{"id":25115,"date":"2020-09-22T09:10:25","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T07:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/?p=25115"},"modified":"2021-12-03T10:47:50","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T09:47:50","slug":"interview-pedro-penas-y-robles-hiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elgarajedefrank.es\/en\/interview-pedro-penas-y-robles-hiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Pedro Pe\u00f1as Y Robles (HIV+)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Pedro Pe\u00f1as Y Robles became first famous thanks to his work as a DJ and party organizer. A few years later, he started making music sometimes on his own with the HIV+ moniker or in projects such as Adan & Ilse or Fluxus. Also, he founded the label Unknown Pleasures Records in 2013, which, during its seven years of life, was synonymous of quality. Lately, he has released his third book, this time about the EBM classic band Nitzer Ebb. Are we talking about a real Renaissance Man or should we better call him a Gothic one?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

\u2014You started DJing in 1987? What inspired you to do that? What were you listening to back then?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>

\u2014<\/span><\/strong>I started attending New Wave\/Goth clubs around the age of 17 in the south of France. At the time I was a regular at a 300-person punk\/goth concert hall which also served as a nightclub, the Guinguette du Rock near Avignon. There, I attended concerts of\u00a0Christian Death<\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0The Neon Judgement<\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0Fields Of the Nephilim<\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0Jad Wio<\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0Siglo XX, <\/strong><\/span>etc. When I entered my first year at the School of Fine Arts in 1986, I already had a small collection of New Wave, Cold Wave, Punk and E.B.M. vinyls. One night the club owner asked me if I could make people dance all night long, I went behind the decks and that\u2019s how my DJ career started. Then as part of my University studies I went to live in Aix-en-Provence in 1993 and I was hired in a big club in Marseille, the Trolleybus, also as resident DJ from 1993 to 2000. Deejaying was for me the realisation of a youthful passion which became a reality at the age of 19 and became my main profession until I was 32. Music is really my whole life; the rest is just illusions or obligations.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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