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It’s no secret that music-lovers are magnetised to Bristol, and that the city has welcomed some incredible Latin American musicians over the years.
Long-time residents at Plantation (now Turtle Bay), Aji Pa’ti are this year celebrating a decade of performing together, and Cuban DJ Pilo has revolutionised Bristol’s fitness scene with Piloexercise, a fitness company drawing on Afro-Latin dance and music styles.
Bristol and Latin America’s unique cultural fusion (or ‘bristolatinidad’) is also thriving in the alternative scene: Ecuadorian DJ Catchi brings her unique brand of schneckno – slow, trippy techno – and cheeky house to LGBTQ+ night, Dolce Vita, where she is a resident. She is also created her own Bristol-based club night, Minotaur Sound, for an older clubbing crowd.
Talkback: Dani Bennett Spragg
Despite still being resident at London’s Hoxa HQ, 24 year‑old British‑American engineer Dani Bennett Spragg spends much time at Toast Studios as accomplice to legendary analogue obsessive Craig Silvey. Recipient of the 2019 MPG Breakthrough Engineer of the Year award, Bennett Spragg began her career as a teenager, assisting on records by Kurt Vile, Foals and Trent Reznor. She soon went on to work as a fully-fledged engineer with such artists as Baxter Dury, Blanco White and Malena Zavala, and most recently has lent her touch to albums by the likes of the Rolling Stones, Noel Gallagher, Ed O’Brien and Jarvis Cocker.