"EL HUERTO" STUDIOS 199X The golden age of
noisecore in Spain took place during the
first half of the 90s and the number
of bands and projects that were formed
during those years was really surprising. Next, and by their
creators, we will talk about some of the most delirious and
unknown that we have been able to find. Tapes, photocopies and fake stamps. BRUTALES NAUSEAS,
MACETA, PIKANDO CEBOLLAS, REPARTIENDO CHUPETES…
These are just a few of the countless
parallel projects that were created ar
ound
the legendary EXCRETED ALIVE. José and Manolo, founding members
of EXCRETED ALIVE, tell us about them. Well, it all started at the beginning of
1991, with EXCRETED ALIVE. Well, rehearsing very occasionally at the house
of our first drummer, named Eduardo Abril. The first project, which means The first
project is BRUTALES NAUSEAS, because The germ of EXCRETED ALIVE
is a project at our first drummer's house based on buckets and based on…
- Yes, with drumsticks, with a little Marshall, a gui
tar, José's
voice and me in the bass. And we had quite a few
spectators because, of course, we had the
neighbors there watching us. Yes, we made so much
noise that obviously, with The passage of time,
well we had to leave because it was quite
annoying and, of course, That couldn't happen anymore
because the neighbors... The neighbors asked us for
more songs, but it was complicated. It was difficult, it was difficult to be
able to continue there, but oh well. Because many songs in a row, you know
,
people, you know, started jumping on top of the bed, crashing
into the furniture, you know. - It was complicated.
- It was tremendous, it was tremendous. Well, and the first formation of
BRUTALES NAUSEAS, which was the The germ of EXCRETED ALIVE was Paco, who was
an elite guitarist...- 'gicochi preziosi' guitarrist. But man, the kid knew 'The Godfather'. Yes, man, at least he played something. To play 'The Godfather' with the guitar. And he played it quite well. It was the only thing he played
,
but hey, it was something at least. And he learned to play
bass with EXCRETED ALIVE. More than learning to play
it, what I did was beating it. I learned to play the flute too. We did the best we could. I haven't learned yet, but oh well. I did what I could, I
shouted what I could. When they came to hit me, I
screamed as much as I could. I ran as much as I could and
screamed as much as I could. They never caught me, honestly. Well, since we have already talked about BRUTALES
NAUSEAS, which was
the germ of EXCRETED ALIVE, Well now we are going to talk about MACETA, right? MACETA was a conceptual group. of some kind of music, A little complicated
for the neighbors too. We played live once in the street, next to our house. There, in a train station. And it was very nice. They called the police because they believed that They were killing someone there. It was horrible. We had to crawl out. That was a historic day. Yes, there between the
wagons and such, right? Yes, between the wagons, pl
aying. MACETA's live performance
was a bit complicated. Well, REPARTIENDO
CHUPETES, it was in the rehearsal room that we
had for EXCRETED ALIVE. It was a day that I missed rehearsals. and they took advantage of it to do
the project because it was, let's say, Luismi's project, from
our second drummer. The problem we had is that when we
didn't want to do EXCRETED ALIVE, because, you know, it was more
commercial, EXCRETED ALIVE, We wanted to make more noise. And, of course, we were almost all the
t
ime making as much noise as we could. We liked it. They liked to make songs, improvise. And, of course, that day, well, It turns out that it was recorded in two days. The first 18 songs on
the first demo that was released, which is 'La Brigada del Chupete', The first 18 songs were recorded
in April and then The Other two were recorded in May, at the
beginning of May. In which, well, they
recorded the first part, José, Jaime and Luismi, They made the first phase of
the demo and then I recorded th
e last two songs in other dates. And, well, that was released
by Puding de Pota Records. It was like a jam session. The songs, then, were very light-hearted. The songs, then, were all nonsense. And giving attention to
'Bacalao', which at that time was not fried, it was only
roasted round and round. People were on acid and
what we did was criticize all that stale fashion from that group that was out of date.
- The children of before, We are very old for that already. And, well, then
later, in the
year 96. A split demo with PUS was released. Another project, MUSICA MOENNA. Well, MUSICA MOENNA, the truth is that
it was a meeting of colleagues that we met in many of the concerts
we gave here in Seville. Friends, related to the band
because they already knew us. We were meeting a lot of people
because there were people who, when they heard us at concerts,
what they did was shit on us, throw everything away. And to all this group
that participated with us, Well, he liked it and
laughed his a
ss off with us. There were people who enjoyed it. And, in fact, well, they
asked us, well, that, to do a jam session at
some colleagues' house. And we did it. In MUSICA MOENNA there were
people who played the saxophone, who played the organ,
that is, we made a mix a bit complicated...
- It was a sound, like NAKED CITY. But done our own way. Because with the means
we had as musicians... And we were such
bad musicians, well, it turned out as it was, obviously. Man, we weren't musicians. To start w
ith. We were noise makers, let's leave it like that. N.O.N., well, it is I DON'T HEAR ANYTHING. I give the name of the project. because we really tried to
make noise at a certain moment. So that no one could hear anything. It was really quite noisy. Another was PIKANDO CEBOLLAS, Well, the name of the project
is because one day I was... They looked for me to record
the projects, I don't know why. I was available, right? We are going to call José to record the project. I was always the one they
ca
lled to record the project. One, another, another, come on. I was chopping onions. How are we going to name the project? Look, I was just chopping
onions at my house. Let's call it PIKANDO CEBOLLAS. And we set up a jam
session anywhere. - It could be...
- At any time. Any time. They might put you in a certain room. And at a certain time. Come on, there was
no preference for places. and things like that, right? BILLA REBUSNO DEL MONTE, more of the same. One day I was reading a
Mortadelo and Filem
ón comic. and they asked me for the name of a project. Why are you asking me...? It's like asking... It's the same as giving a
gun to a monkey. Are you going to ask me
for the name of a project? so the first thing
that comes to mind. Well, BILLA REBUSNO DEL MONTE. Well, come on. BILLA REBUSNO DEL MONTE. You know? BILLA REBUSNO DEL
MONTE, well more of the same. Another jam session, making conceptual music. ACCION POTANTE more of
the same, but, you know, done better, with covers. AREA X-69 was a p
roject of the drummer. Yeah. And we had a special
performance with Loli. Do you remember Loli, right? Yes, yes, I remember Loli too. Well, she sang. It was a project because the drummer
liked this '69 thing and stuff like that. I don't understand much of that. It's just that at that time...
He really liked those things. ...Luismi really liked
the theme of music, like punching, also
from time to time. Punching, punching, punching. PRODIGY style, and that kind of music. PRODIGY, MINISTRY. We were
like more GODFLESH, more
noisy, more 7 MINUTES OF NAUSEA. We were pulling more towards the,
let's say, noisier side. And he mixed it with Industrial. And that's how things came out. An explosive mixture came out. Rare, rather rare. It seemed like NAPALM DEATH's
'Multinational Corporations'. Well, speaking of ESKRUPULO. SKRUPULO was not our project. ESKRÚPULO is a
band that played with us. That they were friends of ours. That at a certain point they were
playing several concerts with us. And so w
e recorded a
lot of things with them. We were very good colleagues. And we played live with them. And they have recorded things. And in fact they continue recording things. And in the '90s we had a lot of fun. Because at least two
concerts we were with them. Yes, we played at the labor
university with them too. That was nonsense, but oh well. It was tremendous. It was that tremendous. There are projects that
we have recorded outdoors. Because we wanted to
have contact with the audience. Because
everything was not
going to be in closed places. In rooms. And one day we wanted to record a live performance of one of our
projects, which was MACETA. and MACETA, we went to the Train Station. To an abandoned wagon. And three or four of us got there. Playing what was around there. Because of course, with the technical means...
I don't know if there was a guitar or something. I think yes, there was something. If there was any guitar, it would be a country one. It would be an acoustic. Because ou
tdoors and
how you didn't plug into brick walls, I don't know where
you were going to plug in. Because I don't even remember anymore. But I know Isabel was there. Isabel is now Jaime's wife. Jaime of EXCRETED ALIVE. And we were recording. And of course, She was one of ones who sang. And sing, well, sing... She was the one who screamed. And of course, that caused a lot of controversy. Because the neighbors, of
course, heard a girl screaming and a guy acting like an animal over there. You know, a
lot of grunting. And they thought they
were really raping someone. They called the police. And the police came. But before we had already left. We weren't going to wait for them. To greet them. - Another project like this that we have...
- KOSAS DE BAKA, don't you remember? - Ah, the one Jaime was talking about in the other...
- KOSAS DE BAKA was tremendous. I remember that one day
we were in the little park. KOSAS DE BAKA. Who would come up with The name? I think that on a weekend, I don't know
if
it was a Saturday or Sunday we got into the house of an uncle of mine who was there
at that time... It was under construction. His house was under construction. And well, I imagine
that poor Manolo would get some
quarrels from his father because I don't think that would
go unnoticed by the neighbors. This is Manolo, this is poor Manolo. His house was under construction. His home was under construction. It was undergoing renovations
and it occurred to us all to go in there. Of course, since w
e had space. And record KOSAS DE BAKA there. There was an electric spinning
top, screwdrivers, a vice... The truth is that there was everything. There was a little bit of everything to make noise. Spanners. There were many instruments, actually. And it occurred to us to
make a tremendous noise there and record it with one of
these, hand type recorders. On a sandy floor that sounded
like echo and everything. On a sandy floor. Yes, yes, tremendous. Because of course, everything was
messed up at po
or Manuel's place. And we named it KOSAS DE
BAKA, as Jaime says in the video, a little bit in allusion to
the television series they were showing at the time
that was 'Family Matters'. And our friend Steve Urkel
was one of the characters, right? I got the idea there,
let's make KOSAS DE BAKA. Since we were going to do it in a
house and it was 'Family matters', Well, instead of 'Family Matters', COWS MATTERS. To change something, you know,
so that it wouldn't be so shabby. Which labels from that
time did you
usually have most contact with? Well, Cadaverizer Records. Cadaverizer Records,
was one of the first labels we contacted. Yes, one of the first
labels were Cadaverizer. And Upground too, with Iñaki. Upground Productions, I
corresponded a lot with Iñaki and he offered us the
opportunity to release a demo. A great memory of doing many
things with Iñaki and Gerardo. Specifically, the demo
was 'Injusta Situación'. That was recorded by our friend Toste of EXTREME
MASTURBATION. And so. Ca
daverizer, we have good memories of it. Because perhaps
is the one who made us more known.. Made us known beyond our boundaries. It was our... as we say,
helped us a lot. With that split with JANGLE, it was amazing. And JANGLE is pure noise. For me it is one of the bands... well, one of
the most powerful noise projects in the world. Regards to
Javier of JANGLE. And then another label that
supported us a lot was Abnormal Beer Tapes, and then Abnormal Beer
Terrorism os our friend Matjaz Galicic. T
he Slovenian who also came to visit
us here in Seville and met us in person. He even made t-shirts for us. He released two split eps for
us and gave us some t-shirts. The truth is that it was a
great support for us. He came with another
colleague. The two Slovenians came. The truth is that they are both very good people. We conversed very well in Spanish
because we had no idea of English. In English it was
difficult for us, but oh well. In Spanish not... But of course, in the end, like everyone
else, with the theme of musical stuff, The noise thing, well you
understand yourself perfectly. The truth is that it didn't take much. The language was not necessary, at all. To understand with people who know... who have been on the same thing
for years and know what they are doing, what they like. And the truth is that we quite
enjoyed the time they spent with them. And besides, all over
the world that we have had contact with
labels, we have had a lot. Because EXCRETED ALIVE had
released mate
rial with a lot of labels. And the projects have also been released... In Pudding de Pota Records. In Pudding de Pota. Which was our label, let's say, self label. There were several people
on the label and we released, All things that,
for example, did not appear on other labels,
we self-released them. And projects like that that we have released,
we have released on Roberto's label. That... Shit... Oh yeah. In which he released all the projects
like that in a humorous vein and such. Yes, fun pr
ojects, Shit Attack, right? Shit Attack. A lot. It was a shit attack,
a total shit attack. Jaime, who also played in
EXCRETED ALIVE, and his wife Isa, also were part of that maelstrom
dedicated to the purest noise, contributing to various
projects and distributors. Well, the truth is that
there were quite a few projects, in fact, I have a
very bad memory, very bad, and I'm not going to remember,
there's no way I'm going to remember everything, but we have made a list here
of what we have more o
r less agreed upon, or we have been able to collect,
right? And there were quite a few, I believe many more than these, and
some that were not even edited or such, but well, the ones that were
released and so on, well, Isa. Well, BRUTAL MASSAKRE
OF TOREROS, for example. 'My Summer Love Affairs',
which was, well, I was Not very good at English... 'My Summer
Loves', something like that. INTENSO COLOR DE OIDOS. KOSAS DE BAKA, already quite well known. KOSTRA. MASTIKAPEÑASKOS, too. BILLA REBUSNO DE
L MONTE (NIDO DE MALHECHORES). PIKANDO CEBOLLAS. MACETA, too. IRRITACIÓN EXTREMA. ARMONIZIDIO. ACCION POTANTE. LSD. And, also we remember,
CENTRIFUGADO DE NEURONAS. Of all these projects, well,
there are some in which both of us participated, or
both of us with more people, or some of it was, maybe it
was just me with my brother, but, as I say, I'm sure we
have plenty left in the pipeline, but well, so a little
of what we were able to remember would
be... here was a good list. Besides, it was a
bit, let's see who
would do the biggest stupid thing. Who made the most noise. Exactly. Who made the most noise. Let's see who came up
with the craziest idea. The funniest name. The most crazy song titles. That is, taking into account that they were
also things that tended to arise on the go, because something you though
of and you did it and that's it. So, a lot, but
really a lot. The most insane of
all, that I can remember right now, was perhaps
the first KOSTRA demo, I think it was 91 or 92,
and I
think that was the craziest, because apart from being the first, it
was the first time we made noise. It came up, not on the go,
because we did plan to go to the house of a relative
of mine, a cousin of mine, take the guitar, and so...
I don't remember anymore, maybe I spoke about
it in the first part of your documentary, that several
people gathered there, with a guitar, a 2-watt Marshall,
a mop bucket, two spoons, my cousin had a bugle,
anoother guy was shouting, and that was in a room t
hat opened
onto a huge patio eye, do you remember? I don't know how
many neighbors there could be down there, but there we locked
ourselves in the room, with the window open, because it was also...
- And it was summer. And it was summer, and it was also
about, hey, since we're going to waste art, Let everyone know,
which is your our, right? And that was perhaps one of the craziest. Then another one of
the craziest ones, which I think I may have also
mentioned last time, It was when we went to
re
cord, when they were doing the Santa Justa
station, the train station, and there in the middle of an embankment,
well, maybe, a little, let's say, rudimentary, Very rudimentary. there with José from EXCRETED ALIVE, Manolo
from EXCRETED ALIVE, I think Isra too, I think Isra was there, Roberto I think he
was there too, from Shit Attack and such, Israel of PURULENT DEFECATION,
by the way, which I remembered now, And there we started shouting,
taking trips, hitting people, and that was the day the p
olice came, because
they thought we were raping her. As it was an open field, from the
buildings you could see what we were doing, and people would be there freaking out. Of course, because I imagine that
anyone who looked out the window, in fact, in fact, the blocks that we had
right in front of us, if you remember, They were the same blocks where Manolo lived. Manolo and also Roberto. Exactly, what happens is
that, for example, Roberto, The windows of Roberto's
house faced the opposite side, b
ut Manolo's, I would swear,
Manolo from EXCRETED, bassist from EXCRETED ALIVE, I would swear
that they were the same wasteland. So, that is, the level of, I don't
know if it is unconsciousness, or that you don't care about
everything, or whatever, but possibly, of course, the people
who listened to us there, maybe, The police came, a lot of people
would be watching out at the windows, and now for now, those neighbors over
there, seeing your neighbor Manolo coming, that he lived in those
blocks,
well see him coming, That he said, well that's
where the police have been. And of course, I imagine that
the speculations would begin, Well, of course, that's
because who knows, he'll be a drug addict,
who knows, who knows... And because also, as I think
I also said the previous time, when we recorded the first
demo of KOSAS DE BAKA, which I think was also
the second project we did, which was released by Puding de Pota and such, We did it in an apartment that Manolo's
father was renovating as a
bricklayer, In other words, we already
had precedents at that time. Isa: How did you experience that time
in a world with so little female presence? Well, the truth is
that since I have always been so
surrounded by my people, with everyone who went, as well as
José, Manolo, with Antonio, with everyone. I have never felt displaced
or marginalized for being a woman or
anything, I lived it quite well. Wherever you went you were
always welcomed perfectly, They didn't leave you on the sidelines, logi
cally, So I have a pretty nice
memory of that whole time and I had a hell of a time and
we met a lot of people, We contacted a lot of people
and it was a very nice experience. The truth is that I don't remember it
being something negative, on the contrary, I have no memory of people
displacing me for being a woman, On the contrary, people
support you and I was one more, well, one more of all of us who were
going because they were all friends, They were all men and
I was the only girl there was,
but in any case I
have never felt marginalized, neither displaced, nor
anything, totally the opposite. Based in the province of Malaga, Juan Kalvellido delighted us with
hundreds of drawings and logos that adorned hundreds of
demo and fanzine covers. dedicated to the underground. We also owe him the creation of one
of the least known projects of the time. and that he formed with his nephew
Javi, who was only three years old, Which could fit into
experimental noise. L@S MAIBEIBY. Let's see, proje
ct, project...
L@S MAIBEIBY is not a project, L@S MAIBEIBY is simply that,
well, my family came from the town And well, they came here into my
house, literally, and I went to my room. and my nephew, well I
had these headphones that hold your ears, which
at that time was like Wow, wow, headphones that hold your
ears and you hear what's inside, wow! So he loved it, he loved it... He loved to put on his
headphones and sing and talk things, nonsense,
he talked nonsense. and one day well... well one
day, I don't
know, I don't even know when he was. I was there drawing, because he
was drawing for 'MALA impresion' that I had to draw the
comics, I to deliver them. and he said, Uncle, Uncle, play the music for me! So I played it for him and
I didn't even listen to him. That is, I didn't listen to
the music that was in his head because that was what I
played, but he started singing. and on top of that I played, what do I know,
MANIATICA, or FREAK SHOW, or 3 DE BASTOS... and he started singing La
ura Pausini. So, well, I don't know, I don't even know how it was
but I started to record it, I started to record it. apart from what I heard, what he said and the
truth is, well, what do I know, eventually, There was something nice
and like I always look for humor... I think that was nice, that's it. Well, we were my nephew when we were 3 years old. and I, I was drawing
while he was singing. I set it to record and he said all the
nonsense he wanted. We also put a record on
it because I had my m
usical equipment, Formerly, from a record player double deck, a CD
and that's it, he started singing, I turned the
record backwards, forwards, here, there, I
added a little guitar. and what do I know, I don't know, I don't know how it came out I really don't know how it came out but... We recorded it so we could listen to it ourselves. and he laughs. The
recording was a tape, They were L@S MAIBEIBY 'So what?' which was because of MEGADETH. and a child saying 'poop, fart, ass' and it was 'shit,
rock and roll, oh yeah' We divided it into 2 sleepless nights. side A was a sleepless night and side B was another sleepless night. And side A is the one that I
shared, the one that I... I don't know. the one that I knew about, so that you can see the one I knew about. But the B side... which is an audio that you sent me. and I have discovered now. Let's see, yes, I did
it but 30 years ago. and I love, love,
love that B-side. second night without sleep. which apparently was edited somewhere. and
from here I tell
you that if you want it. we can send it to you. Have you considered the possibility of
re-editing the material recorded at the time? by L@S MAIBEIBY? No, no, reedit, reedit
the L@S MAIBEIBY. Cheers! and not a step back, Victory. See you forever. Reissue L@S MAIBEIBY? But if Javi.... The vocalist, He is the participant in
everything, he is the genius. He is now, what do I know, 33 years old. I don't know how many he has, 33. And he doesn't even remember that. I'll send him this
video
to see what he says. but no reissue, no.
We lived that time. We continue living it... ...careful. some are not here. and well, it's there. and it is nice that we have
gone through it and lived it. otherwise. No, that time died,
it died. No, don't re-release
that crap, no... everything was nonsensical, no, no, no! Barcelona was a province in which
a multitude of projects emerged. Cesc and Carles were responsible for the creation of a good number
of them, such as MIKROONDAS INDIGENT. Well, I
'm Carles and... I created the MIKROONDAS
INDIGENTE project. I currently play with
Francesc in REDIMONI. We have had numerous projects,
both noise, metal and even hardcore. then the idea of MIKROONDAS
INDIGENTE arose, I wanted, I was looking for a
project and I was hesitating to make a noise project, or an
industrial project. So, for the industrial project
it had the name Microwave. and for the noise project I had the
name for the Indigente project and I hadn't quite decided about which of the
projects he wanted to do. especially because in the
industrial I was thinking of me making riffs,
something more structured. However, in the noise part I don't think... I felt like I couldn't
give it that brutality of noise. So I finally decided
to do like a mix. and do a project industrial noise and I just put the
names together and it came from there. MIKROONDAS INDIGENTE. I recorded a single demo. - 'Con Fundamento'.
- 'Con Fundamento', then... I recorded the first demo which was called 'Con
Fundamento'. and well basically, I used some drum bases that we already
had for a project... a Death Metal band we had
at that time called NUN SPITE. and... Taking advantage of the bases,
I composed the rhythm guitar and then the vocals. I also got different
intros from radio shows. and, as to... As for editing, it simply came
out through ZDP Records. in the compilation
that was called... 'Escroto Total' 1 or 2? - 1.
- 'Escroto Total 1'. that you made logo for me, remember? And I told you I don
't have a logo. And you said: 'don't worry, we've already set
up something, what do you think of this one?' and when I saw it, I said: Perfect! So, that's where the idea of the
project, recording and editing came from. and that was the only
release the project had. You had the second one in mind, right? Yes, I had the second one in mind. and I had the title for
the demo, it was called... I had in mind the second
demo that I never recorded, but I already had the
title, it was called... Well yes
, I had planned to
release the second demo, I never got around to recording whose
title was 'Llegó el Capataz'. But it didn't go from there. Surely other projects
came out and well... It coincided with the noise debacle. Do you remember that there was a boom? that all groups from the scene they had their project. I mean, all the bands at that time
hardcore bands, death metal bands. each band had, parallely their Noise project. More or less. And there was a boom, well, that was
already mentioned
in the first documentary. and that boom at the end became saturated. and fell... and ' Llegó El Capataz' did not arrive because It would already be saturated apart
from we had LA SUEGRA which wuth we recorded
more demos with I think, we made more releases, even with LÁPIZ I think you already mentioned
it, so it was our focus. more as a group. I don't know, for example, how LA
SUEGRA arrived in Brazil, - because what happened to us was...
- By plane! Because what happened was... It was that, as a
n exchange,
I suppose, we received a letter from Brazil with an
interview for LA SUEGRA. Something like that, If I remember correctly,
we were amazed, Well, they contacted us from Brazil. for LA SUEGRA. It was something like, like... - For us it was...
- Well, it would surely be Some acquaintance of ours, some
contact who had sent the Escroto Total tape, there would have been
some, in some package towards Brazil, well he would have
put that tape, it came to him to that person and... and well thi
s was really, this
was much more magical than than the current Internet
that everything is immediate. You know that you post
something on Bandcamp. and immediately the
whole world listens to you Before, music had to
travel in a physical format. What can you tell us about other
projects you had at that time, such as example MAGIN, ALPARGATOR,
ALMORRANA, YO-GUR, GRENYATOR or REPUS? MAGIN was formed by
my brother, Francesc and I. The history of MAGIN
comes because in our youth in those years,
next
to the High School Where we were going, there
was a bar whose owner was called Magín and he had
a very bad temper. Apart The place was completely
dirty, but the good thing about the place
was that it had a part that It was like an old
theater, it had a stage. and where it had table
football, billiards and it was... we thought
it was totally wasted, since we saw it as
a perfect place for concerts, but that
man had it there dirty, and I remember that the
curtain, there was the stage and then you
could see
the curtain and it had painted, prohibited to pass, but
prohibited without 'h'. And that man also
had, there was a part of that bar that was
like a patio that had it closed and had
animals there, had dogs, Mostly at that time he had a dog named
Nana, but there were also chickens, And well, there was the
bar area, the billiards area where there was the
famous prohibited without 'h'. and the closed area
where the dog Nana was, who had also very bad
tempered and always things happened the
re,
always when you entered if you forgot to say hello
he would yell at you and said We were rude,
then the dog always barked when she saw us and
she was always very angry. bad temper, anything
that happened, if he got the balls stuck in the
football table or something It was quite an odyssey,
he was always screaming and due to his bad temper
and all the anecdotes that happened to us
there we decided to pay tribute and start a noise
group called MAGIN, so We recorded a demo
whose title, I rememb
er we were thinking what
title we could give it that really reflects the bad nature
of him and The shithole that he had and we chose a very very
appropriate title which was 'Malvenidos a mi Tugurio-Antro' and the songs were basically about
all the anecdotes that had happened to us there,
about all the times that... And to record
it, we recorded it at my house with my brother and
I remember that you had a acoustic guitar, a Spanish
guitar with all the strings and I had another one that had only t
wo
strings which was the one that sounded worse and my brother
did the percussions. and well we decided, well,
one day when our parents were not at home we decided to
record The Tribute to Magín. with all his bad temper and all his anecdotes
about the times he kicked us out of there. ALPARGATOR was a personal project of mine,
the idea was to make Grind, it was not Noise, It was a Grindcore project that I did with
the same system as PESCADO, with a 286 computer from that time, I recorded the
drum
s and bass and then with a small mixer I added the guitar and the vocals and there is nothing
else, I made a demo, I recorded a second one that I didn't get to release anywhere, the truth is it
sounded very good but it stayed there, unreleased, and that's it, there is nothing more about ALPARGATOR. Musically, what was
more Noise or more Grind? No, it was more Grind, the idea
was to make Grindcore, not Noise. ALMORRANA was an
improvised group in one of the first shows we did with our serious
band
which was NUN SPITE, We played at a kind of festival for the
city's festivities and there weren't enough bands, I don't know how the
organization of that festival ended, collaborating in the organization and there were bands missing
and we said well let's make a project to open the festival. A small project that was
also Grind, Noise, nonsense, There was a little bit of everything, it
was nothing serious and that was ALMORRANA. And it just so happened that this
festival was quite well organized
. There was a sound technician with his table and he
recorded everything and the ALMORRANA part, well, for being Grind, Noise, nonsense
from that era, it was pretty well recorded. And we were able to take
advantage of it to release it as a Demo and that's it, that
is the story of ALMORRANA. YO-GUR... YO-GUR was me on the guitar, and David, who at that time played
in a group called MÁS VICIO, he left that band and then formed another group
with me that was more serious, which was INCONTINÉNCIA, w
hich was a Hardcore group from the late 90s. and in parallel to INCONTINÉNCIA,
we developed YO-GUR. YO-GUR was also grind-noise
and we made a couple of demos. The first demo was
the one that came out in the split with
PESCADO and the second It had to go to Escroto Total
2, which was never released. The theme of YO-GUR? The YO-GUR theme... well dairy, supermarkets, expired
yogurts, custards... It was a thematic
group of fermented products. GRENYATOR was
a project of a friend of ours who played ba
ss
with us in NUNSPITE, that he wanted to do his own
Noise project, he recorded his programmed drums and asked
me to help him with the guitars. Then one day he came home and with my
mixer, with the same mixer, with the same program that I made PESCAD, that I made
ALPARGATOR, well we made GRENYATOR. He already brought all the programmed
drums, he already brought all of his ideas. I composed some guitars based on
what he gave to me and we recorded it in one day and the truth
is that I think it is
one of the best recordings, in terms of
sound and forcefulness, which has been the best from ZDP Studios.
The GRENYATOR demo is very good. And that was the story of
GRENYATOR. A single demo and another project from
the group of colleagues that we were combining.
It was like an orgy of projects. Today with you, you with me, because then there
is REPUS, which REPUS was Roger from GRENYATOR, me and him, one day at the rehearsal room. We
are going to do a project on the premises. REPUS and REPUS c
onsisted
of improvising songs by making four riffs and
then starting to make noise. and the funny thing
was that I think we did two songs and
changed instruments. One got on the drums, we
changed and that demo came out. Then I put those radio intros
about I've stuffed carrots up my ass. One day while I was like that, I stuck a
carrot up my anus and came twice in a row. I don't know, Francesc, how you
managed to get all those intros. On late night shows,
the kind where people... Besides, you cut
it in such a way that the
first intro was: "I was like this, I got in..." I stuck a carrot up my anus
and came twice in a row! Then it came to the song
and in the next intro it was the... I mean, I've put carrots
up my ass again. and I have come again
several times too. And haven't you tried more vegetables? And then more bullshit... Aren't you going to try some
other vegetable? It's always carrots? Listen to the REPUS demo.
It is in Youtube. The famous hairdresser and
also versatile artist Llu
ís Llongueras He passed away last May 2023. How did those of you who were
members of GRENYATOR feel? When you found out about his sad death? Well... I remember that the
first thing I did was... go to YouTube and put the demo. As a tribute. Then I think I told you. I made a tweet on Twitter. I explained on Twitter to
people who follow me on Twitter. I was in GRENYATOR. We made a demo, which was called 'Kill Llongueras' And today... It was last year, it was in 2023, right? And today, in 2023, he h
as finally died. But hey, worse things have happened, right? I think Carmen de Mairena died in 2020. Carmen de Mairena
was the muse of REPUS. Yeah. Hey, dude, I'm the electrician! What the hell electrician, or electrician? I have a pussy that makes me spark! It's true, you had put... Yes, there was a song called
Carmen de Mairena on REPUS. And her audio in the
background, is it possible? No, no, in REPUS there were
no audios of Carmen de Mairena. But well, let's see, the 'cuñaos' have died, they
have...
- It's true. Pozi has died. In other words, they are much
more relevant people than Llongueras. - But well...
- Rest in peace all of them. Yeah. Keep your hairstyle longer. Llongueras System,
your hair in good hands. Without leaving the province of Barcelona, We look at one of
the countless projects. of the Becerra brothers of the
legendary VIOLENT HEADACHE, called ELECTRO-PILS. We spoke with Avellano,
vocalist of the band. Well, ELECTRO-PILS was
formed by the Becerra brothers, Toño and
Chico. I think Chico played the bass and Toño played
the guitar, I don't remember it very well. Then there was also Oscar
from PSYCHOTIC NOISE. Peña from E.A.F. was also on vocals. and myself. It was one of the side projects, well, of these thousands of projects
that were being developed there at the VIOLENT HEADACHE rehearsal room. And they were recorded at Indaga Sessions. And well, most of you already know that they
were projects of one afternoon or two afternoons. And everyone comes there
t
o make noise like crazy. Well the name comes... Well, those were times when we
used drugs, well, we consumed a lot. Not exactly pills, but oh well. I don't know exactly why it came out. Exactly the pils
were ecstasy, pills. And it was a mix of mixing it with... with ELECTRO HIPPIES,
ELECTRO-HIPPIES, ELECTRO-PILS. That's the nonsense of the
group's name, nothing more. In reference to recordings,
well, a couple of tapes. Well, I have here. This one is shared with BARRILLO. Then we did another one.
.. Oh, well, they were
released by the label TDT, Tacos de Tortilla. Then we did another one with
PESCADO, which I have no idea about... where it has gone from. And on the other hand, in
2008, we... The friend of R.O.N.F. Records compiled them both
for us and released this CDR. Which, as you can see,
the cover is... nonsense. It is a parody of SOD, but with
Marianico El Corto instead. This is horrible. And this was edited by R.O.N.F.'s friend. Records. Regarding fanzines of the time, I don't th
ink we
appeared in any, but I'm not sure at all. I mean, I don't remember. Yes, it is true that I consumed quite a
few fanzines from the time and such. And well, it seemed great to me that these
Noisecore bands and those like that were coming out. But I don't remember having
appeared in any fanzine at the time. Already in the field of industrial noise. We cannot fail to mention the
MACHAKAKRÁNEOS and HYDROPEDO projects. from the province of Palencia. Well, The MACHAKAKRÁNEOS project Javi and I p
ut it together. But, well, no... We do not invent anything
that has not already been done. We simply got into a thing that
was already happening since a few time. We already knew a lot of people who had also been doing things like that. And since the dream we had was to start
a little band and there was no 'Money', but there were odds and ends because Javi was a plumber along with his father, so then noise was not going to be missing. So that's where everything came about. Simply record and then
mix everything we had recorded. I don't know what I would say to
you, a demolition hammer on an anvil, I also had a chainsaw, screwing machines, radial... Well, then... get an idea of
everything that was possible. We could gather there. And then we mixed
with a couple of tape recorders, with an unfolded cable towards a third tape recorder. which made a bit of a mixer. And that's how easy it all was. Then the relationship with the other groups
with which we had shared was very easy. There was
nothing more to propose to someone share something and
it was done ver quickly. It is nothing more than that, record it and then
everyone makes their copies. We had already made the first demo
of MACHAKAKRÁNEOS in 1992, alone, without anyone else, with the suggestive title
of 'Industrial Kagalera'. And then immediately Manuel from Cadaverizer Records proposed us there in in the Canary Islands and share one
with POTABILIZADORA and the Germans EXTREME HAIR STENCH. And well, it was
already that eas
y. It was recorded and
there was no more story. And that was the second. Then the third
one, we shared it. with another experiment
that Popeye did, SPLATTER GRIND. We had also started, that we came up with another very big crazy thing, HYDROPEDO. And then we share it with the three.
That was MACHAKA's third. and first and only of HIDROPEDO. What can you tell us about
HYDROPEDO and AUDIOKANGRENA? Well, I can tell you a
little about HYDROPEDO, which was already the
end of all that madness. becaus
e we were almost
putting together the group with instruments that would
be AUDIOKANGRENA. And it occurred to us, well,
like that, in a silly way, that Javi was a plumber because he was
not going to lack pipes or cauldrons. He had a market there that
belonged to his father and then we got together there one Saturday with
a tape recorder and well that was hilarious. I remember well what it was
like when Javi was so wide with his 100 kilos stuffed
into a blue sweatshirt. With a tube this thin but 4
meters long and placed on a stand there to be able to blow
through the tube into a cauldron. And here he was
skinnier than a little guy's intestines, with a
really fat tube like that. Well then the mix,
I'm still cracking up laughing, that was too much. Then AUDIOKANGRENA,
well, with its hard beginnings like all groups, well,
there were only two of us. And at some point we had
someone else but we didn't have a formation, let's say,
neither stable nor consolidated. There were only two of
us and
we functioned that way for quite a long time,
also with a few concerts. What other interesting
bands were there at the time? Bands like that... well there
were good groups, you didn't just have to look at the foreign
bands as always happens in our closest surroundings,
Burgos, León, Valladolid, Santander also, quite a
few good groups emerged. Well before we started, there was NECROTIC in León, ÚLZERA in
Burgos, ANTICLERICAL in Santander, RETORTIJÓN, ESPERPENTO from Valladolid
that has not been t
alked about but was a very good group, very brutal, they
had a spectacular demo, super brutal too. And then I think that, well,
it had the feeling that the Grindcore genre
degenerated a bit for me personally. because it's like a kind of
competition was established to see who was the more brutal, who was
the more harsh, the fastest. and the bands lost their way a little
I think, except for a few that did maintain originality, they
knew how to have their own style. among which I would probably
men
tion more, for example, EL KASO URKIJO, had their outbreaks of
bestiality with the kaniche series. that you laughed your
ass off because it was a joke, and then they also
made their great songs but there were also groups to take into
account, SEQZIÓN DEMENZIADOS of Madrid that lasted very little, I don't know
what happened, we had contact with them too. They made a very good
demo and a CD, very good. What is your opinion of all
that wave of noise/grind bands? that emerged in
Spain in the 90s? We
ll, in general lines
about this Machiavellian wave of noise that arose
so spontaneously, You can say that it was a mix
of healthy madness with a certain creativity, because there were
people who did good experiments. and well, it's like these were
bad times for music, because it was a whole explosion of demo tapes
coming and going, of fake stamps. That came from a long time ago, we
already came from a long time ago with the issue of letters, of sending tapes,
fanzines, which have not been talked
about. but it was very important, if the
bands or projects were the bricks, we can say that the fanzines were
the concrete. and everything together made
it so big and so explosive, and in such a short time it spread
as, I don't know, like foam. You were finding The mailbox
full of letters that came from various countries, even from
South America, from Europe. and now that the whole world has 5
billion friends on Facebook and I don't know what, and it turns out that we
had already done it before
with letters and without being so silly or posturing
so much, right? and I almost stay more with that, that communication, that
good vibes that we had among the crowd. It was all very easy. Slow, because
correspondence is slow, but it had something that doesn't exist today,
you take WhatsApp and that's it. You came home from those years
and a lot of time has passed, you opened the mailbox and it overflowed with letters
with fanzines, with demos, with flyers. It was like Santa Claus coming but
at 20
years old, and every two weeks or one. And besides, between everything
together, I think that some kids like us, at least I think I can speak for the
majority of us, but in our case, In a place and time where there
was nothing for us, I believe that we knew how to invent our little
happiness with the little we had on hand. when others in our immediate
environment, even in the gang, were already getting into bad trouble, well, I
think our little crazy thing was healthy. Well, we made someth
ing
that wasn't so boring. Another project that caught our
attention in our tireless search for bands The most bizarre, dark and delirious
were the Valencian YORGUR DE DIARREA. Hello, I am Juanillo from
Meliana and I am one of the members of YOGUR DE DIARREA
with another partner. Well, we were recording in the afternoons and we already
had a rehearsal place in Meliana and that, in the Casa Choba where we met, which was El
local chove there, of the people of Meliana. and that, and there were more
people since they had
an instrument and all that, and we sometimes met there, it wasn't a rehearsal space yet, but well,
they already rehearsed there sometimes and everything. and we would get
together some afternoon out of boredom, so we would
get together and start playing. and the first demo, which
is 'Ecclesiastical Terror', I recorded it alone, with the
guitar and screams and all that. And then I started working on
the cover and the lyrics and all that. and then Flyers and how everything
w
orked then, you started to exchange them Flyers the people, you were in charge and so
on, people found out and then there was the exchange. and the second, which was with
VENTOSIDAD MACABRA, this one, yes, this one was also a colleague
who is the one who played the guitar And I screamed and
hit wherever I could to liven up the thing a
little more and so on. And that was it, two different recordings
on two different afternoons, this is the one I did with my colleague de shared, because
we ended u
p in a park in out town. or to be ecstatic, because on top of that it was
hot and the whole thing and that, we were already there smoking some joints, drinking some beers
and laughing for a while about what we had done. And well, a quite funny anecdote, one
afternoon when we were making the recordings, a man appeared, well we started to hear some
punches at the door, the place was closed. and nothing, we already opened the
door, wow, what happens? and an older man comes out, who
lived in the hou
se next door, an old house and telling us that we were appearing on TV,
how are we going to appear on TV?, and then of course, The man was already talking about that, and we were almost
laughing and such, but of course. and you can see that it was some interference
from whatever the guitar was, that just when we were playing him on the antenna, well that
was it, and of course the television turned off and well, until we
solved the issue and tried, but come on, it
was a funny anecdote. Then there
were others and such, because we
already started, we already found a rehearsal place, because a little group was beginning
to form in the town, with different stories. And for example, I was with some colleagues from,
two colleagues a little younger than me and the whole thing, and we already set up APOYO MUTUO, which
happened to be already more hardcore and such. Like SIN DIOS and HHH, we wanted to be
faster than them, but it couldn't be, and so on, but this was
already more hardcore and the w
hole thing. but meanwhile we also continued
with our Noise projects in our afternoons, which instead of doing
what was rehearsing in the group, Well, we took it and then we made noise
recordings and such, and we also had another project called PEPITO CANÍBAL, and there are
also some small recordings out there as well. and then there was also another one about
RUIDO DE CASTIGO, too, there is also a recording out there that needs to be rescued,
because we are digitizing some things to save them fr
om the
tapes, because they will be too old and then also with the people who were
later in ZANUSSI, too, because then we also had a relationship with them through the fanzines, with
the people from 'Sembrando Cebollas' and 'Güerta'. and we also got together sometimes,
and that we also did one of those first and we did AVARICIA HUMANA, The singer
of ZANUSSI, Albert also on the guitar too. and we shared a split with TURMIX,
who were from Barcelona, in which Toño of VIOLENT HEADACHE was playing,
and that's how we released this tape. Tell us about your participation
in the fanzine 'Viviendo entre Mentiras'. Well, The fanzine Viviendo entre Mentiras was done by
five of Meliana's colleagues, we got together and we
started in '93, we released the first two issues in '93 The last issue was released in
94, and the first was in May of 93, number one, the second in October of 93
and the third was October, November of 94. and as a fanzine and distributor we
also participate in the distribution c
onvention, that was in '94, the third
convention, which was in Bilbao, in April 94 and then in November 94 in El
Guinardó, we were also at the distribution convention also, and as a fanzine and as a distributor. and then normally the contact we had was with people
from Valencia, with people who were colleagues, Well, we knew them through the Casal Popular, We made a lot of friends, and they made their fanzine,
which was Sembrando Cebollas, the Güerta'zine, too, The Pentagram 'zine, also with Fel
ix, too. Then there was also El Masacre, which the people from Soroll made,
there were the people from Paterna, who made El Tercán Files, Juli and El Sergio, and then there was also
Regurgitated zine, which Javi made, That was because of proximity we used to see
each other many times at concerts, in squat houses, We used to see each other and
then we would also approach that one, and after that, we were in touch with
the Excludur zine, which was from Murcia in exchange, this was already with peo
ple in exchange
El Chapuzine from Toledo, El Magurí Gávea from Bilbao, There were also the people from Noizemass, from Madrid, the
people from Pontevedra, from Selfis, and El Temblor Zine, from Sergio Lebron, in Madrid, and that was also
a bit of the people we had the most contact with, Then we also have a lot
of correspondence out there too, that I still keep, and some more numbers
were exchanged out there with people. Another important name on the
scene is Marc Cabildo, from Tarragona, that ap
art from his multiple
bands, Grindcore and Noisecore, He also made forays into such unprecedented
styles as Lolailo-core and Shitnoise, Let's let him tell us himself. Most of the bands I was playing
in and projects were all noisecore, and some were a little more out of the ordinary,
well DESTROZATIMPANOS, it was Noisecore too, but the drums were played on a table, hitting on a table and
as fast as you could or however you could, and screaming and so on, and this
was recorded in my house, in my r
oom, And there, four of my friends were there, eh? I said:
'Let's make some noise' I fooled them all, That has to be said, I fooled them all, and we went to my house, right? And playing on my desk there,
playing with some sticks, me with the guitar, and yelling and so on, right? Well, DESTROZATIMPANOS. This was released by Puding
de Pota, with PDF, a split... And then, out of the ordinary too, what we
came to do was something more paranoid, although the first demo was pure Noisecore,
the sec
ond split we released was also, and then It was CRIMEN FAMILIAR, right? One of my bands
CRIMEN FAMILIAR, then we started doing more things, We called it Lolailo-Core,
right? Well, it was all a joke, right? And acoustic stuff, with Noise in between, and so on, right? We went to the rehearsal room, El Lozano and I, who
were the members, who were continuous, right? And one or the other always collaborated, depending Whoever was there at that
time in rehearsal room, right? And we were doing more o
f the Lolailo-Core thing,
right? Well, it was more of a joke, right? and things that had happened to
us, we made fun of them, And well, laugh at everything a little, right? Shit noise was a substyle of
Noisecore that basically consisted of in making noise with the first
thing at hand, without even needing of having instruments nor, obviously,
any type of musical knowledge, Some industrial noise projects
may also be included here. Therefore, the projects that emerged
under this label were, for t
he most part, projects done out of boredom
and pure hobby, and that do not usually gave more than two or three recordings,
although they also had a place within the scene, especially in the mid-90s and onwards. And in Spain, in fact, there were some labels
specialized in this style, such as, for example, DMK Records from Pontevedra, with
groups like DIARREA VOKAL, JESUCRISTO, CIRRHOSIS or COMIENDO SANDIAS, or Shit
Attack Records, from Seville, with bands like ESTROPAJO HEAVY, EXTREME NOISE TURRÓ
N,
CAFETERA EXPRESS, PUNGENT CHORISO or NECROBOTIJO. We must also take into account, in this sense,
many of the Pudding Pota Records releases, also from Seville, which involved projects such as KOSTRA,
MACETA, MASTIKAPEÑASKOS, KOSAS DE BAKA, BRUTAL MASSAKRE OF
TOREROS and EXTREME IRRITATION. And in the same way, we cannot forget to
highlight the work of A.B.O.E.L.B. Records, from the Basque Country, with
bands with such suggestive names like THE SWEATY SLEDGE, ANABEL
FINA Y SEGURA, PHOTOCOPY OF
TRIPI, RAMIRO, RULANDO PERAS or
FRANCISCO TOMÁS Y VALIENTE. EL HUERTO, year
2023, only survivor... But who the hell cares about
ABOELB Records almost 30 years later? Anyway... A real
waste of time! Everything was told at
the time in those interviews, for different fanzines.
Little more to say. Thank PERILORO
(our recording studio) thanks to him and our MAGIC BATTERIES and
EL HUERTO everything went wonderfully for us. We were 16-year-old kids having a great
time with the absurdity, noise and hum
or. The only goal of all these
projects was to have a good time. Laughing at all the musical/political
scenes of the moment, including Noise. May this documentary serve to remember
those who are no longer with us (RIP). For DESORE (Iker/Ibarra) FDT,
SERGEANT PLETINA. He left us too young. For MANTXI (Raúl/Tolosa) CONFUSION
IN THE CANOE and a fan of this shit. For NÉSTOR (Estanco/Tolosa), who
illustrated many things to us in the demos. Pair EL TRIPIS (Juan Mari/Donostia)
who, back in the 2000s,
always joked so that we would make a modern
version of PHOTOCOPIA DE TRIPI. For all of them and those I
forget, this garbage is dedicated. Greetings to all the people of Tolosa and
to all the people from CSA LA CUESTA de ARNEDO
for so many good memories and friends. CATABUM! Keep
watching this shit. Long live Peryloro and magic batteries!
And long live the missionary of Sesma! A lot of noise and a lot of shit, bye! Shit Attack, Roberto founded it after
Pudding de Pota was founded, right? When
we registered in the
S.G.A.E., and all that, right? What I... The memory
I have, or how I saw it, was that if
Pudding de Pota already, or the noise in general,
right? It was already too crazy, The Shit Attack thing, the Roberto
thing, it was already a thing... Because I also think that Roberto was
like, that is, the attack of shit, right? That is, what can I
invent, or what group can I edit or can I release
that surpasses the above? and when people hear it they
say, damn, what a fucking shit! Me
, well, I think that's what it
was, it was so that people would say, damn, this is fucking shit,
man, there's no way to take it. It is the maximum. Of course, because there were noise
projects that maybe you said, well, damn, Noticing what they were, it's done, dammit,
how cool, it's done, dammit, you can see that it's made with four
tracks recorder or something, whatever, right? Or the effects or such, but what with
Roberto, sometimes it was something... Unchewable! Of course, well, what do I
k
now, so to speak, right? I don't... What do I know, to give
you an example, that it doesn't have to be one of
the projects that he released, But what do I know, man, maybe
a guy with a pen tapping a can and singing at the same time, so to
speak, wow, they were like that. He hit the microphone, I think
he hit the microphone, right? Yes, but I mean on that
level that it was fucking shit. But he came out with a lot of projects.
Likewise, when Roberto came out with something, it was like saying, the
same thing, what is
this guy going to come up with now? Well yes, here in the State
many labels began to come out and they began to release
many tape materials, right? One of them, Shit Attack, was one of the
ones I had the most contact with, right? and I had many exchanges with Roberto,
we released things in parallel, right? And he was one of the most
active ones here and distributed a lot of noisecore and
derivative material, right? But apart from them
there were also other labels, people who
released stuff themselves, right? And then he released his own self-produced
demos and distributed them as well, right? Some examples too, for
example SUCIEDAD DE PIES, too, right? Self-published, a self-published tape
too, since they made them themselves. and they took it and distributed it,
passed it around and so on, right? Let's see, here with The Nipple Juice
(ZDP) label too, well, YO-GUR, PESCADO, My friend Cesc, right? I also did
a lot of exchanges with him and we released a lot of split
s with
his bands, with my bands, right? Well, and here, well, what are we going to say? CARNE/LIKIDILLO DE CONTAINER, right? It was released by Pajarraca and
with the B-Gore Records label, right? Another split, right?, by GESTÖRTE
NACHBARN, by B-Gore Records too. Well, here too, well I DON'T HEAR ANYTHING,
SERIOUS MENTAL PROBLEMS, right? Despojo de Ira, from
here in Vendrell, for example, STOMACH NOISES, right?, from
the Canary Islands too, well, these are things I know, this one was
released by
Cadaverizer Records, but there were also demos
that they edited themselves, too. Well, here in Salamanca,
Salamanca or Palencia, I don't remember this one, but over
there, MACHAKAKRÁNEOS, right? This was Industrial Noise
too, well, they edited everything themselves, right?, they
distributed it and, well, well, That's how we did exchanges and everything, right? And, well, with Roberto with Shit
Attack, well, for example, you see? Shit Attack Records released a demo
of MINISTRIL, this was Noiseco
re too. And lastly, I'm going
to tell an anecdote. Lots of fake stamps, right? Quite alot. I don't know how much we could have defrauded
the Post Office and the State, but oh well. And then it turns out that both
Roberto and I had a post office box, Mine was El 6317 41080 Sevilla,
Roberto's, I don't remember. And then we arrived with all
enthusiasm, every morning, to collect the packages, both with
Puding de Pota and with the projects, and later with Collective Idiotización
and such, which we al
so ran. And one day we went to the post
office box and that day there was a note, askin me to go the to head's office. And I had to go there
in the office of the director of the Post Office, or whoever was
responsible, and I sat there, They took an envelope from a person I
corresponded with in Belgium, who I think had a label and was called Geco, or
something like that, I don't remember. And well, that man had
shoveled the glue into it. And in fact, I remember that
the man, so you can imagine, h
ad the envelope on the
table, and the guy, he says, look, this has arrived in
your name, it has no sender, and look: and the guy
did like this, and the package rose. It got stuck to his hand from the glue
that the fucking envelope was carrying. And then, look, since it doesn't
have a return address, you have to tell me who he is and so on, open
the envelope and tell me who he is. I don't even know what they're talking about. And I had done the biggest trick. But look, since I don't know who
you
are, you will understand that this is a private thing, and I'm
not going to open it, right? But then they warned me and I think
I stopped cheating on the stamps, I think. So much! Hello, how are you? Well, how are we? What importance did you give to
humor when making your noise, lyrics, covers, etc.? Humor, there will be reports, there
will be things from history, past times. I think it was basically the
pillar of everything we did, because apart from having fun, and
experimenting with recordin
g, and what happened if I mix this sound with
another, let's see what comes out, The theme of the theme,
REPUS that we have discussed, and that we put what you
had found, those intros, MAGIN... we were always looking for
things that had happened to us, funny, to be able to apply it to a theme. So, despite investing the time, and try to record it and be able
to get it out as a demo, and be able to change it, we were
always looking to have a good time, and above all, being
able to connect, put our
jokes, basically, and the
experiences we had had. Humor was a totally essential
part of ELECTRO-PILS, Well, great songs like
'Pilmosh', which was clearly dedicated to the
idiot of BEER MOSH. Or 'Piladicts'. Or 'The Witch's
Hairy Nails', which was totally an irony
of BRUJERIA. Or 'Violent Heavyache'. Stupid things like that, because it
was basically the essence of the group, They were all humorous themes,
and many of them were seeking messing with people from
the scene, and acquaintances, and ou
r cases, the issue of, 'If I know, Pil
Floyd goes to your father,' and things like that. Absolute nonsense, and it
was something that amused us. It was a bit like the SORE THROAT thing, of
messing with everyone, right? That was a bit of the essence of the group, yes. Yes, humor
was the most fundamental thing, which happens to
also have its criticism, too. At that moment we began to
move into the anti-Nazi theme, on the issue of occupations,
on the issue of equality, on the subject of many
things
, anti-militarism and such. In other words, they did
begin to talk about other critical things, they began
to criticize many things, That was very important,
but humor above all. And on the topic of noise,
bands like ANDAMIO, like CANDELABRO, like DEPRESSIVE SNAIL, They can't be very serious things,
so they always tried to search... YOGUR DE DIARREA, SUCIEDAD
DE PIES, I don't know, there was that, let's see who had the imagination
a little beyond everything. HUMUS DE LOMBRIZ also, naming bands
l
ike that was not something everyone did. This was the noise thing and the whole thing. And then the lyrics of the
songs, and there were lyrics, and if not the titles. Because I still laugh a lot when
I pick up the tapes now, I really like looking at them, the
lyrics or the titles of the songs, so that was just the titles. - Obviously, because almost...
- We were serious people, really. For example, in EXCRETED ALIVE
there were themes that were also a little bit humorous, but there
were also very
serious themes, that there was a social criticism
of everything that pissed us off a little bit we
vomited all the rage, right? - We really liked folklore.
- Yes, too. 'Pepito', right? You know. Also. 'Doce Cascabeles'... The Spanish folklore, right? 'El patio de mi casa es particular',
all these things. Songs that have always
moved us in our childhood. Los del Río, right? They have always moved us, right? And in the projects the same,
well we always put some of... From our experiences, right?
From our time, right? From our ancestors, right? - There was also a lot criticism, because...
- There was also criticism because... Obviously, there were things
around us that got under our skin and we had to
report them in some way... It was a mix of everything. Projects bring together a lot of
fun and also a lot of anger, right? And just as you shouted at anything,
you laughed at anything, right? It was like... Making a pantomime of what
society was like in the projects and making noise, too,
which
is more of a hassle, right? Yeah. I remember LA SEUGRA. Besides, LA SUEGRA
appeared in a NUN SPITE rehearsal Your amp broke. I remember that your amp broke
down and we were very angry and very frustrated and we said, we
have to do something about it. We made the first demo of LA SUEGRA. We recorded it there. And, of course, when calling it
LA SUEGRA, well, we already set the tone of humor for
everything that is related to this topic. And the funniest thing was... I
remember the titles of
the songs... 'Peeping through the lock'. It was really fun to think about the
titles, to think about things we can do. There was another topic called. 'My grandson is the most handsome in the world.' My grandmother appeared in the intro. Yeah. I remember taking the recorder
to my grandmother and telling her: say "my grandson is the
most handsome in the world." And there it is, in the demo. My grandson is the most handsome in the world. Right, right. And, well, humor has always been a
fundamental
basis in the entire process. The excitement of doing it and then
thinking about the theme, the covers. Because, for example, I remember
that MIKROONDAS INDIGENTE, I drew the cover too. And, of course, I was
thinking microwave, homeless, noise, industrial, and
in the end what I ended up drawing was a
microwave with the door open and inside came out a hand
like that with some Kleenex, a pack of Kleenex, as
homeless people usually do. Well, I was going through the
underground trying to sell Kleene
x. And in the end I made that cover. And, for example,
we also drew MAGIN. And, well, it was all part of the process and
we motivated each other and it was a lot of fun. It was very fun for us. Humor was a fundamental part
of being able to have a good time and being able to reflect on the
things that had happened to us. What is the Spanish band of the style
that you remember as the most delirious? Well, the band had the most impact
on me, because I saw them live, It was in Marbella, and
specific
ally it was EL KASO URKIJO. For me it was tremendous, tremendous. At that time they played with
the BICHERA BRIGADE, right? Yes, yes, yes, yes, they played in Marbella. They played Grind/Noise too. And they made a mess of it,
because well, in the middle of the concert, almost at the
end of the concert more or less, It occurred to the audience to throw some
watermelons that were there, onto the stage, and Juan Obeja came up with the
happy and brilliant idea of kicking him, He was playing the gu
itar there,
The bass, bass, precisely, The bass, and kicking the watermelon, and
pieces of watermelon fell everywhere, the people there enjoying themselves like crazy,
there the people pissing laughing at that, laughing their asses out, and, pieces of
watermelon falling everywhere. I mean, they were tremendous. It was quite fun. Aside from his lyrics, which
were also hilarious, come on. Amazing, and well, and then the BICHERA BRIGADE
was the shit. There were 250 guys
standing there on stage. I b
elieve that BEIGADA
BICHERA will be the group with the most people in
the history of world noise. There were lots of people on stage! Phew! Tremendous. But the most, the most,
normally, was EL KASO URKIJO, with all his projects,
apart from what he had, EL KASO URKIJO was the
best known, and I think the most insane thing that
has ever been here, too. One of the KASO URKIJO
groups, apart from others. But EL KASO URKIJO
and the well-known Juan Obeja, a very
special character, too. And anyway, ther
e has always been, I
have kept everything, especially in the... With a cover of a demo, which
today has been reissued on vinyl, and was from the GENITAL MASTICATOR band. Title of the album? 'Me voy a cagar en tu puta madre.' With that cover. A soldier, without legs,
walking with his arms. Come on, I just
can't, every time I see this, it's like
my day revives. This is because he doesn't dare to do it... That's unheard of. And speaking of delirious bands, perhaps
the darkest and most unknown of al
l, May be Malaga's HUMUS DE LOMBRIZ, about whom little is known and
whom we have been unable to locate. This below is all
the information existing about
this bizarre project. The story of HUMUS
DE LOMBRIZ begins at that time. There was a lot of exchange
of recordings by mail. Then I saw an advertisement in METALIK.O., where people offered,
well I have recordings, this is my list of
records that I have, If anyone wants, we exchange recorded
cassettes, you record this album for me, I have the othe
r one and it is sent by mail. And I wrote to a guy from Malaga,
we sent each other the list of what we had and we started exchanging cassettes
with the albums we were recording. And normally what
we did was, at the end of one side of a
cassette that we recorded, At the end, if there was
space, we would put filler things. And in one of the tapes that we
exchanged, he recorded his project for us. and then he recorded HUMUS DE LOMBRIZ for us. And in the letter he said
that it was from some of his c
olleagues, I think also from
Malaga itself or from the area, and that it was a noise project. And the truth is that it was shocking. It was the revelation. It was a revelation, we had
never heard anything like it. And it was like we were
hooked from the first listen. You received that tape and you told me, look, I'll
record the demo for you from my colleague from Malaga, the demo of his group,
and he put me, at the end, It is assumed that they were
friends of that boy or acquaintances, We don't
know, it's a total
mystery. HUMUS DE LOMBRIZ, And when I heard that I
said, damn, what is this? That is, HUMUS DE LOMBRIZ was... I don't think there has been anything like it. I remember we called each
other almost immediately when... Maybe I warned you, like,
HUMUS DE LOMBRIZ is brutal. And I remember that
we listened to it regularly, we stayed, when we
listened to it at home, records, We always put worm castings
and we put worm castings. Above all we liked the songs... 'Carmen' 'Soy gitano'. S
oy gitano, correct. And 'The Orgasm'. The orgasm, yes, yes. The orgasm was also
one of our favorites. And I don't think... I don't think we ever knew anything else afterwards. And then we lost... Well, the contact was over. And the truth is that it was never known again. We may have searched the
Internet for more information, but there is nothing. And we only have that recording. In fact, when I made El Escroto
Total, which was already El 94, and I decided to include the demo
of HUMUS DE LOMBRIZ
in El Escroto Total, I had no idea. Just like now, I didn't
know who had done it. And I put it in the credits of the film. I am aware that I am doing
this without permission, but it's a... It is a gesture of admiration, it is a tribute. This has to be edited
somewhere, because it's the best noise
thing ever done here. And I think it was 94 The Total Scrotum. And we are in 2024,
which is 30 years later, and it is still not known
who HUMUS DE LOMBRIZ is. And we have had them here for 30 years. It
's amazing. Listening to HUMUS DE LUMBRIZ is the best. It's... it's... Amazing. There is a fundamental member of this scene
that we have not been able to interview, and, in fact, we will never be able to do it, Well, he disappeared as if
swallowed by the earth many years ago. Juan Obeja. How do you remember this
peculiar and controversial character? Well, yes, El Obeja was... Well, one... A guy who was very into The Noise,
The Noise and The Grind and so on. And well, he released a lot of
materia
l through B-Gore Records, as I have already presented
some of the demos. And he also edited us. with his bands, POZILGA/GESTÖRTE NACHBARN, right? Well, he was a very special guy, wasn't he? Because I met him in Monsters of Rot, in person, 3, which he organized it,
when he did a noise and grind festival. We played GERMEN there,
GERMEN played, AUDIORREA, KONTAINER'S LIKIDILLO,
CARNE, EL KASO URKIJO, and I played with BRUTAL NOISE, right? With my band BRUTAL NOISE we
went to play and so on there, r
ight? Well, what can we say about
something that is already known? Well, there was the
concert too, well, there were some deals that were
not fulfilled and so on, We had to play with a series of equipments
that later some played and others didn't, and well, and nothing more. There I spoke to him to make some
trades and so on, some trades and so on, I sent him some tapes to
make some trades and all that, and well, he never responded, or anything, and soon after, well he already disappeared, right
? Because that was in '94, and after a short time it has
disappeared until today, right? Well, at the time
he organized many gigs, He made a lot of splits, he made a lot of projects, right? He participated in METALIK.O.,
which also, because thanks to him, we have
also kown many bands, or some of our bands
have appeared there, Well, some review that you
have posted and so on, right? And it was within the little that we had, within the noise in general, where we could see new things or contacts
of
other people that we did not know, Well, I think that was
a very good job, right? But considering the noise and
all this, I think it was a very good job and something that, apart
from the fanzines that were made, That could get to you quickly, right? And that you could see and
contact someone and get addresses or telephone numbers so you
could write to people or call them. and be able to do
what you like, right? Obeja? Phew!
Well, a rather unpresentable character. I remember that he wrote to me
with him
and then he sent me aberrations like these What he did, like YO-GUR and things
like that, that I didn't really understand. Then we met him in
person and he was there... Well, we met him in a Heavy
bar and he was drooling after all the girls and he was also a
very guy... The guy showed up, or That is, he directly said "I am
Juan Herrero from the kaso." And of course, there was a group that said "The case what?", that is, they had
no fucking idea who El Kaso was, right? I remember a frie
nd of mine who
was also very horny and he introduced him to him there in Barcelona
and said "I'm El Obeja del Kaso." And my colleague, who was called Liso,
tells him "I am Liso, from Liso Minutes." And, well, everyone is devastated by The Guy. And then apart, well
when we found out that he had a Rip-Off
roll and already there, Well, character to delete
from my contacts quickly. Come on, people like that, well... Get out! Focusing on the Noise projects,
of all the Noise projects we had, I think I
was the only one
who had contact with Obeja. And it was... I offered myself to Obeja
because he had his project called "CARNE." and I had “PESCADO”. Which in fact, “PESCADO”, one of the
reasons I gave it the name “PESCADO” It was thinking that one day there
would be a split with "CARNE". That is, split "CARNE" and "PESCADO". And once he had already done some, the first demos of
«PESCADO», I contacted Obeja and said «Look,
what do you think? a..." Because "CARNE"
was much better known. "What do
you think of a
"CARNE" and "PESCADO" split?" And then he told me okay,
that seemed good to him. And I sent him the
recording, the “PESCADO” part, which I think is the best
recording I made for «PESCADO», so that he could release it with his label,
which was B-Gore, a “MEAT” and “FISH” split. But time passed,
time passed, it took a long time to come
out and in the end... In the end he contacted
me and responded and said: «Look, at the end, that
recording that you sent me, we have not recorded any
thing with “CARNE”, But I get it from you with a
three-split with two other bands. And in the end, that
recording that I had made for a split “CARNE” and “PESCADO”, he
came out with a split with two other bands. Regarding the character. Apart from this, which disappointed me a little, because I thought... I mean, it would have been brutal. Imagine, a tape from the time, "CARNE", split «PESCADO». Just with the title it would have been brutal. The noise was the least of it. But apart from this,
wh
en he didn't do this, but did The "3 Way"
split with two other bands, Well, I met him one
day at a Metro stop, at a Metro stop in
Urquinaona, I remember, and he gave me the
master of the tape, the master of the cover, so
I could make my copies. Before it worked like this. And nothing, The time I spent chatting with
him he was very friendly, very cordial. He looked like a nice guy. Yes, it is true that there is a lot of
legend and there are many people who... Much love and hate. But well, the onl
y deal I had with him. That's what I just told you. A little disappointed for not
having gotten The "CARNE" "PESCADO", but the day I met him he
seemed like a nice and normal guy. I was very happy to meet
Obeja, because you know, a guy who had
done so much in the METALIK.O. and that he messed up
so much, that he messed up the thing. We met Obeja there. He also had a confrontation with The
One from Drowned, with Dave Rotten. They poked each other. Yes, they poke, right? They poked each other. The
y will have already given up drugs. Well, we met him there at KASO
URKIJO and he gave us a good impression. He had a lot of order papers and that
and he thought we owed him something. He didn't owe me anything. I got tired of laughing with him. Very good people. The truth is that we had
a great time with them. AND... That's all.
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