julen y la gente sola s debut is one of the most remarkable uruguayan albums of the last decade. the ten songs included here trace a path that unites twee pop with indie rock, filtered by clear influences from montevidean singersongwriters. their lyrics narrate, with a bittersweet look at mundane details, acid humor and honest sentimentality, stories about what it means to be young and lost in a small country.
back again we have the mediterranean flavor of the friends affkt and alberto sola. always experimenting with different ingredients like the cooker ferran adria, the guys who laid the first stone of the legendary label barraca, now present a hybrid of pop and house which will leave no one indifferent. pobla loves you was born with the tuba of alberto cuartero, orchestra director of hoya gonzalo in albacete. marc and alberto (affkt and sola) wanted to have a typical instrument of a band and merged it with the electronic dance scene, always being faithful to his maxim of making music to dance as well as to listen. if we surround valencia, road to pobla de farnals, we passed through la canada. there are los updates, who upon hearing the organic rhythm of pobla and the work with the wind instruments, set to work with the voices. perfectly adapted to the capital of the turia river, jorge and loreto propose a valencian poem that their children have learned at school. the moon of valencia then join our dinner for four. finally, we add to our paella a bit of percussion and keyboards made in affkt, to get a main course and obtain a typical valencian plate but by adding a little chilean salt becomes international. more oriented to the dance floor, there are three rather different remixes. new union between spain and chile, with danny fiddo and felipe venegas. this couple present an elegant and deep remix with drums and vocals perfectly adapted to the current sound. moreover, the french man darlyn vlys re-interpreted >pobla loves you< with a lot of groove and percussion added. finally, affkt gives his funker version of events to complete a job that will come out by the german label international freakshow
all of these guys belong to the crew around the famous barraca club in valencia / spain. techno, electro, house and minimal come together in this awesome venue, that must be defined as cosmopolitan, multicultural and open-minded.
includes a superb house rmx by 2000 and one, affkt drops his third appearance on barraca music, this time teaming up with alberto sola to produce a >big cake<. a tasteful slice of ska infused house music, full of flavour, with no crumbs in sight. 2000 and one - coming off the back of his huge >heritage< album...dylan hermelijn bakes up a deep flavoured full serving of pure house music,
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