Lukas Ruiz, known as Vintage Culture (born July 7, 1993), is a DJ and producer of Brazilian electronic music genre house music, his musical style is easily described as a big infusion Room with Deep House. Vintage Culture had a rapid rise launching versions as "Blue Monday" by New Order and "Another brick in the wall" of Pink Floyd, who soon began to viralized on the network along with their versions of "Beth balance" of Cazuza and "Bidolibido" Fernanda Abreu.

In 2016, he released the EP "Hollywood" by Ganza seal Skol Music in partnership with Spinnin Records. Soon after he charted his remix of "Drinkee" for double Sofi Tukker released by Ultra Music at # 4 Dance chart of Beatport and even after a month of release has remained in the Top 10 with it. But it was with "Wild Kidz" released by Spinnin Records that Vintage Culture began to gain international recognition, the song entered the "Global Viral" Spotify and received support Oliver Heldens, EDX and Sam Feldt.[1]

In 2015, Vintage Culture appeared in #118 in the TOP DJs list of British magazine DJ MAG and #2 on the list of best Brazilian DJs House Mag.[2] In 2016, he achieved the 54º position [3] and in 2017, he climbed the rank up to hold the best position of his career, being considered the 31º best DJ of the year.[4]

Vintage Culture is also a businessman and beyond the label Só Track Boa, has a club in downtown São Paulo, the Air Rooftop.

Contents 1 Biography and career 2 Awards and nominations 3 Discography 3.1 Singles 3.2 EPs 3.3 Remixes 4 Filmography 4.1 Music videos 4.2 Web series 4.2.1 On The Road 4.2.2 WKND Hi Lights 5 Awards and indicated 5.1 DJ Mag 5.2 House Mag 5.3 Rio Music Conference 6 References 7 External links Biography and career

Lukas Ruiz was born in Katuete, Canendiyu, Paraguay. Then he moved to Matto grosso do sul, Brazil where he lived and studied until completing high school, and where his interest in electronic music started when he found a hard trance CD his uncle had; until then, he had been enjoying electronic bands such as New Order and Depeche Mode. He moved to Maringá, Paraná, at age 19 and joined a law school but dropped out halfway through to devote himself to music. It was in his apartment in Maringa Lukas spent three years focusing on his productions. At first, he had no money to invest in production equipment, so Lukas went to a house in the neighborhood to download programs and returned home to play with them on a laptop his father had given him to assist his studies. When his father found out what he was truly using it for, he broke it. However, even without the support of family, Lukas did not give up. At the time, he still signed as Lukas Ruiz, but realized that it would always be related to Victor Ruiz, an important figure of the Techno world in Brazil, so he felt the need to create a name for his project. It was while he was producing a song that he thought of "Vintage," which embraced his passion for 80's music, which in turn quickly became Vintage Culture.[5]

His first song posted on SoundClod was the remix of "Blue Monday" by New Order, which soon began to viralized network. Following came the remix free download Pink Floyd "Another brick in the wall," Lukas did not believe much in this range and the left leaning for a while, until his friend Marcelo Fiorela to hear it encouraged him to publish the network . It was with this band that began to appear requests dates and people interested in knowing the Vintage Culture project, but Lukas Ruiz knew it was necessary more than one song to become a good DJ, refused the requests and continued focused on their productions, which each time adding more were plays and followers on the network.

It was in 2013 that Vintage Culture began to play, Marcelo Fiorela was a member of the former Groove DJ Agency alongside Luiz room to, known as DJ Ugly, which was responsible for Booka it for the first time in Green Valley, club collecting world titles in DJ Mag, it was then that things began to change. Soon after his presentation, Guga Trevisani, one of the partners of Entourage Content Artistic, one of the largest agencies in Brazil, contacted by phone and made the call to the Vintage Culture project to enter the casting agency. Lukas knew he was not ready to enter into an agency such as Entourage, thinking it would not receive due attention at the time he declined the invitation and remained focused on the expansion of the project, it was only in 2014 – a year later – that Vintage Culture entered for Entourage,[6] the same year he lost his father, a year full of events that changed the direction of Lukas of life, more than 200 dates throughout Brazil and meteoric growth.

With the support of an entire team and its managers Marcelo Arditti and Guga Trevisani, 2015 was a year of great achievements for Vintage Culture. Starting with his presentation on the Stage Perry Lollapalooza Brazil on March 28,[7] sharing the stage with DJ Snake, Dillon Francis and Major Lazer and recording its first international video, "Slowing Down", in New York. While their versions of "Bidolibido" Fernanda Abreu and "Bete balance" of Cazuza accumulated plays and fans throughout Brazil, the public had the chance to know more about the young phenomenon behind the design on the cover of the 41st edition of the Brazilian magazine electronic music House Mag in April of the same year. But not only were the Brazilians who surrendered his trademark, an infusion of Big Room with Deep House. Belgian Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike invited personally Vintage Culture to perform on stage Smash The House in Tomorrowland Brazil in May, shortly after Lukas signed the remix of "Higher Place" the duo with the American singer Ne-Yo.[8]

In June 2015, Vintage Culture held its first international tour, going through countries like Egypt, UAE, Turkey, Ireland, Spain and Belgium. In September, it was the turn of breaking South Africa and return to Brazil for their first performance at Rock in Rio. But do not stop there, it was in the Entourage event, the Kaballah Festival, Lukas debuted his new intro presenting hit "Hollywood", which later signed the Ganzá seal Skol Music in Brazil and the international Spinnin Records. 2015 was also marked by his performance at the ADE night Loulou Records and Live in Amsterdam with Goldfish and Bakermat. His residence in Green Valley, which was a surprise night including himself Lukas and voted by the audience. And ending with Electric Daisy Carnival Brazil,[9] that was certainly one of the most exciting times of the year, Lukas performed in two stages of the festival, the neonGARDEN and kineticFIELD (main stage) replacing Cazzette the festival closing. If nothing else the responsibility of closing, Vintage Culture was surprised by Skrillex at the end of his presentation interacting with fans. After the festival, Lukas was invited to perform at the main stage of the EDC Mexico in February next year, would be one of the first artists to open the kineticFIELD and so their expectations were nothing much, but the public once again surprised and even very early, the main stage was already full.[10]

In 2016, Mexico to Los Angeles, Vintage Culture gathered his team again for an international clip recording, this time in Hollywood. It was during the recording Lukas felt swollen and his manager warned about a possible Caxumba. Lukas went to the doctor as soon as he returned to Brazil and was diagnosed with this contagious disease that affects the glands of the throat, the recommendation of the doctors was absolute rest, but Lukas did not want to cancel his shows, he fulfilled the agenda, which was quite exhausting for your body and ended up aggravating the clinical picture, not to mention that some fans accused him of not being in it shows because of the dejected appearance and swelling of the face that made him almost unrecognizable. Lukas needed rest and was forbidden to hold concerts until he recovered, was how he lost one of the most important shows of his career so far, his presentation at the 18th edition of the Ultra Music Festival in Miami, Vintage Culture would present the main stage on Saturday March 19, 2016.[11]

But 2016 did not disappoint, fan support was essential and new goals were being achieved, as the contract with Spin Agency, one of the largest international representation agencies that have on your casting artists like Avicii and Armin van Buuren, in addition to the contract with the Dutch giant Spinnin Records. In addition to closing the year as owner of his own club, the Air Rooftop located in downtown São Paulo. As an entrepreneur this other hand, Lukas does not look at the bottom line, but to offer the best experience to get or to give back in return rather than earned, i.e. the projects he gets involved need to have some differential.

Awards and nominations Year Award Nominated work Category Result 2015 DJ Mag Vintage Culture Top 101-150 DJs[12] No. 118 2016 DJ Mag Vintage Culture Top 100 DJs No. 54 2017 DJ Mag Vintage Culture Top 100 DJs No. 31