Hidrogenesse
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Spain
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pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
band whose members are Carlos Ballesteros (singer) and Genís Segarra (keyboards). Although they have been together since 1997, they didn't release anything until 2000, with "Así se baila el siglo XX", a smart, cynical approach to the new millennium through the inventions of the 20th century.
What came next, in 2001, was Eres PC, eres Mac, another EP that shares with the previous one their weird sense of humour. It contains a cover of "Technical (you're so)", by The Magnetic Fields
The Magnetic Fields
The Magnetic Fields is the principal creative outlet of singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt...
, band they are devoted to.
One year later, their first LP, Gimnàstica passiva, was released. It consists of ten songs where they quote Spanish poet Luis de Góngora
Luis de Góngora
Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered to be the most prominent Spanish poets of their age. His style is characterized by what was called culteranismo, also known as Gongorism...
("Góngora"), state their worship towards the Cobain family ("Kurt, Courtney, Frances Bean and me") or remember "1987", where their beloved Smiths
The Smiths
The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...
and Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
ceased existing, and started new exciting things as samplers and club culture. 1987
1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?)
1987 is the debut album of The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu . 1987 was produced using extensive unauthorised samples which plagiarised a wide range of musical works, continuing a theme begun in The JAMs' debut single "All You Need Is Love"...
is also an album by The KLF
The KLF
The KLF were one of the seminal bands of the British acid house movement during the late 1980s and early 1990s....
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In 2007 they released another album, Animalitos, recorded with drummer Alfonso Melero from Spanish band Hello Cuca. It features glam rock beats, fuzz guitars, analog synthesizers and saxophones riffs. Twelve songs about pets, wild beasts and social animals, including "Disfraz de tigre" and "Caballos y ponis". Seventies production, sing-along tunes and some krautrock inspired mantras.
Influences
According to them, their most significant influences are The Smiths and MorrisseyMorrissey
Steven Patrick Morrissey , known as Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the alternative rock band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career,...
, The Associates (the Mac in Eres PC eres Mac stands for their lead singer, Billy Mackenzie
Billy Mackenzie
William MacArthur "Billy" Mackenzie was a Scottish singer, with a distinctive falsetto voice best known as a member of The Associates.- Biography :...
), Sparks
Sparks (band)
Sparks is an American rock and pop band formed in Los Angeles in 1968 by brothers Ron and Russell Mael , initially under the name Halfnelson...
, Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys are an English electronic dance music duo, consisting of Neil Tennant, who provides main vocals, keyboards and occasional guitar, and Chris Lowe on keyboards....
and The Magnetic Fields
The Magnetic Fields
The Magnetic Fields is the principal creative outlet of singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt...
. Their new songs are also influenced by German band La Düsseldorf
Klaus Dinger
Klaus Dinger was a German musician and songwriter most famous for his contributions to the seminal krautrock outfit, Neu! He was also the guitarist and chief songwriter of new wave group La Düsseldorf and briefly the percussionist of Kraftwerk.-Pre-Neu! :Klaus Dinger was born in Scherfede,...
and UK glam acts as Gary Glitter
Gary Glitter
Gary Glitter is an English former glam rock singer-songwriter and musician.Glitter first came to prominence in the glam rock era of the early 1970s...
and The Glitter Band
The Glitter Band
The Glitter Band are a glam rock band from England, who initially worked as Gary Glitter's backing band under that name from 1973, when they then began releasing records of their own. They were unofficially known as the Glittermen on the first four hit singles by Gary Glitter from 1972 to 1973. The...
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Recent history
The release of the new album Animalitos was followed by a Spanish tour. In 2008 they have released another album, Bestiola, influenced by early German electronica and featuring reinterpretations of old songs, covers and instrumental tracks. That release was followed by their first tour in USA and México.In 2010 Hidrogenesse collaborated with canadian band The Hidden Cameras
The Hidden Cameras
The Hidden Cameras are a Canadian indie pop band. Fronted by singer-songwriter Joel Gibb, the band consists of a varying roster of musicians who play what Gibb once described as "gay church folk music"...
releasing "Hidrogenesse versus The Hidden Cameras" a minialbum of re-made/re-modelled versions of The Hidden Cameras songs from the album Origin:Orphan
Origin:Orphan
Origin:Orphan is the fifth studio album by The Hidden Cameras, released September 22, 2009. It is the band's first release on Arts & Crafts....
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The last work of Hidrogenesse is Moix a song based on an excerpt from a travel book of Terenci Moix
Terenci Moix
Terenci Moix was a Spanish Catalan writer who wrote in Spanish and in Catalan. He is also the brother of poet/novelist Anna Maria Moix....
'Terenci del Nil' and their collaboration in the art exhibition 'Genius loci' of Fundació Joan Miró
Fundació Joan Miró
The ' is a museum of modern art honoring Joan Miró and located on the hill called Montjuïc in Barcelona, Catalonia.-History:...
in Barcelona 2011. Hidrogenesse created a installation with funerary statuettes and different found objects as a parody of archeological museums. The whole project is a tribute to Terenci Moix
Terenci Moix
Terenci Moix was a Spanish Catalan writer who wrote in Spanish and in Catalan. He is also the brother of poet/novelist Anna Maria Moix....
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Discography
- "Así se baila el siglo XX", CD-Single (2000)
- Eres PC, eres Mac, EP (2001)
- Gimnàstica passiva, CD-Album (2002)
- Animalitos, CD-Album (2007)
- Bestiola, CD-Album (2008)
- Hidrogenesse versus The Hidden CamerasThe Hidden CamerasThe Hidden Cameras are a Canadian indie pop band. Fronted by singer-songwriter Joel Gibb, the band consists of a varying roster of musicians who play what Gibb once described as "gay church folk music"...
, CD Mini-Album and 12" Vinyl (2010)
Remixes
- AlgoraAlgoraAlgora is a municipality located in the province of Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. According to the 2004 census , the municipality has a population of 112 inhabitants....
, 'Poesía anti-vértigo' - La Bien Querida, '9.6 French hot-dog remix' and '9.6 Rendevouz Americain'
- Fangoria (band)Fangoria (band)Fangoria is an electro-pop band, the brainchild of Alaska and Nacho Canut. They have sold over 1,200,000 CDs.In 1977 Alaska, along with Nacho Canut and Carlos Berlanga, formed the band Alaska y los Pegamoides. Later, in 1982, they changed the name to Alaska y Dinarama...
, 'Lo poquito agrada y lo mucho enfada (versión Vedette por Hidrogenesse)' - Los Punsetes, 'Mongo y galgo'
- Espanto, 'El última día de las vaciones'
- Javiera MenaJaviera MenaJaviera Alejandra Mena Carrasco , publicly known as Javiera Mena , is a Chilean Indie electronic pop musician. She started her musical career in the Chilean indie music scene in 2001, and transformed into one of the most relevant Chilean indie acts after the release of her first studio album in 2006...
, 'Luz de piedra de luna'