Num9 - The Glowworm Resistance

With Emak Bakia on the back burner, Coque Yturriaga locks himself in his house to start what he doesn’t know will develop a year later into The Glow-worm's resistance. Equipped with a computer, electric guitars, Spanish guitars, synthesizers of all shapes and sizes and his voice, he opens a door revealing syncopated beats and heady rhythms. He also reopens another door revealing his writing, which he had kept shut since Emak Bakia’s last album. This was the genesis of num9’s lyrics and intentions. Rhythm and impulse. Pop with electronic shades, melodies sporting a strange and subtle electronic overlay. num9, the name which Coque Yturriaga hides behind and glows through, has been born. num9 is the courteous branching off from Migala and Emak Bakia. Much more poppy than Migala whilst preserving some guitars from its tenebrous period, sometimes as strange as Emak Bahia but much more danceable. With one eye on the dance floor and the other on a more light hearted pop, there’s echoes of Four Tet, Hefner, New Order’s “Technique” and the Pet Shop Boys’ “Introspective”. And the result? Ten tracks of pop slipped in between rhythm and intoxicating dance. Created with a freshness and an immediacy unheard of in the panorama of independent music in Spain, it successfully goes way beyond this categorisation, accompanied with samples, melodies, bass drums, cajas, noises, clicks and cuts, catchy basses and dreamy guitars and arrives at a unique place which only has comparison way beyond Spanish borders.

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