Robot Zonda
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Independent Argentine rockRock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band formed September 15 of 2006 in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
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Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
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In the main webpage of the band its goal is summarized as "trying to let flow it´s feelings and instincts, achieving an original sound different from that dominating the actual musical scene".
Its first EP was recorded in the "Venera dB" label (Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
, República Argentina), with Julián Gómez (who worked with Juana La Loca and Ian Cyborg) in musical production and Félix Valls in mastering (who worked among others with "Las Pelotas") all of this at the "Los Angeles" studios located in Nono, Córdoba
Córdoba Province (Argentina)
Córdoba is a province of Argentina, located in the center of the country. Neighboring provinces are : Santiago del Estero, Santa Fe, Buenos Aires, La Pampa, San Luis, La Rioja and Catamarca...
, central República Argentina.
The whole idea of Robot Zonda is to make music and art flow without restraints, as in a playground , creating an enjoyable and playfull mood in its listeners.
On 20 July 2007, the first record (EP
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
) is edited and distributed in Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
alongside with a dozen of live appearances in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
and the nearby city of La Plata
La Plata
La Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of La Plata partido. According to the , the city proper has a population of 574,369 and its metropolitan area has 694,253 inhabitants....
. Among those live acts XPOX (Xtreme Sports Expo held in Bs. As.), and the "Ahora" and "Rock n’ Barrios" (the late sponsored by the Buenos Aires City Hall). Robot Zonda was also runner up to the Personal Fest Festival
Personal Fest
Personal Fest is an Argentine music festival, held annually in Buenos Aires since 2004. It was named after its main sponsor, Personal. It was originally held in the neighborhood of Puerto Madero, and since 2006 was held at Club Ciudad de Buenos Aires...
held in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
and appeared in an interview in the Much Music Cable Channel. Robot Zonda also performed in numerous Argentine Provinces and has a wide distribution of his work in other latinamerican countries like Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
, Colombia
Colombia
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and mainly Mexico
Mexico
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No Te Mates Tour
The Band experienced with new forms of communications. The "NO TE MATES TOUR" ("Don´t Kill Yourself" Tour) the band proposed a series of live street performances at the gates of several Buenos AiresBuenos Aires
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High Schools to experiment with the freshness of live guerrilla style performances in the path of the Beatles or U2
U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
playing in broadlight, on rooftops or moving buses. The Tour consisted of 44 appearances for a whole month only briefly interrupted by the N1H1 influenza outbreak that stroke Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
during the month of July, and had a great impact on the young students who suddenly realized that a rock band was performing live the other side of the street where they were attending classes.
Rock & Pop and other media appearances
Robot Zonda is nominated and currently first in the "Bombardeo del Demo" contest for new and independent bands from all over ArgentinaArgentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
held in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
on Rock & Pop Fm (95.9 MHz) and hosted daily in the "Daytripper" radio show.
Also appeared in interviews in Much Music Channel, Radio Mitre, Q Channel and Pagina 12 and Clarin
Clarín (newspaper)
Clarín is the largest newspaper in Argentina, published by the Grupo Clarín media group. It was founded by Roberto Noble on 28 August 1945. It is politically centrist but popularly understood to oppose the Kirchner government...
(Newspapers) among others.
MTV Video and MTV LA Awards
Robot Zonda has its first videoclip "Somatico" scheduled daily on MTVMTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
. And is also nominated in the category "La Zona" for the Latin American MTV Awards 2009
Los Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2009
The eighth annual Premios MTV Latinoamérica 2009 took place on October 15, 2009 in Bogotá, Colombia at Corferias, at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, United States, Mexico City, Mexico and Buenos Aires, Argentina....
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