Over Drive
Paseo de Extremadura 152
The one that turns up most in the folder: nights and afternoons, the access card, the anniversary, and the logo copied by hand.
DJs: Tobías · Ricky · Juan Carlos · Abel
▌ From the Ecos de la Noche archive
The folder, 1994–96
A folder from those years, covered inside and out with tickets, invitations and stickers from the nightclubs of Madrid and the sierra, 1994 to 1996. The same nights you can hear on the Porche tapes.
▌ The clubs
Abyss New World
Atocha 38
“Consulado presents”. Agustín was a promoter (RR.PP.) at Abyss: on the group photo, the RR.PP. box says “Agus”. Plus the 1994 afternoon ticket and the November invitation.
DJs: Abel
Epsilon
Cea Bermúdez 8 · Ríos Rosas and Quevedo metro
“Expansive Sound”. Afternoons and nights, and a 1996 card.
DJs: Christian · Pedrito
Now
Serrano Jover 5 · Argüelles metro
After hours, and afternoons.
DJs: Cristian
The Mission
Ctra. de Griñón s/n, corner of C/ La Fábrica · El Álamo
The second-drink invitation and the “Dee Jays Club Party”.
DJs: David «Bure»
KEA
Barcelona road, km 9.2 · Canillejas metro
The end-of-summer party at the Cyberdome: twelve hours and fourteen DJs.
DJs: Valen
Porche
A Coruña road, km 39 · Villalba
The tapes, the flyer and the three Most Autenthic Party posters have their own page.
DJs: Edu «Sopo» · Mario D’Amelio · Raúl «Peque»
Van-Va’s
Parque de las Bombas · Collado Villalba
The other Villalba club: the sticker and a red ticket, number 000123.
DJs: Pepo
Radical
“Musical fusion, summer ’95, Under the Sun”. The ticket has no address.
DJs: Miguel · Rafa · Valen
▌ And stickers from
▌ Timeline
Where it says “year inferred”, the paper has no year: it comes from the weekday, which only fits that year in the whole decade.
- 1991 A pencil drawing signed “A. Flores, 91”.
- Saturday 1 October 1994 · year inferred The Most Autenthic Party at Porche. Its free tape can be played.
- 1994 Agustín, promoter (RR.PP.) at Abyss New World. The reduced-price afternoon ticket, and Over Drive, “Tarde 1994”.
- Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 November 1994 · year inferred Abyss New World, Atocha 38, from 7 pm.
- 18, 19 and 20 November 1994 · year inferred The Porche flyer weekend: a new JBL system, lasers and robots.
- Saturday 1 April 1995 The Most Autenthic Party II at Porche, with Kuatrero and Side Effects live. Its free tape too.
- Summer 1995 Radical, “Musical fusion, Under the Sun”.
- Saturday 14 October 1995 · year inferred The Most Autenthic Party III: the launch of the Porche record.
- 1996 Epsilon 1996.
- 7 September 1996 “Acepta las cartas que te ha tocado jugar” — accept the cards you’ve been dealt. Agus.
- 11 October 1996 Ghost in the Shell comes out on video. The postcard is in the folder.
- 22 October 1996 “Dime algo que merezca la pena” — tell me something worth it. Agus. “Menudo día.”
▌ Kaneda
Between the tickets, the folder is lined with Akira: whole pages of photocopies from Katsuhiro Otomo’s manga — the bikes, Tetsuo, the gang — and a still from the film of Kaneda firing his laser gun. And on the spine, the video cover.
That is where KANNEDA comes from. The name doesn’t date from the streaming years: it comes from these years, from Kaneda, the one with the red bike. That is why the red on this site is Akira red and the header says カネダ.
The photocopies aren’t reproduced here: they are Otomo’s panels. What follows is what in the folder was made or written by Agustín.
▌ In his own hand
▌ The same names keep coming back
- Tobías plays at Over Drive: he is on its “Friday 15” ticket, on the KEA poster, on the Porche flyer and at the second Most Autenthic Party, this time as the Planet Music DJ.
- Panchi, from Kaos, plays at Porche and at the KEA party.
- Christian (Cristian on the Porche posters), DJ at Epsilon, plays all three Most Autenthic Party nights at Porche and the Sunday on the flyer, and heads the KEA line-up.
- Pepo, from Van-Vas — the Collado Villalba club on the back of the folder — plays the first Most Autenthic Party at Porche.
- David “Bure” plays all three Porche parties: as the Specka DJ at the first two and, at the third, for The Mission, the club on the El Álamo invitations.
- Abel, from Abyss New World, is credited with the music on the group photo from Atocha 38, and plays at Over Drive and KEA. Ricky and Juan Carlos, who produced that photo, are on the Over Drive ticket too.
▌ The whole folder
The full photos, page by page. Tap one to see it large.
What it says
A reduced-price ticket for “Abiss New World, afternoon, 1994” (“Consulado presents”). Over Drive stickers: “O/D Tarde 1994” and a “Noche” one with RR.PP. handwritten on it. In the middle, a group photo from Abyss, Atocha 38: “Ni son todos los que están… ni están todos los que son” (not everyone here belongs, not everyone who belongs is here), “Produced by Ricky & J. Carlos, music by Abel DJ”, and “Agus” handwritten in the RR.PP. box: Agustín was a promoter at Abyss. A red Van-Va’s ticket, number 000123. Around them, Powell Peralta and Bad Boy Club skate stickers.
What it says
Over Drive, “Noche”, Paseo de Extremadura 152: the access card, several stickers and the “Over Drive Anniversary” one. Epsilon: “Expansive Sound” and the afternoon one, at Cea Bermúdez 8 (Ríos Rosas and Quevedo metro). Now After Hours, Serrano Jover 5, Argüelles metro. Attica, Midian and The Omen. And at the bottom, Van-Va’s, from Parque de las Bombas in Collado Villalba.
What it says
A face with crosshair glasses, “New Balance Athletic Shoe” and the cover of Akira on video, from Record Pictures: “Neo-Tokyo está a punto de E-X-P-L-O-T-A-R” (Neo-Tokyo is about to explode), limited edition. Kaneda, with his laser gun.
What it says
The Mission, Griñón road at the corner of calle La Fábrica, El Álamo: “Invitation, 2nd drink” and “Dee Jays Club Party”. Abyss New World, Atocha 38: “Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 November, from 7 pm”. Now, afternoons, on Serrano Jover. Spiral, Future Sound Frequency and a sticker with a Z.
The Abyss invitation doesn’t print the year. In the nineties, 8 November only fell on a Tuesday in 1994, the same year as the ticket on the front.
What it says
KEA, Barcelona road, km 9.2: “End-of-summer party at the Cyberdome”, twelve hours of non-stop party. DJs: Christian (Epsilon), Tobías (Over Drive), Quique and Raúl (Friends), Txitxi (Space), Abel (Abyss N. W.), Rafa (Radical), Napo and Tono (Attica), Pedrito (Epsilon), Panchi (Kaos), Valen (KEA), Pelayo (T.N.T.) and the launch of Michell’s (Fun Factory) latest record. After-after-party: 1,200 pesetas with an invitation, 1,600 without, 2,000 with a drink and a free T-shirt. “KEA wants to dedicate this party to all those who, through tragic twists of fate, can no longer be with us.” And at the bottom: “Remember: drive carefully on your way here. We are the party.”
The poster doesn’t print the year.
What it says
Over Drive, “Friday 15, night”, with Ricky, Juan Carlos, Abel and Tobías: “free entry until 3 am”. Radical, “Musical fusion, summer ’95, Under the Sun”. Epsilon, 1996. And the postcard for Ghost in the Shell’s video release by Manga Vídeo, 11 October 1996: “It found a voice… now it needs a body.”
Two of the things stuck on this page aren’t shown: they are covered over in the colour of the paper.
What it says
A ticket for a U2 Zoo TV Tour party: “No te quedes a medias… ¡Vive dos veces…!” (“Don’t stop halfway… Live twice…!”), with “Party” written across it. Stuck over it later, the still of Kaneda.
What it says
Four Now afternoon tickets: “Tarde · Now · C/ Serrano Jover 5 · Metro Argüelles”.
Cropped from a page of the folder; the rest of the page is someone else’s handwritten notes.
What it says
Kept in the folder, a drawing by Agustín in ballpoint on squared paper: the inside of a nightclub, seen from above. The bar, the plants, log stools and, at the back, the raised area.