Chicago Reader´s "Best Local Dance Producer 2016"
Bumbac Joe, né Leopoldo Bello is a DJ/producer with releases in labels like Sonorama Records, Gozadera, Banti Tarifa Recods, Soundial, FNB Records and Buenört Collective. Taking his sampling, looping and remixing into the studio, this beatmaker — now based in Chicago — transforms folkloric rhythms into topical beats and brings marginalized music onto the contemporary dance floor.