Once a week, Radio 3 navigates between groups and soloists emerging in our country. Some take their first steps in the stormy world of music. Others take several years of trying. Never mind. 'Captain Demo' attempts to reflect the reality of the independent scene with finely tuned ear and attentive to new trends willing to make a difference. We spoke to Paula Quintana, director of the program.
As director of Captain Demo, what perception you have of pop music in our country? What trends come stomping?
Being demanding, music is a bit repetitive. The groups seek originality, but in the end tend to look a lot like each other and, above all, to resemble what already exists. In Captain Demo seek the difference. While it is true that there is a tendency to sing more and more in English-something I think is a bit of a mistake because many groups lose a bit of authenticity-what it does is pop rock mostly, mostly Spanish, pop rock based in The Planets, Vetusta Morla, Lori Meyers. It closely resembles each other everything. Simple melodies, four chords ... It is also true that sometimes you meet with groups, making four simple chords and melodies, it does manage to do something different.
This new wave pop rock, with all the tangle of influences drinking groups like the ones you named, Vetusta Morla, Lori Meyers and others ... do you think is coming to an end? Is this a change in cycle?
Not at all. I do not think we're in a cyclical change. Suddenly people are taking a much in groups, being independent and having few resources, have become very large. It is something that was very difficult, and new groups are regarded much in those mirrors. It seems to me well, because they can work ... and people like many similar groups, then why do not you will like new affinity groups? Then there is also a look into the eighties, groups sintentizadores analog and things scheduled. In the end it looks more and more back. We are in a confusing time, because there is everything: people who do things that sound hippie bluesmen groups doing covers of a lifetime. And of course, those who follow trends pop rock. There are also many e-groups, some quite subtle melodies and lyrics, musical ideas and sounds abusing sintentizadores, which sometimes consist simply of a person being recorded at home. We are at a somewhat rare, when we are looking a little differentiator. Sometimes you hear some people tell me that the program does not like it, because I put people screaming, totally noisy, with little instrumentation projects. But I think that's where we should go. More than a change of registration, we go for originality, look for something different though sometimes sacrificing beauty. Search the differentiator.
How do you see the average level of these musical offerings in Spain? Occasional journalist, or rather, many complain that models get gruesome, which can not be output directly. Do you have that perception?
That happens to me sometimes. We got it all: self-published albums, albums released with stamps, totally homemade recordings ... It is true that many times I have been telling some people that I like his songs, but I can not put them on the radio because they are issuable. There are groups that send you a song, but notes that it has its value, it sounds totally saturated. At the end try to look more on the idea than anything else. I try to tell the audience that is a group playing a demo. Sometimes I do not care much. When there is certainly a good idea to attempt to puncture, even sacrificing sound quality. In fact sometimes scold me because it sounds terrible. But whenever possible, and I believe that something is minimally radiable, I prefer to do so. I have written to groups, and especially solo, that I re-send the items with a bit more quality. I understand my colleagues who say that some things are not radiables because there are many songs absolutely out of tune. I have encountered issues simply out, people playing out of rhythm ... And yet, sometimes I have to click stuff like that because, again, the value is in the idea. Currently it is so easy that the level recorded at times leaves much to be desired. But I'm sure that music history has left us without a lot of great artists because of the court of first going through a seal, by a person who discovered you today ... you just have to know where to look, how to choose and have patience. Get a lot of songs. Be ruled out and they do discard a lot. In my case, I get about ten albums to date. Receipt physical disks, vinyl, cds, home-burned CDs, models in mp3. Making it.
How does that filter in your program? Do you do a job search? Do you just select what you try you get there?
Both thing. The main thing arises from what we sent. It is true that much work with Bandcamp, where normally there are recommendations of related groups, mainly based on what I attempt to send me the groups. They make an effort before I write a lot. There are artists who come to see me at the station, who want to know the program, which offered me playing acoustic ... They are very generous in that regard. Then try to give priority to all who write to me. Of course, I like to discover things on my own. I love to recommend music. I have colleagues that happen to me discs that do not fit into their program, and that maybe fits in mine.
Do you think the media has assumed the role of scout in that direction, putting a bit of filter, because it may have lost the traditional filter of the record?
In part, yes. But I also think that often we are wrong in the media because we are carried away by all the same trends. From what I see, in our programming, and those of other stations, and music blogs, all groups are repeated a lot. It's pretty single-minded, and to me it feels very tired. In my case, I try not to ever click a song twice. And even a group I like, maybe only once has sounded Captain Demo since I'll take it, because I try to accommodate as many groups as possible.
Do you see overwhelmed by the amount of deal out there? Is there perhaps too much supply and too little space?
In my case, no doubt. Captain Demo is an hour a week and I can fit at most fifteen songs. There are groups that have fascinated me from the beginning but have played only once or twice. Then try to remember them in the blog, I try to move them on Facebook, try going to their concerts, or attempt to discuss them with my classmates. Sometimes when a group I really like, go to other programs and try to convince them that it issued. Not always convince, because they also have and all his own domestic supply. But I understand that other daily programs that could have a small space.
Does it cost a lot to choose between the music coming?
There are weeks when it costs, in my opinion, fill an hour with songs that have good quality. That is, the offer is a lot but not everything is good by any means. It is also understandable. The criteria are very personal. In my case, I try to touch as many genres as possible, but not always easy. Although in some cases, if I get some flamenco, is what happened to the person wearing the flamenco program on Radio 3, as if something heavy comes. But try to put everything. I try to funk, blues to try, I try to songwriters, punk. I put instrumental songs in Euskera, Catalan, I do not care. I can be wrong sometimes to select, because without doubt, the offer is enormous. There is a volume of music and awesome bands.
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