“I started producing and writing ‘Diving In The Club’ with the intention of expressing how my personal experience in a club has changed after having added to my head a new cybernetic body part that allows me to hear the weather. The atmosphere in the clubs always gets so wet and warm due to the sweat and the irradiation of the bodies in movement and that makes my fins react in a way that I can hear lots of bubbles inside my head at the same time I can hear the track the DJ is playing. In a way, this makes me feel like I’m submerged in an underwater club and that’s what I wanted to transmit through this track so I could make people feel closer to my personal cyborg experience when they listen to it.” *Manel De Aguas
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The track is produced by HOUSE OF (S)PUNK. A record label founded by La Fraicheur and home to the young pandemic-born queer electronic scene of Barcelona. Its mission is to highlight the talents of this generation who, younger than the existence of techno itself, grew up already surrounded by the diversity of its wide spectrum. Raised in a melting pot of techno, acid, trance, hardstyle, EBM, electro, makina, glitch, breakbeat, gabber or eurodance they spit it back out blurring the lines in a special playful blend of fast-paced neo-rave sound.
HOUSE OF (S)PUNK is home to a scene born from the challenges and restrictions of the pandemic, a generation that had always lived in clubs and, with their closing, had to take matters in their own hands to keep living the culture they breathe. With no DJs and no parties, under the constantly rising pressure of the pandemic void, they had to become their own experience providers, DJs and musicians they weren’t allowed to see anymore. Just like a global warming-induced wild fire, their spontaneous auto-combustion is what triggered what would be understood months later as the new queer pandemic scene : from creating DIY intimate raves following new formats and formulas, freed from the industry’s standards, to being stuck at home learning DAW and productions, these young new talents ooze an enthusiastic love for rave culture and a fresh new take on what club music and club culture can be.
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