Electrocugat plays a
stylish electronic lounge with some touches of humour. Musically, the album is
based on bossa sounds and latin rithms like mambo and cha-cha-ch (that´s why
Cugat is part of the name of the band). All these sounds are mixed with
electronic basis and every kind of sampled effects.
The band was created in Barcelona in the 1999 by Arturo
C. Urbina
(composer and DJ) and Antuan Duanel (writer and guitar player). Arturo was the composer of
the songs and Antuan was the writer of the lyrics. At the 2000, they began to
record some tracks with the singer Paula Bances and the editor of their first
album, Visconti con hielo was So Dens Records, from Barcelona. This album were
licensed to Rambling records for their edition in Japan.
In 2001 So Dens published the EP Lounge Club Remixes, including remixes from the
album Visconti and some new tracks. One of the tracks of the remixes album, Bungaloo,was part of the soundtrack of the popular
TV-Catalunya program Afers exteriors.
After these, Arturo was working in different projects as
a composer (soundtrack of the original web page of Custo-Barcelona, soundtrack of the short film Custo.
The movie) and
as a DJ (DJ resident in La Paloma club from Barcelona).
Finally, in 2003, Arturo begins the composition of his
new album, Ladies cocktail. In this occassion, the lyrics are writen again by
Antuan Duanel, but there are some new collaborations: the singers Luciana
Lis (from
Brasil), Rina Ota
(from Tokio) and Dacil Lopez (from Barcelona) and the drummer Susana Pages (from Barcelona).
Rambling records from Japan has already get the license
of one of the tracks of the new album, Siempre soy muy cool in order to include it in the
compilation album Flying to the Cote DAzur.
LADIES COCKTAIL.
The new album from Electrocugat, Ladies cocktail, consists of
12 themes, coposed by Arturo C. Urbina, with lyrics writen by Antuan Duanel. The
band goes on with the style of its first album: lounge-pop ambient, references
to different ages and musical styles: from the 50s to Club, or from Mancini to
Dee Lite. The lyrics, this time all in spanish, put all these sounds together. Almost every song describes a
cinematographic character: the
eternal fellinian drunkenness in De fiesta en la bote, the snob and casual
journalist in Mrs. Brown or the little modern european girl, infatuated with a
cuban fellow in De Varadero (A tu llavero ).
The voices of the singers, with
its different registers and origins, round off this cocktail served by
Electrocugat. Luciana Lis (from
Rio de Janeiro) the main voice of the album, gives the sonority and feeling of
brasilian performers. Rina Ota (from Tokio), who has colaborated before with
the band, brings the most naif register along two themes. And finally, Dcil
Lpez (from Barcelona), a consolidated soul singer who has reached her most
intim register in this album. As a counterpoint of these three singers, the
bice of Arturo takes the role played by Antuan in the first album.
DISCOGRAPHY.
ALBUMS.
Visconti
con Hielo.
(SoDens/Universal).2001.
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Lounge-Club
Remixes.
(SoDens/Universal).2002.
Visconti con Hielo. (Rambling Records).2001. Japan.
Ladies Cocktail. (Coolsound Music).2006.
PROMOTIONAL
SINGLES.
Dacosta. (Sodens/Universal).2001.
Aprendo a
Bailar. (Sodens/Universal).2002.
COMPILATIONS.
Aragn
Territorio Electrnico.(Prames).2000.
Relahouse
in Ibiza 01.(Sodens/Universal).2001.
Planeta
Aragn (2).2001.
Relaxing
& Rambling.
(Rambling).2001.Japan.
Prego 1. (Rambling).2001.J Japan.
Relahouse
in Ibiza 02.(SoDens/Universal).2002.
BAM ´02. (Ethnics&Technics).2002.
Zona Oasi
vol. 2. (Flaix
FM).2002.
Music For Beautiful Modern Life 1.(Pioneer).2002. Japan.
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Music For Beautiful Modern Life 2.(Pioneer).2002. Japan.
3XL.Manga.(TVCatalunya).2002.
Panzerotti. (Rambling).2003.Japn.
Sound for
Modern Style vol. 1
(Actus).2003. Japan.
Prego 5. (Rambling).2003. Japan.
Flying to
Cte DAzur. (Rambling).2004.
Japan.
Dining
Room (Tsutaya). (Rambling).2005.
Japan.
Le Pop
for Cooking (Afternoon Tea). (Rambling).2005. Japan.
SOUNDTRACKS.
2001-The musical Una Jirafa with texts from Luis Buuel.
2003- Soundtrack of the TV program
Afers Exteriors from
TV3 Catalunya.
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2003- soundtrack of the original web
page of Custo-Barcelona,and soundtrack of the short film Custo. The movie.
(www.custo-barcelona.com)
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