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Dj Floro can be regarded as a Dj without boundaries, in both geographical and musical senses. He loves MUSIC, he loves SONGS, and he doesn’t try to parcel out or separate them. He just tries to be a transmitter of emotions, sensations, attitudes and sonorities from streets all over the world as well as from the past, the present and the future.

Dj Floro often plays his records in clubs everywhere in Spain like Sala Universal, Aqualung, La Habana, Suristan, La Boca Del Lobo, Jazz Club, El Juglar, Tempo, El Junco, Moe, all of them based in Madrid , Sala El Tren, Planta Baja, Booga Club y Afrodisia (Granada), Malandar (Sevilla), La Paloma, Sidecar y City Hall-Homeless en Barcelona, Sasinia Club (Menorca), Etxekalte Jazz Club (Donosti), Sala Babylon (Cuenca), Sala Aftasi (Badajoz). He has also played in: Notting Hill Arts Club y Cargo in London, Mecca (Helsinki), La Regla (Berlin), Music Box (Lisboa), La Bellevilloise (Paris)…

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He has also participated in Festivals Art Futura (Madrid), Womad (Cáceres y Canarias), La Mar de Músicas (Cartagena), Mestival (Elche), Etnosur (Jaén), Etnimálaga (Málaga), Fes Tribal (Santiago De Compostela), Popdeurope (Berlín), Festa De la Diversitat (Barcelona), Mercat de Música Viva (Vic), Reggus (Reus), Womex (Newcastle), Funky Elephant Festival (Helsinki), Territorios (Sevilla), Fuertemúsica (Fuerteventura), Mumes (Sta Cruz De Tenerife), Port De Les Cultures (Burriana), Festigal (Santiago De Compostela), Costa De Músicas (Lanzarote), Eutopia (Córdoba), Donosti Kluba (San Sebastián), Fin Gira Muchachito (Barcelona), Festizaje (Andújar), Tránsitos (Sta. Cruz De Tenerife), Carnaval (Las Palmas De Gran Canaria), Pirineos Sur (Huesca), Carnaval Circulo de Bellas Artes (Madrid), Mundomira (Bergara), Breakpark (Lanzarote), Imagina Funk (Sierra Magina – Jaén), Expo Lounge (Zaragoza), Actual (Logroño)…..

The search of this kind of sonority has been transformed into 10 amazing compilations:

- Quiero Boogaloo (1995) (con Dj Goofy)
- Radical Mestizo (1998)
- Latin-Soul Descarga & Boogaloo (1999) (con Dj Goofy)
- Radical Mestizo Dospuntomil (1999)
- Latin-Funk Jazz & Boogaloo (2000) (con Dj Goofy)
- Digital Mestizo (2001)
- Electros & Latinos (2001)
- Republicafrobeat (2003)
- Essential Latin Flavas Dos (con el Dj Martín Morales) (2003)
- Republicafrobeat Vol.2 (2005)
- Republicafrobeat Vol.3 (2009)

Quiero Boogaloo Radical Mestizo Latin Soul Descargas Boogaloo Radical Mestizo 2.1000 Latin-Funk Jazz & Boogaloo
Digital Mestizo Electros & Latinos Repúblicafrobeat Esential Latin Flavas Republicafrobeat vol.2
Republicafrobeat vol.3        

He has also compiled the collection Rumbo al Caribe for the Spanish Journal El País. Rumbo al Caribe is composed of the following

- Las Estrellas De La Salsa I (60’s-70’s)
- Las Estrellas De La Salsa II (80’s-90’s)
- Boogaloo, La Música Del Barrio
- Los Auténticos Reyes Del Mambo
- Cuba, La Isla De La Música
- La Nueva Generación Cubana
- La Llegada De La Salsa Romántica

He has also compiled several titles of the collection “Países de Latinoamérica” Latinoamérica (Cuba, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Bolivia, Perú...).

Dj Floro has colaborated too with magazines such a La Guia De Las Otras Músicas, Efe Eme, Enlace Funk…

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Another of his current works, along with Ale Acosta de Mojo Project, remezclador de artistas como José Mercé, Ska Cubano, Los Delinqüentes, Ojos De Brujo, Muchachito Bombo Infierno, Amparanoia ó Kokolo. Afro Soul Toasting All Star.

Dj floro has also colaborated in radio programs like Trópico Útopico in Radio Tres, Al Son de Cacique in Cadena 100 ó Latido Global in Radio Gladys Palmera.

Actually Dj Floro is colaboranting in the nationwide radio program Sonideros in Radio 3

DJ Floro’s current sessions are a space and time journey in which Songs take precedence over other aspects and show a mixture of sonorities and elements from Electronic, Afrobeat, Asian, Brasil, Africa, Cuba, Funk, Drum ‘N’ Bass, Balkan, Jazz, Ragga, Boogaloo, Reggae, Hip Hop, Salsa Dura, Flamenco, Latin…  De las Raíces a los Cables.