LOUDS is the name Minor Eduardo Flores Prado has chosen for the next chapter of a career that began long before 2026. The Panamanian producer, lyricist and writer spent years working as Minor Prado, the identity under which he learned how to release music, built an electronic catalog, collaborated with other artists and became familiar with the independent-label circuit. The change does not introduce a new musician. It presents a creator reassessing his path and redefining the direction of his work.

Born in Panama City on November 21, 2000, Flores Prado spent his childhood between the capital and Tocumen. His earliest memories connected with electronic music involve listening with his cousins through the Panamanian channel +23. That repeated exposure sparked a curiosity about how those sounds were made and eventually led him, while still a teenager, to begin producing his own.

From FL Studio to Minor Prado

At around 13, he began experimenting with FL Studio, the software that would become his primary production tool. His education was largely self-directed: trying ideas, making mistakes and returning to each project became his method of learning. During the same period, he gained some of his earliest performance experience through courses and school-related activities.

He adopted the name Minor Prado in 2014. The date marks the beginning of his first artistic identity, although he places the professional start of his career several years later, in November 2018, with the release of “Good Vibes.” The track was later removed from streaming services, but it holds a clear place in his timeline: it was the moment when years of practice began to become a public catalog.

Music developed alongside his university education. Flores Prado studied Systems Engineering at Universidad Metropolitana de Educación, Ciencia y Tecnología (UMECIT), where he completed his degree. He kept both paths open during those years while developing his production skills and expanding his connection with electronic music.

Building a catalog

After “Good Vibes,” the Minor Prado period developed through independent releases, collaborations and projects associated with specialist labels. Future House Cloud, Ocelots Records, SoulZ Music Group and Seal Network are among the names connected with that run. This was not one permanent affiliation, but a succession of release partners across different parts of his catalog.

One of his first extended projects was Part of Me, released in 2020. The 11-track album represented a change in scale from the singles with which he had begun his professional activity. Although the project is no longer available as part of his current era, it indicates how much work Minor Prado had accumulated before adopting the LOUDS name.

Lies followed in 2024 as another album from the same creative period. Both projects were removed with part of the earlier catalog during the reorganization that preceded the identity change. Their removal limits the public visibility of that discography today, but it does not erase the role those releases played in his technical and artistic development.

Minor Prado also collaborated with musicians in Panama and artists from other countries. One of those connections was Mexican producer GeeKan, with whom he made one of the best-documented releases of his first professional era.

“Lost Without You” and an international collaboration

“Lost Without You,” credited to GeeKan and Minor Prado, was released on March 25, 2022. Release records identify Future House Cloud as the label and Repost Network as the distributor. Emir Cruz Maldonado and Minor Eduardo Flores Prado appear in the credits, placing the collaboration within both producers’ wider careers rather than treating it as an isolated catalog entry.

A Songstats overview for the track records approximately 109,900 streams, placement in 31 playlists, about 675,000 in playlist reach and 168 Shazams. These figures describe different forms of circulation. Playlist reach is a measure of potential exposure and does not equal streams or unique listeners, so it should not be added to those metrics or presented as an audience total.

The release also appeared in the track listings documented by 1001Tracklists, adding another public record of its circulation within electronic music programming.

Beyond the numbers, the release captures a point when Minor Prado was already working beyond his immediate circle and using international label and distribution structures. In a career whose earliest projects have been removed, “Lost Without You” also provides a concrete reference for how his music began moving through broader editorial channels.

From the studio to Sumer Fest Panamá

That same year, Minor Prado appeared as an artist at Sumer Fest Panamá, a small-scale festival held in the country. The performance formed part of a live trajectory that had begun more informally during his teenage years and, by 2022, had become connected with his professional activity.

The festival appearance came at a period of consolidation for Minor Prado: several years of catalog development, a released album, international collaborations and music distributed through electronic labels. That identity, however, would not prove permanent.

Starting again as LOUDS

In 2026, Flores Prado began working publicly as LOUDS. The name does not describe a band, collective or parallel project. It is the current identity of the same producer and functions as a restart after the Minor Prado period. As part of the process, he removed material from his earlier catalog and stopped using the previous alias as his primary name.

The transition is best understood as an artistic reorganization. It retains the experience accumulated since his teenage years while changing the framework through which he presents and produces music. No first official release under the new name has yet been announced, so the change is currently defined by its musical direction and the decision to separate this phase from the previous catalog.

A heavier, more cinematic direction

LOUDS is primarily oriented toward trap, hybrid trap, wave, bass music and hard dance. The project also explores hardstyle, bass house, dubstep and experimental electronic music, allowing Flores Prado to move between club structures, harder rhythms and atmospheric passages.

The sound is built around prominent low end, aggressive percussion, atmospheric textures and detailed impact design. Contrast is central to that approach: dark, emotional or cinematic moments prepare higher-energy sections, while tension and release operate as compositional elements rather than serving only as devices for a drop.

Flores Prado identifies Knock2 and ISOxo as influences on this phase. The former provides a reference for direct club and festival energy; the latter for a contemporary approach to trap, intense sound design and the relationship between music, visuals and artistic identity. They are reference points rather than a fixed template. LOUDS aims to build a recognizable language without remaining permanently tied to a single subgenre.

The move from Minor Prado to LOUDS summarizes a career shaped by self-directed learning, removed releases, albums, labels, collaborations and performances. The new identity begins with less visible catalog material, but it does not begin from zero. Behind the name are more than a decade of experimentation and several years of professional activity that now form the foundation for a chapter still under construction.