Meet Spanish Electro Music Blogging Pioneers: Neonized
1. Can you tell us about yourself? When did you first start to love music?
Well, I’m a psychologist with a postgraduate on HR so my studies are not very related to music. I started loving music when I was a child. I did not have a big music background (my forefathers were not big music collectors or musicians), but they introduced me to Spanish commercial music.
When I was 11/12 I discovered Blur, and since then, I started focusing on some kind of pop-indie and especially British music.
Then when I was about 17 I had a friend who always loved trance music, but I kind of hated electronic stuff. After a couple of years I started to go out to a club in my town (Sala Golfus) where they mixed electronic and some indie stuff, and since then I love electronic music.
2. Give us the backstory of Neonized. When did you start it and what was the music blogging landscape like then?
NNZD was born in May of 2007, when Fer and Uga decided to found a blog in Spanish, since there were no electronic music blogs in Spanish, so we were “pioneers.” It was the Discodust, Discobelle, Palmsout and that kind of blogs time, so they were our influences in some way. I started writing in June and started taking the reins of Neonized between 2008-09.
3. What type of music do you feature? Who should come check out your site?
We used to feature electronic music. In most of its shapes (we try to avoid EDM). We like music, in general, so if we think it’s great, we will feature it in a post or by sharing it on our social networks, no matter if it’s electro, house, juke, old school, or seapunk.
People who want to be updated on electronic music, can visit us. Also we have a weekly chart (which we moved to Whyd a couple of weeks ago thats to the EASY way to make it on this platform!) where we add the songs we have listened the most during the week. And I have to say they’re fucking great! They’re done by a few contributors, so it’s a nice mix of styles.
4. Are you working on anything specific that we should look forward to in the near future?
We’re working on something that should definitely make people love Neonized. We’re planning a change on the web. Redesigning it, new sections, different content (working on more exclusive stuff) and working a lot on Neonized Records. Because, if some of you don’t know, we have a record label!
We want to be a reference label in Spain, we want to show new artists and new stuff from people who are looking for a friendly label to show their work.
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