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Xavier Gomez is an Ecuadorian musician/Dj that has been involved in various bands and projects in L.A. and back home in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Xavier started Djing in 2006 mainly for fun (he is a Mental Health Therapist by day) and has been spinning all sorts of styles of music ever since usually based on what the crowd needs. But when given a choice IDM, Trip-Hop and other variations of chillout electronica would always be his preferred genres to play.
Growing up listening to artists like Aphex Twin, Autechre, Telefon Tel Aviv, Bonobo, Four tet, Amon Tobin, Portishead and Massive Attack led to a ridiculously huge music library of lush and beautifully dramatic beats and layers of music that he has been obsessed about and ready to share. Xavier usually uses and controls samples and beats he gathered or created himself to remix his sets live and keep his musician/performer side satisfied. Each set is unique and definitely not to be missed!
ThirdEyeFX is a producer, emcee, DJ and visual artist. He is also the host of the Tripnotic Downtempo Podcast which has a dedicated worldwide listenership. A long time Hip Hop listener and musician, ThirdEyeFX began his adventures into the sounds of Trip Hop when he borrowed LPs of Portishead's "Dummy" and Massive Attack's "Protection" from Audioptic in the Mid-Nineties. Soon after he was inspired to produce Trip Hop using a friends MPC, Soundedit, and Cubase. In 1996, he first used the name "Tripnotic" (combining Hypnotic + Trip Hop) as a title for a cassette that he gave to twelve of his closest friends. The following year, he gave his friends a CD called "Food for thought" that had four 20 minute mixes named "Appetizer", "Main Course", "Dessert", and "Tomorrow's leftovers". During the summer of 2010, ThirdEyeFX founded Tripnotic Downtempo Lounge (a weekly event dedicated to Trip Hop and Downtempo) with the help of Audioptic.
Since the age of ten, DJ Audioptic has been mixing and cutting records on turntables -- in his room, at house parties and as he got older, at the club -- living for scratching and destroying the common perception of what a DJ was supposed to look and sound like.
Grandmaster Flash and Dj Jazzy Jeff--to name a few--were Audioptic's musical muses in the 1980s, with Hip-Hop dominating his airwaves. In the mid-1990s he was introduced to Portishead and the Trip-Hop movement, a sound that expanded his musical awareness.
Since then, Audioptic takes inspiration from everything from Public Enemy's Bombsquad to the musical conglomerate known as Massive Attack.
DJ Audioptic has been a resident DJ for the Tripnotic live events and our Podcasts since their inception.
