Alegranza!

El Guincho is Pablo Diaz-Reixa, born in the Canary Islands and now based in Barcelona. His mind blowing 2008 debut is a mix of Afro-Beat percussion, Calypso harmonies, Psych Tropic lia, World Music samplers, Doo Wop, Trance repetition, underwater Pop, steel drums and island feeling plus club oriented song structures, up-tempo 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.