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MARCELO MADRID

Every Silver Lining Has a Cloud.

About Me


Marcelo Madrid was born in a Guatemalan orphanage. It was hard times but he eventually clawed his way out and moved to Cuba where he started DJ'ing hot Lounge muzik for all the hip cats. However, the Castro regime deemed it too subversive so he had to be smuggled over to Chile along with an illegal consignment of cotton buds. It was in Chile that Marcelo Madrid found his niche; slicked back hair and badly made cocktails were all the rage and he soon became the toast of Santiago.
It was during his stint at the infamous Chingada club that he was exposed to Krautrock, Psychedelia and Muzik by bands such as The Residents, Captain Beefheart, and The Monks. This forced yet another move, this time to London, where he spent what could have been a lifetime busking for small change playing a Kazoo and spoons.
It was during this vexing period that he met Carlos Slazenger, a Horror Rock 'n' Roll afficionado that frequented the Kosmische Klub; a place for Krautniks and Post-Punkers. Carlos could see elements of systemic muzik in Madrid's mastery of the spoons and thought that the Kosmische Klub would be the right place for Marcelo's unique talents. Unfortunately the Leader of Kosmische was a fearsome and distrustful character, and it took Marcelo a long time to work his way into the Kosmische ranks. Many initiation ceremonies involving egg and spoon racing, taco cook offs, and early '80's style robot dancing ensued; and eventually he was one of them, a Kosmonaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
His first set at the club was December 2001 with the elusive Carlos Slazenger, and his first set on resonance fm was in July 2002. If only there were less of the Kosmische DJ's on rotation, then he would really get the hang of the radio thang.
At the Kosmische Klub, and on their radio show, they spin Muzik from the margins, Muzik that comes under categories such as Krautrock, Industrial, No-Wave, Avant-Garde etc.
Just lazy pigeonholes for stuff that cant be pigeonholed, and you will be hard pushed to find it played anywhere else, even in this Roman Shell.
Although......check out OFF N ON in Marcelo Madrid's top friends list.
www.kosmische.org
KOSMISCHE RADIO SHOW.
Friday nights
www.resonancefm.com
104.4fm(central London only)
10:30-11:30pm
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My Interests

Forgetting about the Guatemalan orphanage!

I'd like to meet:


Freaks Of Nature!

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Music:

Foetus, The Residents(1st ten years...more ideas per album than most have in a career), Faust, Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, Nurse With Wound, Can, Sun Ra, Devo, Amon Duul 2, Animal Collective, Black Dice, No Neck Blues Band, Gang Gang Dance, The Monks, Guru Guru, NEU!, Irr.App.(Ext.), Biota, Larry Heard a.k.a mr Fingers, Skullflower, Matthew Dear as Audion, Pere Ubu, Annexus Quam, The Velvet Underground, Einsturzende Neubauten, Hearthrob, Ennio Morricone, Suicide, This Heat, The Mothers of Invention, Achim Reichel, Renaldo and the Loaf, The Birthday Party, Cassiber, Wiseblood, (early)Kraftwerk, Autechre, Coil, Alice Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Clint Ruin and Lydia Lunch, Magda, Jac Berrocal, Man From Uranus, Double Leopards, Caesar Romero, Marc Houle, Mark Broom, Video Aventures, Soft Machine, Silver Apples, Throbbing Gristle, Steroid Maximus, LFO, Manorexia, Excepter, Loco Dice, John Fahey, When, Chrystal Belle Scrodd, Art Bears, Terry Riley, News From Babel, Phuture (and other proper sleazy Acid House, like Maurice, Armando, DJ Pierre etc), Henry Cow, Kalahari Surfers, The Slits, Amon Duul, Barbed, Snakefinger, Jeff Samuel, Slg, Chrome, Brast Burn, Karuna Khyal, Jimi Tenor, Comus, Popol Vuh, Sand, The Stooges, Underground Resistance, the Pop Group, LCD Soundsystem, James Brown, King Tubby, Hot Chip, Tod Dockstader, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Mikey Dread, Cop Shoot Cop, Steeple Remove, Volcano the Bear, Ornette Coleman, James Chance and the Contortions, DNA, Parliament/Funkadelic, H.N.A.S, George Russel, PIL, Matmos, Scientist, The Stella Maris Drone Orchestra, Radio 9, Harry Partch, Baby Zizanie, Negativland, Raymond Scott, Carl Craig, Liars, Toolshed, Two Lone Swordsmen, Don Cherry, Cluster, Miles Davis, Tod Dockstader, Add N to X, Big Black, Slint, Jim O'Rourke, Drexiya, Butthole Surfers, Der Plan, Rachels, Organisation, Tony Williams Lifetime Trio, Murmurists, Nayfo, Tony Conrad, Xylitol, (early) Black Dog, Shuggie Otis, Theoretical Girls, Gallant Magic, Salvatore, Fennesz, Farmers Manual, Krstof Penderecki, Ash Ra Tempel, Fuse, Plastikman, Pharoah Sanders, The Specials, Sly and the Family Stone, John Cale, L.Voag, Univers Zero, Algarnas Tradgard, Floh De Cologne, Konono No 1, Boards of Canada, Juan Atkins, Vapourspace, Space Explosion, Moondog, ? and the Mysterians(96 tears-oh yeah!), Hail, Edgard Varese, Tony Burello, Nepotis.M, Modulo 5000, Aphex Twin,

THE RESIDENTS-"Third Reich 'n' Roll" 1976.

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My Blog

Resonance fm playlist 23/5/08

Madrid Go Brooklyn Und Elsewhere.ANIMAL COLLECTIVE....Water Curses.EXCEPTER....Ice Cream Van.THE FALL....Fiery Jack.BARBED....Barbed.TOUANE....Guess.BLACK DICE....Drool.GANG GANG DANCE....Passerby.P.I...
Posted by MARCELO MADRID on Sat, 24 May 2008 05:21:00 PST

Kosmische Radio Show Playlist. 4/4/’08

Marcelo’s flood.NEU!....Super.ANIMAL COLLECTIVE....Safer.HENRY COW....Half Asleep, Half Awake.CASSIBER....Crusoe’s Landing.NURSE WITH WOUND....Old Man River/Dance of Fools.THE RESIDENTS......
Posted by MARCELO MADRID on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:24:00 PST

Klaus Dinger R.I.P

......and another one gone. Klaus Dinger, drummer with NEU!, Kraftwerk and founder of La Dusseldorf, La! NEU etc, died on 21 March.He will be greatly missed.
Posted by MARCELO MADRID on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:38:00 PST

OFF N ON setlist. 15/2/08

BLACK DICE....Kokomo. BLACK DICE....Gore. NURSE WITH WOUND/STEREOLAB....Simple Headphone Mind. FAUST....Hurricane. NEU!....Super. DEVO....Auto Modown. DEVO....Space Girl Blues. FAUST....Jai Mal Aux De...
Posted by MARCELO MADRID on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 02:03:00 PST

Kosmische Radio Playlist 8/2/08

Marcelo Madrid's bad timing.   8/2/'08 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE....The Purple Bottle. BLACK DICE....Kokomo. THE RESIDENTS....The Making of a Soul. MILES DAVIS....Rated X. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART....Sweet...
Posted by MARCELO MADRID on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:23:00 PST

Dave Day R.I.P - 1 less Monk to rock our world.

Dave Day (Havlicek) from THE Garage Band, The Monks. Monk, husband, father, friend died January 10, 2008Play that banjo in heaven, d.d. We'll miss you. So many of Muziks true greats gone in just over ...
Posted by MARCELO MADRID on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:05:00 PST

Kosmische Playlist 7/12/’07

Marcelo Madrid In Excelsis Corruptus. SUN RA....Interplanetary Music. KRAFTWERK....Ruckzuck. SAND....On The Corner. NURSE WITH WOUND....Cooloorta Moon ANIMAL COLLECTIVE....Leaf House. THE MOTHERS OF I...
Posted by MARCELO MADRID on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:27:00 PST

Karlheinz Stockhausen R.I.P.

I just found out earlier 2nite whilst doing the Kosmische Show.   Karlheinz Stockhausen died yesterday at the age of 79. A true great, and one of the most important names in Muzik. Avant-Garde or...
Posted by MARCELO MADRID on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 05:12:00 PST

Kosmische Radio Playlist. 19/10/’07

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE....Fickle Cycle. KALAHARI SURFERS....Grensvegter. THIS HEAT....24 Track Loop. FAUST/NURSE WITH WOUND....Tu m 'entends? NURSE WITH WOUND....Creakiness. THE RESIDENTS....Festival of De...
Posted by MARCELO MADRID on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 05:16:00 PST

My Animal Collective Delight!

The new album, Strawberry Jam, is up to their usual standards.. Warped and beautiful in equal measures, balanced in the way only AC seem to be able to manage. Noise evolves into pop!..Pop evolves into...
Posted by MARCELO MADRID on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:14:00 PST