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I'm Rafael García from the audiovisual collective Tan Frío el Verano
I'm a producer and musician from the band,
my area in the music is electronics and synths.
We gathered in 2007, Juan Miguel Rojas, the drummer of the band and also founder and director of the band,
and Daniel Mandino who was the guitarist back then, to be part of Tan Frío el Verano.
We were only three people, and we made our first recording in 2007
Entitled "Invierno EP" that has six songs, and well, the electronics
that I handled back then, and also the knowledge that I had at the time were really basic,
and actually everything was very subtle, it wasn't what I had always wanted for Tan Frío el Verano.
However, later we reformed the entire band,
currently we're nine musicians, and we released our fist long play called "Primavera"
in which the electronic has much more presence.
One could include in the genres of electronics used: break beat, glitch, break core, and noise.
We also mix all of those elements of electronics with organic elements like drums, guitar, bass, trombone and trumpet.
The electronic side of Tan Frío el Verano has changed drastically with time, both the production of the album and live performances.
Previously I triggered the sequences with Fruity Loops, and well, the process is very primitive,
but we changed to the software I currently use and I think is the best one you can use to execute a live electronic performance,
which is Ableton Live. Ableton Live opens a new horizon to the manipulation of live electronic beats.
And well in the time I've been using this software I've acquired new equipment, for example,
I purchased the Launchpad novation for Ableton Live, this one right here,
with this I handle the whole interface without touching the computer Ableton Live,
is very comfortable because I can manipulate every volume, panning, and trigger the sequences, without even having to look at the laptop.
All of the buttons and pads are real time.
Basically all of that is used in "Primavera", but not in the way we wish it would, because there is an important mixture of organic and electronic in "Primavera".
In our next production entitled "Otoño", which will probably be released by the end of this year,
we thought about changing up the tones. Formerly in "Primavera", there is a more cheerful, more happy sense because of what the character of Primavera represents in our history.
And "Otoño" is going to be darker, more aggressive, for what "Otoño" represents in our history of Tan Frío el Verano.
The production of this album is very different from what we had done. Before, the way that we had been working the songs
is I generally would take the laptop and do some raw models, show it to the guys, Juan Miguel takes it and writes the lyrics,
Carlos Sánchez helps me with the bass lines and guitars,
and Diego Roque who is our trombonist, is also taking part with the strings and helping us with the guitars.
About Samuel Ballesteros, the newest band member,
his work isn't reflected neither live or in the album in a forceful form because when he entered the band everything was already made.
But in "Otoño" I have thought about the secondary keyboards having much more prominence.
We want the record to have piano, classic piano, more synths included, and the guitars having another purpose,
the guitars won't have the post rock sense that they had in "Primavera".
And essentially that's it. In the production we're testing ourselves as a band, because jumping all the way from a genre to another and making it work,
is probably the biggest challenge we have this year.