Jose Farias has been interested in music since an early age.

He played the violin for some years starting at the age of 6.

He stopped his musical studies to develop a stronger interest in science, specially Biology. However he has been always in contact with music; specially, electronic music. In 2004 he got involved with the electronic scene in mexico when became the co-founder of a party collective in the city of Cuernavaca.

Also he started his DJ set project Arkaos playing in several parties in Mexico city. At the beginning, his sound was influenced strongly by psy-trance beats, after a couple of years his sound turned into progressive trance after attending to the first progressive trance rave parties in Mexico. The sound from Iboga records Denmark is one of his greatest inspirations. In the last years his dj-sets are full with a mixture of minimal techno, electro and progressive trance; additionally, the atmospheres from ambient always play a special part in the musical journeys he gives to the audience.