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It took many months of work but we can finally announce, with much joy and satisfaction, the release of “L-FUN 45 (Summer of love)”, the first independent musical videogame for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, a fun application that will get all of the label’s fans excited. The videogame is full of the Elefant universe and our groups. It was created and developed by Dolores Entertainment, a young and promising company that develops mobile phone applications and videogames, and that shares Elefant’s spirit of independent work and passion for music. Dolores Entertainment, who recently celebrated their first anniversary as a company, started their voyage with more classic-styled games with a more direct dynamic, like “Vectron” or “Spanish Chiringuito”. Now, they are official providers for TV3 and they are working on some different, very interesting projects that we’ll be hearing about soon, but L-FUN 45 is their most ambitious project so far.

L-FUN 45 is an interactive musical, a game where the music isn’t just an excuse to smash buttons, but instead it tells us a love story. The love story begins with a break-up, and includes friendship and summertime adventures. The game, which we are launching today, is the first part of a four-part series, since there were so many ideas at the beginning of the project, plus all of the [ Read more ]

The complete renovation of the mythical venue Siroco is big news. The venue is located on San Dimas, 3 in the legendary quarter of Malasaña in Madrid, an area which has always been a symbol and reflection of the music scene in the capital city. We are ecstatic to announce that in October, Elefant Club will be born inside of this distinguished environment. The first Saturday of each month we are organizing special nights where we can enjoy live acts and special guest DJs with set-lists filled with various pop gems, starting at 9:30 p.m. and ending at 3:00 a.m.

The inauguration will take place on October 1st with live acts from the Welsh group, THE SCHOOL, the duet from Madrid, BAND À PART. THE SCHOOL has been recording their new album this past summer and we are sure they are going to present a promising set with the inclusion of these new songs from their second album, along with some of their hits from their last album, “Loveless Unbeliever.” BAND À PART has been one of the best groups to come out of the Contempopránea Festival this year and their performance at the Indietrack Festival in England was an event in itself. Special guest DJs for this evening include Guille Milkyway and Luis Elefant.

On Saturday November 5th, the release party of the single, “Noi Pomodori” from the band SINGLE, will take place, along with the performance of CORAZÓN. Knowing the restlessness and imagination of Teresa a [ Read more ]

Yeah, we know. We said that “Hoping and Praying” was going to be the last single from THE SCHOOL’s debut album, but the upcoming visit to Spain from one of our favorite British groups, to participate in the Nocturama and Contempopránea festivals, motivated us to recover a few little gems to share with all those fans that are waiting impatiently for those festival concerts.

So, this coming July 18th the new digital single with the main song “I love everything” will be released. The song is one of our favorites from “Loveless Unbeliever”, short, with a simple structure but an incredibly beautiful melody, those marvellous choruses and that bridge that opens the way through the song like rays of sunshine through black clouds after a storm. And for the B-side we have two big surprises. First, the “Hungry heart” cover that Liz’s group made for the Bruce Springsteen tribute called “Play Some Pool, Skip Some School, Act Real Cool”, (released by the label Where It’s At Is Where You Are and available online in our store) where they share the credit list with other names like THE WAVE PICTURES, ALLO DARLIN’, Darren Hayman, Harvey Willians, BUTCHER BOY and even Doug Yule (THE VELVET UNDERGROUND) collaborating with Jeff Mellin. The gang from Cardiff takes one of “The Boss’” greatest hits to their territory and turns it, even more, into an irresistible hit. Last (but not least), a [ 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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After how much we enjoyed their singles, and that incredible full-length, “Loveless Unbeliever”, nobody can claim that THE SCHOOL doesn’t deserve a privileged position on the pop podium, with their sixties tendencies that people would be hard-pressed to get them away from. The way this Cardiff-based band has dealt with northern soul, sixties pop, girl-pop and sunshine-pop has earned them a great reputation and a legion of fans in even the most unexpected corners of the earth. They have uncountable hits. Rough Trade has included their songs on favorite-artist-of-the-year compilation albums not once, but twice. Their album has been distributed all over the world and we have licensed them to independent labels in the States, Korea, Japan, Australia, the Phillipines… They have given concerts on the most respected stages, especially highlighting their performances at Indietracks Festival, Lemon Pop Festival and South Pop… Their music is included on the soundtracks of a ton of movies, TV series and ad campaigns all over the world. And best of all, they gave us a collection of unforgettable songs, presided over by Liz’s sweet voice, called on to remain in the memory of everyone who loves stories about falling in and out of love.

And like the cherry on the top of this already great sundae, we get a surprise gift. “Hoping and Praying” arrives in digital format with really appetizing content. This new release will be presided over [ 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 ]

This year is definitely going to be the year of THE SCHOOL, half the world is anxiously awaiting the group’s debut album, “Loveless Unbeliever”, and this new video is the perfect appetizer for the imminent indie invasion that our friends are going to be the stars of. Liz, in addition to having one of the most delicious and intoxicating voices of the new international pop, is an excellent song-writer and this album is solid proof of that; “Loveless Unbeliever” is full of exciting songs with resplendent melodies and arrangements that everyone who loves Pop will fall in love with immediately.

Tom Readdy is in charge of direction, composition and animation for the video-clip, with Nicky Brown, the director of photography, and Lucy Dawkins, the art director. Tom took inspiration from the modernist graphic design of the 60s, movie posters and album covers, to create the animation and plans for the video. Tom had already worked as an animator and effects creator in a multitude of videos, for artists like FRANZ FERDINAND, THE BEES, GOLDFRAPP, YOUNG KNIVES and SOULSAVERS.

We invite all of you to enjoy THE SCHOOL’s new VIDEO!!!:http://www.youtube.com/watchcategoríav=l5zlSyHAHjo

You can listen to the songs HERE [DEEZER]:http://www.deezer.com/es/#music/the-school/loveless-unbeliever-509117

Already available on our online storehttp://www.elefant.com/shop/new-releases

Release Date: May 2010

**There´s a limited edition of this album for vinyl love [ Read more ]

This Saturday 6th of March, THE SCHOOL begins a very special tour around the UK. The Welsh band will perform on twelve different dates, on which they will give a preview of their long awaited debut album to all their fans. “Loveless Unbeliever” will be released in Spain, Korea, Mexico, Canada and the USA in April, and in May it will come out in the UK and all other countries.

This tour will be an initial taste of the songs on the new album and of the group’s new line-up. In addition to the chance to enjoy the band’s new songs at the concerts on the tour, fans will also get an exclusive opportunity to purchase “Loveless Unbeliever” before its official release. These events will also feature special guests, including ALLO DARLIN (her new single “The polaroid song” released on Fortuna Pop is amazing!!) and PAGAN WANDERER LU (who who has released album "Fight my battles for me" on Brainlove Records and is now working on the follow up).

There will be twelve special concerts that will prepare our boys and girls for their world tour, which will begin after summer and will take them across half the globe, with performances in Spain, Germany, UK, Italy, Mexico and the USA, among other countries. We will soon inform you of the exact dates.

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For years, all the fans of the best pop waited anxiously for that group that was going to occupy the space left between THE PIPETTES and BELLE & SEBASTIAN, heirs of the best [ Read more ]

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.

http://www.elefant.com/welcome [ Read more ]

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 debut album of THE SCHOOL and one of the prestigious "Rough Trade" compilations on which they also appear are finally about to be released! If they did it the first time with “All I Wanna Do” on the “Counter culture 08” this time they’re doing it with "And Suddenly" on “Indiepop 09”, an incredible version of one the the latest compositions by LEFT BANKE that was originally published on the Split single with GEORGE WASHINGTON BROWN on Slumberland Records.

This disc is an authentic breath of fresh air and the more than palpable confirmation of the Revival that’s been going on lately of 80s and 90s indiepop, and of what was defined as C-86 after that mythic Cassette published by NME titled “C-86” that included songs from some of the most interesting indie groups of that year (THE PASTELS, SHOP ASSISTANTS, McCARTHY, WEDDING PRESENT, SOUP DRAGONS, PRIMAL SCREAM…). Elefant Records was an important part of that movement, not only through the release of indiepop groups from all over the planet; at Elefant we organized concerts in Spain for HEAVENLY, THE PASTELS, STEREOLAB, THE FRANK AND WALTERS, BMX BANDITS…, but Elefant was also the distributor in Spain for mythic labels like Sarah Records, Subway Records, Setanta Records, Bus Stop, Sunday Records, K Records, Slumberland Records, Parasol, A Turntable Friend, Heaven Records, Marsh Marigold Records, Tea Time Records…

In that era we f [ Read more ]

YO, TAMBIÉN [ME TOO]: will compete in the “World Cinema Narrative" category at Sundance Film Festival [USA]

“Yo También (Me Too)” has been selected to participate in the United States at the prestigious Sundance International Film Festival, founded by Robert Redford in 1981. The festival will take place January 21st – 31st, 2010, in Park City, near Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah. According to the announcement, “Yo También (Me Too)”, written and directed by Álvaro Pastor and Antonio Naharro, has been chosen out of over thousands of movies from all over the world and will compete in the “World Cinema Narrative” category with thirteen other films from New Zealand, Iraq, Argentina, Columbia, Estonia, South Korea and Australia, among others. “Yo, Tambien” will begin its American trajectory on the grand scale. The Festival chooses 12 to 16 movies to compete in each of its four category: “US Documentary”, “US Dramatic”, “World Cinema Documentary” and “World Cinema Narrative". The Festival’s programmers chose, from among more than 9,800 movies and documentaries sent for the 2010 edition, “works that take risks and that tell a story in its entirety”. As a result, a total of 113 full-length features from 31 different countries and among them, “Yo Tambien (Me Too)”, a movie and a soundtrack that are already a [ Read more ]

“YO, TAMBIÉN” [ME TOO], triumphs in the San Sebastián Film Festival: The movie was awarded two Silver Conches, for best actor for Pablo Pineda and best actress for Lola Dueñas.

YO, TAMBIÉN [a new movie by Álvaro Pastor and Antonio Naharro, starring Lola Dueñas and Pablo Pineda]

GUILLE MILKYWAY [LA CASA AZUL]: original movie soundtrack composer.

ELEFANT MUSIC SUPERVISION: artistic musical director.

The passion we feel for music at Elefant is something logical and evident, but from the start we have also been involved in and collaborated on artistic projects that go beyond the musical realm but that also need music to complete and fill out the work and make it more personal. A few years ago, our passion for the movies brought about the creation of “Elefant Music Supervision”, a project that has taken shape over time, with the goal of helping and collaborating on audiovisual projects of all kinds, offering musical supervision that would help the creators find the perfect music for their work. Shorts, documentaries, movies, commercial spots, television theme songs… we have found ourselves involved, sometimes directly, other times more indirectly, in a ton of national and international audiovisual projects that have used music from our company or projects that we have created with our artists’ exclusive pieces. International television series like “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Desperate H [ Read more ]