HOUSE OF (S)PUNK is the home of the young pandemic-born electronic music scene of Barcelona, whose mission statement is to highlight the talents of trans, queer, women and cyborgs from a generation younger than the existence of techno itself, hence growing up within the wide spectrum of electronic music. Raised in a melting pot of techno, acid, transe, hardstyle, synth heavy vocal EBM, electro, makina, glitchy, breakbeat, gabber or eurodance they spit it back out blurring the lines in a special playful blend of fast paced neo-rave sound.
HOUSE OF (S)PUNK is home to the artists that crafted the soundtracks
of (S)PUNK, La Fraicheur’s party series in Barcelona, shaped by and for
the pandemic’s new reality. The self-managed DIY intimate transfeminist
queer party takes a stand against the general movement of the techno
industry relentlessly moving towards more more more: bigger events,
longer hours, higher entrance fee. Instead (S)PUNK positions itself
against techno-consumerism and is focused on catering to a
responsibilized audience, not seen as consumers but integral elements
of the party, shaped by their behavior. The event, with very limited
capacity and an alternative format, was created around queer people’s
need : respect, freedom, accessibility and work.
At at time where queerness is being appropriated by the international
techno scene, used around the world as an element of cool, reduced to
a mere trend, dresscode or lifestyle branding while the positions of
power in the industry (club owners, promoters, budget holders) remain
in the hands of cis-straight people, (S)PUNK works the other way
around. The party is created and managed for and by queer people,
financed by queer people, redistributed to queer people, reclaming the
culture that has always been ours, reclaiming our spaces and our
moments.
(S)PUNK is working against the “tyranny of the cool” that has sucked
the creativity out of our culture and forced every queer party around