ELEFANT RECORDS: 25th Anniversary [1989-2014]"25 years with Elefant Records"  

We’re going to release 25 different albums to celebrate these 25 years of absolute craziness. New albums, vinyl rereleases, compilations and a few special products. Some of the things are already decided, like the homage we want to pay to LE MANS, “25 canciones de LE MANS” (25 Songs by LE MANS), covered by some of our favorite groups. There will also be a compilation of 25 favorite songs from recent months from groups on other labels; the new rerelease of FAMILY’s album; the compilation “Hong Kong” that was never released; and a rerelease of LA CASA AZUL or LOS FLECHAZOS, for example.

The first two items from our 25th anniversary special releases are: 

Available here!! 

Release date: 3rd march 2014

*ER-25-002 VV.AA.Homage to FAMILY "Un soplo En El Corazón De Elefant" [CD Digipak / LP / Digital Album (download)

*ER-25-001 FAMILY [SOLD OUT!!!]

"Un Soplo En El Corazón" [25th Anniversary Elefant Records Vinyl Re-Release]  

*ER-25-002 VV.AA.Homage to FAMILY "Un soplo En El Corazón De Elefant"

Homage to Family (Un Soplo En El Corazón from Elefant)

Groups participating on the compilation: Papa Topo, La Casa Azul, Band À Part, Modular, La Bien Querida, Cristina Quesada, Astrud, Linda Guilala, Los Bonsáis, [ Read more ]

In 2003, “Un Soplo En El Corazón”, the FAMILY album that definitively shifted the evolution of pop music made in Spain and that became a landmark of a cult group like few we will enjoy in this lifetime, had its 10-year release anniversary. To celebrate that sweet heart attack, Elefant Records, in collaboration with Rockdelux magazine, released an album in homage to the original, with diverse artists, both new and renowned, giving brave, daring, revered versions of the songs that made up such an inimitable album.

Now that the album has reached its twentieth anniversary, so that it is available to everyone, everywhere, especially to the new generations, Elefant Records is rereleasing it in digital format, where we will once again be able to enjoy these daring and curious versions. Like the arid poetry of ANA D, the immense sweetness of LA BUENA VIDA, FANGORIA’s double homage, or the dreamy melancholy of the versions by LOS PLANETAS, AMA, PARADE, APENINO, and CHUCHO. 

 ASTRUD, the most daring with their priceless live vocal revision of “El Bello Verano” adorned with the eternal melody of “The Pink Panther” soundtrack, and LA CASA AZUL’s powerful version with a fun, imaginative Shibuya-Kei rhythm, also participated on the album. The homage, made with all the love in the world, went beyond the concept of homage and became a part of the mood of the moment, with songs that are key to our way of understanding music toda [ Read more ]

This past June 20th, in the Casa de América in Madrid, the Independent Music Awards [UFI] were held. Here at Elefant we want to thank everyone who helped make it possible for us to win the prize for the “Best Independent Record Label” category.

Congratulations to all the winners, whom you can see for all the different categories here: http://www.premiosdelamusicaindependiente.com/11/

The trophy was designed by Olaf Ladousse, and this is especially exciting for us, since we admire him so much and are long-standing fans of his work as graphic artist, designer, musician, inventor and fanziner. The following is a description of the priceless instrument-trophy:

“Heir of a battery and a microchip emigrated from the plastic body of a toy accidently abandoned by a spoiled child, the doorag makes its way among tones and rhythms. Electric circuitry mutation via photoelectronic cells and a dancing spring, the instrument/trophy makes the Independent Music Awards ceremony more enjoyable, sensitive to the applause and outbursts. Created by Olaf Ladousse with his own hands, it is the fruit of his homemade experiments with empirical “circuit bending” electronics.”

ELEFANT bands in the UFI 2011 Independent Music Award Finals: TREMBLING BLUE STARS, THE SCHOOL, LUCKY SOUL, STEREO TOTAL

SINGLE: Best Pop Album and Best ArtworkASTRUD: Best Videoclip and Best Live PerformerPAPA TOPO: Best VideoclipTREMBLING BLUE STARS: Best International ArtistTHE SCHOOL: [ Read more ]

From 1st to 15th June the audience will decide who will emerge victorious in each category trough a vote carried out at:  http://www.premiosdelamusicaindependiente.com/11/index.phpcategoríadest=11

SINGLE: Best Pop Album and Best ArtworkASTRUD: Best Videoclip and Best Live PerformerPAPA TOPO: Best VideoclipTREMBLING BLUE STARS: Best International ArtistTHE SCHOOL: Best International ArtistELEFANT RECORDS: Best Indie Label

Los 33 de Radio 3 [Spanish National Radio]: Audience’s Choicehttp://www.rtve.es/radio/radio3/premiosufiElefant Bands:LUCKY SOULASTRUD& Col·lectiu BrossaPAPA TOPOSINGLESTEREO TOTAL

Here are the links if you feel like voting!

**Best Pop Album:

SINGLE “Monólogo Interior”Vote

**Best Artwork:

SINGLE “Monólogo Interior” Best Artwork by Javier AramburuVote

**Best International Artist:

THE SCHOOL Vote

TREMBLING BLUE STARS Vote

**Best Videoclip:

PAPA TOPO “Oso Panda” Directed by Lluís Prieto (Llaüt Digital) Vote

ASTRUD & Col·lectiu Brossa “La música de las supercuerdas” Directed by Jimmy GimferrerVote

**Best Live Performer:

ASTRUD & Col·lectiu BrossaVote

**Best Indie Label:

ELEFANT RECORDS Vote

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ASTRUD have returned to the forefront of the national music scene through the main door. It’s not for nothing that they’ve been highlighted in all the best-of lists from the last year, and they’ve made rivers of ink run thanks to their reinvention with COL.LECTIU BROSSA to create that inexplicable and indescribable “greatest hits” that was “Lo Nuevo”. Their live shows are giving people a lot to talk about again and that video that Jimmy Gimferrer created for “La Música de las Supercuerdas” confirmed ASTRUD’s quality as an inimitable group, capable of questioning everything, breaking down pre-established conceptions in order to totally reconstruct them and remodel them from a totally different pop perspective, which has won the admiration of the intellectual crowd, the skeptical crowd, the anarchist crowd… They have everyone at their feet.

And yes, as with all “greatest hits” albums, a lot of us missed those songs that we wished were there but weren’t. Well, this coming April 25th, a new digital single from the Catalan band is going on sale, and it will include the already released version of “Lo Popular”, with its absolutely incredible lyrics, its folkloric roots and its modern and powerful form. And the B-side will have the version that, with COL.LECTIU BROSSA, registered one of their biggest songs, “Hay Un Hombre en España”. Irreverent, wild, original, [ Read more ]

[Double CD [44 songs] Advance of the upcoming albums: LA CASA AZUL, HELEN LOVE, MODULAR, MILKYWAY… and exclusives tracks for this compilation: THE SCHOOL, FITNESS FOREVER, HELEN LOVE, GIORGO TUMA… ]

**Already available on our online store

Click here to listen to the album on SPOTIFY

Click here to listen to the album on DEEZER

iTunes

Welcome, everyone, to the first journey on the recently inaugurated Elefant Space Airlines! We invite all of you to enjoy some of the most incredible journeys currently available, on board our amazing new space-yacht, “Lula 1”, with everything necessary to make your experience unforgettable: a pool, a disco, a chill-out area, a high-end restaurant… The newest technology allows you to experience the most unbelievable things through the most distant planets in our Solar System, on which you can make friends while enjoying a fresh, robotic coconut (and if you don’t want that, we’ll clone whatever you do want), relax gravity-free in our invisible-light with narcotic effects, enjoy the thousands of digitalized pleasures we have to offer (in this case, audio, but in other journeys you will also be able to enjoy the video format) or enjoy our superstratopheric music – calmly, in the lounge, dancing non-stop on the dance floor, or intensely at a concert. Follow us on any of your devices; we assure you that the coming meetings will be of great interest.

This trip, the first of many that will take you to all [ Read more ]

We wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!!!

This video shows some of our best moments in 2010. We hope you like it!

Click HERE to watch the video-clip of Elefant Moments 2010  [ Read more ]

We are pleased to introduce the video for one of Astrud’s new songs, an advance release from their album “Lo nuevo”

ASTRUD always have been and always will be a breath of fresh air in the pop panorama – not only the Spanish scene, in which they are crucial and indispensable, but also the international scene. Their way of thinking about music, of approaching it and taking it apart from all angles makes it unique, original and inimitable. That’s also why their return to the music scene, backed by Elefant Records, can be nothing less than a repositioning of themselves, a self-questioning… So the fact that the new disc is a revision of their entire career, backed by COL·LECTIU BROSSA, an instrumental collective that has given their new songs a completely different feel. “Lo Nuevo” is the title for the selection of 14 songs that make up their anticipated next album, with a release scheduled for the end of November 2010.

And as a logical consequence of this new moment in their career, as well as an album advance, we get the videoclip of one of the two new songs on the disc, “La música de las supercuerdas (Retrato de Marc Casas)”: really, it’s a short, self-referential film in which they parody and pay homage to themselves at the same time, much like Woody Allen at the height of his satire, that is an unprejudiced and incisive countercultural exercise, and will attract both the lovers of their occasio [ Read more ]

“Porque lo viejo es lo nuevo, y lo culto, popular” (Because what’s old is new and what’s cult, popular). That’s how ASTRUD’s latest disc begins, accompanied by COL·LECTIU BROSSA and produced by Ferran Conangla. They are breaking down barriers, disconcerting and ironic as always, brilliant, creative and unprecedented like never before. Because this album, like all compilations (although this one really isn’t once you hear it), serves as a point of inflection: it’s a moment to reconsider, reset, rethink and reflect based on the past, present and future constants which, in our case, give weight to one of the most astonishing, personal and unique musical careers in the history of Spanish pop.

But, who are ASTRUDcategoría Obviously, looking back means seeing the trajectory of a group that appeared before us as a reconstruction of techno-pop when they released their sold-out and highly searched for debut EP. They surpassed all our expectations with albums full of great choruses and generational anthems like “Mi fracaso personal” and “Gran Fuerza”. They definitively confirmed their success with “Performance” and “Tú no existes”. People tried to define them by referencing groups like THE MAGNETIC FIELDS and MOMUS, and styles like Euro dance, folk-pop, chanson and Italian disco, but whose original sound, mixed acoustic instrumentation, with programming and danceable beats, l [ Read more ]