My name is Aldo Giovanni De La Cruz. My close friends and family call me Gio and I make music, DJ, & sometimes play live under the moniker of Memory Clap Acid. The mix I’ve done for Runner Magazine is a 111 minutes of funky mutant techno, Detroit sludge, Drexciyan electro, & tripped out breaks infused club edits all tied together by a common thread. Acid!!! A big portion of the mix is full of fellow artist who release music on labels that I also work with such as The Black Lodge, Clan Destine Records, Dead Channel Records, Up North Records, META MOTO, Idlestates, Hilltown Disco, Phage Tapes, Sons Of Traders, and last but not least Junted who this artist dj mix is for. I’ve been releasing music with Junted since the beginning of the label.
Most of my EP’s and the two albums I’ve released (2019’s Breather/Bleeder and 2021’s !MIRA!) were released by Junted. In 2016 Marshall Applewhite & The Friend found the music I had just been making for fun on SoundCloud. They were really excited about finding someone else that was making “Sludge” I had no idea what Sludge was but apparently I was making it! Their excitement about my tracks was the first push I needed to get back into making music again. Previous to this I had taken a break from playing in bands (mostly in Oakland & San Francisco) and just music all together. I had become a Heroin addict and needed to focus on getting clean and sober. After getting sober and picking up my life’s pieces I started making music again but it wasn’t anything serious. It was just for fun and I didn’t think anyone would actually listen to it let alone like it. So when these 2 dudes were hitting me up about my music I was definitely taken a back & just plain stoked that they actually dug it. When Joel (aka Marshall Applewhite) invited me to be on his new label’s first release in 2017 I was more than floored. That was the big push that got my music making and djing going full force. The Junted fam of weirdos, outsiders, misfits, sound terrorist, and just all around good peeps embraced me into their Detroit world and I am more than happy that my form of non genre fucked up “club” music has a homebase. I’m am forever grateful for this. Junted 4 lyfe!!!
