Portrait published by Miniteca Betelgeuse on its official site · CMTK Archive
Discjockey (now DJ) · One Mixshow, One Name
Manuel García Navas «DJ Mao»
From the Traffic booth to the mixing desk
He started out on the Traffic cabinet, passed through Betelgeuse's second generation and signed three of the movement's vinyl records: the Sandy Lane album and the Betelgeuse Mix I among them. Few paths are documented as thoroughly from end to end.
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His beginnings, on the Traffic cabinet
The members of Sandy Lane, writing up a guerra de minitecas —the sound clashes of the movement— at the Concha Acústica de Bello Monte in Caracas against Traffic and New York People, put a detail on record: “in the Traffic cabinet, there is Manuel García, in his early days.”
It is one of the few times the movement's archive pins down the start of a discjockey (now DJ) to a photograph and to a specific crew.
Betelgeuse's second generation
Miniteca Betelgeuse includes him on the roster of its second generation of discjockeys, the stage after 1984 in which the miniteca was already working with the colored cabinets that became its hallmark.
Source consulted on August 5, 2026
80s · 90s · Disc jockey · Minitecas · Mixes
