Alt.Latino: Spain wins (at music, too)
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From NPR Music, this is Hot Latino. I'm Felix Contreras.
And I'm Ana Maria Sayer. Let the chisme begin. The chisme this week is that... Spain won the Mundial!
Quite a celebration. I just read that there were millions celebrating in Madrid.
Of course. I will not lie. I saw the images of people celebrating in Madrid, and I was like, Mexico City looked like that after we won every single game.
Yeah. So it made us think back to just so much of the music from Spain that we had been featuring over the years. Yeah. We have had a nice representation of music from Spain, various genres, cultures, styles, attitudes, everything over the years, many, many years.
Felix, I have talked so much about how exciting I find the Spanish scene to be. I mean, it really is this level of innovative and exciting and new and fresh all the time that I find myself bringing Spanish artists on all the time just because they do something interesting. And so... I was really excited to have an opportunity to be able to talk more about what they're doing, why they're doing it, and revisit a lot of artists I've already brought on the show and maybe a few that we haven't heard before.
And I think that we have to start with the Setengana Tiny Desks that he produced in April of 2021. It was just astounding. It was really, I remember seeing it for the first time and just completely blown away with the presentation of what he had done on his album. but then what he was doing in real life and how it just completely, really captured, to me, my understanding of the essence of this Spanish scene. Amazing.
Felix, it is absolutely one of my favorite Tiny Desks, honestly, in general, especially of the home ones.
So let's hear a little bit of it. ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ ¶¶ Los que no me subían a internet vacilando de amigos Ahora que nos ponen la alfombrita roja vienen conmigo Me maten si no pueden entrar En muera no les puedo fallar Yo sin esta gente pa' qué cojones quiero pasar
Me maten si no pueden entrar Me muera no le puedo fallar Yo sin esta gente pa' que cojones quiero
How did Spain's 2026 World Cup win inspire this episode's music celebration?
That was Zetengana playing his home Tiny Desk concert. Now, Felix, for those who don't know, Zetengana is probably one of the most interesting, innovative producers to come out of Spain in recent years. I mean, he notoriously worked on Rosalía's earlier projects. He's constantly collaborating in a way that I find... Not only fascinating, but really refreshing. He's also super friends with Karim León. He's responsible for that incredible flamenco regional album that I brought on a couple months back. And he really just has, I don't know, he has vision. He has a really interesting vision. He came out with an album a couple years ago that a lot of these songs are from that was really focused, El Madrileño, that was really focused on, you know,
Paying homage to a lot of sounds from a lot of places. And that's something that I see again and again with Spanish artists, with especially these producers from this Madrid scene, which is what I want to talk about first, Felix. If we're going to go point by point on the most exciting parts of Spanish music right now, we have to talk about all my favorite producers in Madrid.
The floor is yours.
Okay.
Okay.
So I've talked to you about this before, but great opportunity to talk about it again. There's this amazing collective of producers called Rusia IDK in Madrid. And the first person that I want to play you a song from is an artist named Ralphie Chu. And this is his latest single, Baby Baby.
Baby Baby. El dolor me renueva Jóvenes se quieren, jóvenes se pelean Sin pensarlo siquiera Sometimes it's hard to face. Sometimes it's hard to face. Sometimes it's hard to face.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:36
2
How did Spain's 2026 World Cup win inspire this episode's music celebration?
3:36–9:13
3
What makes C. Tangana's Tiny Desk and El Madrileño pivotal for Spanish music today?
9:13–30:04
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Who are the Madrid producer collective Rusia IDK and why are they influential?
30:04–30:43