Dirty Princess- Spain

xumo consumo, dios -2004 - 4.00

The Madrid based group, Dirty Princess came together as a result of the intolerable political, social and cultural panorama that Madrid\'s been suffering in the last few years.

Big Toxic was born in Paris at the beginning of the situationist revolt In 1965 and has been influenced musically by the roots of modern electronic music from seminal artists like Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk to the experimental German group DAF. His professional career began as a taxi driver back in 1989 when he had the opportunity to play his music to Alaska and Dinarama. Since that decisive moment his career as musical producer has gone from strength to strength.

With more than a 100 remixes under his belt for the corrupt Spanish Music industry, Big Toxic is a controversial figure in the eyes of the major labels. After his Bill Clinton remix of La Macarena, which made more than ?18 million, although Toxic only receives ?600, he challenges the music industry\'s reluctance to recognize the editorial rights for the remixers of modern electronic music production.

In 1994, Big Toxic is invited to write and perform music for the radical Catalan theatre group, La Fura dels baus.

In 1987 with his friend Leandro Gamez?, they set up their own record label Audiodrome. The move for greater independence allows Big Toxic to release more experimental styles like drum n bass under the name, Smol Tosi.

It\'s during these years that Big Toxic meets video artist and video jockey, Nikky Schiller. They join forces giving Big Toxic\'s music an unrivalled visual input in their live performances.

Still toying around with the idea of Dirty Princess, Big Toxic is motivated further by his idea when he sees the provocative video artist Yasmin in one of her own video performances - walking stark naked through the streets of Madrid until arriving in the middle of a demonstration for the general strike. Yasmin, with previous experience in two Argentine rock groups, Monte de Venus and Cherry Mi XXX, falls head first into the toxic bunker and the band, Dirty Princess, finally comes together and they begin to record.

They release their first record on their own label, Mad Dildo. Entitled Jugar al Revés? Dirty Princess gets Roman Fl?ügel do a remix. For their second release, they cover the influential classic, Pleasure by Depeche Mode, and get a distribution deal with Intergroove. They also collaborate on a Spanish compilation album for Subterfuge Records and, in 2004, are declared by Spanish National Radio as the years \'best live act\' and producers of the \'best unreleased single\'.

The \'dirties\', considered gods of electronic body trash, recover the decadent Roman spirit in their \'dirty parties\' and kick shit wherever they go.