Taki Onqoy

Taki Onqoy is the alias of Lima-born, Barcelona-based selector, radio host and curator Jorge Páez Minaya. His relationship with music took shape in Lima’s independent underground, playing in bands and playing sets in small bars and off-radar spaces before radio and curatorial work became part of the picture. His DJ sets connect dub, ethnographic and outernational sounds with leftfield electronica and post-club rhythms, following connections built around texture, atmosphere and movement rather than genre. Andean folk and Afro-Peruvian traditions quietly inform the way Páez selects and sequences tracks, surfacing through cadence, repetition and rhythmic instinct rather than direct reference.

Radio has long been central to that practice. From 2017 to 2023, Páez hosted Pargueland, his monthly free-form show on Dublab Barcelona, built around personal selections and conversations with local and international artists. His mixes have also appeared on Dublab L.A and Freeform Portland. For nearly three years, he has held an ongoing monthly residency on Thessaloniki’s Paranoise Radio with Tower Of Echo, and since 2025 he has hosted and curated Foggy Hex’s monthly Outsider show on Kiosk Radio in Brussels, using the format as another space for unusual affinities, guest artists and music resistant to easy classification.

In 2022, Páez co-founded Foggy Hex alongside Alec Curtis (NTS Radio), and leads the collective’s curatorial process, shaping programmes, selecting artists and developing events in close dialogue with musicians, agents and local venues. That work feeds directly back into Taki Onqoy: selection understood not simply as playing records, but as creating context around them.

In Barcelona, he has opened for artists including Ana Roxanne, Colleen, Céline Gillain, Jeremiah Chiu and Passepartout Duo, playing across the city’s independent and leftfield music spaces, including Casa Montjuïc and El Pumarejo. In Portland, his selections have surfaced on Freeform Portland and in the intimate bars and underground spaces orbiting the city’s club-adjacent scene. At the most recent edition of Meakusma Festival in Eupen, Belgium in September 2026, he closed the Heuboden stage, joining a programme that over the weekend also passed through the hands of Unchained, Gilb’R, Nosedrip, Time Is Away and a wider cast of selectors and artists operating around the festival’s outer edges.

Across radio, warm-up sets and longer sessions, Taki Onqoy approaches the room with the same free-form instinct: attentive to pacing and physicality, but always leaving enough space for a strange record to change the direction of everything that follows.