Ordep Zerep is the name behind the work of Federico Blank, a springing talented, and devoted electronic musician born in Venezuela. Started back in 1999 as a Techno dj in his hometown, Caracas, Venezuela. however, being a melomaniatic hasnt allowed him to stick for too long to the same musical style. He has also being known in his previous artistic projects as: 3P, Bl4ck, Fed Blank, and Spyder, names that always related to a new musical style.
Shortly after his debut in Caracas Teknival in 1999 where he played for 3000 people, Ordep Zerep starts playing in a wide range of raves, clubs, bars, and private parties in Caracas. He soon started gaining recognition from the public and party promoters for his exclusive musical taste and control of the decks. Being a non-conformist person, Ordep Zerep is always evolving in his musical likes, leading towards new horizons in the Venezuelan electronic music scene.
In 2001, Ordep travels to Los Angeles and lives there for a few months while he studied Digital Film. During this time, he fiund new jewels in local record stores in L.A., which led him to changed his musical style, and started playing progressive house, and dark tech house; genders which helped him to consolidate his dj career when he got back to Caracas later in the same year.
At that time, Ordep Zerep teamed up with 2 of his closest friends to create Zen Multimedia, a company dedicated to multimedia creation and event productions. Some memorable parties were produced by Zen Multimedia, events where Ordep worked as an artist, and also as event producer. At this point he was experiencing the taste of success in Venezuela, however, he decided to take a new challenge.
In early 2002 he said good bye to Caracas, and left for good his hometown, moving to Barcelona, Spain, considered by many, one of the capitals in the world of electronic music. As soon as he got there, starts flirting with new sounds like electro, and minimal (not so new for him though, since he started listening to minimal back in 1993), genres which lead him to reinvent himself again.
Having left a crowd back in Venezuela, Ordep Zerep decided to start a new project called Kremadelik, which basically was the first online radio dedicated to electronic music in Spain, in this way he kept a virtual link with his fans and friends in Venezuela. Kremadelik was also originally conceived as a booking agency, art platform, and webzine for the electronic music community. During this period, he also decides to obtain a master degree in Multimedia at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, master in which he excelled.
At the same time, he decided to open a record store along with a Venezuelan mate, which end up being Galaktika Records Barcelona. It was a totally new musical journey for both of them. A lot of hard work and effort was put into the store, and soon new business and recognition came up.
In 2004, Ordep Zerep was deeply attracted to musical production (as a logical progression), fact that made him rethink his current lifestyle, and made him decide to leave the record store business in order to have more free time to experiment with music and multimedia development.
In early 2005, he also teamed up with the Glowmain crew from Venezuela (www.glowmain.com) and starts working in the development of the online electronic scene in Latin America, together with his Glowmain new partners. Until the date, this remains intact and the project has reached well known online and offline reputation in the hispanic world.
The same year, Ordep obtains a master degree in musical business in Pompeu Fabra Universtity, and shortly after, he was hired by a Catalan music company to create and lead the first Spanish digital distributor (Musicdld). This lasted for almost 2 years, once the project was up and running, it was time to mainly focus into his music production.
In 2006, he took a new step to put even more effort into his musical production. Willing to increment his skills, enrolled to study Electronic Music Production at world wide known SAE Institute in Barcelona. This was a great experience where he learned theory and great new tips and tricks. He also met in SAE lots of like-minded people, soon new exciting projects came up from this.
While studying in SAE, he got involved with the Soundworks Crew, leading to the creation of SoundWorks net label, which was conceived as a Catalan electronic music platform that has triggered and managed very successful music careers for most members of the team.
2007 was on fire, Soundworks grew very fast, becoming and establishing itself as a new icon and point of reference in the Spanish and European electronic scene. The same year, Soundworks obtained a residency in the hot new avant-garde club Becool in Barcelona, considered by many, the most influential club in the minimal scene in Spain.
The same year, Ordep Zerep launches his own label under the light of kremadelik. Many well known artists from the European scene showed interest for the label, releasing tracks and playing them in their sets. Until the date Kremadelik Recordings has earn a very good and successful reputation among artists and public.
Also in 2007, he founds a new partner in Crime: Dif, a young talented Peruvian artist who was at the time living in Barcelona. Ordep collaborated to start a new Label called Raised Music, with the main objective of releasing South American minimal techno from new sparkling artists, and remixes from well established European and North American artist. Raised Music has also became a successful project until current date.
He's also part of the founding crew of the Underground Family Festival (UFF!), held in Barcelona in 2007 and 2008, where the most relevant collectives, net labels, and physical labels from Barcelona's electronic scene where invited to play in the festival, ending up in very good results for everyone involved.
During his career, Ordep Zerep has being resident, and played in many of the best clubs, after hours, raves, bars and parties in the Venezuelan and Spainsh electronic scene. Just to mention the most important venues: BeCool (Spain), Isladencanta (Spain), LeKasBah (Spain), Nou Simbol (Spain), Otto Zuts (Spain), Sun Factory (Spain), Xpressing Underground (Spain), Zentraus (Spain), Flow (Spain), City Hall (Spain), Lola (Spain), La Nau (Spain), Dot (Spain), Macarena (Spain), Mochima (Spain), Sonora (Spain), Over the Club (Spain), UFF! (Spain), The Flower (Venezuela), Suka (Venezuela), Sake (Venezuela), Mosh (Venezuela), Budah Tronic (Venezuela), Belle Epoque (Venezuela), One (Venezuela), Aeon (Venezuela), Fashion Nights Festival (Venezuela), E-Club (Venezuela), Platinum (Venezuela), Le Club (Venezuela), 205 (Venezuela), Mostaza (Venezuela), DBar (Venezuela), Kammy Beach (Venezuela), The Factory (Venezuela), Platinum (Venezuela), Maroma (Venezuela), El Patio (Venezuela), Festival Por el Medio de la Calle (Venezuela).
Ordep Zerep has shared venues with many great local and international artists such as: Andrea Ferlin, Matias Muten, Becka, Diego Ro-k, Jay Tripwire, Adriana Lopez, Javi Lago, Ludovic Vendi, Maxim Androu, Ant, The Geezer, Silicon Boogie, Mateo Spidicatti, Andy Dabula, Malambo, Undo, Vicnoise, Sergio Patricio, Oscar Fonseca, Bizzarre dj, Craig Richards, Mov.e, Vincenzo, DJ Titus, Junior Lopez, Dosem, Dokser, Noise up, Guim, Max Headroom, Ram, Triptk, Greencross, Leo Fernandez, Roger Mercader, Nikto, Humo, Bitmut, Ciclofans, Andre Buljat, Juan Sorrentino, Turko, Rama Bloom, Babylon Motorhome, Dif, Baffa, Andres Vegas, KX, Israel Sunshine, Sergio Muñoz, Leoncio, Javier Orduña, Polygon OEL, Marc Twain, Josh Ayala, Retronouveau, Reix, GG, Manuplaz, Atom, Soundman, Diego Gamez, Oddo, Pippo, Elektor, etc.
Nowadays you can expect from Ordep Zerep's live sessions a perfect and energetic blend of the most amazing sounds related to the pioneering minimal techno, electro, and tech house aesthetics that will for sure create a wonderful and uplifting experience in the dance floor. He is also starting to experiment in new fields like IDM, hip hop, and dub for a more downtempo mood when relaxation and music enjoyment is at it's peak.
