In his book Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century Music and Digital Culture, Jace Clayton, aka DJ /rupture, writes that, often, “the most innovative or influential artists are rarely the most praised”. This statement could be the epigraph of the portrait of Cristian G. Martí written by a handful of Valencian DJs and other actors in the rest of Spain. An active player on the Valencian music scene since the 1980s, Cristian G. Martí has played at prestigious events around the country and co-founded the 3MV record shop, a centre for discovering trends only noticed at the time by the most curious. Despite his influence, the examples that mimic his characteristics do so only partially, due to his upbeat temperament and style, which gives him an unmistakable character. It is as if he traverses almost the entire musical field in search of pieces to construct narratives within and between genres, giving more importance to the musical material, always offering a peculiar and very fine selection – like refulgent jewels among piles of records – and a truly special, unique way of mixing.