Sangresabia

Infobox musical artist
Name = Sangresabia


Img_capt = Sangresabia 2004 (from left): Pablo "Pollo" Marmol, Iván González & Kid Cricú
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Origin = Cidra, Puerto Rico, St. Louis, Missouri
Genre = Trip-hop, Hip-Hop, Reggaeton
Years_active = 1995- 2005
Label = Greasey Mella Records
URL = [http://www.myspace.com/sangresabia]
Past_members = Pablo "Pollo" Marmol
Iván González
Kid Cricú

Sangresabia is a consortium of hip-hop and electronica DJ's and producers created in the mid 1990s in Puerto Rico, but with masterminds and founding members Iván González & Kid Cricú, based in St. Louis, MO during the late-90's. The name was also used by another band of González in the early-90's.

In its last incarnation, Sangresabia was composed by González, Kid Cricú & Pablo "Pollo" Marmol. At the time of inception, the group was composed by six members sharing turntables, programming and percussion duties and were regarded locally for their frantic, long jam-session type live shows and off-the-wall masks and outfits worn on stage, a la Slipknot.

Sangresabia's work tends to integrate significant amounts of overlooked 1980's and 1990's kitsch, old 'NY salsa' samples & movie outtakes. Even more oddly for the hip-hop scene, their work tends to make heavy use of stoner rock guitars, science fiction overtones and references, as well as classical music interpolations.

González was also a drummer and programmer for seminal early-90's puertorican 'rock en español' bands as a teenager, like Los Fosfuretras, Greasey Mella and The Scruff Muffles, all of which had tinges of electronica and hip-hop, quite a unique trait in bands of the genre at that time. After dabbling as a DJ during the time, he gave up on the skill and instead worked on musical production, taking on small gigs until getting his major break working with local staples Los Inconformes, Puya and Sol d' Menta and with Colombian superstars, Los Aterciopelados, of which Andrea Echeverrí was a part of.

González's most well-known production works include a new arrangement of Roy Brown's classic "Monón" for his 1996 best-of compilation "Colección", Nicotina y los Santos del Voodoo's "Libreria" album and the widely successful trip-hop/lo-fi independently-distributed Greasey Mella Records mixtape compilations series, consisting of 22 volumes. He is also renowned in Puerto Rico's underground circles for spearheading the critically acclaimed underground projects Los Aturdidos with Pablo Marmol, punk rockers The Chicken Nuggets & the Mr. Bungle-meets-Afrika Bambaataa project Alto Urbaje with Francisco "DJ Moco" Rolón. He returned to DJ'ing by 1995, forming Sangresabia out of the ashes of the band of the same name, after a one shot project for a college art class talent show.

Sangresabia went on to local fame and shared their homeland stage with acclaimed international stars like Héroes del Silencio, Los Pericos, Los Aterciopelados, El Tri, Puya, Divididos, Urge Overkill and the Meat Puppets.

Sangresabia released "leafsounds" (1995) and "Other Side of the World" (1998), both on their own imprint, Greasey Mella Records. Their last album, "Born Digital" (2005), is a collection of previously released material along with some remixes and new tracks.

Discography

* "leafsounds" (1995)
* "Other Side of the World" (1998)
* "Born Digital" (2005)