Kings of Mambo is 10 years old. Yeeeah!

Last 1st of December, 2014, Kings of Mambo became 10 years old. Yes, you read it well! It’s been a hard and long journey, full of ups and downs, but plenty of exciting projects and amazing experiences where we have made a lot of new friends and where we have grown up as individuals and professionals, but mainly as a team of friends. We are 10 years older today, but 10 years wiser and 10 times happier!

We want to thank you all, family, friends, clients, collaborators, for being with us along these years and helping us get to where we are now :)

And if you came to our anniversary party (or you didn’t… ¬¬’), enjoy the time-lapse video we created while fun was happening!

The Monkey Sessions feat. Laprisamata

Devils and galaxies … What does this mean? Discover a new session of The Monkey Sessions with Laprisamata as our guest DJ!

“Diablos & Galaxias” is the title of this eclectic and international playlist that Laprisamata has compiled for the seventeenth volume of The Monkey Sessions. A histrionic and crazy selection of tracks and styles that will get your feet moving and your head bouncing.

Skip&Die, The Mars Volta, Crystal Castles, Gepe, Beats Antique or even Mano Negra are some of the bands selected by Laprisamata, following a style that he defines as “electronic-andino-galactico-worldrock”. The playlist has been completed by Kings of Mambo with tracks from artists such as Gold Panda, Azealia Banks, Major Lazer, Vampire Weekend and Die Antwoord, to name a few.

Luis Toledo aka Laprisamata is an amazing illustrator with whom we have collaborated lately in our project for the Planet Babylon Festival. Laprisamata has a list of clients with names like Warner Music, Heineken, EA Games or Movistar and has created the artwork for many music albums from La Pegatina, Canteca de Macao or the posters for the Planet Babylon Loco Dance Club. We declare ourselves total fans of his work!

The Monkey Sessions feat. CarlaGoon

Monkey says: “Ladies and gentlemen: @CarlaGoon, the awesome, fantastic and sensational copywriter and future Queen of Comedy, is the new guest DJ on the sixteenth volume of The Monkey Sessions!”

In a list that she has named “Aunque la mona se vista de seda…”, something like “You can not make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear” for English speakers -you ask her about it-, Carla has compiled great themes of great female voices of pop and rock bands as Camera Obscura, The Breeders, Los Punsetes, BOY, Crystal Fighters and Feist, among many others.

Carla is our favorite copywriter since years ago when, almost a girl, knocked on the door of the studio and offered to work with us. We hired her almost immediately for a project with Vueling and since then she owns the title of Honorable Copywriter at Kings of Mambo. She’s currently working for HerraizSoto&Co, an agency we’ve also collaborated with some time along the years.

The Monkey Sessions 07.12 feat. Miss Hedwig

Heat, sun, beach… Summer is here! And to celebrate it we present the seventh volume of The Monkey Sessions with a spectacular guest: Miss Carol Peña aka Miss Hedwig!

In this new list, specially intended to enjoy the holidays and the magic moments of the summer, @misshedwig has selected a bunch of songs that will come along with us as we toast ourselves under the sun, enjoying a beer with friends or simply taking a well deserved rest under a pineapple tree. A list that she has named “Confetti” and that includes songs by Metronomy, Mishima, Joan Colomo, Lacrosse or Twin Shadow, among many others.

At Kings of Mambo we are huge fans and followers of Carol in all her most well-known facets: as an art director, as a creative supervisor at Archibald Ingall Stretton and as a photographer in Instagram, where she’s got a whopping crowd of 125,000 followers! An extraordinary pleasure to have her on board :)

The Monkey Sessions 05.12 feat. Javier Arce

Turn on your stereo ’cause the fifth volume of The Monkey Sessions is here and this time our guest DJ is no other than one of the first Kings of Mambo members ever: Javier Arce!

For this brand new compilation, Javier has selected amazing interludes and some fine tunes from his favorite bands: Trentemoller, El Ten Eleven, Milagres, Gablé or Racalmuto. He has also taken care of the cover illustration, which we think is awesome!

The Glitch Mob, Santigold or The Chamaleons complete one of our best compilations up to now, including “Brass Monkey”, our private tribute to MCA from the Beastie Boys who passed away a few weeks back. Rest in peace, you funky monkey!

Javier, our favorite super-talented-creative-developer-writer-designer-illustrator-and-ex-dictionary-eater, is now living in Madrid after spending some years in Amsterdam and creates amazing projects for the company Vizzuality.

Mr. Arce was one of the first developers to join Kings of Mambo at the very beginning, but even as he left the company many years ago to find his own path, he gained the honor to be a King of Mambo for life