For SouCream, the Venezuelan artist behind “Motopirueta,” the song’s Latin Grammy nomination with producer Mazzarri marks “a turning point in the industry.” The track, up for Best Electronic Music Performance, is built on what he calls Raptor House. “It’s wild to think that Raptor House … was discriminated against and labeled underground for years, and today it is being recognized by the Latin Recording Academy,” SouCream told mitú.

Mazzarri, who is up for two more Latin Grammys this year, is also part of DSCNTRL, a creative project he shares with the Venezuelan production duo Puche and Miami singer Brizza. The four plan to start making music together as DSCNTRL, Mazzarri told mitú.

SouCream Calls His Sound “Funk From Your Country”

Born Isaac Sosa in Venezuela in 2003, SouCream was a teenager when his family moved to Buenos Aires in 2018. He told mitú that Argentina is where he started writing songs and first heard Brazilian funk. “I felt a natural connection with its identity, its codes, and its culture,” he said. Sosa also met Mauro Hansen there, the producer he still makes music with today. He settled in Miami in January 2023, and there he and his crew built their own record label, Funky do Seu Pai.

He describes his music as “funk from your country,” a way of representing Brazilian funk without leaving his Venezuelan roots behind. “It’s not about appropriating this sound, but about seeing it as an honor and an opportunity to show its great potential to cross borders and connect with other cultures,” he said. He added that he hopes the nomination “opens doors for other Venezuelan artists and shows that our music has a place in the international industry.”

Mazzarri Is Up for Three Latin Grammys This Year

Mazzarri was born in Caracas and works out of Miami, where he mixes electronic, pop and urban music. His team counts Karol G, Becky G, Kali Uchis, Myke Towers, Danny Ocean, Ivan Cornejo and Young Miko among the artists he has worked with. He won a Latin Grammy for Best Pop Song as a co-writer of Rawayana’s “Feriado,” NTN24 reported. Besides “Motopirueta,” the Latin Recording Academy lists him this year as a nominee for Album of the Year for Rawayana’s “¿Dónde Es El After?” and for Record of the Year for Elena Rose’s “Alma.”

Venezuelans, Mazzarri said, grew up with “a little bit of everything, gaita, salsa, merengue, rock, electronic, reggaeton, all in the same house, sometimes in the same party.” “So we don’t really see borders between genres,” he said. “I think that’s what I bring into the room: I’m not precious about ‘this is how reggaeton is supposed to sound.’ I’ll throw a weird synth or a Caribbean rhythm at it and see what happens.”

He also pointed to a hunger he shares with other Venezuelans abroad. “A lot of us had to leave home and build from scratch somewhere else, and you feel that in the work,” he said. “Seeing what happened to Rawayana on ‘Feriado’ and ‘Veneka’ showed me the world is ready to hear Venezuela. That’s what I want to keep pushing.”

“Motopirueta” is different from the songs he produces for other artists. It’s his own record with SouCream, released on his label, Mazzarri Records, and produced with Dimelo Dante and FABV, whom he calls his first producer friend. “Man, this one hits different,” he said. “We made it because it was fun and it felt right, not because we were chasing anything.” The nomination, he said, feels like someone telling him he’s going in the right direction. “I always say that I don’t do this for the awards, but it’s a consequence of the hard work that you do every day.”

DSCNTRL Is a Party, but the Puche Brothers Say It Goes Beyond

Brothers Miguel and Eduardo Puche, known as Puche, said DSCNTRL has been growing for almost two years. “Yes, it’s a party, but it goes deeper than that,” they told mitú. “It’s our way of showing the people the stuff that we like, our taste and what we’re into.”

Part of what makes it fun, they said, is that they are all friends. “There’s something about building something from scratch with your friends, especially when each one of us has our own career, personality and perspective,” the brothers said. “It makes the creative process easier and more fun because each one of us brings something different to the table, and probably none of us could have built it the same way on our own.”

For Mazzarri, who started in music as a DJ, DSCNTRL began with four friends and “no big master plan, just wanting to throw the kind of night we wanted to go to.” He fell in love with electronic music and reggaeton before he ever produced a song for anyone, he said, and “DSCNTRL is where that side of me lives.” “In the studio I’m usually serving someone else’s vision,” he said. “With DSCNTRL it’s four people with different tastes pushing each other, and the crowd becomes part of it too.” The music they make together as DSCNTRL, he said, will be a collaborative project that brings in other artists as well.

Working With paopao Made Puche More Intentional Producers

The Puche brothers have produced for Rauw Alejandro, Mora, Rawayana and paopao. They have been making music together since they were kids, and they said the rivalry between them made both better, along with “some fights here and there.” Over time, they said, they learned that “the best idea wins, no matter who it comes from.” “There are moments in the studio when we can both be stubborn, but we usually work it out in seconds,” they said.

Asked which collaboration changed their process most, they named paopao. “Seeing the way she works and the time and attention to detail she puts into every single line she writes also pushes us to be extra intentional with every decision we make as producers,” they said.

Brizza, 22, Says a Good Artist Needs to Be a CEO

Brizza is 22, records on her own in Miami and splits her time between alternative pop, fashion and her own businesses. Independence, she told mitú, means you have to “learn every single aspect of what it takes to be an artist.” “A good artist needs to be a CEO, and that’s what I’ve been building throughout the years,” she said. In return, she said, independence has given her “patience, consistency and determination.”

“My purpose is to create a universe where people feel free to be who they want to be,” Brizza said of her music.

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