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 ]

The fruits of their labor are already beginning to show. Just a few weeks after the release of “Bucles Infinitos”, the debut from LINDA GUILALA, Iván and Eva’s (JUNIPER MOON) group, it has already been chosen as “artist of the week” on an interesting online British radio, Radio Nowhere (www.radionowhere.org). Radio Nowhere are lovers of the greatest contemporary indie-pop and are followed by the indie-multitudes all over the planet. So Monday, November 23, starting at 9:00 pm (British time), on The Christopher Laird Show, you can hear some of the album’s best songs, with commentaries from our beloved musicians. This is going to be, without a doubt, one of many recognitions of an album that, as was so easily imaginable and as with JUNIPER MOON, took very little time to cross the Spanish borders, thanks to their personal, energetic and electrifying concept of pop. Don’t miss it!  

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From the ashes of that unforgettable group JUNIPER MOON, rose LINDA GUILALA, four years ago. Iván and Eva threw themselves into the composition of songs whose modus operandi is their immediacy. The songs are just as addictive, maintaining that incredible freshness in the melodies, with the best of the pop tradition of bands from the Spanish new wave like ALASKA Y LOS PEGAMOIDES and LOS ZOMBIES, with the insolent energy of HELEN LOVE, and that passion for dense, captivating textures of groups like THE CHARLOTTES, LUSH or PALE SAINTS.

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LINDA GUILALA: listen to the full album on MYSPACEpicture: disco destacado esta semana en Myspace! puedes escuchar todas las canciones de su álbum de debut "Bucles infinitos"26/10/2009  [ Read more ]

Tracklist: 01. Nadie se dará cuenta 02. Bucles infinitos 03. Protagonista central 04. Sexta dimensión 05. Nada nos va a importar 06. Te he cambiado 07. Guerrillera jardinera 08. Saber perder 09. Torremolinos 10. Nada de miedo 11. Ilusión 12. Mis ideas son

Yeah, JUNIPER MOON were among the most capable composers of the punk-pop pills that have ever existed in Spanish lands, and their international effect corroborates this: critically acclaimed on New Musical Express; Steve Lamacq, the reputed BBC radio host, playing “¿Volverás” like a mad man; “El Resto de Mí Vida” selected as one of the 100 best albums of the year by the Rough Trade store; the title track that made its way onto that legendary compilation called “Rough Trade shops: Indiepop 1” with other bands like THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, MY BLOODY VALENTINE, BELLE AND SEBASTIAN, FELT, THE MAGNETIC FIELDS, TALULAH GOSH, VASELINES, SHOP ASSISTANTS, CAMERA OBSCURA and THE FIELD MICE; that limited edition vinyl single with PRIMAL SCREAM, ABERFELDY and JOSEF K… But the thing is that JUNIPER MOON haven’t existed for four years now (although, it has to be said, their flame still burns in our hearts, proof being the compilation that will be released in Japan this Christmas, a collection of all their singles, demos, previously unreleased tracks and various live versions).

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