Carlos Abraham Duque Alcivar (or Abe Duque) was born in the South American country of Ecuador. He moved to the United States at the age of 2 and grew up in NYC. He got much of his early musical understanding from his dad who was a gifted musician and evangelical minister. Abe discovered Djing in the early 80’s where he became obsessed with vinyl and electronic dance music production. He bought his first synthesizer in 1983 with money from his newspaper route and played his keyboard in his dad’s church. At the end of the 80’s he met Gene LeFosse and Victor Calderon who were then known as Program 2 a noted NYC techno duo. He would eventually come on board their team as a keyboardist. They would introduce him to the low world of the “dance music industry”. In 1993 Abe made a decision to start his first record label TENSION. In which he released his own material at first then graduated to other artists. In 1994 he decided to do it again starting h...