Nylon is a Live PA artist, releasing tracks over the labels around the globe. Its kind of electro mixed with house with special disco flavour in the top of the tunes. The artist already has released tracks in Brazil and Italy.

He playing every single weekend at local parties in Brazil, Rafael have the experience of the club nights. Pioneer of techno scene in the south of Brazil. By that time, all the country knew was about trance and pop house. Rafael belongs to one of the biggest brazillian Dj agency Smart Biz for Djs (www.smartbiz.com.br). In Brazil, the most significant clubs Rafael has been playing we can consider Muzik Loft (Curitiba/Pr), Vibe (Curitiba/Pr), Juke Joint (São Paulo/Sp), A Loca (São Paulo/Sp), Lov.e (São Paulo/Sp), Ibiza (Balneário Camboriú/Sc), Bielle (Cascavel/Pr), Warung Beach Club (Itajaí/Sc), Se7en (Joinville/Sc), Neo (Porto Alegre/Rs), Floor (Cuiabá/Mt), D-Edge (Sao Paulo/Sp), Ampgalaxy (Sao Paulo/Sp), plus many others. And parties like Rave Patrol (Sao Paulo/Sp), Groove Patrol (Sao Paulo/Sp), Gatecrasher Brazil Tour (Caioba/Pr), plus many others.

The first time Rafael Araujo took his music overseas was in 2002, playing at the biggest London’s festival Antiworld. On this first tour, Araujo also played at parties like Family Groove (London/Uk) and Cohesion (Manchester/Uk). After that, the tour was so successfull that Rafael went back to Europe in 2003 for Antiworld festival once again and also Technosis (London/Uk), Just Groove (London/Uk) and Never Enough (London/Uk). For 2004, Rafael Araujo stabilished his Antiworld appearance for the 3rd year in a row and making his music and style very succesfull over England. Also spinning at Torque festival in London area. Araujo expanded his work over Germany for a short but very successfull tour in places like Douala Club (Ravensburg), Shoot Club (Delitzsch), X-Side Club (Dresden), Zoom Club (Nurnberg) representing Kiddaz Fm - Berlin Dj Agency. For 2005, Rafael made two Dj tours (January and July). His brazillian beats and his label BR909 Records is going very well over there. Played in parties over England, France, Germany and Poland, making his international career something very solid.Graduated on Radio and Television, Araujo has his own radio show at local radio station FM 96,3 Mhz every Saturday from 10pm till 00am called Popero. To spread the music and eletronic culture over the Parana State. The show its live and Rafael host all of the biggest names in Brazil such as international Djs doing live sets. The show has been running since August 2003 and its one of the biggest audience of the radio. R. Araujo got behind the decks eight 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 2000 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 a few distinct projects, two labels, a website, a radio show and a Dj / Production school at the same time.

In 2000, Rafael moved to Manchester/UK for a period dedicated to the dance music production at local school called Manchester Midi School. Since then, with a strong musical background, Rafael developed big technics as a producer. At the moment, his tracks has been playing from all the biggest names in Brazil such as artrists from England and Germany. The biggest hit we can consider its the track called Contra-mao produced together with his partner, Dj Ilan, out on their own label BR909 Records, wich has been playing for big names such as Dj Fergie at his radio show at Radio 1 BBC from London/Uk. These days, we can consider the track Yamalaya the biggest hit from BR909 Records, being played
from all the biggest names in the scene over the world like DAVE The Drummer, Chris Liberator, BK, Andy Farley and Ed Real. The record reach the charts and playlists from Djs at Ministry of Sound and also at BK´s Mixmag Chart of March 2005. Rafael has also produced alongside producers like Darcmarc (Stay Up Forever / Cluster), Cyber Steve (Cohesion / Snap n Crackle), Thermobee (Bang On), Guy Geezer Mcaffer (RAW), plus many more. At the moment, Rafael Araujo is also playing live sets together with his Dj Sets, but the live set is known by his own style of brazillian techno. Signed to BR909 Records, Requentado Records, URBR and R & R Records.

The promoter activity started way before the Dj. Promoting parties since a long time. In the year of 2000, started Big Fish which has been hosting underground rave parties since 2000, bringing in DJs and producers like Rowland The Bastard (Uk), DAVE the Drummer (Uk), Thermobee (Uk), Scott Mac (Uk), Pauze (Canada), Aaron Liberator (Uk), Geezer (Uk), Glenn Wilson (Uk), Android (Canada), Tonio (France), Emerson (Germany), Mara Bruiser (Brazil), Camilo Rocha (Brazil), Allex S. (Brazil) and many more. Big Fish its the biggest parties in the south of Brazil with more than 35 editions. Also promotes a club night called Technose which specializes in all flavours of techno and happens at local clubs. Technose is one of the most influenced club nights in Brazil and it has been hosting parties for two years and already brought DJs like Android (Canada), Mark EG (Uk), Andreas Kremer (Germany), Holgi Star (Germany), Stereo Jack (Germany), Jerome Hill (Uk), Pauze (Canada), Julian Liberator (Uk), Rachel Rackitt (Uk), Slobodan (Sweden), Len Faki (Germany), Mara Bruiser (Brazil), Murphy (Brazil), Eduardo Herrera (Brazil), plus many others.

Since 2002, Rafael has been running an online community website. This online eletronic music comunity is one of the biggest in Brazil with more than 15 thousand people registred. On the website, its all about the eletronic music, interviews,
reviews, parties, djs, clubs and all the information about the scene.

In August 2004, Rafael Araujo started a DJ and Production School in Curitiba to expand the scene and make people know more about the eletronic culture. The AIMEC (Curitiba’s International Eletronic Music Academy) its the first school dedicated exclisively for the eletronic music with lectures from the biggest Djs in the south of Brazil and workshops with international Djs / Producers like DAVE The Drummer, Thermobee, Eric Sneo, plus others. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.