Alegranza

El Guincho is Pablo Díaz-Reixa, born in the Canary Islands and now based in Barcelona. His mind blowing debut Alegranza is a mix of Afro-Beat percussion, Calypso harmonies, Psych Tropicália, World Music samplers, Doo Wop, Trance repetition, underwater Pop, steel drums and island feeling plus club oriented song structures, uptempo beats and exotica production. Alegranza was released in Spain in the last days of December 2007 and went out of print in less than a month. His popularity is rising to heady heights all around the world with a cult status thanks to Pitchfork and constant blog posts and mouth to ear to mouth to ear.