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Barcelona Underground

Category: Creation of new universes
Song Title: Catalepsia
Artist: Neuronium
Year: 1977
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlXhrwJN4rw

Category: Magical hypnosis experiences
Song Title: Me Voy A Tomar El Orient Express
Artist: Eduardo Polonio
Year: 1973?
Link: https://youtu.be/eyPh2AWJJcQ?t=17m52s

Category: Genre-bending redefinitions
Song Title: Ciència ficció
Artist: Suck Electrònic Enciclopèdic
Year: 1975
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-33wupap58

Category: Music the members of Kraftwerk dance to
Song Title: No Tape
Artist: Idee Du Femelle
Year: 1986
Link: https://domestica.bandcamp.com/track/b1-idee-du-femelle-no-tape

Category: Songs to go back in time and see live
Song Title: Lamento
Artist: New Buildings
Year: 1983
Link: https://domestica.bandcamp.com/track/b4-new-buildings-lamento

Category: Industrial-jazz fusions
Song Title: Frigolín
Artist: Víctor Nubla
Year: 1983
Link: https://domestica.bandcamp.com/track/b5-v-ctor-nubla-frigol-n

Category: Avant-garde on acoustic instruments still works
Song Title: El mar sota la neu
Artist: Agustí Fernández
Year: 1986
Link: https://laollaexpressrecords.bandcamp.com/track/02-el-mar-sota-la-neu-agust-fern-ndez

Category: The omnipresence of Lou Reed’s spirit
Song Title: Walk on the wild side Henry the Horse
Artist: Superelvis
Year: 1989
Link: https://laollaexpressrecords.bandcamp.com/track/03-walk-on-the-wild-side-henry-the-horse-superelvis

Category: Art imitates noise, noise imitates art
Song Title: Asma
Artist: Macromassa
Year: 1987
Link: https://laollaexpressrecords.bandcamp.com/track/11-asma-macromassa

Category: Post-war roots of secret Barcelona
Song Title: Fandanguillo en Jazz
Artist: Luis Rovira y su orquesta (with Don Byas)
Year: 1947
Link: https://open.spotify.com/track/38lItT1DG23Q4DdHrM3tTw

 


 

About the playlister:

Fred Roberts is a native of Cincinnati living in Germany since 1987 who enjoys subverting the arbitrary commercial process in which great works often go unrecognized. He has a dual B.S. in Computer Science and Psychology from Northern Kentucky University (1984) and a Masters in Psychology from Bielefeld Universität (1999). He contributed short stories to the early ezine “D A D A RIVISTA CULTURALE E/O TELEMATICA” (1995/96), and later to the short-lived Greenbeard Magazine, in 1997 receiving a Google Blog of Note citation for his Weblog indeterminacy.blogspot.com where he wrote 428 “one-minute short stories” inspired by found photos. Fred is also creator and designer of Elbot.com, an award-winning AI system. His interests include literature, film, photography and discovering all the well-kept sounds Europe has to offer.

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