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Biography

Genres: Electrorock, electronica, rock, pop, trip-hop, dance, jungle
Languages: English, Spanish
Location: Cali, Colombia, South America

La Fábrica It all began in june of 2000. Two projects, two different genres, but with a common interest in the new tendendencies of electronic music. So let's blend pop, rock and electronica and make a band!

This was a new concept at the time in our country. We began with some local shows at pubs and universities, and in parallel we started recording. In fact recording songs was the initial task, so we could take some of the tracks and use them as live sequences. From those recording sessions we released our first demo, which we named "approach to", because we knew we wanted to approach to something bigger.

The demo, which was released in 2000, had 5 songs, and one of them, "enjoy the umbra" opened a lot of doors for us, and became an important name in our heads...

In 2001 we started to get out of our city and went to Popayan, a nearby town. Later we released another demo, this time called "close to...". We were getting closer. In fact, in december of that year, a new song called "Moon" was one of the finalists as the best dance song for the "Feria de Cali" (the biggest fair in our city), in a survey made by a local radio station ("La X").

In 2002 we began to gather the fruits of our work! We became finalists in a contest made by Universal Music, and two new songs ("Binary code" and "Matter machine") appeared in a compilation along with the works of the other finalists. Also, we were invited to perform in "Rock al Parque", the most important rock festival in Colombia, and one of the most important in Latin America, which is made every year in Bogota. There we shared the stage with important bands from Colombia, Mexico, Brasil and Argentina.

La Fábrica 2003 was a really important year for us. In september, after a lot of work, we released our first long-play CD, entitled... "enjoy the umbra"! We made a release party, and we invited a string quartet ("El Cuarteto Violeta") to play with us.
We also were invited again to Bogota in October, to a new festival called FIBRA. We also played in December 28th at a another festival in Cali. It was called "Electronic music festival" and featured important bads such as Superlitio and Sexy Death.

In 2004 a local producer, Gabriel Koe, made a remix of our song "Run away", which was played frequently in local dance radio stations. Later that year, we were invited to appear in a fashion special edition of the Rolling Stone Latin America magazine! We also released our first video (for the song "enjoy the umbra", of course) this year. It was directed by JP, our guitar player, and it was nominated to the "Mucha Musica" (the local Much Music franchise) awards in 2005. Finally, we got nominated to the "Shock" magazine awards, in the category of best electronic band. These are the most important popular music awards in Colombia.

In February of 2005 we came back to Popayan to perform at the ELAF ("Electrorock LIVE-ACT Festival - www.elafestival.com"). Also, in June we were invited to perform in our beloved city of Cali in the MVRock festival, along with bands from all over the country, and in the "Haz de Corazon" festival, with important local bands. In september we applied to the "Road trip to Las Vegas" international contest made by Levi's. We won between 150 bands! So we went to Bogota and performed (in our brand new Levi's jackets!) the song "My heart is in Las Vegas" (which we composed for the contest) in a huge fashion show. The song also appeared in a compilation released by Levi's and EMI Music.

By november of the same year, the song "Break the Cage" was chosen to be included in the compilation "Colombia Lounge", released by the Colombian record company Discos Fuentes. By the end of the year we released our second video, for the song "Al Parecer".

In 2006 we've been busy in the studio, composing songs for the forthcoming CD. To keep everybody hungry for more, we released a single called "Queen of Wonderland". In May we performed at the "Lounge Fest", a new local rock and electronic music festival. And in June we were invited to perform a pair of shows for "La fete de la musique" ("Music party"), in Cali and Medellin (another important city in Colombia). This event commemorates the arrival of the Summer (June 21th), and is celebrated in more than 100 countries all over the world. We took advantage of the trip to perform in a local pub and to expose the band in a lot of TV shows, radio stations and newspapers in Medellin.

In April (2007) we released the new "Don't give up" single through Myspace.com. In July we released its accompanying video, which is also our third official video. In October we joined another 7 bands in a tibute to Kronos, an important local rock band. The show was held in the Jorge Isaacs Theater, in Cali.

In November 17th we were invited to perform as the supporting act in the show of Bjork in Bogota, which was the only colombian show of her Volta tour.

We're going for it...

Press Reviews

- Cali flavour, without salsa
CD Review @ Rolling Stone Magazine LA
A girl from Cali with a voice like an angel that goes up and down in abrupt tones is accompanied by four musicians with their keyboards, guitars, basses, sequencies an programmings, then building La Fábrica, one of the electronic rock bands which is being heard the most by these days in Colombia.

- enjoy the umbra with La Fábrica
Revista Ó
After the release of their first album and hearing the musical quality of this cali-based band, we decided to talk with three of the memembers of this group, which approaches to be the best in its genre, at national level.

- La Fábrica... electro sounds from Cali
www.musicnpop.com
When La Fábrica performed in Rock al Parque 2003, I had the first approach to the band. They came from Cali, and to me it appeared rather strange that a band coming from the heat of "a Sultana del Valle" had such an electro sound. However, the proposal was interesting. Three years later, this is a casual meeting in the net, in which I talked with Juan Pablo Carrascal about the band, beginning from zero...

- They make sounds out of silence
Diario Occidente newspaper
La Fábrica in the colombian context is a innovating band which rehearses in silence, which is a feature of the English technological music production.