Frankie Reyes is the alias of Los Angeles-based electronic musician Gabriel Reyes-Whittaker. Working within a variety of genres, Reyes-Whittaker has released music as Gifted & Blessed, The Abstract Eye and as one half of the duo The Steoples.

‘Originalitos’ is Frankie Reyes’ second album for Stones Throw. Throughout eight original compositions created on the analogue Oberheim synthesizer, he draws on his Puerto Rican heritage and the sounds of everyday life. Reyes-Whittaker met Stones Throw founder Peanut Butter Wolf at a Dublab event to celebrate Latin American modernism. There, he came up with the idea for his debut album 'Boleros Valses y Mas' as Frankie Reyes, which Wolf immediately wanted to put out on the label. While 'Boleros Valses y Mas' reimagined Latin standards, 'Originalitos' takes us inside Reyes-Whittaker’s musical world, bringing together his classical roots and his present-day modern life. For 'Originalitos', he restricted himself to the same set of tools as 'Boleros Valses y Mas' using just one Oberheim synthesizer, a MIDI sequencer and an effects unit. Influenced by the traditional music of Puerto Rico, the music of Sylvia Rexach and other Latin American composers, and synth-based musicians such as Mort Garson, Frankie Reyes’ compositions combine ancestral sounds with contemporary technologies.