Tibi Dabo

Tibi Dabo is the recording project of Maximilian Guardans Mühlen, a Barcelona-born musician, producer, and DJ who has also worked under the name Max Guardans. Operating under the Tibi Dabo alias, Guardans has released music that sits across lo-fi house, organic house, and jazz house, combining club-oriented structures with a lighter, groove-focused approach associated with those styles.

Under this moniker, Guardans’ output has been connected with a range of labels that are closely associated with contemporary house and techno, including Crosstown Rebels and Dial, as well as imprints such as KANN and Mainline Planet. The spread of these affiliations places the project within both the more DJ-driven side of house music and the label ecosystems that often support left-of-center dancefloor records. Alongside his work as a producer, Tibi Dabo is also active as a DJ, presenting the same stylistic range in performance that appears in his recordings.

Guardans’ use of multiple names reflects a broader practice in electronic music, where aliases can separate different strands of work or contexts of release. In this case, Tibi Dabo functions as the primary artist identity associated with his house-focused material, while Max Guardans appears as an alternate credit. The project is most consistently described through genre tags that point to warm, textured production and rhythmic swing, with jazz house and organic house suggesting an emphasis on musicality and timbre as much as on beat design.