Mario Ochoa Biographie

Born in Medellin, Colombia in 1982. Mario Ochoa's musical history starts
when he received the first guitar lesson at the age of nine. He also took
part in some choirs and even in a school band where he improved his voice
skills a little bit more. At the age of twelve Mario's influences were
Spanish Rock and Heavy Metal. At fourteen he started flirting with Hip-Hop
being part of some local bands.

In 1998 electronic music started strongly in Colombia and Mario Ochoa
discovered what would be his real future. Influenced by the storm of
electronic sounds Mario started producing his first tracks applying the
knowledge he got whit his early guitar lessons. Just one year later Mario
Ochoa met jessus one of the key figures related whit the launch of Mario's
musical career. Mario started spreading tracks among friends and they
started supporting him playing the tracks at the big parties in Medellin.
He definitely started growing as both DJ and Producer.

In the year 2000 Mario Ochoa and Jessus made "Symphony" a track that
reached number one in in the best Dance station in Medellin "La Super
Estacion 92.9 Medellin". It quickly became an anthem in the city being
played at the most of the rave parties and the rest of radio stations as
well.

Already in 2001 Mario kept on improving his production skills focusing on
more people friendly tracks and also more complex productions being
strongly influenced by both tribal sounds and Disco sounds of the 80's.

In the beginning of 2002 Mario teamed with Jessus and Dj Fist all three
from Medellin to develope the most important project in electronic music in
Colombia until the date, the creation of a compilation cd called "Electro
Movie Shop". A cd based in a film called "La Vurra" that contained
different genres in electronic music such as progressive house, Latin and
Tribal house, electro and trance. This compilation finally came out in 2003
and influenced tracks from eight talents and Mario Ochoa included two of
his tracks, "Da Bomb" and "sentimiento Latino". This last track was a real
success both locally and in the rest of the country being one of the most
twenty listened songs in Colombia.

Beside all this production, Mario Ochoa was playing at the best clubs in
the city alogs with the best international talents.

Mario Ochoa work for labels like, "molacacho Records, "Disc Doctor", "Fine
Tune", "Tumbata", "pure Music", "brown Paper Bag", "Drumline", and Others.