Les Disques Bongo Joe: La Ola Interior – Spanish Ambient & Acid Exoticism 1983-1990 Vinyl 2LP Les Disques Bongo Joe

“Bongo Joe is pleased to present LA OLA INTERIOR, a compilation exploring the ambient side of the Spanish electronic music produced in the ’80s. It gathers musicians from various horizons and of many generations, who shared the desire to create an immersive soundscape and to combine electronic music with non-Western musical traditions. As a general rule, the Anglo-Saxon tropism did relate the Spanish peninsula’s ambient music to the Balearic Sound, that is to say to the relaxing music played in Ibiza’s nightclubs. But this music takes place in the productive territory of experimental musics, and particularly in its two main breeding grounds: the tape recording underground and the independent musicians-producers scene. Inseparable from the processes of self-publishing, distribution and exchange of music that were then taking place in Spain in an artisanal way, the vast underground movement of cassettes was divided between an ‘ethno-trance’ combining industrial beats and oriental sounds on the one hand (Esplendor Geométrico, Miguel A. Ruiz / Orfeón Gagarin) and unclassifiable low-fi tinkerers on the other hand (Camino al desván, Eli Gras, Mataparda, Victor Nubla). Hyperactive, this scene is radical and strongly dominated by the hardest musical styles, but the ambient, influenced by the German Kosmische Musik and ‘krautrock’, also develops here. LA OLA INTERIOR brings together 20 little-known and innovative pieces from the golden age of Spanish electronic music.” – Les Disques Bongo Joe

• rare, out of print and previously unreleased tracks from 1980s Spain’s underground experimental / electronic music scene
• black double vinyl pressing
• includes printed foldout insert w/ extensive liner notes, artist bios + original album art
• limited edition of 1000
• music label: Les Disques Bongo Joe 2021