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Mastretta Cars is a Mexican car maker and design studio established by industrial designer Daniel Mastretta in Mexico City in 1987. During the 1990s, Mastretta developed a small number of kit cars under the brands Tecnoidea and Unediseño, but the 2010 MXT is the first developed vehicle to reach international commercial availability. Mastretta is often incorrectly claimed to be the first Mexican mass-production car maker, but other Mexican automotive companies Dina, Ramirez Industrial Group and VAM had developed their own vehicles since the 1950s to a small national scale.
During the 1990s, Mastretta focused on microbus (Mexico City metropolitan minibuses) body chassis design and engineering, as well as that of urban buses. This experience led to the construction of their first kit-car in 1994, the Unediseño-Mastretta MXA. The Unediseño Mastretta was built on a Volkswagen Sedán (VW Type 1) chassis and platform, using the VW boxer flat-four engine as power source. For this prototype, the engine delivered 44 bhp (33 kW; 45 PS) and reached a top speed of 127 km/h (79 mph).
Mastretta is the artistic alias of Ignacio Mastretta Rodríguez, (Barcelona; May 9, 1964); a Spanish musician, composer and record producer.
Even though he was born in Barcelona, Nacho (short for Ignacio) Mastretta is considered a Cantabric musician, since he moved as a young child to Santander where he studied piano at Conservatorio Jesús de Monasterio of Santander.
His first music project was named Las Manos de Orlac, a band formed in 1987 that played pop and caribbean music, where he sang and played a lot of instruments. With this band he recorded two albums, La Furia (1988) and Salud y Pesetas (1989). He then moved to Madrid in 1991 and from 1992 until 1999 he worked as a sound technician in the famous studio El Sol. He also worked at Sala Maravillas, working with international and local bands throughout the expansion of alternative rock.
By the same time, he started developing a personal instrumental style that didn't quite convince the multinational record companies, until Subterfuge Records, an independent label from Madrid, used his style to open a new music section in the label. Under the name Música para un Guateque Sideral in the summer of 1998, the instrumental single Highballito was released (Highballito is the name of a Mexican cocktail that appears in a Hemingway novel).
Visitamos las instalaciones de la firma mexicana, Mastretta Cars, en donde Daniel Mastretta; co-fundador y director técnico, nos platicó sobre el momento actual de la marca y sus expectativas tanto en el mercado mexicano como en el internacional. Entérate de ésta y otras noticias del mundo automotriz en http://www.car-globe.com
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Los inigualables MASTRETTA vuelven al Berlín Café, en está ocasión con su nuevo trabajo de estudio bajo el brazo, “El Reino de Veri Veri”. En el “Reino de Veriveri” descubriréis las nuevas melodías de Mastretta inspiradas en cada uno de los músicos que componen la orquesta; Marina Sorin (violonchelo y phonofiddle), Diego Galaz (violín, violín-trompeta, mandolina, serrucho), David Herrington (trompeta, tuba), Miguel Malla (saxo tenor), Nacho Mastretta (clarinete, clarinete bajo, armónica), Pablo Novoa (guitarra), Luca Frasca (piano, órgano), Pablo Navarrro (contrabajo), Coke Santos (batería y percusión), con la colaboración estelar de Jorge Arribas al vibrabandoneón en la pieza Fetén, Fetén. Celebramos la presencia en la escena musical de las bandas; Racalmuto, Novoa, Blue Perro, El Show ...
Mastretta con Augusto Bracho y Martin Bruhn interpretan "El último habitante del planeta" en El Cafe Central de Madrid. Noviembre 2015. Augusto Bracho ( Voz), Martin Bruhn (bombo legüero) Marina Sorin (phonofiddle), Nacho Mastretta (clarinete), David Herrington (trompeta), Pablo Novoa (guitarra), Luca Frasca (piano), Pablo Navarro (contrabajo), Coke Santos (batería). Operadores de cámara : A.Mora y Jaime Massieu Realización y montaje : Jaime Massieu.
https://itunes.apple.com/es/album/luna-de-miel/id338175280 http://open.spotify.com/album/09VjHpdcneB9s3uPxhsHxl http://www.deezer.com/es/album/429807 Subterfuge Records (2000)
It was so great, I remember it all-I was having a trip,
I was having a ball! The music was played and the grass
was green-It was the best love that I'd ever seen!
There was a million of us like sister and brother-
Everbody was - you know - lovin' each other! It was so
groovy, my dreams fulfilled-I didn't even know 12
people were killed!
Hey Mr. Peace, what's left today? Hey Mr. Love, did you
find the way? Sweet smoke is gone and your dreams are
too-Damn you now, what you gonna do?
The bands were in gas, all set to go-No matter that
they took a million bucks for a show! How could we
know, it was vanity fair-I was so stoned that I didn't
care!
We had the power, we had to win-We could change the
system, but the pigs came in! The youth was good then,
now it's just drag-Now that I'm a boring old fag!
Hey Mr. Peace, what's left today? Hey Mr. Love, did you
find the way? Sweet smoke is gone and your dreams are
too-Damn you now, what you gonna do?
We had the power, we had to win-We could change the
system, but the pigs came in! The youth was good then,
now it's just drag-Now that I'm a boring old fag!
Hey Mr. Peace, what's left today? Hey Mr. Love, did you
find the way? Sweet smoke is gone and your dreams are