Okploide, ska-core de Francia a Chicali

June 17th, 2008 por Tony Ahumada y ha sido leído 490 veces | blog reactions

Okploide, banda de ska core de Francia el próximo 20 de junio en el Civico.

Uno de los estilos musicales que más me gustan es el ska (en todas sus olas) y me he dado cuenta que en entre los jóvenes -y no tan jóvenes como yo comprenderé- cachanillas es un estilo de música -en sus muy variables combinaciones- que goza de gran popularidad y eso explica las muchas bandas de ska que existen en Mexicali; Y no doy ejemplos por que seguro se me escapan algunas muy buenas (que son muchas).

Para conocer algo del ska internacional y local -como ya lo dije, en sus muy variables combinaciones- tocando en vivo, que es como más se disfruta, el próximo viernes 20 de junio en el Cívico bar, se presentaran las bandas Okploide (Francia), Chelsea, No Moral, Kraneos y Chaparralta. La admisión es de solo “50 pesos”. Por ver una banda que viene desde Francia, no es mucho.

Okploide es una banda se ska-punk-rock, originarios de Pau, al sur de Francia, (cerca del estado vasco de España) con letras en castellano.

Como todas las demás bandas procedente del mundo radical, okploïde, nacido en Pau (en el sur de Francia) tiene ya muy explotado el método del « do it yourself » organizando solo sus giras, la gestión, la producción …alcanzando así mas de 250 conciertos.

grupo atípico caracterizado por su buen humor comunicativo y por un punk rock lleno de originalidad, okploïde logra y le gusta, que vibre el publico meneandose. mientras que este genero musical(dinámico y festivo) toma cada día mas importancia en el panorama musical , okploïde sale adelante y se singulariza de los demás grupos por que tiene metales y sus textos escritos en castellano cuya utilización deliberada se hará de modo natural por distintas razones (energía, raíces de los músicos, proximidad geográfica…)

y para impregnarse nada vale tanto como la experiencia del país ; Así es como okploïde ha co-organizado dos giras por México y por California, gracias a unos contactos locales establecidos a lo largo de los conciertos. manerasdevivir.com

2 comentarios para “ Okploide, ska-core de Francia a Chicali ”

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    • Jun 17th, 08

    http://www.last.fm/music/Okploide

    www.purevolume.com/okploide

    apps.facebook.com/ilike/artist/Okploïde

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYXxcphZLI

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afrza0GV6Lg

    Powerfull and melodic punk rock from france

    Europunk (Netherland / Belgium) january 05

    Okploïde - Miseria Espectacular (woolly bully)

    Finally! After a full year of waiting my French heroes from Okploïde return to the scene with a new album. Of course, my expectations were very high. What else to expect from the band that wrote the best demo of the past ten years? Although it’s a damn heavy job to in fact write the best fucking album of the year as I expected them to do, they did not let me down at all. Granted, it’s not the best album to come out in 2004, but it holds its own little place within my top ten.

    For the laymen amongst our readers, Okploïde is a French band with a Basque singer who uses his background to sing in Spanish. The eight-piece from Pau is equipped with a three man counting horn section that might make it admissible to expect the band to play ska; however, this is not the case. When I think about Okploïde, I can see Fat Mike open his ass cheeks in the hospital and give birth to a kid. Daddy Chris (from Less Than Jake) enters the room with a big bouquet of flowers. The proud parents decide to call their kid Okploïde and ask all the members of ska-p to be godfathers. While growing up, Okploïde takes the best attributes from all his fathers and ends up being the coolest kid of the neighbourhood.

    It’s time to cut the crap for a second and talk about the band’s recent debut album. Compared with the two songs that formed their demo that’s dated mid-2003, their style hasn’t changed much. Both songs from the demo are re-recorded and included on here. The two songs sound stronger thanks to the richer recording sound and the production applied. I still believe that “Perdida� is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. The rest of the songs are pretty darn awesome as well. Take the energetic opener “Sansacion� for example, that introduces us with 90 seconds of instrumental delight and another 60 that do include vocals. Talking about an apt chosen name… The third song “Sacta� could have been the past years mysterious summer hit, while classics such as “Historia� and “Facha� are as legend as the aforementioned “Perdida�. One of the downsides of the album is the lack of variation. Despite one fun ska song, all songs sound very much alike. Even though the average quality level of the songs is extremely high, I can’t help but being bored by the weaker few among. The excellent brass section does cover this up rather nicely. I would have liked to see it a little more dominantly present, but as powerful as it is right now I really have no reason to complain.
    I’ve always been a sucker for melodies sung in exotic languages such as Spanish or Italian, but it would be nice to include the English translations for those who are total strangers to those languages. Furthermore the cd is well-packed in a beautiful digi-pack.

    Okploïde has once again outdone themselves with an excellent full length. Well packed, well filled and well impressed, Miseria Espectacular is a real treat for any melodic punk fan that always searches for that little extra in his music. None but one question remains: why in earth hasn’t a label taken notice and signed these guys? Seriously, compared to the mediocre crap that’s being put out today, it feels like a relief to hear bands as creative as Okploïde. Fat Mike should take note.

    Roel van de Mortel (europunk, punk hour)

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    uuu..
    interesante..muy interesante…:)

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