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

Our first gift of 2010 is a new Christmas carol by "THE SCHOOL": “Let me be the fairy on your christmas tree tonight”.

You can download the MP3 free on Elefant’s home page, under the category "MP3 of the week", or here.

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Hello Everyone!Another year has passed, a special year for us as we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the label, and we did it the best way we know how: releasing a ton of good music. We put out 22 new releases in total – 13 albums and 9 singles. It was an intense year in every way it could be and a year in which a little bit of everything that can happen, happened. And despite all of the problems that the music world is going through we managed to survive another year and we are full of hope and excitement about 2010.

We are aware of the requests and the things that fans of the label are most worried about and we are working hard on all of it in order to try to have everything organized and updated in the first few months of the new year, so that it is easier to be up to date with everything that’s happening with our groups and our label. We’ve been working on the new Elefant website for the last few weeks, a new website that will maintain a similar design to the old website, but that will be much easier to use, much more intuitive, faster, and clearer. Yes, we are getting rid of Real Audio and you’ll be able to listen to the songs without having a player installed, and you’ll be able to change quickly and simply from the site in Spanish to the site in English from any page. We’re also going to have our new Elefant On-line store with great improvements. We’re closing deals to be able to have the entire catalog available on Spoti [ Read more ]

ELEFANT RECORDS TURNS 20 [1989-2009]

We’re going to England to celebrate our 20th anniversary at the Indietracks Festival, and the same weekend in Spain the ContemPopranea Festival will also be celebrating our birthday by paying homage to our label!

The Indyspensable festival in Madrid gave us the incredible gift of dedicating an entire day to Elefant this past June 12th, and other festivals like Fuengirola Pop Weekend or Lemon Pop will pay special homage to our label in their next editions of the festivals.

We want to thank everyone for having always been behind us! We feel really happy to have lasted all these years with our philosophy and way of understanding the music world, helping groups that excite us, who are on the sidelines of trends and the industry. None of this would have been possible without the label’s FANS, who have supported us all these years. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!

THE INDIETRACKS FESTIVAL (UK) PAYS HOMAGE TO ELEFANT RECORDS FOR THEIR TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY BY GIVING US CONTROL OF THE MAIN STAGE! [JULY 24-25-26, Midland Railway, Butterley – Derbyshire, England]

Elefant Stage:

CAMERA OBSCURA, AU REVOIR SIMONE, BMX BANDITS, Rose Elinor Dougall, THE FRANK & WALTERS, FITNESS FOREVER, THE SCHOOL, Nick Garrie, LUCKY SOUL, SPEEDMARKET AVENUE, COOPER, LA CASA AZUL, COLA JET SET, SUCRETTE, TENDER TRAP, MODULAR, TEENAGE FANCLUB, STEREO-TOTAL .

+ info Here: http://www.indietracks.co.uk/ 

Friday, 24Indietracks FestivalModular + Rose Elinor [ Read more ]

The events that Elefant is organizing to celebrate our 20th anniversary as a record label this 2009 are beginning. And pay attention because this first date is going to have a lot to lure you in with. This coming Friday, March 27th, in the Ocho y Medio club in Madrid, we can enjoy the cocktail of incredible offers that will make the night one of the must deliciously fun nights for everyone there. And we’ve got so many reasons to say that.

The night will begin at 22:00 with the projection of the latest Elefant video-clips. And as if there weren’t already enough reasons to arrive swiftly and promptly, the first 100 people to arrive will be given SPEEDMARKET AVENUE limited edition 7” singles in delicious colored vinyl.

A few days ago we talked about the incredible success of the second album of the Swedish group SPEEDMARKET AVENUE, “Way Better Now”, whose songs have been chosen as single of the week by media and journalists as important as Steve Lamacq (many say he’s John Peel’s successor) or Radio Q (the well-known Q magazine’s radio media). Well, they’ll finally be playing in Madrid on this first spring Friday, confirming their status as one of the most attractive groups from the international indie panorama. Sharing the stage with SPEEDMARKET AVENUE, and opening the show, LES TRES BIEN ENSEMBLE will present the songs from the precious and marvelous second album, “Rougeole”.

And after the concerts there ar [ Read more ]

It’s our birthday in 2009 – we turn 20!!!!!!!!Get ready for an ELEFANTASTIC year!  [ Read more ]

Elefant Records has always had an important presence and recognition in Japan. Bands like LE MANS or LOS FLECHAZOS saw their records licensed there, and were considered as true stars among the many European pop lovers in Japan.

Now, thousands of Elefant Records’ Japanese fans will have the chance to meet and enjoy their favourite pop music by attending the Elefant parties which will be happening this summer at different points of the Shibuya district in Tokyo.

As a part of the activities organized around ExpoAichi 2005, the international Expo taking place in Japan this year, club CAY (at Spiral Hall in Shibuya, Tokyo) will host on July 23rd and 24th two free entrance theme nights dedicated to Elefant Records: two twin parties featuring live shows by LA CASA AZUL and NIZA, plus DJ sessions by DJ Polar and screenings of videoclips from the label’s discography.

As many of you already know, NIZA had recently announced their split, but the enormous success their album has experienced in Japan (where it has been licensed to Rambling Records) has forced this one-off reunion of the couple, which will only do these two important dates in Tokyo. Roberto and Silvia will also attend interviews with the Japanese press in order to promote their record.

Apart from these dates included in the ExpoAichi activities, we will take advantage of our visit and will also organize other parties in the Japanese capital: the first one, already confirmed for July 17th at Shibuya’s clu [ Read more ]

Very soon we’re leaving for Japan, where we will hold a few Elefant parties in Tokyo. As we recently informed, as a part of the celebrations organized for ExpoAichi 2005, club CAY (at Spiral Hall in Shibuya, Tokyo) will hold on July 23rd and 24th two club nights dedicated to Elefant Records: two twin parties in which there will be live shows by LA CASA AZUL and NIZA every night, DJ Polar will DJ, and videoclips from the label’s history will be screened.

Apart from these official parties, included on ExpoAichi’s activities, to make the most of our visit we have organized two other parties in Tokyo: the first one, organized with the help of our friends at the Apple Crumble record shop, will be held on July 17th at club CHU! in Shibuya (the trendiest district in the world), featuring sessions by DJ Polar and DJ Guille Milkyway (LA CASA AZUL) sharing the decks.

The second party will be on July 22nd at club AOI HEYA (a few minutes walk from Shibuya station), and it will take place from midnight until five in the morning. In this party we will enjoy up to five live shows by METRO, APRILS, ADVANTAGE LUCY, MINISKIRT and Dr. USUI (MOTOCOMPO). We are specially illusioned to see a live show by METRO, a Japanese duo of which we have already released a single on Elefant, and who are currently working on new recordings to be released on our label.Along with these shows, before they start and in between shows there will be some DJ sessions by LAS DONETTES (an all-girl ban [ Read more ]