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One of the collections we are proudest of here at Elefant Records is “New Adventures In Pop”, an initiative dedicated to giving opportunities to new groups. Names that are now well-known by pop fans have been come through this collection, like PAPA TOPO, EL PALACIO DE LINARES, NELEONARD, BELLE GHOUL, SAGRADO CORAZÓN DE JESÚS, AXOLOTES MEXICANOS and LIA PAMINA. And now we are bringing you a new group that we are sure you’ll be talking about.

NOS MIRAN is a techno-pop duo comprised of Sergio Rodríguez (CAPITÁN SUNRISE, THE SOLVERS) and Marta Quintana (VENTOLÍN). They met at the Elefant Records stand in a LA BIEN QUERIDA concert, Santi from CAPITÁN SUNRISE introduced them and a few months later they were already working together on the songs we’re releasing now. “Humo” is their first release, a purple, 10”, 500-copy limited-numbered-edition Mini-LP, where synthesizers, 8-bit arpeggiators, and even some distorted guitars play. But the most important thing is how wide an expressive palette they show in only six songs, from melancholic techno-pop to bubbly pop-punk, and with moments of europop or delicate synth-pop. But not only in the musical aspect; the lyrics also range from an evocative look back to brazen events, from carefree to critical.

“Amor Y” reminds us of AU REVOIR SIMONE and FUTURE BIBLE HEROES, a cosmic lullaby about love and the fear of falling in love again [ Read more ]

To speak of Ibon Errazkin is to speak of big things. Not just because of his impeccable trajectories as a musician (AVENTURAS DE KIRLIAN, LE MANS, SINGLE, his solo work, and so much more) and as a producer (Carlos Berlanga, NOSOTRÄSH, CORAZÓN, ANA D…). Because each step in his career has been personal, distinctive, always pushing the category of music as art, and questioning the value of the word “art” itself. All at the same time. That’s why his universe is different. That’s why “Foto Aérea”, his new album, deserves its own special commentary.

But before we start with that special commentary, let’s put things into context. Ibon’s career has always mixed that touch of personality with a certain level of experimentation. That isn’t too far off from this new album, in a way, but the general air of the album is more classic. Whycategoría Because melody is king here, roaming freely through the various songs on the album, transforming, appearing and disappearing, following its own wishes and whims. Melody that tastes like the sea and the breeze. This is where the breaking point comes. Among all the instruments, there is a song being sung – the first one that Ibon sings in his entire career. What’s more, it’s a cover, a delicacy with touches of Broadway and lounge, written by Jerome Moross for the musical “The Golden Apple” in 1954: “Lazy Afternoon”.  [ Read more ]

It’s always exciting, and equally difficult, to introduce a new group to the general public. How do you figure out in words what their music is and express it to receptive ears in a way that doesn’t demystify it or seeming grandiloquentí But we enjoy exploring new, different worlds, like the one RUSH WEEK offers. The duo from Philadelphia was formed in 2016 by Rachel K. Haines and the producer James Benjamin Thomas, who update the NU Disco, Soul and R&B sounds from the end of the seventies and beginning of the eighties. Their first album, “Feels”, sounds like the elegance and melancholy of ROXY MUSIC and TALK TALK, modernized with ST. VICENT, Étienne de Crécy and JUSTICE, with an irresistible pop filter that brings it closer to TENNIS’ more recent songs, and that also feeds the dance floor.   To start things off, “Feelings” breathes life into the New Jack Swing, and gives it a sense of mystery and of emotional strength, like a version of THE XX full of light. It’s just enough to express an abstract, intangible, but powerful feeling.

About the Video-Clip:“Feelings’ idea right from the start took me straight to American indie films from the 90s with Gus Van Sant and Larry Clark, and also to the latter’s photography, whose “Tulsa” series has always been a reference for me, but in this case I didn’t want the characters to end badly, they’re just lost, b [ Read more ]

Surrender to the SOFT REGIME. Is it the sound of the underground, or is the sound of the overground going undergroundcategoría Either way, SOFT REGIME is a pan-European group of musicians intent on exploring the glorious electronic pop sounds that pump through their hearts and grease their gears.

Christian makes the music and production, Tim (previously leader of electropop band BAXENDALE) writes the words and melodies, and Astrid sings the songs, bringing it all together. Astrid first met Christian in the Bavarian Forest, soon switching the conversation from flora to pop, discovering a shared love for dancing, and recruited Tim to join forces to help things take shape.  

Ever since then, there was no looking back. This 8 track "Hard Feelings" 10” Mini-LP follows their continental disco hit from 2017 "Michelangelo", with its huge chorus and controversial banned video.

Over the course of the year, they added studio crack Nomen Nescio to the mix and delivered this all new set of songs for 2018.

As you'd expect, they had yet another explosive europop cocktail on their hands: think Lio, Icerink Records, GIRLS AT OUR BEST, LA BIONDA, MIKADO, LA CASA AZUL, Kim Wilde, only different.

Eventually, the takes have been sent to Ian Catt's (ELIZABETH CITY STATE, THE FIELD MICE, ALPACA SPORTS) studio down in Croydon for extra mixing and mastering.Et voilà! Europop at its fizziest, ideal for dancefloors and walkmen.

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LA BIEN QUERIDA’s fifth album, “Fuego”, marked a turning point in Ana’s career. Musically speaking, it meant going back and travelling forward at the same time. The impeccable collection of songs is captivating both the press and fans all over the world. “Dinamita” is the album’s opening track, and the star of this new video. Once again, directed by Juanma Carrillo, LA BIEN QUERIDA’s music takes on a new dimension through the images, as Juanma himself explains:

“Is it possible to hope to know the world from a lost corner of the universecategoría From the first moment I heard “Dinamita” I imagined the opening scene, I visualized an adolescent on the edge of puberty, so many questions, and a strict, authoritarian father. The idea of a girl stepping out of a straight line of adults and escaping through a door bathed in light filled my head for months. Seeing things so clearly is good, but it is also painful and complicated to visualize something for so long; it makes things more difficult. That’s why, when I saw that image take real shape with one of the actors I pushed for, the young Alejandra Bittini, and the decorated set, I couldn’t believe it. “Dinamita” is a love song, a hymn to freedom and romanticism. So even though one of the clearest references that had been knocking around since a few videos ago was the pureness of adolescence from the young Sophia Coppola’s “The Vir [ Read more ]

Elefant Records is proud to announce the return of international pop super group ALPACA SPORTS with their newest single, “Summer Days”, taken from the upcoming album, “From Paris With Love”.

ALPACA SPORTS were formed in late 2011 by Andreas Jonsson. Having previously been in a band called BLUEKICKS with his childhood friend Carl Jirestedt, Jonsson struck out on his own, but called on several friends to help form his musical vision. Chief among them were Jirestedt and vocalist Amanda Åkerman. Their first single, 2012's "Just For Fun", was released by the Swedish label Luxury. It was the start of a long relationship, as the label released the "She'll Come Back For Indian Summer" and "I Was Running" singles in 2012 and the "As Long As I Have You", "Telephone" and "He Doesn't Even Like You" singles in 2013. Each record had a distinctive cover created by Japanese artist Ray Kimura.

ALPACA SPORTS' profile grew with each single, enchanting fans of classic indie pop worldwide with their sweetness and songs. The band played well-received sets at the 2013 NYC Popfest, as well as several European festivals and in Japan. In 2014 they issued another single, "Just Like Johnny Marr", then followed it with the “Sealed With A Kiss” album, which included many of the singles.

After signing with Spain's Elefant Records, they returned in 2015 with the Mini-LP “ [ Read more ]

What better way to start off this new year than with a new LA CASA AZUL songcategoría “La Gran Esfera” is taking shape, the puzzle is coming together piece by piece and soon we will be able to enjoy it as a whole. “El Momento” is the second advance single from LA CASA AZUL’s highly anticipated new album after the huge success of “Podría Ser Peor”, and it is a masterpiece – proof of Guille Milkyway’s endless talent and his ease for turning bitter lyrics into an immense ray of light and joy that pierces our heart and freezes it on the spot. This song sounds more contemporary than any of the group’s other songs, reinventing “synth-wave” and bringing it closer to “future disco”. It stirs Kavinsky’s spell and embellishes the disco melancholy of Luke Million and Fred Falke into a mix between the unease of the traditional and a futuristic fantasy. The vocals shine like never before and all the small vocal arrangements that accompany us through the song are so magical and suggestive that it’s like a light, fine summer rain where it seems like you’re not getting wet but in the end it soaks you to the bone, filling your body with freshness and life. This is LA CASA AZUL’s doctrine; this is the sound of 2018 – DAFT PUNK making futuristic Italo Disco; this is the true strength of the system, that feeling of a lost summer where you could have stayed forever, the announ [ Read more ]

Almost without a break, making the most of the final stretch of the extensive tour supporting “Psiconáutica” that has taken them through the majority of Spain as well as some European cities and festivals, LINDA GUILALA take their latest step forward with a limited edition vinyl single called “Primavera Negra”. Leaving behind the hits from an album that brought them wide renown both nationally and internationally, this new release from the group formed by Eva, Iván and Mari continues embracing that disconcerting, uneasy wall of sound inherited from MY BLOODY VALENTINE, but here it becomes melancholic and dreamy, far from the urgency that prevailed on their last album.

Primavera Negra, recorded again in Kaiju Studios in Vigo, produced by Eva M and mastered by Xavier Alarcón, draws attention to the personality of a group that is a master of sonic parameters, and who uses them to serve the turbulent emotions they deal with. That disillusionment that is so present in their lyrics is present on this Single, that whirlwind originating in spiritual questions that were also evident in the video for “Abstinencia”. This Single is confirmation that, fortunately, LINDA GUILALA is in enviable, inspirational shape.

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‘Sálvame’ renueva completamente su línea gráfica y estrena cabecera     Con aires de videojuego, la nueva cabecera del espacio renueva también su sintonía con una versión del ya emblemático tema principal de ‘Sálvame’, con base electropop a cargo de LA CASA AZUL, la banda lideradapor Guille Milkyway.    

Guille Milkyway, de La Casa Azul, reinterpreta la sintonía  

La nueva cabecera del programa contará también con una reintepretación de su ya emblemática sintonía, que ha llevado a cabo Guille Milkyway, líder del grupo LA CASA AZUL. Los creadores del formato explica que el artista ha generado “una versión más techno-pop y divertida de nuestro tema bandera que nos lleva a sus propios mundos, que a la vez son muy parecidos a los nuestros: alegría, diversión, una visión de la vida desde un punto de vista inocente, algo gamberro y lleno de fantasía. Además tanto Milkyway como nosotros tenemos un universo propio, único y lleno de color que la gente identifica rápidamente. LA CASA AZULes un grupo profundamente superficial o superficialmente profundo y bajo sus armonías juguetonas se esconde uno de los productores con más cultura musical de España. Es un honor contar con su colaboración para la nueva cabecera” [ Read more ]

The untiring Joe Moore is back with a new Mini-LP from THE YEARNING, in his endless search for beauty in music. In fact, some of the songs on this Mini-LP were conceived as continuations of the songs included on the last album, “Evening Souvenirs”, after the adventures with Lia Pamina and THE PERFECT KISS.

Accompanied again by Maddie Dobie and Mark Kiff,Joe Moore continues addressing his usual inclinations: the chanson, chamber pop, bossa, and above all, the perfect song. And once again, he is handling all the production work, the recording, and the songwriting, and is playing almost all the instruments. “How Do You Make Somebody Fall In Lovecategoría” insists precisely on everything that “Evening Souvenirs” aimed toward: the fragile delicateness of Claudine Longet and Françoise Hardy, elevated by baroque arrangements and exquisite nuances. “Do You Remembercategoría” is pure energy, festive and agile samba with orchestration that evokes musicals (that bridge that reminds us so much of “La La Land”) with a nostalgic look at how much music has changed. Side A closes with “Everything Is You” – elegance with echoes of Astrud Gilberto and Elis Regina, and that sax solo that Stan Getz would have been happy to have written. A beautiful bossa piece dedicated to his family.

 And the Brazilian breezes that are the clear stars of this album also open Side B, with “Airplane (Fly Me To M [ Read more ]

THE YEARNING are starting the year off with really good news – this coming January 19th is the release of their new album “Take Me All Over The World”, and at the beginning of April they’ll be travelling to Japan for their first tour in the land of the rising sun. This is a highly anticipated visit, in one of the countries that most admires the work of the versatile, multitalented British composer, arranger and producer, Joe Moore. But the news we are bringing you today is about Álex de la Iglesia’s new movie, “Perfectos Desconocidos”, which opened at the beginning of this past December. It became one of 2017’s biggest box-office earners for Spanish theaters, and in 2018 it is still going strong. More than two million people have already seen this hilarious comedy that closes with THE YEARNINGS’ “You Stopped The World” – a sweet, placid song, that sounds like the arrival of first love, a song that turns sadness into something beautiful, a perfect mix of Françoise Hardy, Claudine Longet and Astrud Gilberto. The melody stays with you when it feels like the rest of the world has turned its back. A nighttime gift by moonlight. “You Stopped The World” is included on their album “Evening Souvenirs”, released in October 2016. [ Read more ]

DECEMBER

*THE YEARNING "Do You Remembercategoría" Single Digital [12-12-2017]

NOVEMBER

*LA BIEN QUERIDA "Recompensarte (Aaron Rux Production)" Single Digital [29-11-2017]

*IBON ERRAZKIN "Foto Aérea" Single Digital [17-11-2017]

OCTOBER

*PAPA TOPO "La Maldita Primavera + Nos Parecía Importante" Digital Album [20-10-2017]

*LA BIEN QUERIDA "Fuego" Doble-LP/CD [6-10-2017]

SEPTEMBER

*FITNESS FOREVER "Tonight" LP/CD [29-9-2017]

*LIA PAMINA "The Boy I Used To Know" Single Digital [12-9-2017]

*LA BIEN QUERIDA "Recompensarte" Single Digital [8-9-2017]

*LINDA GUILALA "Linda Guilala Reworked By Apenino" Album Digital [1-9-2017]

JULY

*LA BIEN QUERIDA "El lado Bueno"  Digital Single [14-7-2017]

*BMX BANDITS "It's In Her Eyes" Single Digital [4-7-2017]

JUNE

*FITNESS FOREVER "Canadian Ranger" Single 7" [30-6-2017]

*LA BIEN QUERIDA "7 Días Juntos / Dinam [ Read more ]

 This VIDEO sums up our year

Playlist "Elefant Moments 2017" on SPOTIFY

Playlist Elefant Video-Clips 2017 on Youtube   

Playlist "Elefant Moments" 2010-2011-2012-2013-2014-2015-2016-2017" on YouTube    

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Después de haber presentado sus canciones por medio planeta [España, Inglaterra, USA, Francia ..] nuestros queridos PAPA TOPO se marchan a México para llevar a cabo una gira por siete ciudades. Pasarán por LOS ANGELES, TIJUANA, TOLUCA, MONTERREY, GUADALAJARA, MEXICO DF y PUEBLA.

Viernes, 29 diciembre 2017 Papa Topo Club Underground  LOS ANGELES [USA]     

Sábado, 30 diciembre 2017 Papa Topo Showcase MEEP Picnic Patio de La Mezcalera  TIJUANA [MÉXICO]    

Martes, 02 enero 2018 Papa Topo + Aguilar y sus Malditos Dandys y Driver Landó Foro  TOLUCA [MÉXICO]     

Miércoles, 03 enero 2018 Papa Topo Nodriza Estudio   MONTERREY [MÉXICO]    

Jueves, 04 enero 2018 Papa Topo Anexo Independencia  GUADALAJARA [MÉXICO]       

Viernes, 05 enero 2018 Papa Topo + Delicado Sónico Multiforo 246  DF MÉXICO [MÉXICO]      

Sábado, 06 enero 2018 Papa Topo Foro Karuzo  PUEBLA [MÉXICO]    

PAPA TOPO son más que un grupo musical, son una filosofía de vida. Pop pluscuamperfecto, sin tapujos, sin prejuicios, ni limitaciones. Todo cabe en PAPA TOPO. ¡Sus conciertos son altamente disfrutables! [ Read more ]

Soon, we will be able to enjoy the new release in Mini-LP format, “Take Me All Over The World”, by Joe Moore and his most well-known project, THE YEARNING. As an advance, we are bringing you one of the six songs that will be included on that 10”, numbered, limited-edition vinyl – the Digital Single “Do You Remembercategoría”.

The song is flooded with samba, with delicate arrangements, with Maddie Dobie’s delicious and essential voice, with echoes of Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto, drops of the “La La Land” soundtrack, the French chanson, and melancholy and emotion. This is all perfectly reflected in the video that Iain Mutch (WalkerAndWilliam) filmed for the occasion, with the experienced and remembered moments of a relationship that fades and reappears.

Get ready for a journey around the world with this music-loving demonstration of good taste, which will arrive in its entirety as soon as we begin the new year, 2018. 

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