Quien no se considere un buen makinero que abandone la sala
The roots, rise and fall of Makina music explained in first person by the instigators of a musical, social and cultural movement that started in Valencia (with original mixes of EBM, acid-house and goth rock) and quickly spread to Catalonia, where it would become faster and more aggressive, mobilise a legion of kids from the […]
Voy a saco, Guitarras y Clubs
This collective celebration of DJ Amable’s 40-year career also pays tribute to Barcelona’s ’90s indie nightlife scene, of which he unwittingly became an essential bastion. The story begins in pioneering venues in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, such as Fanzine, Compliche, and Depósito Legal (true breeding grounds for DJs), and peaks at A Saco Zeleste and Razzmatazz […]
Garatge Club. Un escenari, 900 concerts
Two days before the closing of the Barcelona Olympics, three young individuals opened a concert venue at 195 Pallars Street, an old metal workshop they had transformed with their own hands. Over a span of 10 years, this venue became the gateway for international punk, metal, hardcore, and ska bands and the epicentre of the […]
MaQKina: Historia de una Subcultura
A passionate, emotional, musical and sociological ode to Mákina music. Tracing its roots in the eclectic and avant-garde Valencian scene to its emergence in the 1990s in Catalonia, where, in iconic clubs like Psicódromo, Chasis, Scorpia, Pont Aeri and X-Què?, the genre cranked up the BPMs, changed the ‘Q’ for a ‘K’, and became a […]