KRMPCK  fue fundado en 2005 por Ezequiel Saralegui y Sebastian Echave, quienes después de oficiar de DJs por más de 4 años deciden llevar sus conocimientos e influencias musicales hacia la producción de música destinada a la pista. Así como sus gustos, su música fue evolucionando con el correr de los años, empezando desde un hipnótico y rítmico tech-house y volcándose cada vez más hacia el techno más puro. Después de algunos lanzamientos y remixes tanto en Argentina como en Canadá, su estilo se volvió cada vez mas personal. Y la búsqueda de la conjunción de estilos dentro de un mismo sonido- para satisfacer sus gustos más variados (rock, electro, pop, disco o funk) sin dejar la pista de lado- los llevo a la incorporación de un nuevo integrante, Andres Servidio, así como la introducción de una nueva forma para sus presentaciones en vivo: el ejercicio consiste en remixar canciones en directo, es decir, mezclando la propia producción de la banda con sampleos ajenos (Tiga, Daft Punk, Golden Bug, Calvin Harris, Chemical Brothers, Marc Houle, Mathew Jhonson, entre otros), sobre todo, con pistas de voces. El resultado es un show electro-techno muy bailable, con muchas variaciones y lleno de gratas sorpresas.
Con múltiples presentaciones en las mejores discos locales y sudamericanas, compartieron cabina con Surkin, The Classixx, Data Base, N.A.S.A, Anoraak, Golden Bug, Poncho, Jonas Kopp, Violett, Franco Bianco, Seph, entre otros. Siendo parte del colectivo de artistas UNDERTONES, KRMPCK es sin duda un nombre destacado en la nueva escena electronica Argentina.

En cuanto al trabajo de estudio, en 2008, realizaron varios remixes, entre ellos uno del tema “Poor innocent boys” de banda inglesa Cazals, que llamó la atención de Gildas Loaec (productor ejecutivo de Daft Punk y dueño del sello Kitsuné, uno de los más importantes sellos de electro del planeta). El tema fue editado en dos discos en Japón y Europa en 2008.

En abril de 2009 un remix de KRMPCK al tema “Barbie’s Back” de Golden Bug fue editado en vinilo y en digital por el sello francés Silicon Square Garden, bajo licencia y coproducido por uno de lo sellos más importantes de ALemania, Gomma Records.

Krmpck -- or Krampack as they are spelt in their full glory -- used to be two, now they are three as a magical reproduction took place. The two same-sex protagonists Zeca aka Ezequiel Saralegui and (Sebastian) Echave were strutting their thing deep in the vaults of the electronic underground of Buenos Aires until their whole technoey DJ world got shaken up by their later addition, Andrés Servidio, who joined the band causing a stir and turning them upside down and inside out, sound-wise.
He, although “serving no real purpose within the band” as the other members laughingly reveal, helped the original outfit to change direction. After four years of dedicated DJ duties on the floor, they triple Krampack ram-packed the studio and started to produce some ragingly rocking electronic music that actually satisfies their very needs: a very phat dose of techno-tinged electro crossed with indie rock elements, pop, disco and funk. All you need to shake your venus/penus on the elegantly wasted floor.

Phantasmagoric Reinvention
Time to dive into their adolescent universe. Masturbation and (homo-)sexuality, two keywords band managers avoid like the plague, are deliberately celebrated as Zeca and Echave humorously call their band like a special wanking technique screened in the Catalan movie “Krámpack” by Cesc Gay. Full-on--hard-on? Not quite. Actually. Zece laughs: “Well basically, it was me and Echave being crammed behind our set-up djing live, both tweaking the knobs of the other’s equipment, so our arms would cross as we’d happily twiddle away. Friends would comment on this, saying we’re like the guys in this movie giving each other a ‘Krámpack’, which is a vice-verse wank, basically. And it stuck. When Andrés would join the band, it took on another dimension, now it’s more of a circle jerk, really.” It’s easy to detect that these humorous chicos are neither very embarrassed, nor very concerned about things as it’s all about music! If anything, they are stuck in a pre-sexual stage where the mutual passion for making cool sounds is dominating the scene, and sleepless nights can be spent discussing the importance of incorporating sounds like “kkkkrrhghghgh”, and “gggrrrrgg” in the second part of the track, in undies, really innocent and nerdy-like. And that’s perfect. That’s what makes these quite grown up pre-teens so fabulous. Their music rocks!

Future Will Survive
All really passionate about techno, pure techno actually yet stemming from a tech-housey DJ past, they are starting to fuse this dance background with their diverse love for all things kicking, they slowly manage to find their musical equilibrium which results in them getting their first productions released in Argentina and Canada. More than ever immersed in the world of production, they connect more and more, also to themselves, which in return results in more expressive sounds that reflect their very own spectrum which they slowly start to discover and explore their personal electro sound that is, thanks to driving techno basslines and indietronic crazyness very, very catchy indeed. But: the labels they adore do not catch on. When they finally realize that no-one was really interested in signing them although all the labels they sent their productions to were amazed by their sounds, Krmpck deliberately took their chances and asked renowned artists and labels if “we could remix them.” It was quite a success. So far, they’ve released remixes of tracks by Cazals, and Golden Bug, and unreleased remixes by every single band around the world.

Poor Innocent Boys
“It’s really kind of sad what kind of measures we were forced to take to be noticed in Europe. We were offering our own productions which are original and sound like no-one else, and no-one was reacting, keep ourselves busy with a mental exercise conjured up to get recognition: making remixes of bands we liked. Then we made a remix of the Cazals, of a track -- ‘Poor Innocent Boy’ -- which wasn’t even our favorite, and this is what got the ball rolling,” recounts Echave. “We were contracted by the Kitsuné to make the remix, and so far it’s out in Japan -- digitally. It’s great but we were hoping for much more. Basically, we’re still waiting for some kind of breakthrough.” In the meantime though, they have geared up. After their extensive and active underground phase spinning with turntables, they now perform live, rocking it with a mixture of own production, samples, vocals, and records they mash up in Ableton. “Basically, we combine what we make, like, and what we know works treats with the people as we wanna get them hooked. Completely hooked on Krmpck. Sounds like a dangerous addiction! Watch out!

RELEASES:

GOLDEN BUG “BARBIE’S BACK: THE REMIXES”
SILICON SQUARE GARDEN/ GOMMA
2009

CAZALS “POOR INNOCENT BOYS EP”
KITSUNE
2008

CAZALS “WHAT OF OUR FUTURE”
DIGITAL REMIXES FOR JAPAN
KITSUNE (i-tunes store)
2008

DEREK MARIN “CUT THE LINE”
THOUGHTLESS MUSIC
2007

KRMPCK
KINGSDOWN EP
SENTIENTSOUND 005
2006

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