Blanco Y Negro: 52 records that have passed through the crate

The story of Blanco Y Negro

Blanco y Negro started life as a record shop in Barcelona in 1978. It became a label on 17 January 1983, under Félix Buget, and has never stopped releasing dance music since: it is one of the longest-running houses in the country at this.

What put it on the map was a record nobody commissioned. In 1982 a set was recorded at Studio 54 in Barcelona by a DJ nobody knew at the time, Raúl Orellana, the venue's resident between 1982 and 1994. Out of that came Studio 54 Connection (1983), the first mixed album released in Spain, and out of that came the Bolero Mix series, still being published today.

What's in the crate

The catalogue that has passed through here runs from the mid-eighties well into the two thousands, and it shows in the prefix: the MX numbers run for almost twenty years, from the three figures of the eighties to the four of the nineties. This is a label to read by catalogue number, because MX on its own won't tell you the decade.

The record to start with

How Blanco Y Negro sounds in our crate

52 different releases on Blanco Y Negro have passed through beatdo, 72 copies counting duplicates, pressed between 1985 and 2007.

What comes up most often, in this order: Euro House, Trance, and House.

One copy is available right now.

How to recognise a Blanco Y Negro release

The catalogue numbers we have seen follow the pattern MX, MX-, GREECE. It is the first thing to check on the centre label when a record comes with no sleeve, which in this repertoire is the norm.

In the crate now

The archive: 51 releases on Blanco Y Negro