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For anyone who wants to hear what the future will sound like, listen to The Pinker Tones' Wild Animals. Mr. Furia, who along with Professor Manso comprises The Pinker Tones, describes their music as very cinematic. The Spanish exports have garnered a worldwide following with shows that can only be described as a dynamic DJ session spliced with the energy of a rock band. Animals will surprise a lot of people, while still invoking The Pinker Tones' trademark of reinventing themselves, as always, on every album.

nocheLatina: How would you define The Pinker Tones music?
Mr. Furia: We are very hungry music consumers. We've always been very eclectic music consumers as well. The result is there in our music. One journalist made a pretty fine description of what we do. He called it "retro futuristic eclectism."

nocheLatina: When you and Professor Manso first formed The Pinker Tones, were there people who didn't get your music?
Mr. Furia: We were quite lucky. Obviously, any start with any band is difficult in the beginning. We've been very fortunate to get all the awareness we are having and to be touring all around the place. The very first edition of our very first single, the whole edition was sold in Japan because the distribution head heard the demo, and he bought the whole edition. So that was the first record we ever sold. It went directly to Japan. We've been very lucky. We've built up a team of people who work for us, and who are really into spreading "The Pinker Gospel." (Laughs).

nocheLatina: Did you and Manso grow up with a lot of music around?
Mr. Furia: Oh yeah! Obviously, the first thing you listen at home is your parent's records. We were both quite fortunate to have good music in our environments where we grew up. But then we've also been friends forever, since we were teenagers. So in school, obviously you get a lot of new influences, and for a time you want to forget about what you're listening to at home. But yeah, we've always been, from a very tender age, very massive music consumers and big fans.

nocheLatina: What's the music scene like in Barcelona?
Mr. Furia: The music scene is fantastic at the moment. There's not only one scene, there's like two or three different scenes at the moment, and all the scenes are very open-minded. It's a mix of Latin and world music with electronica, with a new disco, rumba thing going on as well. And there's also a very nice electro-pop scene. They interact, and it's quite interesting what's coming out of it. I think people have lost a lot of fear because of all this situation of the collapsing music industry. People have lost fear to do things as they want to, not what the label wants them to do, because there's not much to lose anyway. On the artistic side it's a very liberating situation for musicians at the moment.

For a review of Wild Animals go here.