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The Autoplacer Festival will be held on Saturday 22 September. The day-long festival is an annual event run by the Autoplacer/Sindicalistas collective to celebrate self-published music with a series of concerts by up-and-coming emerging and/or submerged bands, electronic music sessions and the presentation of projects related with self-publishing of records, fanzines, books, design and a long etcetera.

The festival is free and open to all-comers throughout the whole day: a genuine music festival … but inside a contemporary art museum.

CONCERT PROGRAMME

PABLO PRISMA Y LAS PIRÁMIDES. Cuchillo de Fuego’s musical parameters coincide with hardcore insofar as their punk-based rabid sound and noise/post-hardcore texture (think Melvins, Jesus Lizard…). But this quartet from Pontevedra condenses it all into short blasts of biting, hard songs as dense as silex wrapped up in incendiary, lucid and humorous lyrics written on sanding paper. Cuchillo de Fuego came to attention at Liceo Mutante, Galicia’s true underground temple, in 2014 with Triple España, released on their own label Amawisca. They immediately rose to the peak of the punk scene (understood as any music removed from passing trends and based on doing whatever the hell you want and with whatever you have at hand) in Spain.

https://soundcloud.com/pablopablopablo-1/sets/pablo-prisma-y-las-piramides 

CLARA TE CANTA

Born in Madrid in 1993, Clara te Canta is a comic artist and cultural mediator. In 2016 Clara te Canta set up a solo music project and in 2017 she won the Bfresh festival competition and performed at Gay Pride in Plaza del Sol in Madrid. In September 2017 Clara te Canta released an album of “songs for life” supported by the Monasterio de Cultura, Snap Clap Club and Ruggle Records labels.

https://claratecanta.bandcamp.com/

TULIP (Winners of the Autoplacer 2018 competition)

Tulip is a band from Vigo formed by Marta Rodríguez (Wild Balbina) and Óscar Raña (Dois). After almost one year rehearsing together, they decided to turn the project up another notch and brought on board Miguel Bianchi (Mvnich) and Daniel Nicolás (Fantasmage). At the end of 2017, they recorded the five tracks on their homonymous first EP using their own means, which they then completed in 2018 with the help of mastering by Xavier Alarcón.

https://tuuulippp.bandcamp.com/releases

17.55h - HARDCUTE UKELELE

Hardcute Ukelele is a “drum and ukulele” duo from Seville formed by two friends who decided one day to enter a competition of versions in which the first prize was a ham. Once they had the ham and the ovation of the public—thanks to a magical version in Spanish of Lionel Richie’s legendary Hello— Hardcute Ukelele went one step further and decided to record their first live videos for Youtube, full of fantasy and drawings made with Paint. Elena plays the electric ukulele and Rosa the drums. Hardcute Ukelele’s cutesy appearance belies a punk underbelly, with a brand of bedroom pop with a humour and attitude reminiscent of pure Jonathan Richman. After the release of their first album and thanks to the success of their concerts throughout Spain, Hardcute Ukelele played at major festivals like Canela Party, El día de la marmota and Make Noise de Converse, and were the support group for Calvin Johnson at a concert in a church.

https://hardcuteukelele.bandcamp.com/ 

18.45h - FLASH AMAZONAS

Flash Amazonas es un dúo nipo-colombiano formado por los músicos Ryota Miyake (Crystal / Sparrows) y Julián Mayorga. Formado durante su tiempo como residentes en la Red Bull Music Academy de Montreal en 2016. El proyecto fusiona los intereses de ambos productores por la música latinoamericana, el pop, el punk, la new wave japonesa y la experimentación sonora. La banda ha presentado recientemente ‘Agua’: el primer single de su próximo LP de debut que ya ha recibido muy buenas críticas y que cuenta con el apoyo de la Red Bull Music Academy.

https://flashamazonas.bandcamp.com/ 

19.45h - DOBLE PLETINA

Doble Pletina es un quinteto de música pop de Barcelona. Se caracteriza por composiciones que, con los ingredientes justos y precisos, buscan la efectividad y se convierten en himnos de lo cotidiano, saltándose la idea preconcebida de “hit”.

https://doblepletina.bandcamp.com/ 

20.45h - CUCHILLO DE FUEGO

Cuchillo de Fuego se mueven en parámetros musicales cercanos al hardcore en cuanto a su rabiosa base guitarrera de aliento punk y textura noise/post-hardcore (leáse Melvins, Jesus Lizard…). Pero en el caso del cuarteto pontevedrés su propuesta se condensa en temas de menor duración, afilados, duros y densos como el silex y envueltos en unas letras incendiarias, lúcidas y también divertidísimas escritas sobre papel de lija.  Al calor de ese auténtico templo del underground gallego que es el Liceo Mutante, Se dieron a conocer en 2014 con “Triple España” editado bajo su propio sello Amawisca, para situarse desde el primer instante en lo más alto del panorama punk (entendido como toda propuesta musical que, ajena a las modas, se basa en hacer lo que a uno le da la santa gana y con los medios a su alcance) nacional. 

https://cuchillodefuego.bandcamp.com/

21.45h - LAS ODIO

Ágata Ahora (guitar), Ali Holgado (drums), Paula JJ (vocals and synths) and Sonsoles Rodríguez (bass) are Las Odio, a quartet of riot grrrls set up in 2015 in the Madrid underground scene, or infrandergraun as they call it. In summer 2016 they recorded what would be their first album, Futuras Esposas, at the Reno studios in Madrid with the producer Carlos Pereiro “Carlangas” (Novedades Carminha) and the sound engineer Luca Petricca. Just a few months later, when Blackout, the first track from the album, was released, Las Odio lost their mantle as Madrid’s best kept secret as they began to make headlines in the music and cultural press, who marked them as the most promising talent of 2017 with their exciting, gutsy sound that has been variously described as post-punk, pop, garage or rock… with nobody able to make up their mind exactly what it is. One thing though that everybody agrees on is that their lyrics pull no punches: telling feminist but also generational stories with biting humour and irony.

http://www.desvelo.eu/portfolio/lasodio/

22.45h - PUTOCHINOMARICÓN

Putochinomaricón is an East-Asian queer artist who uses pop music as a tool to defend everyday socio-political issues with absurd humour and irony. Putochinomaricón likes post-internet and making still-lifes in front of his bathroom mirror. He doesn’t like the social, moral and critical precariousness of today’s society. His mother says that he is a vitamix of PCmusic, Charli XCX, Ecce Hommo and Jawbreaker. Putochinomaricón is protest and fight in Comic Sans. Putochinomaricón is pop cynicism. Putochinomaricón is his own troll. Putochinomaricón is what he says he is, a fucking-Chinese-fag.

https://newadventuresinpop.bandcamp.com/album/corazo-n-de-cerdo-con-ginseng-al-vapor

PISTA DE BAILE. COLECTIVOS INVITADOS

15.00h - LAIKAMORI

“Persona” (2018) es el título del primer álbum largo del dúo peruano de electrónica experimental Laikamorí, que ha sido presentado de manera sorpresiva en sus redes sociales. Es en esta producción que el enigma comulga con lo surreal, y el corazón indómito de Laikamorí se revela y vuelve a liberar un tropel de voces sacras que se extienden y marchan —como en una catedral— por los pasillos del alma. “Persona” es esa búsqueda del cimiento original, del núcleo inmaterial. Dicho por ellos mismos, los 11 temas que componen este LP nacen en los segundos de antesala al sueño de sus creadores, del llamado sopor, donde suele habitar la verdad más desnuda y sugerente.

https://laikamori.bandcamp.com/

16.00h - REAL NO REAL

Real No Real is interested in creating an alternative space for expression and listening. It’s evening-time slot at the Sala 0 - Palacio de la Prensa club in Madrid produces an unique atmosphere customised every time through sound and interventions in the space.

19.30h - OJO ÚLTIMO

Ojo Último is a kind of robot poet with crazy ideas. A raging wizard constantly switching between two worlds. Between past and future. Between good and evil. Between strokes of genius and bouts of nonsense. In an intense limbo. His new album, El Núcleo Duro, is a trilogy. An electronic opera. An expedition into the jungle and a mission into space. A journey to the outer limits of reality and of oneself. For the live presentation of the album he has prepared a show that gives shape and body to an unsettling, paradoxical, bizarre, and surprising world.

https://ojoultimo.bandcamp.com/

20.30h - CHICO TRÓPICO

Chico Trópico, a switchboard of artistic-sound actions in operation since 2010, will launch onto the Autoplacer 2018 dance floor a histrionic session of loops, synths and stomping tropical, noisy, sugary, corrosive and dancey tracks designed to align feet, hips and minds on the same wavelength.

PROYECTOS INVITADOS

Como cada año el Festival Autoplacer acoje en el CA2M una serie de proyectos invitados en los que la autoedición está presente, ya sea a través de la publicación por parte de artistas, creadores o editoriales de iniciativas culturales como en su difusión mediante librerías, colectivos, tiendas especializadas, etc. Gracias a estos proyectos una parte del CA2M se convierte en un pequeño mercadillo en el que descubrir el trabajo de artistas y diseñadores actuales.

Bombas Para Desayunar
Borobiltxo Libors
Editorial Supremacía
La Fonoteca
La Integral
Librería Delirio
Semen Up
Turismo Verité
We Are Mag
La negra
El rapto

The Autoplacer/Sindicalistas collective is presenting the seventh Autoplacer Rough-Cuts competition whose goal is to promote self-publishing and to discover new music projects.

The winning group will join the winners from the previous editions: Lorena Álvarez y su Banda Municipal (2011), Mano de Obra (2012), Miguelito Nubesnegras (2013), Ama Ia (2014), Pan Total (2015) and Captains (2016), all of which received highly positive reactions from critics and public alike. Besides the prize of recording for the first time on vinyl, the winning project will have a chance to play in the 8th Autoplacer Festival at CA2M on 21 October.

Consult terms and conditions here: http://concurso2017.autoplacer.com

Call open from 25 May to 25 June.

The Autoplacer/Sindicalistas collective is now presenting the 7th Autoplacer Festival. Scheduled for Saturday 1 October, this free festival is aimed at the whole family and lasts all day long with a programme of live concerts featuring some of the best groups from the Spanish indie and underground scene. Besides the nine concerts taking place on three different stages, the festival also has a dance floor with live and DJ sessions by two indie collectives from Madrid, a space for audiovisual projections and an area set aside for various guest projects related with self-publishing showcasing a whole load of self-published records, cassettes, t-shirts, books, fanzines and comics and all kinds of underground merchandising

PROGRAMME OF CONCERTS

JUVENTUD JUCHÉ. Juventud Juché’s first contact with Autoplacer was three years ago in the Extramuros series of concerts which the collective organised for the exhibition Pop Politics at CA2M. Since then this Madrid-based trio have never stopped giving incredible live performances that have seen them grow and develop on stage. Their first LP,Quemadero, an abrupt exercise in art-punk, was followed this year by Movimientos, acclaimed by many as the album of the year, produced by Ian Crause, leader of the mythical Disco Inferno.

http://juventudjuche.bandcamp.com 

ARIES. Alter ego of Isabel Fernández Reviriego, Aries is an electronic excursion into homespun pop that entwines classic and modern musical traditions with a freshness and aplomb hard to find elsewhere. The powerful melodies with a strong sixties undertone, bringing to mind Brian Wilson and West Coast psychedelic sounds, are mixed with smooth electronic sounds. Aries manages to break away from the long shadow of her former group Charades, shifting her songs to more fertile ground, and throwing off the shackles of stylistic branding.

https://aries.bandcamp.com

PAPAYA is Yanara Espinoza or, in other words, a project that came about in summer 2014 from this Canary-born, Chilean-Spanish artist (also in Violeta Vil). Papaya boasts a varied, no-holds-barred repertoire built on her dark, androgynous voice and her highly personal mise en scene (accompanied by Sebastián Litmanovich and Miguel Aguas). Her album No me quiero enamoraris a multicolour collage that throws up everything from a bolero to disco, new wave, or evocative dark or Caribbean ambiences …

https://jabalinamusica.bandcamp.com/album/no-me-quiero-enamorar

ESMERALDO. Esmeraldo came about when Santiago Castillo decided to spend his holidays at the Master Flux recording studio (Paco Loco). The plan was simple: to start recording without knowing what would happen with the songs. That session ultimately gave rise to five cuts from which an EP was released called Campamento Flúxor. Since the release, Esmeraldo became a fully-fledged group with Elisa (keyboards and backing vocals), Luis (bass), Arturo (drums) and Castillo himself on vocals and guitar.

http://esmeraldo.bandcamp.com   

ALARIDO MONGÓLICO. Alarido Mongólico is a multidisciplinary project embracing music, video and love. A love child created by the producer Andrés Agulla and the designer Joel Blanco. After a few years of silence, Alarido Mongólico is back from the wilderness with new singles and videos that introduce a twist towards a more electronic sound, released digitally by Ferror Records (Ferrol) and Ruggle Records (Madrid). They have recently released the new videoAlarido Mongólico (ha llegado a la ciudad)for the first group’s physical release Alarido Mongólico is back, in cassette and digital.

https://www.facebook.com/mongoword 

DOPPELTGÄNGER. Doppeltgänger is the one who walks alongside you, by your side. Like the dark underbelly that nobody wants to see. Walking parallel with a wickedness even wickeder than your own. A Madrid-Portugaletetarra duo thrashing away in the cold wave, the no wave, and minimalist, instrumental synth-punk. Over the last year, this project by ex-members of Gone With the Pain, Juanita y Los Feos and Afilador, has gradually defined its style with an intense, in-your-face darkness distilled with the single goal of transporting us to another dimension with its cool atmospheres and textures.

https://doppeltganger.bandcamp.com 

ALBERTO ACINAS. Alberto Acinas is viewed by many as nothing less than an underground legend who combines painting with sound. His music is known for tackling head-on the folklore tradition of centre-north Spain sprinkled with a little bit of flamenco but from a contemporary perspective and attitude, with a decidedly experimental slant. The lyrics, largely autobiographical and existentialist, are charged with irony but also sincerity and poetry.

https://albertoacinas.bandcamp.com 

SALFUMÁN. Salfumán is the handcrafted electronic pop project by Sandra Rapulp, vocalist and producer from Valencia. The idea behind Salfumán is to create a hypnotic sexy atmosphere to make you dance, whether at home, at a club or at a festival. The nostalgic melodies weave a dream-like weft, at times dark, from a sound that swings between synth-pop and ambient, with a strong influence from disco, r’n’b and 80s sounds, seasoned with a subtle electronic backbeat that doesn’t settle down in any given bit.

https://salfuman.bandcamp.com 

CAPTAINS. (Winners of the Autoplacer 2016 competition) The producer David Baldo and the German singer Fee Reega met in January 2015 with the idea of recording some of Fee’s songs only to end up creating a completely new project. Shortly afterwards the group was rounded off by Oskar SD on drums and Aaron Dall on bass. Though they wanted to create a new sound all of their own, their songs are also influenced by electronica, postpunk and folk rock, with lyrics that speak of rebellion and catharsis.

http://bandcaptains.bandcamp.com

AND ALSO...

DANCE FLOOR

VALLE ELÉCTRICO. Valle Eléctrico is a cultural platform founded to lend visibility to music groups whose sound is built on the synthesizer. The collective not only organises mini-festival events focused on showcasing new names from abroad and providing a platform for the local scene, but also includes various self-publishing formats by means of projects such as the vinyl Pelea de Gatos or the publication of Synthzine.

http://valleelectrico.tumblr.com 

WI-FIJI. Influenced by RnB, rap and club music Wi-Fiji is a young producer from the generation of the 90s currently settled in Madrid (Spain). Despite his little time on the scene his praises have already been sung by Paralelo3 (RNE3), Red Bull Music Academy Radio, RinseFM, etc.

https://soundcloud.com/wifiji

MK MILK. Miguel Tortajada is one of those elements in the Madrid scene that always attracts attention. Countless endless nights are indebted to his tireless activity as a pioneering promoter and DJ of drum and bass in Madrid and indeed in such far-flung as Las Vegas, Sao Paulo, Cape Town and Shanghai.

https://www.mixcloud.com/mkmilk/

JOSEPH has collaborated with BSN Posse and is a creative member of VLTRA. Producer and singer in his main facet, settled in Malaga. Joseph is an eclectic artist who likes exploring different styles from the same groundbase. Focusing on sound itself as a trend, rather than the on-trend sound of the moment.

http://www.josephlab.org/

ABISMAL. Abismal is a self-managed project of experimental music and transformation. It has run events, parties and releases, and in all of them it has done its utmost to create an experience of cohesion and metamorphosis: creating a playful space that alters the perception of anyone who enters it.

http://www.abismal.net

PERSONAL MYTHOLOGIES. Collaborator in events with Abismal and Post Club right from the beginning, offering completely improvised live sets of industrial techno backed up by simple self-made sequencers in the Max/MSP environment.

http://hoodedrecords.bandcamp.com

INRI3721 (Visuales). A performer and visual artist, working with Abismal since 2013. Has published photos and videos in fashion mags like Stick and Stones and El País Tentaciones and has performed in galleries and clubs in Brussels, London and Berlin.

http://inri3721.net/ 

VULKER is multifaceted, multidisciplinary, chameleonic, creative and a constant whirlwind. A resident DJ and founding member of Minitel’s Nights of Love and Electronica, which is now kick-starting its seventh season in Madrid. Techno DJ, resident at clubs At Substation and Grupo Hot Madrid, in Spain’s underground scene and various cities throughout Europe.

www.soundcloud.com/vulker

AUDIOVISUAL ENCOUNTER 

PROCESADORA is an audiovisual fanzine which has filled the Radio 3 Extra web with videos. Keeping one ear to the ground, it stays abreast of changing trends, creation, philosophy, actions taking place here and there, now. A programme which is a rehearsal, a collage, a moving photo of realities that escape around the edges, paying special attention to projects with girls, with gender, networks, trans, pop culture …every Monday, for a year, one 3-minute video is a page in a mutant fanzine always in the making.

Procesadora is now taking a well-earned break, with the firm belief that the pages will keep on filling up with images and sounds.

Created by Toña Medina and Ángeles Oliva for Radio 3.

RADIO STATION

SILLY EUROPEANS is a collaborative and polymorphic project by Machines Désirantes Buró, a Madrid-based studio for creation and developing ideas. First of all it took the format of sound experimentation, with which it propagated over the radio waves of a podcast, a torrent of compiled images and sounds, a compendium of adventures, interviews and sound documents of all kinds that range from urban recordings to musical performances, assembled in a collage of imperfect beauty. The diversification of the project by these restless souls has led to work with other formats like publications, happenings and parties in which one can see clear lines of flight: alterity, urgency, randomness and nomadism are familiar anchors of style and intention, homemade experimentation, deformation, play and humour.

http://sillyeuropeans.tumblr.com/

Vermouth Session with LEVADURA SALVAJE

GUESTS PROJECTS

Ultralab/Bombas para desayunar/La integral/Manu Griñón/Plastilina Records/Sisterhood

Admission free. More info on http://autoplacer.tumblr.com/post/145348641066/vii-festival-autoplacer-2016