Nacho Mastretta (a musician from Santander who lives in Madrid) spent all the 80's and a part of the 90's playing in some groups that few people now remember like Las Manos de Orlac (later Las Manos) or La Marabunta. He also earned his living by working as a sound technician and creating music for fashion parades. It has been now that lounge aesthetics has made peace with the World when Mastretta's scores start to be taken into account, although he prefers to distance himself from Esquivel or Les Baxter ("if I use exotic rhythms is not just for playing the Indian"), and also from any kind of revival in general, alluding to the great masters of popular music as his main references: Americans such as Cole Porter, Gershwin or Henry Mancini, Brazilians such as Jobim and Europeans as Nino Rota. These references are quite similar to the ones of Barry Adamson, whom he shares some features (both have composed for cinema, maybe the most suitable milieu for Mastretta's climatic music); however, if Adamson shows himself as "disturbing noir", the one from Santander prefers the colourist hullabaloo and the hot rhythms maybe because of his Latino ancestors (his mother is Mexican). His presence in any important Spanish music festival, like Sónar, Experimentaclub or Espárrago, is enough to persuade even the most sceptical ones, that Mastretta is, finally, a figure that is going up in the World.

Jesús Brotons

• La Vida Fácil (1992)
• Highballito (Single, Subterfuge, 1998)
• Melodías De Rayos X (CD, Subterfuge, 1998)
• Música para la colección de Jesús Del Pozo 99/00 (CD Single, Subterfuge, 1999)
• Luna De Miel (CD, Subterfuge, 2000)
• Bascombe (MiniCD, Subterfuge, 2000)
• En Malas Compañías (B.S.O.) (CD, Subterfuge, 2000)
• Límite cuatro minutos (Book-Record "Laboratorio", El Europeo, 2001)
• El sueño del caimán (B.S.O.) (CD, Subterfuge, 2001)
• Música de automóvil (CD, Subterfuge, 2001)
• Reparto a domicilio (MiniCD, Subterfuge, 2002)

with Las Manos De Orlac:
• La Furia (LP)
• Salud y Pesetas (LP, GASA, 1990)
  

Mastretta + Najwajean:
• Asfalto (B.S.O.) (CD, Warner, 2000)