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After giving us all their energy on their recent 10” mini-LP, “Sisters Before Misters”, WILD BALBINA are giving us a digital single that highlights one of the most fantastic songs from said release. “Stay Alive” has a tremendously catchy chorus; it plays with echoes of ECHOBELLY, PIXIES, HUGGY BEAR, and SLEATER-KINNEY; and tops everything off with a big dose of electricity and urgency. The digital single’s B-side is a previously unreleased song called “Such A Jerk”, where the band from Vigo uses all of their riot attitude, intelligently intermixing it with C-86 sounds, and with the end of the song drown out into feedback and distortion. As irresistible and energetic as ever. And what’s still to come.

Cover by Julia Huete 

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COOPER ha tenido una de las ideas más interesantes y lógicas de los últimos años en el panorama pop nacional. Se trata de facilitar la accesibilidad del público más joven a la cultura de la música y en este caso del pop en su sentido más literal. COOPER brinda esta idea haciéndola divertida y atractiva. 'La Gira del aperitivo' propone una serie de actuaciones en horario de vermouth en la que adultos y niños acompañados de tutor legal podrán disfrutar de la música en directo de COOPER.    

Con estos conciertos, COOPER brinda una oportunidad singular de disfrutar de un concierto de pop en un horario repleto de energía y vitalidad en un ambiente sano en el que el ocio y también lo didáctico van de la mano.  [Texto de Roberto Terne, RT Producciones] 

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We’ve been talking about it for a while now, and actually, we’ve even been able to get a little taste with the two advance singles, but now it is really happening: THE PRIMITIVES have a new album, and this time, it’s completely new material, which they’ve been letting us in on bit by bit. Time hasn’t passed for this group, whose sound is just as fresh as ever and whose contagious melodies take us back to the end of the eighties, beginning of the nineties, when they released such renowned albums as “Lovely”, “Pure”, and “Galore”.

“Spin-O-Rama” was one of the songs they gave us a preview of with the limited-edition 7” single. It has a perfect arpeggio suggestive of classic THE STONE ROSES, an infectious verse that sounds like a playground song set to BOBBY FULLER FOUR rhythm track, and Tracy Tracy giving us a marvelous, soaring chorus over a wall of snarling guitar. “Hidden In The Shadows” is a high-voltage Brit-pop punker along the lines of THE BUZZCOCKS and GENERATION X. “Wednesday World” continues in the English tradition, but this time focused in the psychedelic pop of the sixties, somewhere between Billy Nichols and THE KINKS, letting aromas of LOVE come through every now and then, with those prodigious bass lines, and the trot of the drums. “Follow The Sun Down” keeps us in the same period, but this time with a more twangy rhythm ‘n blues li [ Read more ]

SINGLE is a one-of-a-kind, inimitable group, and we will never get tired of saying so. We are still retracing the grooves of “Rea”, the last album from the duo formed by Teresa Iturrioz and Ibon Errazkin, and we are still finding touching and exciting surprises. One of these surprises is this “Me Enamoré” that is being released now as a digital single. It is a vaudeville-esque song, fantastical and full of sharp irony, and includes a rap by Garbanzo. One of those finds that throws you off the first time you hear it, and that inexplicably holds onto you, making you listen to it again and again until you can finally begin to understand that its mysteries are unexplainable, and that the only thing you can do is give yourself over to them.

For this digital single’s previously unreleased B-side, we have new proof of SINGLE’s skills with covers – both for choosing them and for covering them. In this case, we’re talking about “Soy Una Nube”, by the Columbian duo Elia y Elizabeth, who just released a compilation album with songs from their two albums from the early 70s, which had been lost and forgotten by the music industry for decades. And Teresa and Ibon’s revision reflects part of the melancholy psychedelia of the original, bathing it in those small samples and flirtations that are the house specialty. It’s an incredible song that they played for the first time at the Elefant party in Madrid on [ Read more ]

"Premeditación" Available for ORDER Here!!

"Premeditación"  [October 6th, 2014] Maxi-Single 12" [Sold Out]

"Nocturnidad" [January 6th, 2014] Maxi-Single 12"

"Alevosía" [March 6th, 2014] Maxi-Single 12"

"Premeditación, Nocturnidad y Alevosía" [March 6th, 2014] CD Álbum 

Everyone who loves Ana Fernández-Villaverde’sand David Rodríguez’s music has learned that staying still or staying comfortable isn’t really their thing. Their newest work drives that point even further home. In the next few months, they are going to release three 500-copy limited-edition, green-vinyl, 12” Maxi-Singles called, in order of release date, “Premeditación”, “Nocturnidad” and “Alevosía”, each with 4 songs. These singles will be released, respectively, October 6th (2014), January 6th, and March 6th (2015). The three album covers will make up one painting by Ana Fernández-Villaverde herself, a painting which will be completed with the cover of the CD, and which will give us an impossible image inspired by the work of M.C. Escher. The CD will be released together with the Maxi-Single, it will contain all of the songs and will complete the new album,  “Premeditación, Nocturnidad y Alevosía".

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If you’re holding this album in your hands, it’s likely that at some point or another you have asked yourself any or all of the following questions about this mysterious and unfathomable music group: Who were OVIFORMIA SCIcategoría How is it possible that  a group so tremendously ahead of its time musically and esthetically never release anythingcategoría Why were they the way they werecategoría What were their references and influencescategoría How did they become a cult group beyond our borderscategoría Why have they never been released despite the interest of thousands of curious synth-pop fans all over the planetí Who made their videoscategoría How is it possible that such an incredibly modern group existed 30 years agocategoría …and so on, and so on, with an endless string of questions and unknowns about a group we have known very little about and heard very little from, until now.  Many of us have been following OVIFORMIA SCI’s difficult trail for years, through beat-up cassettes and recordings, and also through disconnected music-magazine clippings (and even gossip magazine clippings!), but there has been little else. It wasn’t until Youtube got here and the work of thousands of fans like you, putting videos and demos up, when we became shocked and speechless, watching the amazing universe of OVIFORMIA SCI. The videos for “Mi Teletipo”, “Hablamos De Nosotros”, and “Fashion Magazines” only serve [ Read more ]

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After a brief period of time which we put to good use by checking out new talent on the music scene (both nationally and internationally), we’ve returned with our New Adventures In Pop, where we give voice to those artists who are relatively unknown to the general public, some just starting out, and others who have spent years holding on to prodigious treasures. In this release we have two very different stories. The Lia Pamina single features some impressive background figures of music history joining forces around a sweet-voiced singer to form an amazing single of europop and soft pop. And we also have the Filipino-American quintet, MARINE LIFE, giving off the luminous energy of their native California, where they write unbeatable pop songs. Join us and discover the two new releases in our New Adventures In Pop collection.

LIA PAMINA “How Come I”

Numbered Limited Edition of 500 copies [Clear Green Colour Vinyl] **Includes a free digital MP3 download [320 kbps]

Lia began singing after hearing her favorite singer, Astrud Gilberto, who, along with Claudine Longet, Margo Guryan and Blossom Dearie, influenced her vocal style. This single is one of those strange and random happenstances which results in little gems, in which the only motivation is a passion for music. Lia Pamina is a vocalist and songwriter from Castellón who previously released her songs online. That’s how her music fou [ Read more ]

“My Girl Midge” is the new single by BMX BANDITS. The song was recorded by Duglas Stewart and David Scott (THE PEARLFISHERS) on August 27th on David's home studio. It is a song about loss and heartbreak but Duglas wanted it to be more than just another sad song. He wanted the song to be filled with the light of love and for it not to be maudlin. Duglas said: "I want people to be able to dance to it and not just to feel its sadness but also the love in it".

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Here at Elefant Records, we are absolute fans of HELEN LOVE, and it’s no secret. It’s not just because of their addictive, spot-on songs, but because we identify completely with their hedonistic, carefree, youthful philosphy that their lyrics and attitude give off. This new 7” limited-edition, red-vinyl single is new proof of just that. And if there’s any doubt, look at the title track, “Pogo Pogo”, a song composed with Ricardo Autobahn, a British producer specialized in remixes and mash-ups, who plays with the group in live shows. We see ourselves jumping and dancing like crazy in the first row while our beloved girls shout that “The First Punk Boy In Rome… And He Plays Bass Guitar Like Dee Dee Ramone” to the rhythm of crazed techno-pop.   

The rest of the songs are every bit its equal, as you can image. “Make Up, Break Up” is an impetuous song full of humor about the moment of breaking up that has all of the styles that HELEN LOVE usually plays: punk, Bubblegum, disco, indie-pop, and eighties sounds, with those amazing vocoders on the bridge. “Red Light” is one of the best pop-punk songs that we have heard in a long time, full of the anxiety and urgency to see a person you want to be with, that manages to get immediately inside your head and pierce your brain with those speedy guitars and Ramones spirit. Finally, the B-side closes with “Julie’s Got A New 7 Inch Si [ Read more ]

The last vinyl single by THE PRIMITIVES that we released, “Lose The Reason” (which sold out in just a few days) was the first taste of the group’s new songs and of their upcoming album. “Spin-O-Rama” is big news. First of all, because there is a new and appetizing release for all the people who love THE PRIMITIVES’ songs; secondly, because this single is another step closer to the release of their upcoming full-length, this time with their own songs, for Elefant Records. And the third reason is that this imminent new album is full of songs as fabulous as “Spin-O-Rama” and “Lose The Reason”.

“Spin-O-Rama” has a delicious arpeggio motif that reminds us of something from an early Cat Stevens’ single, guitars in the best tradition of C86, a chorus that is brazenly catchy and a dynamic that takes you up and down like a roller coaster, elated and overjoyed. It sounds like a HIT for sure. The B-side is one of their trademark covers (we already got a taste of them on their last album), of which we are such fans. It’s like something pulled out of an old crate full of dusty 7” singles, containing the kind of forgotten gems that collectors obsess over. In this case the cover is of a group from the mid-sixties called THE WHAT’S NEW, who, curiously, despite being Americans, only barely released a few things in France, among which we can find the marvelous “Up So High” which our prot [ Read more ]

Retrato de Carmen Santonja, 1946, de Eduardo Santonja Rosales

Nací en Madrid el 4 de julio de 1934 y el 17 de julio de 1936 me fui con mi madre, mi hermana y mi tía Pilar a veranear a San Sebastián. Mi padre debía reunirse con nosotras unos días más tarde, pero estos días se alargaron tres años.  

Así pues, si bien mis ojos vieron la luz en Madrid, mi entendimiento se despertó en San Sebastián y mis primeros recuerdos están perfumados por el olor del mar, iluminados por el verde de los montes y empapados de txirimiri. Las primeras impresiones musicales me llegaron a través de la radio nacionalista, con sus himnos de ardores guerreros y sus cuplés de amores imposibles que me hacían llorar. Lloraba tanto con “María de la O” que era tan desgraciaíta teniéndolo tó, como con la historia del camarada que cae herido de muerte en la batalla: “A mis pies cayó el herido, el amigo más querido y en su falda muerte vi”, cantaba yo hecha un mar de lágrimas en vez de: “Y en su faz la muerte vi”, porque desconocía la plabra “faz” y, aunque el hecho de que un soldado llevara falda no dejaba de parecerme raro, lo aceptaba como un mist

It has been a while since we heard news about our beloved THE SCHOOL (though soon we will be telling you about their next album, which they are already in the process of recording), but we have news for their fans. The British label WIAIWYA run by our friend John Jervis is back this year with their 7777777 Singles Club and they are releasing a 7” Picture-Disc collection on the 7th of every month from April to December, including releases from bands like MY FAVOURITE, THE LEAF LIBRARY, and TRICKY MAMMOTH. This collection includes a release from Liz’s band for this coming August 7th.

Two marvelous, previously unreleased songs which will be released in digital format by Elefant Records. The title track, “When I Fall In Love”, is especially worth pointing out; it’s full of a special energy, halfway between new-wave and the Motown spirit. It is an immediate hit with an unforgettable chorus that gives the finishing touches to that tropical-flavored bridge, led by a simple yet delicious guitar arrangement. And it will definitely have a leading role in the group’s repertoire in their upcoming concerts. On the B-side, “Just Let Me Be” is a fun, playful rock ‘n roll, sweet and timid, endearing and addictive, with echoes of BELLE & SEBASTIAN thanks to that precious trumpet solo, which is clearly their trademark style.

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Release in VINYL format for the 25th anniversary of Elefant Records [Numbered Limited Edition of 500 copies **Includes a free digital MP3 download [320 kbps]

This is an opportunity to enjoy it all on vinyl for the first time.

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We continue to celebrate Elefant Record’s 25th anniversary with re-releases of some of the most significant albums from the label’s history. The newest of these is one of the albums we are the proudest of: “Romancero”, by LA BIEN QUERIDA.

Before they blew up the national scene, LA BIEN QUERIDA was a well-known secret. The demo revealed a talent that had a special sensitivity, a surprising capacity to write disarming lyrics and an sharp ability to build delicious melodies. But nobody expected anything like “Romancero” to happen. All the promises from the demo were amplified; Ana Fernández-Villaverde’s songs reacted explosively with the imagination of David Rodríguez (BEEF, LA ESTRELLA DE DAVID), and they created a strange sort of magical bond somewhere between innovation and emotion, nothing like the music scene had ever seen before. It was an unprecedented production that mixed flamenco, Arabian music, rancheras, and even techno-pop, creating a clamoring of opinions unusual for a debut album. All of this led them to be on the cover of specialized magazines like Mondosonoro and El Pais’ supplement EP3; they were chosen as best album of [ Read more ]

LINDA GUILALA are in a state of grace. We have already mentioned the intense production activity that Iván and Eva have been doing with groups like AXOLOTES MEXICANOS, WHEN NALDA BECAME PUNK and LOS BONSAIS, but the release of “Xeristar” made it clear that we

were dealing with a group at the top of their game and that, with the incorporation of Bruno Mosquera on guitar, they had gained even more intensity and electricity (if that’s even possible). That’s why we want to make the most of this fantastic moment and put out a digital single with two previously unreleased songs.

The single starts off with one of the songs taken from “Xeristar”, “Verano”, which tells one of those stories that it is impossible not to fall for, with echoes of LOS PLANETAS, the electric strength of MY BLOODY VALENTINE, and the urgent pop of punk groups like TIGER TRAP. It is perfectly suited to waking our minds up these summer vacations. “Jaime, Iván y Marta”, the first of the previously unreleased tracks, is even more urgent, like an aggressive version of AUTOMATICS bathed in choruses by YO LA TENGO with an especially angry Ira Kaplan between the irreverent waves of feedback, paying a particular homage to Lou Reed. “Abisal” starts off with an instrumentation that is an authentic wall of electricity, impassable, as strong as an ocean that marks the separation between two worlds – the world of noise and th [ Read more ]