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Formed: 1999
Official Site: www.mostros.info
iSound Site: www.isound.com/mostros
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Mostros was born in 1999 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. Then we traveled 16000 km and re formed the band in Majorca, one of the Balearic Islands. We´ve been playing 5 years now with this line-up and it´s fun as hell.
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Mostros was born in 1999 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America. Then we traveled 16000 km and re formed the band in Majorca, one of the Balearic Islands. We´ve been playing 5 years now with this line-up and it´s fun as hell.
After 2 o3 demo tapes, we released our first cd in 2002. It went through record sales and now is out of stock.
We´ve opened for bands such as Buzzcocks, Damned, Glen Matlock, Nuevo Catecismo Catolico, Muletrain, Safety Pins, Zinc, Motociclon.
We have just released our second cd, Feed the Rockin Soul. 14 tracks of pure punk and roll. DIY all the way, it´s self-produced, and we even printed it out at a private press, and folded and stapled the exclusive cd booklet with original art by Mostros.
We released it trough Mostros´own independent label, Flying Peluca Records, with the help of Ac Records, Cry Out, Grita o Muere, Punkaway, Punkenfermo and Bugulu.
We´ve made a lot of friends during the journey, and we´re loving every minute of it.
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So this is how the story goes. Back in 2000, a group of Argentinean guys had started travelling before ministers dreamt of starting a new crisis. They found themselves rehearsing in the basement of Palma´s Rustic Bar, in the once-glamorous, now filthy Gomila area in Mallorca Island, in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.
A month later, everybody was talking about them; they had made posters announcing the Coming with a faith only comparable to somebody-who-brings-the-Rolling-Stones-to-town. Small-town Palma, just 300,000 people, was covered in posters that promised punk rock and late-night horror.
Two sold-out concerts – as sold-out as a bar basement can be – were enough to leave townsfolk jaw dropped. Mostros were new, punk, they rocked, had class and were furious. They were three dangerous guys and one girl who sang hot and hard. It was like finding again an attitude you thought lost forever.
It all was pretty fast – just in two sticky summer months, almost like in the middle of a nightmare with wet sheets, Mostros found a new place to practise on their own and sold out the demo tapes recorded back in Buenos Aires in 1999. They then played a pyrotechnic show together with big local names like Cannibales and Bad Taste, in Palma’s now closed biggest venue, Sonotone, and immediately after lost drummer and guitarist.
With the summer hangover still beating in their temples, Macky (voice) and Alejo (bass) got together with Juanmi (guitar, former Cerebros Exprimidos from Spain) and Larry (drummer, ex Mal de Parkinson from Argentina) and put themselves to feed the beast up. Mostros dream team was born – four heads, one heart, bound together by an irresistible chemistry that you can almost smell from the audience.
The show begins, ladies and gentlemen. Alejo, the bass player with the coldest blood in the county, gazes at Larry, world-renowned telepath, and the curse of rhythm falls on your head. They are not the Barret Brothers, although that´s how they call each other privately, but they take punk’s mad stallion to pasture from the best grass. Macky opens her jaws and takes you out to dance and you suddenly lose foot and can’t tell whether you’ve been hit by a wave or bitten by a shark. Juanmi moves his right hand and while all the hinges in the world start screeching, the image morphs, air smells of burnt plastic, or maybe sulphur. The audience struggles for air like a fish out of the water, and it’s just the first song on the setlist.
With their debut album Mostros quickly recorded the music baggage they dragged around for 10000 miles of travelling, coming up with a wounding and compact punk rock piece. Now with their last cd, Mostros double up the bet. “Feed the rockin´ soul”, besides capturing the band’s raw, live essence, has it all: actions, adventure, sex, violence, even humour - Mostros open-heartedly laugh at themselves while they go for your jugular with nocturnal conviction and then leave you there, a bloody remain trying in vain to get up to keep on dancing.
The thing is this people have all the “roll” that loads of self-called rockers lack. Moreover, they have got hold of all the roll reserves on the Planet and smoothly cruise along the milky highway, with a full tank and a rocking pelvis.
But what do Mostros sound like, you wonder? The reviews have compared them to Hellacopters, New York Dolls, Misfits, New Bomb Turks, Dead Kennedys, Johnny Thunders and Heartbreakers, Devil Dogs, Texas Terri, The Gits… they’ve been labelled speed punk, creepy punk, R & R, punk and roll, killerbilly. We can’t tell exactly, but Mostros do it better.
The band’s aesthetics is a whole other thing. Right from the beginning they chose to stay away from computer-generated graphics, and grabbed stencils and stamps, glue and photocopy ink. Their good friend Gato (former Fun People drummer, now in Phogo) helped them a lot with fresh and chaotic designs. You could see Gato´s and Mostros´s own graphics, a whole gallery of them, at their website, www.mostros.info . Even though this is not evident in their first cd, with this album Mostros decide on their aesthetic terms. The booklet design takes the recording notes and memos as a starting point and incorporates them into a big collage, an original work by Mostros.
Now they have their own DIY label, FlyingPeluca Records, they were in charge of both the art and the release, and they chose to print it in a matte recycled paper. As most cd factories were not keen on the idea, the band printed it at a private press and then folded and stapled each booklet by hand, putting them together and wrapping them up at the end. The result is this creature, Feed the rockin´soul, a round and thoughtful work, but still quite a spontaneous one.
Check it out by yourself, and don’t miss Mostro Experience when they visit your town.
Bloody Billy
2005
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