The Poliedro, television and the awards
He starred in the most important concerts at the Poliedro de Caracas and took part in television and radio programs.
He was nominated for the “Faylan de Oro” awards, where he obtained fourteen consecutive prizes across different editions — including one as Best DJ of Venezuela.
The prize he enjoyed most, he said in an interview, was another one: the Copa Power Light of Ciudad Ojeda, in Zulia, won representing Caracas before a crowd he describes as fiercely regionalist.
From the miniteca to production
In the early 2000s he made the jump to electronic music alongside his brother, DJ Alexis Freites, and began his side as a producer with tracks that turned into hits in Venezuela.
He was also part of the group Chino & Nacho, working live with top-level musicians on national and international tours. He lives in Spain today and produces in genres such as afro house, latin tech, tech house, deep house and funky house.
The nickname, turned into a record
On October 13, 2002 he released “El Niño De Oro” on the Town House De Venezuela label. The nickname they had given him as a teenager in the miniteca booths ended up being the title of his own track, and it is still going around on the music distribution platforms.
It is an uncommon arc in the movement: most miniteca discjockeys of the 80s and 90s never got as far as signing productions of their own. His later catalog is published on Beatport, Spotify, Deezer and SoundCloud.
Why it matters to the Archive
His case documents a way out that the miniteca movement produced and that is rarely told: that of the booth discjockey who becomes a record producer and sustains a career outside the country.
The craft he learned in a Venezuelan miniteca of the 90s —reading the floor, chaining records, holding a whole night together— is the same one he produces with in Europe today. Between the one thing and the other there are three decades and an ocean, but there is no change of profession.
What is still to be documented
There is no record of the exact years of his time at ZC or at the other minitecas he worked in, of the specific events at the Poliedro where he performed, or of which television and radio programs had him on. Nor of his date of birth.
The MiniTK Archive keeps this entry open: if you have photographs, recordings, clippings or testimonies from his miniteca years, they will be incorporated with credit.
Credits and sources
- · Roster of discjockeys by stage: section “Historia” of the official site of Miniteca ZC (minitecazc.wixsite.com/home/historia). It places him in the miniteca's second generation of discjockeys.
- · First-person interview “En el Backstage con el DJ Francisco Freites” published by tusdj.com (July 2020): the start at twelve with minitecas of great renown, his brother Alexis Freites already a professional around 1985, the fourteen Faylan de Oro awards and the Copa Power Light of Ciudad Ojeda.
- · Professional biography —start at twelve years of age, concerts at the Poliedro de Caracas, TV and radio programs, fourteen consecutive “Faylan de Oro” awards, the turn to electronic production with his brother DJ Alexis Freites, his time with Chino & Nacho and his residence in Spain—: the artist's official profile and his music distribution platforms.
- · Release of “El Niño De Oro” on October 13, 2002 on the Town House De Venezuela label: entries for the track on the music distribution platforms (Beatport, Spotify, Deezer).
- · Under documentary verification: exact years at ZC and at other minitecas, specific events at the Poliedro, the television and radio programs he took part in, and the nature and editions of the “Faylan de Oro” award.
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