Even in these times, where any kind of electronic sounds camp at ease, rock is still a first-rate expressive field, and David Rodríguez , leading voice in Beef, know it well. Beef was born in Sant Feliú de Llobregat, a city in the outskirts of Barcelona, as a result of the humus expelled by the "dead body" of the group Bach is Dead, and having as main references groups such as Joy Division, Sonic Youth or The Fall. From 1992 (an undoubtedly clue-year in Spain's contemporary history) up to nowadays, David, who combines this project with another one, Telefilme (together with Tito Pintado, from Penelope Trip), has tried to expand rock's scale of flavours by adding them a large number of peripheral ingredients: from bizarre pop to a guitar-noise which goes too far, with some traits of electronic music-of course!, and a surrealist and vagrant sense of humour which is the top that shapes the particular idiosyncrasy of a group which manages itself better in the recordings than on a stage. Who remembers at this hour indie-pop?

Jesús Brotons.

• Beef Songs (CD, La Fábrica Magnética, 1993)
• Tongues (CD, Acuarela, 1995) Adult Oriented Rock EP (CD-EP, Elefant, 1996)
• Fi Qasr Sheikh-Al-Dabant (CD, Elefant, 1997)
• España a las ocho (CD, Elefant, 1998)
• Misery And Lies (CD, Elefant, 2000)
• La Boheme (CD, Elefant, 2002)


BACH IS DEAD

• Sonotone (CD, Marilyn, 1992)


TELEFILME

• Fade In, Fade Out (CD, Elefant, 1995)
• Pocket Horror Symphony (CD, Elefant, 1997)

"They are happy for going after the way of maturity based on a faithful reflection (but not a copy) of what they believe in and looking for the consecration of a very well-intentioned product, bathed in the sea of inspiration. Looking towards The Residents and always keeping an eye on their past, Beef also resort to minimalism, without renouncing to a very clear knowledge which has in New Order its greatest exponent." (Coque Macondo - ROCK DE LUX).

"Tongues is a naturalist conjunction of pop and avant-garde; a labyrinth that cancels out the desire from escape from the very inside; a bagpipe without the sheepskin which expires a fizzy talent and which ventilates Wire, Sonic Youth or Joy Division's footprints." (Gerardo Sanz - ROCK DE LUX).

"I discover myself wading through the subterranean waters that go all over the record (España a las Ocho); those dreams within over dreams that Beef shape every time with a higher accuracy." (Ignacio Juliá - RUTA 66).

"Beef knows how to appraise, at the right measure, so different proposals of indie's universe as Esplendor Geométrico, Julian Cope, Orbital, Neu! or Faust. Songs which are the best results of a mind which is constantly put to the test in the local or in front of the synthesizer." (Nando Cruz - FACTORY).

"From Bach is Dead to Kramer's newyorker studio: the ones from Sant Feliù follow an iron trajectory, without vicissitudes. Beef's third album has a nearly geometric title, Fi Qasr Sheikh Al-Dabant. Varied but with a very well outlined structure, it has a solid basis which allows several escapes." (Quim Casas - ROCK DE LUX).