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Watch TV presents The After School Special

by Watch TV and Friends

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A spanish underground classic re-issued!

The year 2000 was fertile ground for music. Eclecticism was rampant and independent record companies sprouted like visionary mushrooms. Hitop Records emerged in Madrid, which for a decade nourished the Spanish music scene with remarkable music jewels, such as Casbah 73, Watch TV or Javi P3z, and also rare grooves compilations such as Improvisto, Atitetoca or Jazz Travels.

The After School Special was Hitop's first release, and also Watch TV's first album, a project that amalgamates countless styles in a seemingly impossible musical collage, but one that works perfectly. Here you will find Jazz, Afrobeat, Hip Hop, Funk, Disco, Drum 'n' Bass, Lounge, Downtempo, Ambient, dance, experimental and cinematographic in a colorful sound celebration.

An album in which many of the key DJs on the scene at that time participate, such as Jazzin' Club or Javi P3z, and people who in one way or another formed the family that was born in AMA Records, creating an album that looks like a compilation (so fashionable back then), but it wasn't quite so. It was actually Watch TV's debut LP with many collaborations. An album that lit a spark, and from which some songs were licensed for Future Sounds of Jazz (Compost), Breaks 'n' Bossa (Schema) or Hotel Costes, among others.

Unfortunately, after the 2010 crisis, Hitop Records closed and its entire catalog disappeared from social networks and platforms. The After School Special is an album that 22 years later has not lost a bit of its freshness, and at Pinorama we have decided to reissue it to put it in the digital world, recovering to a certain extent Hitop's heritage.

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released September 2, 2022

Written by Ruben G. Kielmannsegge and friends
Produced by Watch TV

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