Mucho, the band's latest album, brings expression of the band's latest evolutionary steps into sharp focus with a selection of songs mixed in London by Phil Brown of Roxy Music fame. "Phil has always been a mythical rock-god engineer to us," Dárgelos says. "Given our rock en espanol budget, we didn't think there was much chance of us ever working with him, however. That's why we were stunned after we sent him a disc of some of our songs, and he accepted to do Mucho right away."
Bringing the songs of Mucho to Babasonicos's live stage act along with their heavy catalogue of other hits is a job the band trusts to Shure. Now, wired with PSM 700 personal in-ear monitors, Diego Rodriguez opts to stick with an SM58 microphone for vocals, a choice he has made since very early in the band's career.
"I started rehearsing with Babasonicos in 1985," Dárgelos says. "We were all friends in secondary school in Argentina, or what you'd call high school in the US. One of the first things we bought was an SM58. Today, we still own a number of Shure mics, and that original is probably still one of the ones we're using. It may seem surprising, but this goes to show you that a microphone bought more than 20 years ago can indeed still work virtually the same as it did new."
(Jim Evans)
