Genre
Dance-pop, Latin rock, and funk. A re-recorded compilation of six Radio Futura classics — recast in more danceable, rhythmically updated versions — alongside one brand new song, "El Puente Azul," and a cover of Caetano Veloso's "Tierra."
Release
Released in 1992 by BMG Ariola, Spain. A re-recorded compilation produced to fulfil a contractual obligation with the label following the band's final studio album Veneno en la Piel (1990). The album proved to be Radio Futura's farewell release.
Production
Re-recorded compilation. Produced and mixed by Jo Dworniak — the London-born musician, arranger, and producer who had been Radio Futura's primary collaborator since 1985, described by Santiago Auserón as "a sort of fourth band member in the dark." Dworniak also co-wrote "El Puente Azul" and "The School of Heat." The sessions assembled an international ensemble of over twenty musicians, including session players from London, New York, and Madrid. Recorded at Moody Studios, London, England, in October 1991.
Reception
Critically it was received as a dignified and inventive farewell, with the journalist Diego Manrique describing Radio Futura as "the great musical organism of the 1980s" in the liner notes to the concurrent box set of their complete discography.
Radio Futura
Radio Futura were a Spanish pop-rock group formed in Madrid in 1979, at the height of the Movida Madrileña, by painter and synthesizer experimenter Herminio Molero alongside brothers Santiago Auserón (born July 25, 1954, Zaragoza; vocals, guitar) and Luis Auserón (bass), and guitarist Enrique Sierra — the latter a veteran of Kaka de Luxe. Their name was taken from an Italian independent radio station. After Molero's departure, the classic trio of Santiago, Luis, and Sierra evolved through seven studio albums from Música Moderna (1980) to Veneno en la Piel (1990), absorbing successive influences from punk and new wave to Latin rhythms and Caribbean music. Their encounter with Jo Dworniak in London in 1981 opened a crucial international dimension; the collaboration produced De un país en llamas (1985) and La canción de Juan Perro (1987), two of the defining albums of Spanish rock. In 1989 guitarist Ollie Halsall — a member of the touring band — joined them; his death by overdose in 1992 was among the factors that brought the band to an end. After dissolution, Santiago Auserón continued as Juan Perro.
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