Vladi Vargas – Sound Engineer and Music Producer

Vladi Vargas is a music producer of Hip Hop, Reggae, and R’n’B at Soundism. He is also a sought after sound engineer for mixing Hip Hop/Rap, Reggae, and other rhythm strong music working in the Västerås music recording studio and live concerts.

Vladi Vargas started out as a DJ and he still has the beat energy floating in his blood. With Hip Hop close to heart, he has mixed and mastered several albums and 12″ singles of Looptroop, Looptroop Rockers and Promoe, who each have hundreds of gigs across the globe adding to their notoriety as leading European Hip Hop artists. Looptroop’s albums “Modern Day City Symphony” and “The Struggle Continues” are some of the Vladi Vargas early recording and mixing with them. Vladi Vargas work with Promoe includes “Long Distance Runner” and “These Walls Don’t Lie”. “Send Someone Away” by Embee featuring the European Border Breaker award winner José Gonsález, is one of the songs on the “Tellings from Sollitaria” albums, mixed by Vargas, which earned Embee a Swedish Grammy.

Having worked with tracks for Jamaica’s who’s who of contemporary Reggae music, Vladi Vargas has a genuine experience of Dancehall. “Mi Chalwa” with Jah Mason, mixed by Vargas, was picked for Greensleves’ annual compilation described as “the ultimate chart hit selection of the best roots reggae songs of top hits from Jamaica’s finest”. Another Vladi Vargas mixing is Junior Kelly’s “Rasta Should be Deeper” (VP/Hi-Score Music), voted as one of the top 10 best songs of all categories by Swedish National Radio P3’s music staff. Other artists’ tracks he worked on includes those of the US Grammy Award winner Beenie Man, Lady Saw the first female dancehall artist winning a US Grammy Award, and Gentleman who held the number one on the German album chart.

Vladi Vargas’ versatility in music sound is evident in “Zara Nazron Se Kehdo”, which he produced and mixed. The song hit the top of the charts in India with the group Bombay Vikings. Another Bollywood song that Vladi Vargas has done music production for is “Shart”, from the sound track for the Indian movie “Milan Talkies”. More of Vargas studio work is found with pop charmer Måns Zelmerlöw, who received a Gold Record for his album that included “The Prayer”, mixed by Vladi Vargas together with Mats Nyman.

As a sound engineer, Vladi Vargas is a sparring partner to riddim/beat makers and music producers such as Chilly, Embee, DJ Large, Jimmy Ledrac, and Mats Nyman.