"The Ecuadorian DJ-producer ventures far beyond the Andes in nomadic sophomore LP ... He released a series of EPs between Canada's globetrotting label, Multi-Culti and Argentina-based label ZZK Records, before he finally issued his debut LP, Prender el Alma, through the latter in 2015. Later that year, the Latin Grammy-winning Uruguayan artist Jorge Drexler called Cruz's music "the best Latin American sound I've heard in a long time." Their mutual musical admiration led to a collaboration in his 2017 album Salvavidas de Hielo, in which Cruz recorded one of many featured percussive guitars".