Los Prisioneros - Musical Style, Influences

Musical Style, Influences

In 1981 the British band known punk rock band The Clash, through a 90-minute cassette Claudio and Rodrigo Beltran happened to that recorded for a special Radio Concert band's latest album: Sandinista!. They found an unprecedented versatility for them to be the inspiration for the further development of the prisoners, argued Narea. In La voz de los '80s took the attitude of defiance, and the pose and the art of trash culture. The aesthetic and lyrical in the video "We are Sudamerican rockers." "We saw those pants and military and wanted to be like them. Better yet in Pinochet's Chile to use those clothes. It made sense, "said Nare. Prisoners were to meet Joe Strummer when he returned to Iquique for a movie he did in Chile, however Strummer died in 2002.

In 1985, George and Michael were gaining influence in the technology, groups like Depeche Mode, Ultravox, for the year Gonzalez team includes keyboard and synthesizers in his later work Kicking stones and Hearts, full albums techno, said Gonzalez, also further stated that prisoners are more techno pop group a group rock.71 Ibeas Lalo, leader of the Pig in Stone, said it was too risky for the prisoners "have made their second album, radically changing the sound of the band pass style of The Clash guitars, sound synthesizers, and yet still sounded like the prisoners' .72 The situation was not comfortable for Narea, different from the scenario of how they started as a simple trio of guitar, bass and drums for the recording of Kicking stones, Claudio only played the guitar in the songs, including acoustic "Dance of the left over." During the time before Hearts Narea was felt influenced blues and rock and roll from the 50 and 60, work that could only develop in the posterior band Prophets and Frantic. George always wanted to work with synthesizers, but due to high costs, could only be part of a punk rock group in its infancy. For La cultura de la basura and used electronic music sampler.

The band is classified as rock, pop, folk, punk, post-punk, new wave, techno, electronic music, synthpop and rockabilly. Also, influences of rock and roll, hardcore, reggae, jazz, ska, rap, dance, vals and experimental music.