discography

tracklist:

A1 EL CAPITAN Introducción
A2 OJALA PUDIERA EL Principio De La Nueva Carne
A3 ANTONI MAIOVVI Assault On Palacio De Las Cortes
A4 A2 El Día Del Juicio
A5 TZII feat. SAMANTHA C. La Unidad De La Verdad

B1 TEATRO SATANICO Sonido De Independencia
B2 PACHA KING feat. JOTA Dónde Está La Angustia
B3 MAKiNA GiRGiR And I Wept
B4 SABLE ET SCIURE Sabotaje
B5 CORNFLAKES 808 Lloret De Mar 6 am
B6 EL CAPITAN Epílogo

When, at the end of the 80s, the wave of Techno washed over Europe, it not only revolutionized the world of music at large…. it also created a multitude of local genres and subgenres, some of which became universal references, while others remain little known to this day. In Valencia, on the Spanish Riviera, one did not only move to the hardcore rhythms of Mákina in those days. As early as 1989, Julio Nexus and his label Megabeat, later joined by German Bou and Nezkabel Records, began to produce the first records of what was to become “El Sonido De Valencia”. Influenced by Synth Pop, New Wave and EBM, the Sound of Valencia is an unidentified object in the story of techno music: with its baroque synthetic saxophones, its Spanish Twin Peaks samples, its subtle electro beats and its almost kitsch melodies, it has little in common with the 140+ BPM hardcore Tekkno happening everywhere else at the time. Today, almost 25 years later, it is high time to pay tribute to a mostly forgotten and totally underrated scene, which had nonetheless an everlasting impact on many South-European ravers. High time to „remember the future“, with nine contemporary reenactments of the Valencian magic....