one of the pioneers of the electronic scene in rio is halley seidel, who is more than just an electronic dj, but a warrior for the genre - he started playing music in 1989, when he was just 14, with his early focus on fusing techno and electro sounds, with traditional brazilian beats - his first big splash on the music scene was in 1996, when he part founded the brazilian underground movement, which was responsible for disseminating electronic and techno music across the rio suburbs, at a time when it had hardly been heard before - now with his own label, ptz records, which is the launch pad for a number of local artists.

here is a list of venues one can go to dance to traditional electronic music on a saturday.