«Errors are indications of possibilities…»

—| DANIEL MELERO

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█ #ONTHISROUTE: DANIEL MELERO.

👉 An Argentine Techno Pioneer and Experimental Music Icon

⏩ We delve into the trajectory of Daniel Melero in this interview, from his early days in bands prior to Los Encargados to his status as a leading figure in Argentine experimental music.

🎬 Mario Daniel Melero, his full name, is a fundamental figure in current Argentine music. As the leader of Los Encargados, he was a pioneer in the local techno scene. Moreover, his solo career solidified him not only as a composer but also as a versatile producer, experimenting with diverse genres and structures.

Melero has left an indelible mark on Argentine music. In fact, he has collaborated with iconic bands such as Soda Stereo, Babasónicos, Los Brujos, and even Todos Tus Muertos, becoming a reference for new generations of musicians.

Furthermore, his legacy begins to extend, like the tentacles of an octopus, beyond interpretation, encompassing music theory, record production, and even deductive logical reasoning.

🖖🏽 INTERVIEW

In this conversation, Melero, who defines himself as a “NON-Musician,” invites us to explore the diverse aspects of his creative life. Interacting with key moments of his past and present, he reveals thoughts free from constraints, exploring without limits the creative, productive, and recreational spaces. Inspired by figures like the Beach Boys, John Cage, and the use of software like Paul Strecht, his focus is always on breaking with the established as a hegemonic order, introducing chance and doubt as a method to see, interact, and coexist with the world..

🙏🏽 Acknowledgments

We thank Daniel Melero for his time and sincerity. Likewise, we want to express our gratitude to Jaime Avila, in charge of Daniel’s press, to Javiera Perez Salerno of Caja Negra Editora for all the material and attention, to Rodrigo Ottaviano, historic manager and filmmaker, for the film, and especially to Pablo Lasso and Espacio Panorama, who made this interview possible in such a special place.

💻 About our PROCESS in the Interview

The edited interview largely respects the original timing of the artist’s responses. We made a conscious decision to avoid shortening them or rushing the editing process for the sake of capturing attention. However, on this occasion, we decided to put all the contributing elements on the same level, including some sonic details: the binaural arrangement of certain layers provides an immersive auditory experience, alongside a dual composition or collective creation between Gerardo and Franco, based on a recommendation from Daniel regarding the use of certain software tools to support the creation of the work.
Additionally, a kind of layered base that can be perceived as a melodic foundation, for lack of a better term, functioning as an ambient texture, is the interview itself, reinterpreted by Gerardo using PaulXStretch in its macOS version.
As a complement, the droning bases, a legacy of years of collecting sounds of breaths and respirations, ambient sounds below -20 dB, and analog cassette hisses in less than optimal states, all processed with reverbs and delays, are courtesy of Franco.
The voices have also undergone other processes, primarily the use of equalizers to filter out resonances and ambiences that escaped the Zoom platform’s filter, in its free plan, which does everything it can to try to maintain control, but fortunately, something always slips through.
Finally, noise reduction was used, and to create textures that emulate worn-out cassettes, Arturia’s Tape MELLO-FI is an essential tool in our workflow that adds colors and textures and is a regular fixture in our work template.

📣 In this way, we release a new NOISE of the 2024 cycle.
📝 Interview conducted by Gerardo Figueroa Rodríguez 🇨🇱 and Franco Falistoco 🇦🇷 in August 2024.