Paco Pil, one of the kings of the maxis of the 90s in Spain, has given an interview to Icon, on the occasion of the publication of a book called ‘You Owe Me a Party: The Crazy Story of Paco Pil’. Santiago Alonso has written it based on dozens of hours of telephone conversations with Paco Pil himself.
The interview is a mine of headlines, although not as much as it could be. The DJ makes a half-hour speech on politics and economics that he then asks not to be published. But here’s a clue: he is one of those who calls El País “Lo País.”
Paco Pil, who is presented as a pioneer for being both a singer and a DJ, is very critical of DJs who don’t really play. She also talks about her problems with the mafia by sleeping with “one of the most wanted drug traffickers in the world”, or within the Max Music label itself. Its co-founder ended up behind bars, as can be seen in the documentary ‘Megamix Brutal’.
The author of ‘Viva la fiesta’ (1993) and ‘Johnny Techno Ska’ (1994) says that he did not want to remix Madonna because, when it came up, he asked for $3,000 “with a percentage” for said work and Madonna’s team did not want to. give them to them: “they told me ‘Hey, it’s Madonna.’ I replied ‘Well, tell Madonna that I’m Paco Pil’. If my work didn’t have that value, I didn’t want it to end up in their hands.”
And he is also critical of Bad Bunny: “Bad Bunny is rubbish, he was born to support the 2030 Agenda and for the guys who were bad to paint their nails (…) But I think it’s fine, the machismo of reggaeton was already a thing unbearable.”
And he even doubts the durability of Benito and, for that matter, that of Rosalía: “I am in the memory of 70% of the people. That’s priceless. We’re not talking about being famous for a moment, like the donut song. Where are Rosalía and Bad Bunny? They have hit him, but in 10 years Rosalía and Bad Bunny are not going to be Paco Pil.”
