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 ]

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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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They are nothing less than a phenomenon, and nobody can deny it. They are one of the clearest and most shocking examples of the effect of the internet. And they have accumulated a lot of achievements since the world first heard of them: Everett True, the prestigious journalist from the New Musical Express, Melody Maker and other sources… makes “Oso Panda” the song of the day on his super popular blog; they are the stars of the Elefant party at Primavera Sound, invited by MySpace; they appear, drawn by Ortega y Pacheco, in El Jueves, which causes a commotion on the indie-pop scene; their videos “Oso Panda” and “Lo que me gusta del verano es poder tomar helado” overloaded Youtube with hits – more than 20,00 in just a few hours – which made it the second most viewed video on the whole website and the number 1 video in the music category (currently, “Oso Panda” has been played more than 400,000 times). As a result, television stations like Sol Musica play it constantly and it even got to be number 1 on MTV’s Top 20; Paulita’s and Adrià’s blogs have an important number of followers, who praise their good and widely-ranged tastes in music. Above all, they sold out the entire printing of their first single, “Oso Panda” (which is already a collector’s item), in just over two weeks – which is amazing – and it was sold all over the world.

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[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.

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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 ]

After the first two releases from our new singles collection, PAPA TOPO and GUATAFÁN, sold out in just weeks, we’ve now got a new and anticipated batch of releases, with three, limited edition, color-vinyl singles. First, we have two new examples of the best pop made in this country, ZIPPER and BAND À PART, and second we have the first foreign release of the collection from the New Yorkers, ONWARD CHARIOTS, with songs that share the energy of TEENAGE FANCLUB, the elegance of CAMERA OBSCURA and the melodies of THE BEACH BOYS.

All of the singles from the “New Adventures in Pop” collection are released as 500-print limited editions on color vinyl, and all singles are also available on the best digital platforms (iTunes, eMusic, 7 digital, Spotify, Deezer …).

Already available on our Online store!!

BAND À PART "No sé por qué" ER-279 Single 7" NEW ADVENTURES IN POP 003There have been very few times that we’ve listened to such a dignified successor to the Spanish-made pop from sixties, bands like PICNIC and FORMULA V, but that is also able at the same time to update its discourse with such ease and ability, taking bands like BELLE & SEBASTIAN, FITNESS FOREVER and NIZA as references. And the official debut from Coral and Javi contains four songs that are authentic gems, delicious and luminous, arranged with unusual mastery and with melodies that slide into your head with a surprising ease. &ld [ Read more ]

ELEFANT is listed among the top five “Single Clubs” of the decade by the American blog Pitchfork, which is one of the leading sources of information for independent music fans.

Elefant Record’s disappeared Club del Single released, from 1996 to 2001, a total of 69 vinyl singles from some of the most important artists of the international indie scene at the time – English groups, Japanese, Spanish, French, Argentine, German, Australian, American, Chinese and Swedish groups all formed a part of our select Club del Single and they gave us exclusive songs on glorious 7-inch vinyl that all of our Club del Single members were able to enjoy. Artists like JACK, LE MANS, MAGOO, QUICKSPACE, THE CLIENTELE, FUGU, Ana D, BMX BANDITS, LAMBCHOP, FRANK BLAKE (a project from TEENAGE FANCLUB’s Norman Blake and BMX BANDIT’s Francis Macdonald), THE FRANK AND WALTERS, ISAN, THE LADYBUG TRANSISTOR, ST CHRISTOPHER, GONZALES, Ally Kerr, CRANES, SING SING (Emma Anderson’s project after LUSH), VACACIONES, IBON ERRAZKIN, SR CHINARRO and LOS FRESONES REBELDES among many others, took part in this adventure that fought to maintain as special a format as the vinyl single, a format that had given so many good moments to the history of music ever since the 50’s, and that in the 90’s had found itself totally cornered by the CD, and even seemed like the vinyl single’s days were numbered.

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In a summer as suffocatingly hot as the one we’re having right now, one of the best remedies is definitely PAPA TOPO’s new video. Their youthfulness, their talent, their catchy melodies and lyrics are the most refreshing thing, and their new video is super-refreshing and summery. “Lo Que Me Gusta del Verano Es Poder Tomar Helado” was directed by Lluís Prieto (Llaüt Digital), a young producer from Mallorca who already gave proof of his talent in the group’s first video, the tremendously famous “Oso Panda”. Lluís is back to play in a fun way, with an explosion of colors; dreamy, cinematographic imagery; mixing and playing with fiction and reality in the ample universe that surrounds PAPA TOPO, without a doubt the best new indie group of 2010.

Since they put their first songs online, PAPA TOPO became one of the groups with the most online searches, one of the most talked about in blogs and forums of all kinds, almost overnight. The power of the internet made it clear how far they could go and their demos were cherished. When their debut single “Oso Panda” came out, it quickly made its way around the world and didn’t last a week in stores, selling out as if it were an item of prime necessity in the midst of an intergalactic war. The video was another online boom, and had more than 20,000 views just a few hours after going up on YouTube. After just one day it had already received 9 awards on the m [ Read more ]

If you’re going to be at Primavera Sound Festival, stop by the Elefant Party. It’s happening on Saturday the 29th from 19:30 to 21:00, in the Myspace room. There will be special performances for the occasion, like unique mini-concerts from: PAPA TOPO (who everyone is talking about), LINDA GUILALA (this year they’ll also be in our favorite festival, Indietracks in England, “an indiepop Festival”) and BLA (the new group from Luis and Belén from L KAN’s). GUILLE MILKYWAY will make the party even better as an exceptional DJ! Really, can a party get any better than thiscategoría The meeting point for all of pop’s craziest, loudest, freshest fans. Yeah!!!!!

Saturday, 29 MayPrimavera Sound Festival – Guateque ELEFANT PartyPapa Topo + Bla + Linda Guilala + Guille Milkyway DjBarcelonatime: de 19:30 a 21:00Salón Myspace [ Read more ]

You can watch the video HERE:http://www.youtube.com/watchcategoríav=hleYkbSfjeg

After so many characters typed into webs and blogs and being one of the most-searched-for-groups on the internet, this past March 15th PAPA TOPO finally released their highly anticipated debut single in Elefant’s new collection, “New Adventures in Pop”. The TOPO-fever has spread all over the planet, from one end to the other, at dizzying speeds, the single is practically sold out after less than one week and the release of their first video has become an previously unseen phenomenon on YouTube, with more than 19.000 visits in the first few hours and awards for the most important video portal in the world, from the number 1 spot in “superfavorite music” videos to the number 2 spot in “most seen today” as well as other important ones like “most liked”, “most commented”, “most seen” and superfavorites…

Lluís Prieto and the whole team at Llaüt Digital (a young and promising production house from Palma de Mallorca) knew exactly how to get the most out of the audiovisual part of one of the biggest indie hits of the year. The video is equal parts fun, carefree, caustic and youthful, the same sharp humor that, like in the album cover photo, gives the clear message that, despite the young age of our heroes (Paulita is 15 and Adriá just turned 18), both have got their heads on straight and have more th [ Read more ]

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http://www.myspace.com/elefantrecords

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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 ]