Quiero Club
| Quiero Club | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Monterrey, Mexico |
| Genres | Experimental pop, rock, electronic music |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | Happy-fi, Nacional |
| Website | www |
| Members | Boscop Benavente Marcela Viejo Luis Ezequiel Priscila González |
Quiero Club (Spanish for "I want club") is an experimental pop indie band from Monterrey, Mexico. They are part of Happy-fi collective and released their debut album in late 2006. Their music combines several elements from different genres like rock, pop and electronic music.
Boscop Benavente, Priscila González, Marcela Viejo, & Luis Fara, came from different backgrounds before they joined forces with Gustavo Mauricio, founder of the Monterrey-based music/art collective/gang/tribe/record label/party throwers "Happy-fi" . At the end of 2002, Priscila started the band with Gustavo to play cover versions of The Moldy Peaches and other groups they liked after they jammed live on Gustavo's radio show "We are the Rock & Roll"; Boscop joined them soon after ( early 2003). By the end of that year, during a Happy Fest (one of the parties that the collective used to expose their artists) Marcela watched the trio and asked to join them. A couple of months later (early 2004), Luis Fara came along and they started writing and rehearsing their own material.
They recorded "No Coke" and "Pecan Pie" at Luigi Marchetti's (bassist of Monterrey's rock band Niña, also part of the Happy Fi family) home studio in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, during the summer of 2004 for a Happy Fi compilation, the first track leaked unto Mexico City's recently created radio station Reactor and quickly became one of the most requested tunes and, consequently, one of the station's early hits. When they found out, Quiero Club went into a professional studio to re arrange the song, new drums, bass, guitar, keyboards tracks were recorded as well as additional programming.
NPR says: "It was the beginning of 2006 and a catchy song in Spanglish titled "No Coke" hit the emerging Mexican indie scene by storm; five years later, Quiero Club is arguably today's most eclectic and critically acclaimed Mexican pop band."
They were invited to Mexico City's Vive Latino festival in 2005 with just a bunch of songs and it was until then that they considered to take their band seriously. They toured the country during the rest of the year and continued to write songs while touring. With self financing and while continuing to tour Mexico, they entered Belafonte Studio in San Pedro Garza García. It was not until the winter of 2006 that Quiero Club’s self produced debut album WOF came out to rave reviews. At this time they signed with management & boooking agency HOME (Haas, Onetto, Montemayor Entertainment).
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