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Dear everyone, I am back from Rewire where I had the time of my life, both on stage (it was seriously the happiest and most liberated I ever felt playing music live) and off the stage as an audience member.

Before I left, we had finally just published the full video from my MATRIARCH DEEP DIVE WORSKHOP at my beloved ELEVATOR SOUND EU in Barcelona, the modular shop that acts as a central hub for the modular community in Barcelona, and which has been very important in improving my own synthesis journey through the numerous events it hosts, and as I already said, preparing for this workshop was key to making progress on Libres antes del final.

Here is a short excerpt of the title song I put on my own Youtube Channel

And you can see the FULL VIDEO below, in Spanish but with English subtitles, which for the most part are correct haha.

I also had the pleasure of doing a DANCEABLE MIX for FOGGY HEX’s OUTSIDERS SHOW on KIOSK RADIO: LISTEN HERE!

Foggy Hex is headed by my dear friend Jorge Paez, who invited me several times on his former radio programmes on Dublab. They have organized wonderful shows in Barcelona over the past couple of years and are organizing my DOUBLE SHOW in Casa Montjuic and Laut in Barcelona next week, Sunday 26th April LINK TO EVENT AND TICKETS

Casa Montjuic, where I reamped the last album, is nearly sold out, and Jorge will open the evening with a DJ set, but tickets are still available for Laut, its sister venue and club next door, where I will play in the middle of the room and where the idea is to get us moving: when doors open, we will listen to the set I made for Foggy Hex’s Kiosk programme, while I set up my gear, I will then play the album and extra material, and Francisco Sosa, who is part of Barcelona Modular Society, will be closing the night at Laut with his exquisitely danceable modular set.

Here are some words I wrote about the mix, I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did

“I composed the bulk of Libres antes del final from December 2024 to September 2025, corresponding exactly with a period of time during which I sought to move my body on a daily basis, mostly through activities that I had interrupted for more than 30 years such as swimming and table tennis, and through activities I had never practised, such as self-defense classes and dancing, and it is through the prism of this new love for – and freedom found in – dancing that I chose the tracks included in this mix, as they are some of the songs that made me move the most during that time of album-making.

Dancing somehow enabled me to connect all the dots at that point of my personal and musical evolution: I gained a more physical understanding of rhythm through finally letting my body connect with it, which was exactly what I needed to give a stronger sense of pulse to my own music, even without incorporating traditional drum machine sounds (the only rhythms you hear on the album are all synthesis-made). But I also crucially – for the first time in years – rediscovered the joy of truly focusing on listening to music, which I had somehow lost along the way, and those songs made for joyful solitary dancing sessions on the tatami floor in my flat or the community terrace where I live, once I checked no one was watching.

I hope that this selection will make you feel like losing yourself and connecting to the music through dancing too.”

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