“MIATA is a model of car owned by DJ JUANNY’s father during his high school years. It was in this car that JUANNY learned how to drive and where JUANNY would often play blog-era rap music and explore dance music sounds while searching for culture and excitement away from the uniformity of his environment.”
DJ JUANNY, formerly known as Juanny Depp, isn’t slowing down. After releasing six EPs in 2022, the Bay’s most prominent dembow producer and co-founder of Amor Digital is back with his second release of the year. It’s also his first entry for No Bias and his first vinyl release ever. In true DJ Juanny style, MIATA taps into nostalgic Latin club sounds but twists it into something just a little bit more experimental and heady, toeing the line between private session headphone music and cathartic communal dancefloor jams. It’s all good but my favorite may be the opener “ME BESAS A MI,” a seductive synth-driven track based around a vocal sample from the 2005 reggaeton hit “Ven Bailalo” by Angel y Khriz.
