Their message to Madrid
Fun fact
Besides DJing and making collages, he wrote a book about gas-station music: Dame más gasolina.
Who they are
In the car workshops of his hometown, Lorca, they hung the old-fashioned kind of calendar. Juan Sánchez Porta grew up looking at them and, when he started making his own, filled the months with other stars: folk singers, TV divas, saints, bakalas, verbena singers… Collage by collage, Oro Jondo has built a pop saints' calendar of Spain that hangs in the kitchen.
Every year the calendar is launched with a party, and the party has become a date with a life of its own: more than 700 people, techno, drag and Latin rhythms. And a gift at the door: the new 2027 calendar. Cultura Sutura organises it, and this will be the thirteenth.
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You don't move, and that's the point: thirteen years, the same party, the same calendar on the wall. The scene changes venues and names; Oro Jondo is still the place people come back to.
His first track with MYUKO (2023), the one playing under his video: hard techno made for something to happen on the dance floor.
The read
For thirteen years his calendar and his party have been a fixed date in Madrid's queer night: a meeting point that doesn't move.
His bio says it best: “Too camp 4 techno / Too techno 4 bakalas”.
Put it on before the party on the 23rd, while someone in the group is still deciding whether to come out.
Listen with: your Wildcard, the one who says “just one” and ends up closing the club.
Why we love it
Why is he our artist of the month? Because he does what we try to do at La Q: look at the night as something that matters. His calendar treats icons with the devotion of a holy card and the irony of a group chat, and in that mix of faith and irony there is room for a lot of people who had no room anywhere else.
He started DJing during lockdown and has since played BBK Live and Sónar with his dark, percussive hardgroove, with hints of the outskirts. His edits take copla, rumba and bakalao and put them back on the dance floor: “Lola Lolamento”, “Amarrao a mi cintura”, “Aquí están las gatas”.