As you should know, if you’ve been paying attention in the last few weeks, El Guincho (a.k.a. Pablo Díaz-Reixa) hails from Barcelona, where he has been making what he describes as “pop music, people loves pop music. It’s dance music, people loves to dance. And at the same time it is no pop and no dance music at all. It’s a different way of achieving those vibes with sounds you wouldn’t expect to be there, so it makes it a new exciting thing.” And it seems people love it, with Alegranza being bandied about in the same breath as Panda Bear’s stunning ‘Person Pitch’.

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El Guincho had the official release of his album, Alegranza, the other week on XL. An album of infused sounds, taking in everything from folk, pop and latin rhythms. We caught up with the man himself to find out a bit more about him…

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It’s pop music, people loves pop music. It’s dance music, people loves to dance. And at the same time it is no pop and no dance music at all. It’s a different way of achieving those vibes with sounds you wouldnt expect to be there, so it makes it a new exciting thing. Continue Reading