DJ, producer and audio editor.
Starting his career in 1986 around local sound systems, attracted by a strong influence of High Energy played with vinyl records (on the mythic technics 1200 turntables)
Being part on line ups of massive parties sharing with the biggest names of the 80´s dance scene as Patrick Miller & Tony Barrera (Polymarchs) Aqquino get involved into the turntablism learning and improving effects such as scratches and spin-back, getting into dj regional contests for the DMC.
With the arrival of the club culture around the world and the new tendences in electronic music, Aqquino tried a few new atmospheres according to the ravers getting involved with radio shows projects generating a new taste for the mexican audience who start to hear Industrial, Eurobeats and the first projects of house music as new options. In those years new styles were appearing on the air, from the underground to the overground, making djs jump from turntablism into a personal
style,Aqquino, following his own influences (Kraftwerk, Richie Hawtin, Derrick May) create his first techno session under the labels Metroplex, Transmat & KMS, Focused on Detroit Techno with very creative hard tunes, with a dirty bleech beat dance, frenetic and funky at the same time. Promoting attention on the underground dance music scene.

Making a break in his dj career, Aqquino finish his collage degree as Publicist and Public Relations trainer, working an audio project as part of his title degree with a work without precedents titled "Musica electronica como recurso de fondeo en materiales audiovisuales" book and multimedia CDs with almost 600 samples, beats y signs created and edited by the dj in studio. This work is available in USBI libraries and the Universidad Veracruzana.

This work explain basicaly how with terms from the club culture, audio equations and dj techniques, professionals can be involve with mass media creating their own rythmic bases according to 4 different atmospheres touching the human behavior and at the same time targeting a costumer in order to create sympathy and communicate efective messages in social movements.

Aqquino took his career as a professional dj totally out of the commercial profile with a very unique style on his performance making sessions with strongest tribal beats and techno based in the original spiritual trance rituals from the Prehispanic, Indian and black African communities.
Under the "anticollective" project inspired from the original idea of provide a real urban touch and rebel themselve against the fashion light movement of djs that want to be "stars" he get into several festivals, contest and events like the Red Bull Music Academy Germany contest recognize him as a great dj for his half hour Drum and Bass set, (virus part 1)

Two EPs titled "HB" (not signed) and "Euforia" original tracks with a complete mature personality of this dj.

Aqquino A.K.A. Litheum is a name created by two personalities.
Aqquino as the rational side of a social mind and Litheum as a fake answer to the human condition (litheum 300, powerful drug that take away the pain in terminal cancer disease) performing in America (center, north and some points in the south as well) in cultural events, raves, expos, sports contests, festivals and as a opener for other djs.

sharing scene with live music performers and important musicians as the trumpet man Torang Velazco (Cuba) the timbales man Cristian (Puerto Rico) y Enrique -Sabor Latino- (Dominican Republic) 8 djemberos (México) and all kind of percussionists.

Mixing records with figures like Deep Dish (deep-progressive) Hipp.e (tech house) y GMS (psychedelic trance) between others... promoting sessions in underground radio stations in Rumania, Argentina, Portugal, Peru, Australia and Israel.
(Aqquino A.K.A. Litheum) looking forward not just for an overground personal recognition, but for promoting the Mexican dj as a real option.

A great undergound beat dj from the real electronic scene. And currently working in new tracks, projects and traveling mixing beats for other cultures...