Gui Boratto

Brazil's Gui Boratto produces bright, melodic tech-house tracks owing to progressive house and new wave. A longtime associate of the esteemed German label , he's responsible for some of the label's most accessible material, including the popular singles "Beautiful Life" and "No Turning Back." An architect by trade, Boratto is a master of exquisitely crafted sound design, but his tracks are always imbued with warmth and humanity. He broke through with his widely praised 2007 full-length debut, Chromophobia, and remained with for several subsequent albums, including the darker III (2011) and Pentagram (2018), while releasing singles on a host of smaller labels.

Boratto was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1974. He began contributing to recordings as a producer and multi-instrumentalist during the early '90s. He joined the successful dance-pop band during the middle of the decade, and worked with the disparate likes of , , , and others. Boratto began releasing 12" EPs and singles in 2005, quickly filling up a DJ crate with records on , , and various sublabels. He also remixed a staggering quantity of tracks, including singles by , , , , and others. Signing to Cologne's label for his full-lengths, Boratto's acclaimed debut album, Chromophobia, appeared in 2007, featuring the sunny, new wave-influenced "Beautiful Life." The double-CD mix Addicted, Vol. 2 was issued by later in the year. Second proper album Take My Breath Away followed in 2009, including the single "No Turning Back." Boratto's volume of the Renaissance: The Mix Collection series saw release in 2010. Boratto's third album, III, was released by in 2011, and was significantly darker than his past work. Following The K2 Chapter, a digital compilation of his earlier singles for 's imprint, his fourth album, Abaporu, appeared in 2014, returning to his more cheerful, party-friendly sound. Boratto founded a label called , which released material by artists such as and , in addition to Boratto's collaborations with the likes of (Animal Machine) and (MooDisco). In 2018, released Boratto's fifth full-length, the ambitious, cinematic Pentagram, which featured collaborations with progressive house innovator and vocalist Nathan Berger. ~ Andy Kellman & Paul Simpson, Rovi