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✨ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐: ๐๐๐๐
๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐
๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ✨
๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐
๐๐, ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐'s bassist, is about to release a new album with ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐́๐๐๐ - a.k.a. ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐- called ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐ on March 20. It will be the second full-length of this project that debuted in 2015 with the EP ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐, combining electronic music and strings. On ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ of this week ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ talks to us about the inspirations behind this work while ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ takes the time to tell us about the five albums that changed his life forever. "๐๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ฅ๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ช๐จ๐จ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ด ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ," says ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ณ๐́๐๐๐
- a.k.a. ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ -, the Spanish producer and musician who has been linked to the electronic scene since the late nineties. The duo he forms together with ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐๐, bassist of ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐, released their first extended play in 2015, titled ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐,
and subsequently their first full-length ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐ ๐ in 2018. ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐, their second album, continues to expand this creative relationship where electronic music and strings come together in highly cinematic and catching landscapes.
It will be released next March 20 and, in ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐'s words, "๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ด๐ฑ๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐บ ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ต๐ด ๐ถ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ง๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ถ๐ด ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ช๐ต ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ถ๐ด ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ. ๐๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ช๐ง๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ธ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ญ๐บ๐ณ๐ช๐ค ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ, ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ '๐๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ' ๐ต๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ข๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ต ๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ถ๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค, ๐ฆ๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ด ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ง๐ญ๐บ. ๐๐ต ๐ฆ๐น๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค ๐ฆ๐ท๐ข๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ถ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ด ๐ถ๐ด -๐ข๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ด๐ต ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ- ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ต ๐ถ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ".
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The intention of joining as a duo was to create a sound and a world of their own, and in the seven years of the project's existence the compositions have gone through different textures, making use of winds, strings, giving rise to purely instrumental tracks or with vocals. ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐ summarizes this evolution: "๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ต๐ฆ๐น๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ง๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ช๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง ๐จ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐จ๐ต๐ฉ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ง๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐บ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ป๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด, ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ด๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ข๐ถ๐ต๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ด๐ด๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ถ๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ณ๐จ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด. ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ณ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ด๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ด: ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ -๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ช๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐บ ๐ข๐ต ๐ง๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ท๐ข๐ญ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ค๐ญ๐ถ๐ฃ๐ด- ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ, ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ฉ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ด ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ข๐ถ๐ฅ๐ช๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ถ๐ฎ, ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ข๐ค๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ ๐ด๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ. ๐๐ช๐ท๐ฆ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฃ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ค๐ช๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐จ๐ฆ, ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ต, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฆ ๐ท๐ฐ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ด๐บ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ป๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด, ๐จ๐ถ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐ณ, ๐ฃ๐ข๐ด๐ด, ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ด, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ, ๐ฆ๐ต๐ค. ๐๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ด, ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ช๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ".
๐น๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ง๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐๐๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐ง?
๐ค It's focused on squeezing every note, recording or feeling each song to the maximum. We both like what the other part does in each song. We have the facility to play quite a few instruments and also have our own recording studios, one in London and one in Madrid. So we add up all our instruments and the two studios and our albums come out.
✨๐ผ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ผ✨
๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ founded ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ with ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐ in 1994, when the two crossed paths at London's ๐บ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ station. They had been schoolmates in Luxembourg, but had not exchanged a word until that moment when they recognized each other. ๐ด๐๐๐๐, realizing that ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ had a guitar with him, invited him to see a performance of his. Thus was born ๐จ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ - the band's original name, taken from ๐ช๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
Besides to being half composer with ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ of most of ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐'s catalog, ๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐๐ was also involved in the production of ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐, the album that exactly twenty years ago marked the introduction of more electronic sounds in the band's arsenal, evident in the tracks that close the album such as "๐ฏ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐", "๐ต๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐" or "๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐". Here, for ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐ selects the five albums that changed his life and have influenced his own work.
๐ฟ๐. ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐๐: ๐๐ข๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ (1990) ๐ถ
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๐ค I heard ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ for the first time while I was kissing my high school girlfriend. I was sixteen and we were in her room. My favorite songs are "๐พ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ ๐ด๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐" and "๐ฌ๐๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐๐๐". It's an album that is already a classic, that's where they started using guitars and combining them with their synthesizer sound, something they hadn't done in the ten years they had been a band. I like it because they write dark lyrics, and that's why they are best listened to at night. This album also became the soundtrack to the moment when I was coming to terms with my identity and my sexuality. It was a very troubling and emotional time in my life, and ๐ซ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐ ๐'s music helped me deal with some very dark feelings. I've always wanted to emulate that simplicity and style of songwriting in all the musical projects I've been in. ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ is their most concise and most sublime album, and it's the pinnacle of synth pop.
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๐ค I first heard ๐ฎ๐๐ in London in 1994 in a social housing apartment and that's when ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐ put this record on to show me. ๐ฎ๐๐ changed the way I saw guitar music until then. My favorite songs are "๐ป๐๐๐๐ (๐บ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐)" and "๐ด๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ท๐๐๐๐๐". They approach their guitars in a pretty punk way, uninterested in all the standard chord shapes and tunings, even creating their own sound passages, almost melodies made with feedback, which is usually seen as just noise or an unwanted by-product of playing electric guitar. Often, when I'm composing something on guitar and I feel that I like what I'm doing, I end up realizing that I'm playing something that ๐บ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ had already done (laughs). This is their most punkish expression, more melodic but also more abrasive.
๐ฟ๐. ๐๐๐๐ – ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ (1981) ๐ถ
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๐ค I first heard ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ on my parents' record player when I was a kid in the suburbs of Stockholm. They had parties on Saturdays and invited all their friends, who came to eat, drink and dance. My favorite song is "๐ป๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ช๐๐๐". I love that analog pop sound, and I can just imagine the magnetic tape spinning as ๐ฉ๐๐̈๐๐ and ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ (the ๐ฉ's of ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ) sit at an old console, putting the finishing touches to that mix, with all the amazing backing vocals and those keyboards and guitars that fit so perfectly. They write perfect pop free of fat and that sounds warm. I have a ritual of dancing to ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ, but only for my birthday. They're a bit like cake to me, they're great for once in a while, but if it's too much I don't feel very good. Sometimes I find I do bass lines that remind me of some of their vocal melodies, as the talent they have for hooks is amazing. That's their last album and also the darkest and most melancholic, and that's an emotion that they deal with in a very beautiful way.
๐ฟ๐. ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ – ๐๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐๐ซ (1966) ๐ถ
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๐ค I first heard ๐ป๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐๐' ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ when I was a thirteen year old teenager, smoking a bunch of cigarettes with a friend in my room after school. My favorite song is "๐ป๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ต๐๐๐๐ ๐ฒ๐๐๐๐". ๐น๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ was my introduction to 60s psychedelic pop. Here there are things like songs where the sitar is the main instrument, and others about life being nothing more than a dream. They were experimenting with recording techniques and sounds, and they were very adventurous with the structures of these songs. I listen to this album and it sounds timeless to me, every time I listen to it I discover new subtleties, even though it was only recorded on four tracks. There are lessons to be learned here, about melody and making a personal musical statement in two minutes. Most of the songs are only that long.
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๐ค I went to ๐ป๐๐๐๐ ๐น๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ in London the same day ๐บ๐๐๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ was released, in 2002. I went straight to my house so I could listen to it. My favorite song here is "๐ฎ๐ ๐พ๐๐๐ ๐ป๐๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐". This album made me feel the thrill of being in a rock band again. It's sexy, it's hard, it's melodic, it's motivating and it's as cool as ๐ฑ๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ himself. He's like a modern ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐, and he's a huge influence on me as a person and as a musician. I was fortunate to be on tour with him when ๐ธ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐ ๐จ๐๐ released this record and I think I just wanted whatever they inspired me to do. Having ๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐๐๐
on drums is something that separated this record from the others, he is a very accomplished rock drummer with good taste.✪
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