them wrong in front of people who only wanted to dance. That's where I picked up the one rule I still care about: keep the dance floor full.

Over the years the booth stopped being enough. I started producing events and found out how much happens before the first track plays: finding the venue, setting up the sound, planning the lights, getting the right people together and picking the exact moment to lift the energy. That changed the way I DJ. I stopped thinking in single tracks and started thinking about the whole night, start to finish.

My way of working came out of that mix of DJ and event producer. Nobody handed me a manual, so I made it up as I went, one date at a time, until I found a sound of my own. I've played the booths at Magna, Creta, Moscú, Moby Dick and North Champ, and I took something from each one that I still use.

Today I move between tech house, UK house and disco house, with grooves that have weight and a shine that comes from disco. At private events I read the crowd before the clock, and if the night calls for cachengue (the Argentine party mix of cumbia and reggaeton) or pop, I go with it. In the end, the dance floor decides.

Next is taking everything I learned in the booth and behind the events into the studio. Meanwhile I keep doing what I did at 15, with more craft and the same drive: a night nobody wants to leave.

Agustín in the booth, black and white

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