Portland

Antonio José Piñeros aka Portland adopts his name from his hometown in Oregon. He was born in 1984 and raised between Colombia and United States sticking mostly to his colombian roots. He started playing drums at the age of five, but only at age 16 when he was working as an assistant engineer at Sonica Studios he found out that music was his passion.

Being from a family full of musicians he was always involved with music. His influences when he was young were rock bands from 70′s to grunge of the 90′s… But he fell in love with electronic music with the Chemical Brothers, and Prodigy in the late 90′s. In his own words, “Dig your own whole” by the Chemical Brothers “got him hooked”.

He learned how to mix while working in an online radio station located in Miami Beach. During this experience he met Rafi Levin from Quartz Lock Records and made their first track together. Following the music path he studied audio engineering at SAE in Australia, complementing his studies with filmmaking at SAE, London.

Currently Portland lives in Bogota, Colombia where he works as an assistant director for a publicity and advertising production company. He also produces jingles and runs a studio for audio post-production.
During his free time he’s always making music. Anything from House to Drum and Bass where he is well known as “Option”.