Another Spanish band on the blog. But this time I know there won’t be information about this group.

I think Cyber Ye-Ye is more of a rarity. They released one 7″ called “Internet” in 1999 on Elefant Records (ER-203). I don’t know if at the time there were plans for them to release more records or not. Truth is the 3 songs on the 7″ are all we know about them.

“Internet”, “El Teléfono Corté” and “Fan Da-Da” were the three songs on this obscure record. A curiosity. That’s what I would call this release. The song “Internet” has lyrics that today sound very dated. The Internet was a different thing back in 1999 obviously.

“El Tel´éfono Corté” is actually a cover of Françoise Hardy’s “J’ai Coupé le Téléphone.”

Elefant Records has a bio on their website, but the bio is a bit of a joke. Doesn’t say much. Says that the band was formed by an interstellar duo that is lost in space since 1969. This is very unhelpful. I hate these bios. Siesta Records also used to do the same thing. Why! Is it a Spanish thing? I don’t think this is a trend anymore though.

Then I find a promo video for the song “Internet” created by David Farran de Mora. I don’t know if this was an official video. But it does give me two interesting details. David wrote the lyrics. Also it mentions that the music was by Luis del Campo. Now we have the band members names. Also was the vocalist Paco Clavel? The same video, but a version that was uploaded earlier, by David seems to say that. Clavel, for those who don’t know, is an artist well known since the early 80s when he was part of the Movida Madrileña underground scene.

It seems David is a writer, journalist and artist. He has written for GQ, Vanity, Traveler and more. It seems he works in New York and Madrid.

Luis del Campo seems hard to track down. I wonder where he is.

The thing is, I can’t seem to find more music by them. Again, I think this rec cord was a curiosity, a fun project, that lasted what it had to last and was lucky to get their songs released by Elefant. But what if I’m wrong? What if they had more recordings, played gigs, and so on? Who would know?

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Listen
Cyber Ye-Ye – Internet