Dj, producer, promoter, label owner, webmaster.
DJ R. Araujo got behind the decks six years ago, right about when dance culture hit Curitiba, Brazil (mini geography lesson: Curitiba is located in southern Brazil, just south east of Sao Paulo. It has roughly two and a half million residents and is world famous for its brilliant infrastructure, innovative solutions and its environmental and social policies).

With a strong musical background (including flute, piano and drums), R. Araujo went over to England in 1999 for a course on music production and discovered the sound of the London techno underground.

Since then he has kept himself rather busy, back in Curitiba, running three distinct projects, a label and a website at the same time:

Big Fish which has been hosting underground parties for four years running, bringing in djs and producers like Rowland The Bastard (Uk), DAVE the Drummer (Uk), Thermobee (Uk), Scott Mac (Uk), Patrick DSP (Canada), Pauze (Canada), Aaron Liberator (Uk), Geezer (Uk), Glenn Wilson (Uk), Android (Canada), Mara Bruiser (Brazil), Camilo Rocha (Brazil), Allex S. (Brasil), Animal (Brasil) and many more. Big Fish its the biggest parties in the south of Brazil with more than 19 editions.

Technose which specializes in all flavours of techno and happens once every month at local clubs. Technose has been hosting parties for two years (11 editions) and already brought djs like Android (Canada), Mark EG (Uk), Andreas Kremer (Germany), Holgi Star (Germany), Jerome Hill (Uk), Pauze (Canada), Julian Liberator (Uk), Mara Bruiser (Brazil), Animal (Brazil), Murphy (Brazil) to list only a few.

Acid Park which is a project revolving around rave and open events from the past three years, every twice a year and bringing in people like Chris Liberator (Uk), Ant (Uk), Darcmarc (Uk), Android (Canada), Patrick DSP (Canada), Lukas (Brasil) and more.

After his return from England in 2000, R. Araujo went to work on building his own Big Fish Studios and started up a record label called BR 909 Records, which specializes in brazilian underground techno. His tracks has been releasing in the past year and djs from all over the world have been playing the tunes such as DAVE The Drummer (Uk), Chris Liberator (Uk), Fergie (Uk), BK (Uk), Eduardo Herrera (Brazil), Anderson Noise (Brazil), plus many more.

In 2002, R. Araujo went out for a BR909 Records european tour playing in cities like London @ Antiworld (The Rex) and Family Groove (George IV) and also in Birmingham playing at Cohesion (Subway City).

The success was so big that in 2003, R. Araujo went back again to England for his second appearance in clubs such as: The Fridge (London/UK), Club 414 (London/UK), SE1 (London/UK), JAX (London/UK), and a few squat parties.

He's not from Chicago or London, but he's still f*'in avin' it!

In Brazil, R. Araujo also played alongside with names such as:
Chris Liberator (UK), Javier Bussola (Argentina), Marcelo Castelli (Uruguay), Marco Bailey (Belgium), Chris Liebing (Germany), Oberon (UK), Trevor Rockliffe (UK), C1 (UK), Gaetano Parisio (Italy), The Advent (Portugal), Dylan Drazen (USA), James Kinetec (UK), Darcmarc (UK), Ant (UK), Mark Tyler (UK), Bio Booster (Sweden), Skyline (USA), Marc Sinclair (UK), Gizele (UK), Donovan (USA), Renato Cohen, Anderson Noise, Mau Mau, Pet Duo, Fabricio Pecanha, Santiago, Claudinho I, Gu, Murphy, Gracy Kelly Dum, Marcio Zanzi, Eli Iwasa, Snoop, Mental Giu, Nitrosound, Ricardinho NS, André Juliani, George Actv, Dmitri and many more.