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With 2 decades of turntable-experience, several tracks charted by top DJs and a jaw-dropping mixing technique, Jose Spinnin Cortes has proven to be one of the most influential and respected DJs of the mexican dance music scene.
Jose begun mixing in 1993 as a mobile DJ, and by the summer of 1996 he's got his first residency at The Plantation club in his hometown, Guadalajara. A few years passed by and so several clubs, but in 2004 when he became the resident DJ of one of Mexico's most important gay clubs: Monica's Club.
His career as a music producer started in 1997, making a few tracks with DJ Richard Herrera, and by 2000 he started remixing independently. In August 2005 he remixed Offer Nissim's "First Time", featuring Maya Simantov for the remix competition held by Star 69 Records in New York City. Jose won the contest, and that's when artist and producers begun requesting his work as a remixer.
Jose has remixed and produced for renown mexican pop stars such as Patricia Manterola, Fey, Belanova and Maya Karunna and international artists like Offer Nissim, Amuka, Dot Matrix, Jennifer Carbonell, Georgie Porgie, Maya Simantov, Erin Hamilton, Suzanne Palmer and Alan T to name just a few.
In the summer of 2006 Jose released his first single "IBEROAMERICA", a progressive tribal track that would set Jose’s trademark sound, and make both Mexican clubbers and DJs turn their looks into his work. In the same year, Jose was signed in Mexico by the most important electronic record label in Latin America at the time: +Mas Label.
His tracks have been constantly supported by top DJs such as Peter Rauhofer, Offer Nissim, Nacho Chapado, Taito Tikaro, DJ Paulo, Alyson Calagna, Nick Terranova, Mauro Picotto, Hector Fonseca, Jackinsky, Tony Moran, Stephan Grondin, Abel, and Twisted Dee. He has also shared stages with some of the biggest names in the electronic global scene such as Antoine Clamaran, Tom Stephan, Starkillers, Mauro Picotto, ATB, David Guetta, Axwell, B-Jay, Twisted Dee, B.T., R3HAB, Sander Van Dorn, Chuckie, Afrojack, Paul Van Dyk and Armin Van Buuren.
Jose has released 3 artist albums: "Again" (2008), "Heaven Can Wait" (2010) and “This Is The Revolution” (2013). On these records Jose has teamed up with artists such as Jesse Labelle, Alyson Calagna, Micah Sherman, Jamie Bruce (X Factor & The Voice UK), Maya Simantov and Meital De Razon.
Having been acknowledged by Forbes Magazine Mexico as one of the most creative Mexican minds in the world in 2016, Jose maintains a busy production and touring schedule travelling all over Mexico and maintaining guest spots in USA, Canada, Spain, Korea, China, Japan, Portugal, Colombia, Nicaragua and Brazil, exposing his fusion of Progressive, Tribal and Tech-House beats.
