Alex Castanha aka CrazyTeck was born in September 1982. His first encounter with electronic music was back in 1999 at the notorious Black&Blue event in Montreal, Canada. It was the start of a love story with electronic music that is now more present than ever.

After clubbing at Montreal's underground parties, Alex wanted to be more involved in the scene. In 2001, he began to experiment producing music on his computer, using software such as Fruity Loops, Rebirth, Acid and, finally, Reason. Wanting to further his knowledge of sound theory and technology, Alex brilliantly achieved his degree in Sound Design in 2002, at Musi-Technic, a specialist school for digital techniques for sound and music.

Slowly building his own home studio and working hard to perfect his art, Alex spent a lot of time in the search of his own sound. In 2005, he began producing quality tracks in his own unique style, being influenced by Hard Techno, Acid, Psy-Trance/Goa and even Industrial.

After gaining support from Chris Hampshire, owner and label manager of Recover, Alex released his debut track in March 2006, the awesome CrazyTeck Mix of Sol Ray & Glowbones' Dark Angel. Since then, Alex has collaborated with great producers such as Nortek from Norway (who won the contest Pimp My Track of Sander Van Doorn) and Ben Fraser from the UK, owner and label manager of Sabretooth Records.

Always working hard on new projects, CrazyTeck has got many more quality tracks to come!


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