Famasloop is a Latin Grammy-nominated electronic music

Electronic music

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 band

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 from Caracas

Caracas

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, Venezuela

Venezuela

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. The band's members are Alain Gómez, Alejandro "Piti" González, Gabriel Millán and Rafael Urbina. The group's fist album, Tres Casas, which was released in June 2006, experimented with electronic music to integrate several genres

Music genre

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 such as pop

Pop music

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, Latin

Latin American music

Latin American music, found within Central and South America, is a series of musical styles and genres that mixes influences from Spanish, African and indigenous sources, that has recently become very famous in the US.-Argentina:...

, rock

Rock music

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, hip-hop, trip-hop, Afro-Venezuelan

Music of Venezuela

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, classical

Classical music

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, Hindu

Hindu music

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, tango

Tango music

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 and jazz

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.

Tres Casas, which literally means Three Houses in Spanish

Spanish language

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, was released with a surrounding concept represented in the album's art and multimedia

Multimedia

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 content, designed by the Venezuelan artist collective

Artist collective

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 Keloide. Famasloop has described to the press that the album is divided into three houses, each one with a different theme (commercial, intellectual and spiritual). All of these houses include a half-a-minute introductory Puerta (Spanish for door), and three songs, making a total of twelve tracks. The album received production and post-production guest contribution from well-known musicians, such as Tweety González

Tweety González

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 (keyboardist of Fito Páez

Fito Páez

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), Nené Vázquez (percussionist of Aterciopelados

Aterciopelados

Aterciopelados , also referred to as los Aterciopelados on some albums and other promotional materials, are a rock band from Colombia. Led by Andrea Echeverri and Héctor Buitrago, they have been one of the first rock bands from Colombia to gain international notice and is among the country's top...

), Guille Vadalá (Bass guitarist of Fito Páez), Oswaldo Rodríguez (Sur Carabaela) and more.

Discography

Tres Casas (2006)

1. Puerta 1
2. Estrella en Loop
3. Mundo
4. Eres
5. Puerta 2
6. Pararrayos
7. Lu Arbole
8. Cementerio
9. Puerta 3
10. Avión A
11. Mar
12. Iguana

Casa 4 (2009)

1. Iguana
2. Chinita
3. NQV
4. Te Juro
5. Chamo
6. Al Revés
7. Cada
8. Cucaracha
9. De Fuego en Fuego
10. Vaca Lechera

External links

• Famasloop.com - Official website
• Famasloop at MySpace
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• Eres music video
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   at YouTube
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• El Universal newspaper interview