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Kings of Mambo // Interactive Rhythm from the center of Barcelona "It's all about the monkeys!"

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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!

Thanks everyone. To us, to ten years more. #monkeylikes

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Monkey says: "Welcome to out new headquarters!" Come visit us! (at Kings of Mambo)

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Monkey says: "it's 9 years today!" Kings of Mambo was founded exactly 9 years ago today and it feels like yesterday. Thank you all for making this adventure possible! #monkeylikes #monkeyloves (at Kings of Mambo)

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Monkey says: "The Monkey Sessions meets Soundkik!" A new volume of The Monkey Sessions is out now, in collaboration with Soundkik, the social jukebox app!

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Monkey says: "B-b-b-b-b-b-b-break it up, break down!" The Monkey Sessions featuring @genitopower is now available!

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Monkey says: "Monkeys on the run!" #brompton #gopro #kingsofmambo #barcelona #monkeyrides (at Kings of Mambo)

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Summertime is here and a new volume of The Monkey Sessions is available!

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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!

And now it is time to pump up the volume and enjoy the prisamatronik style!

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Monkey says: "woohoo!" Xmas came early this year! Thank you @olloclip friends, we are very happy monkeys! #olloclip #fisheye #quickflipcase #olloclippers #olloclippersbarcelona (at Kings of Mambo)

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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.

Monkey now, says: “Stop talking and grab your headphones, sit back and enjoy The Monkey Sessions volume 16!“

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The Monkey Sessions Primavera special

  Bienvenida Primavera! Or, in other words, welcome rain, pollen and allergies! Celebrate with us the arrival of spring with a new volume of The Monkey Sessions!

We present a new list with new and old songs, fresh and fun tracks which augur the arrival of summer. Hits from Atoms for Peace, The Rapture, Bob Marley, Two Door Cinema Club, Patti Smith, Daniel Johnston or even Dora the Explorer!

Enjoy la Primavera with The Monkey Sessions!

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The Monkey Sessions #frankfurterapia Special Edition feat. Edu Simonneau + David Ga-Rule

  In honor to the #frankfurterapia sessions, created by the unique Edu Simonneau and co-hosted by David Ga-rule, we invited the two of them to participate in this new edition of The Monkey Sessions!

With their collaboration in the selection of songs and the session cover design we have created the most bizarre and extravagant playlist so far for your enjoyment.. All to pay tribute to those moments we share from time to time having lunch together and where we speak of our profession, the projects we are working on, friends we share and dreams that we someday will fulfill.

This awesome playlist includes songs like “Sausage Party” by O Crush, “Döner Kebab” by Plögert Donato, “Uma Thurman me toca la banana” by Los Petersellers and several worldwide hits by artists like Elvis Presley, Siniestro Total, Toni “El Gitano” or Bloodhound Gang, to name a few.

And if you do not know them yet, Edu is an incredible art director who flies free right now (he’s open to new projects!), the biggest fan of Bill Murray and the creator of the #frankfurterapia, one of the best inventions that someone may have had in years. David Ga-rule is an excellent multimedia art director at Evil Love, one of our favorite agencies, and he is also an ebanista!

We hope you like this new edition of The Monkey Sessions and you work up an appetite while listening to this fabulous set of songs. You are invited to the next #frankfurterapia session!

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Monkey says: "Bon appetite!" Our new website for @sandwichandfriends is online and looks yummy! Have a bite at www.kingsofmambo.com (at Kings of Mambo)

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The Monkey Sessions feat. Laszlito Kovacs

The first volume of The Monkey Sessions for 2013 is here and looks like the world is not enough for our guest DJ: the amazing, handsome and international illustratorLaszlito Kovacs!

When we asked Laszlito, he suggested the title “Pulp Sience Fiction” for the list, and our first reaction about it was: what the f**k does that mean? And the second was: who cares? Let’s do it! And so we did: a list full of special themes and rare songs from movie soundtracks and different artists who sing about science, the outter space, the moon, the satellites, the infinite and beyond!

The tracklist for the 13th volume of The Monkey Sessions includes themes from classic movies such as Dune, Moon, Solaris, Star Wars or Moonraker, and also songs by awesome artists like David Bowie, Beck, Arcade Fire, Radiohead or the Flaming Lips, among many others. Songs about science and space, songs that will take you to a journey to the stars and back.

Laszlito Kovacs is one of our favorite international illustrators and as huge fans of his work (if you have the chance, please visit his portfolio right now!), we want to thank him endlessly for being our guest DJ, but even more for the incredible artwork he has created. We feel totally overwhelmed and grateful about this collaboration. Thanks O!

And now it’s time to grab your astronaut suit from the closet and get ready to be sent out into space. Enjoy!

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Monkey says: "Follow us on the #newmyspace!" You can find us here: http://new.myspace.com/kingsofmambo #monkeyspace #monkeylikes (at Kings of Mambo)

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Monkey says: "Revoltosaaa, uooooh!" Check out our brand new website for #bongobotrako at www.kingsofmambo.com (at Kings of Mambo)

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The Monkey Sessions 11.12 * 8th anniversary special edition

Uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho… Maaaaaaaaaambo! Have you heard? It’s our 8th anniversary!

And to celebrate with you all, we bring a new volume of The Monkey Sessions plenty of songs for you to dance and sing along. Wanna join us? Press play, get a beer and have a toast with us!

Thank you all for being out there for all these years and let’s keep this party started! It’s party time at Kings of Mambo!