{"id":2267,"date":"2023-03-29T00:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2023-03-24T16:47:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T16:47:24","slug":"curator-mixtape-madrid-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/articles\/curator-mixtape-madrid-spain","title":{"rendered":"Curator Mixtape: Meet \u00c1lvaro from Madrid, Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Hear The Curator Mixtape<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/0lC0PXt0XQvGspRch83QIj?si=1181f4f060f74333\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This month\u2019s curated mixtape comes from <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00c1lvaro de la Parte, a dynamic curator running <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/cities\/madrid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sofar Madrid<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. After attending a Sofar in Edinburgh back in 2016, \u00c1lvaro began volunteering in Madrid, and now years later, he continues to put together inspiring shows throughout Spain\u2019s capital. Hear the full playlist below, and learn a little bit about \u00c1lvaro.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>Whats your creative outlet?<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00c1lvaro: I have a lot of fun organizing theme parties with my friends in unusual places like caves, ranches or houses in the middle of the mountain, where we do performance art and DJing. My Dj project is called Pomelo Papaya, but you can&#8217;t see anything on the internet about it&#8230;. yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>How long have you lived in Madrid?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I am originally from Valladolid, a city in northwestern Spain, and I moved to Madrid for college to take a degree in Media Studies in 2011. Except for a couple years living in Scotland or Estonia, Madrid has become my second home since then.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Buckingham - Puedes morirte ya | Sofar Madrid\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vOb3Ex6tv6Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What\u2019s your favorite thing to do in your city?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celebrating Pride in early July, when the streets fill with people, color and music, which also kicks off the rest of the city&#8217;s Summer street festivals.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2268\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2268\" src=\"https:\/\/sofar-sounds-blog.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020.03.08_AROUND-LOUNGES_2-2-scaled.jpg?crop=faces%2Centropy&fit=scale&fm=pjpg&h=684&ixlib=php-3.3.1&w=1024&wpsize=large\" alt=\"Meet \u00c1lvaro from Madrid, Spain, photo by Cristina Franco\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sofar-sounds-blog.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020.03.08_AROUND-LOUNGES_2-2-scaled.jpg?crop=faces%2Centropy&amp;fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=200&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.1&amp;w=300&amp;wpsize=medium 300w, https:\/\/sofar-sounds-blog.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020.03.08_AROUND-LOUNGES_2-2-scaled.jpg?crop=faces%2Centropy&fit=scale&fm=pjpg&h=684&ixlib=php-3.3.1&w=1024&wpsize=large 1024w, https:\/\/sofar-sounds-blog.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020.03.08_AROUND-LOUNGES_2-2-scaled.jpg?crop=faces%2Centropy&amp;fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=513&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.1&amp;w=768&amp;wpsize=medium_large 768w, https:\/\/sofar-sounds-blog.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020.03.08_AROUND-LOUNGES_2-2-scaled.jpg?crop=faces%2Centropy&amp;fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=1025&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.1&amp;w=1536&amp;wpsize=1536x1536 1536w, https:\/\/sofar-sounds-blog.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020.03.08_AROUND-LOUNGES_2-2-scaled.jpg?crop=faces%2Centropy&amp;fit=scale&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;h=1367&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.1&amp;w=2048&amp;wpsize=2048x2048 2048w, https:\/\/sofar-sounds-blog.imgix.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020.03.08_AROUND-LOUNGES_2-2-scaled.jpg?crop=faces%2Centropy&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;ixlib=php-3.3.1 2560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meet \u00c1lvaro from Madrid, Spain, photo by Cristina Franco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h5><strong>\u00a0Anything we should know about your mixtape selections?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have made a selection of music mainly in Spanish. Songs to be listened to with a good beer in the sun. Cheers!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Sofar Curator Mixtape\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/playlist\/0lC0PXt0XQvGspRch83QIj?si=3d0986f9f16647a4&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Interview by Sofar Editorial Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Hear The Curator Mixtape here] This month\u2019s curated mixtape comes from \u00c1lvaro de la Parte, a dynamic curator running Sofar Madrid. After attending a Sofar in Edinburgh back in 2016, \u00c1lvaro began volunteering in Madrid, and now years later, he continues to put together inspiring shows throughout Spain\u2019s capital. Hear the full playlist below, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":2269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[258,257],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-sofar-communit","tag-sofar-madrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sofarsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}