08001
Named after the postcode in Barcelona's Raval district where Julian Urigoitia has his studio, 08001 brings its expansive club beats to Berlin. Producer Urigoitia aimed to lay down some tracks of danceable electronic sound, reflecting Raval's cultural diversity. So he invited a few friends to join him - and ended up with 23 musicians from countries as diverse as Morocco, Guinea, France, Argentina, Turkey and Guinea-Bissau, turning 08001 into a uniquely unparallel project where comparisons simply don't exist: a heady mix of flamenco and downbeat, Moroccan melodies and Jamaican vibes, West African polyrhythms and European club beats.Black Baudelaire
In the meantime, anyone planning to read up on the origins of hip-hop had better be ready to page their way through several meters of shelf space. In music language terms, hip-hop is now equally at home everywhere around the world, but has added its own spice to create an especially exciting and fruitful mix in Senegal, France and the Maghreb - and that's where the members of Black Baudelaire come from. It was no coincidence this hip-hop live crew were all drawn to Barcelona and met there. Their sound is built around turntables and talking drum, microphones and derbouka, flamenco and jungle, and they get their message across in Wolof, French, Spanish and Arabic. Barxino
Barcelona's Raval district - an urban microcosm and musical interface echoing to the most stunning pop beat fusions and exciting polyglot clashes of sounds in Europe. From the very first Festival, popdeurope has showcased these developments in Spain, with last year's Ojos de Brujo and Dusminguet sets providing the series highlight, leaving the 2500 audience gasping for more. The successful band Macaco had a large part to play in spinning this thread of popdeurope tradition. Two members of Macaco - Martin Fuks, Argentinean multi-instrumentalist and producer and Beto B, Colombian MC and percussionist - also founded the Barxino sound system. In Barxino, they work together with the Brazilian singer Sol, Argentinean percussionist Flor and Italian DJ Max, creating a fusion of salsa, rumba, drum'n'bass, break beats and raggamuffin.
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