‘FUN SIN FIN’ IN THE FUNTASTIC DRACULA CARNIVAL XIV Y NO LAND TATTOO PARLOUR

It’s a club that was born in Barcelona by the hands of Paco Donald, Helena Holiday, Roy Brille and Marc Tàpies. As fans of vinyls and dancing music, parties were regularly held to burn the dance floor.

At about the same time there was talk of setting up the club in other cities and soon it spread to Valencia and León. Foot Stompin’ Llión is run by Rob Be Bop and Issa Musan ‘Sabela’, where they organize gigs quite frequently.

And here in Valencia it’s the three of us who began to organize parties in November 2017 in La Peligro, a venue that opened the doors to us from the beginning and in which we feel at home, in which we usually invite another DJ to share the deck with us to make the night more complete.

Our intention is basically the dance and fun in abundance, playing rhythm’n’blues, soul, latin, garage-sixties, rock’n’roll, …. and other tunes that move the dance floor. We understand that fun begins in the cabin and is transmitted to the floor, a fact that we believe has made us one of the most popular parties of La Peligro.

The name translated from English would mean the gesture of stepping on the dance floor strongly and with euphoria the moment you hear that song that makes you leave everything to go dancing.

TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHO YOU ARE AND YOUR INFLUENCES.

Antonio PataNegra has been playing records for more than 20 years in different venues in Valencia, moving solo or with different groups such as Big Sound in the Club and Hulla Baloo with Quique Lledó and Nacho Camales. His influences are the 50′-60’s, mainly rhythm’n’blues and soul, opening up to the white rhythms that were impacted by these sources such as garage and rock’n’roll.



Javato started about 7 years ago, playing at the parties he was throwing with a promoter who had already disappeared, until he moved to London with his records and continued playing there, to finally return to Valencia and set up the Foot Stompin’. He started out interested in punk and harder sounds, until he discovered Jamaican music and through it rhythm’n’blues, soul, etc.

Sisterlau started to play very discreetly almost 18 years ago and it has been many years since that she’s doing it more regularly. She is an active member of the Bredda Jamaican Music Club, with whom she also performs and plays. Black music is her passion, starting with Jamaican music and then came soul, rhythm’n’blues, latin, jazz, etc., and she has a preference for tunes interpreted by women.

We all have our favorite tracks, but it happens very often that one of us puts a track on and it becomes a regular track because it becomes a favorite for all three of us. Sometimes it also happens that we play each other’s tracks because we have a lot of musical connection.

This has happened for example with Tommy Hunt’s ‘Get out’, Héctor Rivera’s ‘I want a chance for romance’, ‘The sun is a drug’ by the Kifers,… and many others.

WHAT DO YOU EXPECT FROM THIS EXPERIENCE?

It’s the first time for the three of us that they call us to play at the Funtastic, and when they call you to play at your favourite festival it’s like touching the sky (in this case hell). What more can you ask for: do what you like best and at the best festival in the world! We hope to have a lot of fun and do our thing so that the audience has fun as well.

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You can check out a good sample of what we do in a session that we have posted on MixCloud

You can check out a good sample of what we do in a session that we have posted on MixCloud.

It is also our idea to move beyond our city, in fact we have played in Pedreguer, León and Oviedo where we plan to return soon.

Next stop Benidorm