Cristóbal Dión

Born: June 2, 1986, Montreal, Canada Multi-genre producer, MC, instrumentalist, and avid crate digger and record collector. He is the son of the Live Sound Engineer and Technical Producer Alain Dion (Celine Dion, Paul McCartney, Laurence Jalbert, Natalie Cole, Yanni, Paul Piché, Lara Fabian). At very young age he started to produce instrumentals for french-speaking boom bap rappers as part of a band called Guerre Froide between 2003 and 2007. Between 2007 and 2010 he started to produce more ambient and folk music with slam on it as part a band called "Le Conte de Monk & Cristo". Between 2010 and 2015, he was a mastering engineer for his own company called Quantum Advanced Mastering, until he decided to sell the company due to burn out. In 2019, he decided to start a new brand, called "Cristóbal Dión", that aimed to be an artist name that "evokes exoticism, yet a name that nobody can steal". He started releasing short Beat-tapes every 4 months. In 2021, he started the LoFi beat-Tape series with the LoFi Halloween Beat-Tape which then was followed in 2022 by LoFi Space Age Beat-Tape. The LoFi Beat-tape series has now many entries, and the format converged towards a 18-min mixtape which "fits perfect one side of a vinyl record". Cristóbal Dión values exoticism, which is exemplifies by using instruments and scales that are not common. He likes to blend organic ethnic sound with electronic analog synths. He also likes to sample vinyl records from the exotica/space age era. On a separate note, Cristóbal Dión loves learning languages. He speaks fluently french, english and spanish regularly. He also learned Portuguese and Mandarin chinese.