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The afternoon falls and still fire in Seville. In the back of the Fair Street Market, part of the Derby Motoreta's Burrito Kachimba (DBMK) already holds a Cruzcampo. Today they should be on stage "the size of a tennis court" at one of the country's major festivals. And the plan was to travel to America in September.

Last year, this psychedelic group that drinks from the Andalusian rock of the 70s achieved the impossible with their first album. In the middle of the trap era , they got promoters from all over the country to turn their sights to the south, they made young audiences discover what an electric guitar is, they appeared in Billboard magazine as the pearl of new Spanish music, they won the Prize Noise for Best Album of the Year and 50,000 monthly listeners gathered on Spotify. So, when it was their turn to savor the honeys of their confirmation, 2020 came with the pandemic. "And he left us in limbo." What happens when a global crisis catches you in the thick of the ball?

DBMK works today to revalidate its proposal in this complex moment: there are hardly any concerts, but the music maintains its frenetic rhythm of engulfing and then regurgitating styles. This being the case, no one assures them that, when the world returns to being a world, kinkidelia - a term that they themselves have thrown and that the public drank like a glass of water - will work as it has been until now, but they have decided to continue working as if nothing, aware that yours is going to be a long-distance road.

"We had every day of the year busy on the calendar, until December; instead, we are dedicating ourselves to rehearsing and finishing the next album, which will be released in January, and it is something that we are enjoying a lot. We do not want to keep anything or give a flick, the idea is to do something better. "

A few days ago, they released the first preview, El valle . The accompanying video is a suggestive and poignant spaghetti western with Dragon Ball tints that has already surpassed 100,000 visits on YouTube. The song has in the credits the golden signature of Brian Lucy, who has mastered works for Arctic Monkeys, The Black Keys and Green Day, among others.

Before the world was blown up, DBMK had climbed a comet that few bands today manage to climb. Before all this "fantasy", as they define his rise, Miguel -Dandy Piranha-, the magnetic and genuine singer, was a Glovo delivery man . "Before and during! After the Primavera Sound concert, I arrived in Seville and started pedaling", qualifies this man from Extremadura who composed several songs from the first album while earning a living in Edinburgh. One looks at it and already sees a total star, despite the softness of its mood.

"We have not come to the interview in a limousine," they continue. They can have a beer without being besieged (although they are observed), but they have managed to park the precariousness to appear in magazines, fill the great halls of Madrid and Barcelona, ​​and boast of an audience that knows all their subjects, people who can look them in the eye, they like you. "We can talk about a relative triumph, that in music is paying the rent and food and spending all your time thinking about your group. We have worked two years like crazy and now we can take the next steps with margin," says Scott, guitarist.

Everything happened very quickly. At a Monkey Weekend in Puerto de Santa María, someone said: "In the Plaza del Castillo the best group in Seville is playing now." At that festival the wick was lit. Many ran to discover their ritual conceived as "a rocket trip", oblivious to the masses on ice that we have contemplated in other styles in recent years, to unfold as a real show that is seen in the concerts of The Doors and Led Zeppelin .

"He always messes around brown," they boast. The pogo, may he rest in peace, is (was) the usual reaction of his audience. "From the beginning we conceived the group as a 360-degree proposal. You don't enter a song, but a musical, aesthetic, visual universe ." They recorded four songs and within half an hour of uploading them to Bandcamp, they called them del Primavera. Literal. By the time the disc came out, they had managed to generate a growing buzz around them. "We entered the charts directly, above Melendi," they celebrate with their eyes still wide open. Poetic justice. "We weren't giving many laps to what we had done, we wanted to launch it as soon as possible. We took the images from the movie Callejeros , put our faces on them and published the first video clip. Scott spent four days exporting it with a giga giga computer memory. But it came out and it really liked it, I think people appreciated that freshness. However, the fact that the album entered the lists meant that the public, in addition to listening to us on the internet, was buying from us ", recalls Dandy.

In the single that has just been published, you can see this commitment to giving their fans a concept that does not end in the songs. They let themselves be advised, but they live almost in self-management, in each decision they have the last word. For the video they devised that each component would look like a different planet. One is in tracksuit; another, wrapped in fur. Miguel wears a red leather jacket and fitted flare pants in the same color. Glam and kinki , flamenco and psychedelia. "What defines us best is that we are men of the prairies . Whoever wants to understand it, there is everything."

After a year of madness - they still get excited when thinking about a stage where Liam Gallagher was going to play a while later -, the Derbies returned home to perform before the public in Seville, a city that had forgotten that in the In the 70s, while half the country was still clinging to the skirts of Francoism, groups like Triana paraded an unusual modernity in the south. Today, they are responsible for the return to vindication of that counterculture , although they are reflected there as well as in Tame Impala. "The groups of the new psychedelia have managed to ventilate the room and we have brought this modernization to the south."

After their meteoric journey, we said, they were received in Seville as if they came from winning the World Cup, with a pride of fans among their countrymen. "Miguel went to cry behind the stage as soon as the concert was over," laughs Scott. "It is nice to be able to do what you like, in a totally uncomplexed way, without caring about anything else. And discovering that not everything is Malasaña, we are happy that partly thanks to what has happened with us, you are looking more towards the music from here. "

In January - "fixed, unless the aliens come already" - his new work is published. The stage thing, little by little. At the moment, on August 6 they perform in the Pop CAAC cycle in Seville, where, with complete certainty, they will fill up again. " The album brings more firewood, more psychedelia and more poetry , lyrics with nebulous content, free interpretation, songs that come out of the bowels to be interpreted with a pinch. What we want is for what we produce to make those who listen to us click again He who speaks of the universe is not mistaken, that is so, "concludes Miguel. Scott adds: "With Triana and with many groups that we like we have lived real trips. We have saved years of Buddhism and meditation; that is what we aspire to."

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