FROM FRIDAY 3/10 ON SUNDAY 1/2
GENS PUMPS. Burjassot, 54
Strobe lights and saturated colors, hallucinated and psychotropic are part of the first own production that Layers of reality launches from Valencia, with the intention of moving it through the Spanish State and, if curd, at an international level. The Bakalao Route, the Destroy Route, The route… Here in Valencia we know her well: that CV-500 del Saler road between rice fields along which a series of clubs spread out and became the nerve center of a very unique cultural movement. Over there (and in its parking lots, that deserve capital aside) the so-called were trapped reeders from Friday to Sunday. Insulted at the time, the phenomenon has been claimed in recent years from different cultural spheres: the books (in ecstasy by Barlin Books), the podcast (Valencia Destroy d’Eugenio Viñas), the museums (the exhibition graphic routeof the VAT), the series (The route d’Atresplayer) or the theater (the production of the IVC Valencian by Jordi Casanovas).
Now it is Bombas Gens that wants to explain that route to us in an immersive and sensorial way, Thanks to light and sound purposes, laser mapping, virtual reality, 360º projections and a very accurate soundtrack in which some of the legendary themes of the time will be heard. All this, combined with classic resources such as facilities, photograph, documentation and original parts. That discotheque scene that emerged in the eighties in the Valencian extraradio (Tent, Chocolate, NOD, Spook, Puzzle… open 72 hours) introduced in Spain a new concept of night entertainment that redefined the role of the DJ and placed Valencia at the European forefront in areas such as dance music, fashion or design.
The route proposed by Layers of reality presents us with the predecessors of La Ruta in the sixties and seventies, the birth of discotheques with the emergence of tourism, disco culture and funk, the emergence in the eighties of one moved Valencian who established the foundations of club culture in Spain and the conversion of Valencia into a benchmark in the European electronic scene, next to london, Manchester, Brussels, Frankfurt and Berlin. We will also discover the fashion of the time, the different cultural expressions that exploded within the scene, the evolution of the music that was played (post-punk, EBM, techno i house) and the movement's decline in the mid-1990s. All this in an exhibition where you can dance to the rhythm of Chocolate, Puzzle or Spook and sit in a car in the Barraca car park, propet of a large elephant, before entering the disco and hallucinating. S.M.
