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RANK	SCORE ?	GENRE	LOCATION
2617	80	Trance	Belo Horizonte, BR

.....In the year 2000, when the newest club in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, was about to be opened, their managers looked for somebody that would be responsable for the entire sound track of the new place. As they invited Rafael Mendes, a student at that time, they asked him to use his many years of music collection to give an eletronic atmosphere to the weekly night that was about to happen. Is that when it rises Dj Pin, at first making sets in all kind of eletronic music, soon he transformed that night in one of the first weekly psytrance residence in Brazil.

As the project established itself, Pin start to play in all the main parties in his city. In 2001 he performed all over the country and started to be seen as one of the main djs from his state. At the same time he was part of the organization of memorable parties in Belo Horizonte, putting the city forever in the international route of psytrance. Soon he was invited to play in many different label party as TIP World, Com.Pact, Chemical Crew, among others.

In 2002 he was already performing in some of the biggest festivals in Brazil as Universo Parallelo, Cachoeira Alta and Sunvibe. As 2003 arrived, Pin was the only dj outside Sao Paulo to be among the revelations of the year of the Balada Planet poll, the biggest eletronic music website in Brazil. In this same year he made a mini-tour in Europe performing in England and Wales.

In 2004 he was responsable for the promotion in Brazil of the Son Kite collection "Colours". In this same year he started to produce the ?Carga Eletronica?, weekly psytrance radio show, broadcasted to a 3 million people range with the best of psytrance music and culture; one of the first psy radio shows in the country. At the same time he started a residence with Trance Movement (trancemovement.com), one of the biggest party organizers in Brazil.

Later, on 2005, Pin was invite to be part of Planet BEN Records (planet-ben.net) crew and started to perform all over the country in partys for until 10.000 people. In 2006 he shared the stage with mainstream eletronic artists such Fat Boy Slim and Sasha. He also became one of the only psytrance artists in the whole globe to play at the Creamfields Festival. In this same year he was a highlight at Indian Spirit Festival in Germany and at Earthdance Chile. At that time, Pin was also invited to join the legendary TIP World (tipworld.co.uk) crew and its now also part of one the biggest psychedelic labels in the world.

Early 2007 he had his first track released in a collaboration with Puzzle and its now working in a live act between his gigs.

Pin had shared the stage with an endless list of artits, including all the main psytrance ones, as 1200 Mics, Infected Mushroom, Skazi, GBU, SUN Project, Atmos, Son Kite, Tristan and Dino Psaras, just to name few.

Pin is currently doing A&R for Planet B.E.N. Records.