Duplicities...

A room with a view: "aislado", from júpiter and beyond
A room with a view: "júpiter", from júpiter and beyond
A room with a view: "flies only live one day", from addiction to dupplicities.

A room with a view se formó en el año 1997 con algunos de sus miembros provinientes de down for the count, el primer grupo new school hardcore de madrid. Y por eso en sus inicios estuvieron vinculados a la escena hardcore. Pero lo suyo era otra cosa, a medio camino entre Slint y Mogwai, entre Codeine y the Cure, eran unos bichos raros en la escena hardcore. Pero ellos a lo suyo, con una estricta ética "hazlo tú mismo" sacaban sus discos en su propio sello y tocaban en pequeñas casas okupas. Durante años sus discos sólo se pudieron conseguir en sus conciertos, a través de pequeñas distribuidoras y el pequeño puesto que ponían en la plaza Tirso de Molina en el Rastro de madrid, rodeados de punkis pasados de rosca y de entrañables anarquistas de 70 años gritando las opresiones del capitalismo.

Por aquella época fue la primera vez que los vi en directo, en la casa okupa de mi ciudad, Móstoles, en un pequeño festival hardcore junto a Redshift y Like Peter At Home, creo recordar...se me pusieron los pelos de punta desde los primeros acordes...

Más tarde algún miembro de algún famoso grupo indie debió verles en directo y finalmente ficharon por Recordings from The Other Side, división española de Everlasting Records. Tocaron en el festival de Benicassim, giraron por salas grandes, separándose y juntándose de nuevo. A lo suyo, la última vez que los ví hace ya más de un año y no se ha vuelto a saber de ellos, que yo sepa. Al batería le he visto alguna vez pinchando en algún apestoso garito de house...pero bueno, en madrid un dj normal cobra 300 euros la noche, no le voy a culpar...también creo que compone bandas sonoras de películas...

Si hubieran sido de otro país, y quizá más listos, serían un grupo grande a la altura de Mogwai o Karate..pero bueno, eso también es parte de la leyenda...

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A room with a view was founded circa 1997, some members came from Down for the count, the first new school hardcore band in Madrid. So that in the beginning they were related to the hxc scene. But their business was something different, somewhere between Slint and Mogwai, between Codeine and The Cure, the were freaks in the hxc scene. With an strong DIY ethic, they self released their recordings and played in small clubs and squats. For years one could only find their albums through small distros, in their own shows and in the small tent they had every sunday in Tirso Molina Square, in the infamous Madrid's Rastro Flea market, surrounded by stoned punks and sweet 70 years old anarchists claiming against the opression of capitalism.

Around that time i saw them by the first time, in the small squat of my city, Móstoles, a suburb of Madrid, in an small hardcore fest...i was freaking out since the first chords sounded...

A year later or so, somebody from some big spanish indie band saw them on stage and they were finally signed by Recordings from the other Side, the spanish division of Everlasting Recordings. So they became big, they played in benicassim fest(the biggest indie fest in spain), and they toured in big venues, splitting one time and reuniting again a few months later. They didn't give a fuck about the commercial indie audience, and they kept on doing their stuff. I saw them playing live for the last time more than one year ago. A few Months later, I saw the drummer deejaying in some trendy and stinky House Dance Club...but, ok, an average dj in madrid earn 300 euros a night, so i'm not going to blame him...and he is as well movie soundtrack composer, i also heard...

Check them out, if they had been from another country and maybe smarter, they would be a big band sharing stage worldwide with such a monsters like Mogwai o Karate...but that's maybe part of the legend...