Eddy Ducreo

Born in Manila, Philippines, Tips Cuerdo (Real name: Edward Raymund Cuerdo) was not born an artist. He chose to be one.

With no musical background, he played by ear using a guitar at first, not relying on the usual theories about creating music. He was composing original songs for fun, without actually thinking of a career out of it. Then, he converted to playing the bass guitar playing shortly on gigs with his friends.

Tips bought a Pioneer DDJ Wego after finishing college. The device tortured his brains out at the beginning. But, his determination to learn the art of DJing overpowered his lack of musical background.

In the advent of the electronic dance music era, Tips fell in love with various genres of EDM. However, music appreciation was just the first step. He wanted to do remixes of his own. He called himself at the beginning--DJ L7 - Lucre Seven, Bigroom DJ patterning himself to the style of Juicy M, a female DJ who can DJ without headphones and maneuver 4 CDJ decks.

However, Bigroom music did not feel like it had enough soul to move his heart. In this sense, he found a then unknown tropical house producer under the name of Kygo. And he fell in love with his music.

Since then, he had followed Kygo, and the likes of other artists you put their soul into creating their own music styles. This inspired Tips to change his producer name to Eddy Ducreo--combination of his dad's nickname Eddy and the jumbled form of his surname--Cuerdo.

At the moment, Eddy Ducreo's style is varying--mixing deep house, tropical house, future house/bass, trap and anything new he could come across. But, for some reason, he is now building a genre of his own--Tropic Trap--combination of the relaxing vibes of tropical house (percussion driven), with future bass as bass element, and cuts and effects inspired by trap music.

He has found a unique genre, the question is, has this genre found him already? Let's see where his journey will take him. :)