Juan Mutant

Juan Mutant (born: Juan Rogelio Camilion on 22nd of August 1969) is an independent musician from Argentina although before he become a musician he lived in Spain. Leaving education in 1988, he started to DJ with German born Ken Mutant in Amsterdam, finally moving to Berlin in time for the Wall's destruction. In the new decade, Juan, Ken and newbie Jasper vos formed the band Deliriant Mutant and started playing industrial and post-punk music live around Europe. In the years between the band's dissolve and Juan's CDBaby years, he moved to Buenos Aires and began to work solo.

In 2004, he started to release his music on CDBaby, first under his real name, then using his moniker. The years spanning the middle of the decade he started experimenting with more styles including Soundtrack, Hardcore and Spoken Word. The start of the year 2007 saw him releasing a series of New Age relaxation CDs, a clear Mutant trait (Changing sound). Beyond 2007 Juan has perhaps not been as productive, putting together monotonous 20 + minute songs of repeated samples, sometimes even duplicating his output. It is not unusual for one of his albums to have 150+ tracks even ranging up to 250.

His music is a little like early Psychic Paramount (i.e. the Origins and Primitives album) but has an original sound that is unclassifiable. You can buy one of his 10+ hour magnum opuses online on iTunes or CDBaby for less than 10 dollars. It's so worth it. He sometimes works with John Fox of Ultravox fame, and he also works alone. If you like newer folk/psych/noise Juan is definitely worth checking out. Also, if you just like mellow, psychedelic grooves without much percussion you should also check out Juan. If you like Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV and bands influenced by these projects, you'll definitely dig most of Juan Mutant's prodigious output. At times, as on the Follow the Dolar album, he seems to be playing with a full band and sounds like some strange post-punk band that never saw the light of day in the early eighties. On that same album, however, there are touches of psychedelia and industrial music. The one constant with Juan Mutant is that his music is ever-changing, and varied. He just needs wider recognition in the United States so he can tour here and blow all our minds.

Breakdown of albums:

Number 1/Iris is Missing: The 1st Juan Mutant release, it is a good insight into what Juan does with guitar, vocals and samples.

22/8/69 / The White House Red: An elaboration of Iris is Missing, contains some duplicates but also new material, in particular the tracks on the last disc (tracks 140-150), a taster of his industrial music. Dat recorder/Erased Data is mis-titled and is in fact "Outsider"

De Eenheid - Sampler: Some of the more psychedelic industrial music Juan made in the early 90s. 50 tracks which provide a good overview of Deliriant Mutant and other tracks recorded in Europe.

Master Plan Kaputt/Boris Karloff y las Guada?as: MIDI-esque tracks with no vocals. A good representation of Juan as a composer and shows what he can do with melody. 12 tracks of the album Cold Static appears early on and there are tracks put together with e-Jay on some of which are actually good. Sparse repetition from 1st two albums.

Follow the Dollar: Juan's 1st cohesive album, a double with a clear division between the two discs. The 1st disc is more song oriented. The 2nd disc while containing songs has extended jams half the way through. More than half of Deliriant Mutant's songs appear on this album.
Look out for the excellent "Let The Ignorance of Desire grow" and the tearing "Dishwasher" on disc 1 and "I Can Hear You" on disc 2

Baby Power:

Catalog Numbers:

2004
irisismissing: Iris Is Missing
jrc: The White House Red
deennheid: The Sampler
nadjapagana: Follow the Dolar
babypower: ??Nadja Pagana Kreativ System Buenos Aires Argentina
jrc2: Boris Karloff y las Guada?as
juanmutant2: Today I Woke Up and Was Back to Life
2005
juanmutant3: I don't have that album
juanmutant4: Juan Mutant vs Tnatum Nauj
juanmutant5: The end of Deliriant Mutant
juanmutant6: Pink House Red
juanmutant7: The Real Sampler
2006
juanmutant8: Iconoclasta
juanmutant9: My 1st Opera
efx1: Extreme File X