This is a sample collection of music composed and performed by Sebastian Litmanovich. This samples were made for spots, advertising, films and albums.

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sebastián litmanovich
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ABOUT CINEPLEXX (BIO)
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Cineplexx is the brainchild of Sebastian Litmanovich - a 34 year old Argentinean born Graphic Artist and musician that currently calls Barcelona his home. Growing up at a time when the sounds of punk clashed with the short-lived wave of disco and the singer-songwriter was contrasted by the album-centric epics of bands like Pink Floyd, Sebastian found himself somewhere in the middle. "The Velvet Underground were the first band that really blew my mind… and I've been a fan of ABBA ever since I was four," he admits. For Sebastian, his life and career have been as varied and exciting as his musical influences. 

Fast forward to 1996 and we find a young Sebastian studying abroad in New York City - a turning point in his life. It was during this time in a foreign country, studying in a foreign language and meeting new and strange people that motivated Sebastian to live life on his own terms in the creative realm. On his return to Buenos Aires, Sebastian quickly found the energy he needed to channel his passion for art and music and started his first band, a post-rock outfit called the Amarena Incident, as well as co-founding a design studio. 

In 1998, after a few bands and a lot of design work, Cineplexx was born when Sebastian and his brother and frequent collaborator, Martin, bought themselves a four-track. In somewhat of an obsessive nature, Sebastian recorded a slew of material that ranged from electronic driven pop to full on instrumental landscapes of blips and beeps. His first release came through Caipirinha; an experimental electronic label based in NY. 

Soon thereafter, Cineplexx began playing shows - in Argentina, New York and Tokyo, appearing at the Lowlands Festival in Holland and the Sonar Festival in Barcelona, just to name a few. Soon after finishing his next release in 2002, he took off to Barcelona where he established his design studio, Tea Time and himself as a performing musician. For four years he played around Europe and Asia both as Cineplexx and as part of the audio-visual duo, Cacahuetes Inc, performing at film festivals around the world. In 2006, longtime friend, Federico Aubele (ESL Records) invited Sebastian to join his band on a European Tour. 

Last year Cineplexx began work on Picnic, enlisting the help of friends Duglas Stewart (BMX Bandits), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Jad Fair and Federico Aubele to flesh out the 13 song record. The outcome is truly beautiful - with a throng of strings, wall-of-sound-like arrangements and Spanish language vocals, Cineplexx has delivered to our shores an instant classic. 

He also made some albums under diverse alias such as Amarena Incident (a post rock band from 1997), Readme & Anthony (a collage electronic band www.readmeandanthony.8k.com), Portatile Room Mobile (a cover band together with Leumann.net), and Cacahuetes Inc. (a fake documentary producer with aBe) and also have some collaborations with Jad Fair, Daniel Melero, Glaznost, Leumann, Sebastian Kramer, Wevie Stonder, Jaime sin Tierra, Giradioses, jackson souvenirs, aBe (bcn), Duglas Stewart (Bmx Bandits) & Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub). 

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ALBUMS
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PICNIC
PORTIA RECORDS (US & CA). 2008 CD
MOLECULA RECORDS (MX) . 2008 CD

RESTAR
TESTING GROUND . 2006 CD

PEQUEÑOS ACCIDENTES DOMESTICOS
ZIGZAG RECORDS . 2003 MINI CD

CAPACIDAD MAXIMA:1 PERSONA
RUGA / SATELITE K . 2003 VINYL

ELECTROCARDIOGRAMA
EVERLASTING RECORDS . 2002 CD

POSOLOGIA
CAIPIRINHA MUSIC . 1999 CD

COMRPIMIDO
KROVHA . 1997 TAPE



LAST CONCERTS
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Cineplexx also performed at Viva Melodia (UK), w/ Ally Kerr & Duglas Stewart & St. Deluxe, Vintage Rockbar (UK) & Walker (wedding present members), Knitting factory (NY), ICC (Tokyo), Netmage (Italy), CABARET CLUB (Barcelona), Festival Lowlands (Holanda), Sala Sidecar, (BCN), Festival Sónar (BCN), festival MECAL CCCB (bcn), Casa Encendida (madrid), Pocket Club (bcn), Sala Becool (bcn), Miscelanea (bcn), Radio 3 desde SONAR 2003 (bcn), Sala Mobydick (madrid), Torre de Oro, Sevilla, España, Alianza Francesa (Bs As).Centro Cultural Gral. San Martín (Bs As), MAMBA de Buenos Aires, FM Rock & Pop,  (2000)



PRESS
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CINEPLEXX (INTERVIEW ON PICNIC) ...In 2005, Sebastián Litmanovich, a.k.a. Cineplexx, was a minimalist electronic musician looking for a way out. The Barcelonan was playing glitchy scratches and rhythmic beeps at places like Spain's Sónar Festival, an event dedicated to "advanced music," but would be listening to Television and the Velvet Underground in his private life. He left his life of clinical bloops behind for the sunny, summer treat of seventh album Picnic, an album full of lush, catchy psychedelic bedroom pop, accented with colorful, otherworldly whispers about sleep, dreams and recreation. Many of the songs are about escape "in a positive way," says Litmanovich, after apologizing for English being his second language. "That's why I thought it was appropriate to reinforce this concept of 'picnic,' because a picnic, after all, is a kind of escape. You can go with more people and just have fun and share a moment or a fried egg." Paper thin walls Picnic. story by Kory Grow /www.paperthinwalls.com  - 4 stars, AMG Album Pick /All Music Guide
PICNIC (CD REVIEW)...The album is a real unexpected treat, and Cineplexx are the kind of crush that might just bloom into a full on love affair. /blog.allmusic.com

PICNIC (CD REVIEW)...This is, as they say, a lush pop album. The songs are late-60s-ish and really pretty. /KSCR

PICNIC (CD REVIEW)...Cineplexx creates a dreamy pop album that will appeal to fans of M83, THE ZOMBIES, DEASTRO, and others /cjam-music.blogspot.com

PICNIC (CD REVIEW)...Exquisite indie-pop /kuci.uci.edu

PICNIC (CD REVIEW)...Perfect for that surreal Sunday in the park. /Ed Morales, newsday.com

PICNIC (CD REVIEW)...desde España nos llega un ejemplo de auténtico buen pop independiente (si, indie) a cargo de Cineplexx, grupo de un solo integrante (Sebastián Litmanovich), quien lleva editados un par de EP's y que esta vez se rodea de invitados como Norman Blake (de Teenage Fanclub) o Duglas Stewart (de los BMX Bandits) para crear un disco redondo, lleno de guitarras acústicas y teclados, que nos remiten a The Beach Boys, Flaming Lips y por momentos a unos Family más low-fi de costumbre... / Alex M. Revista Sonika (MX)

PICNIC (CD REVIEW)...“Sentada” (Seated) with its cartoon springy boing, bass hums, light stomping and clapping, and tinkling background noises sounds like a Roger Rabbit acid trip. /onemicrophone.com

PICNIC (CD REVIEW)...This album is a warm combination of dream pop, psychedelic '60s-inspired pop/rock, tiny electronic tidbits and soft Spanish vocals warped together in a pouch of preciousness. /kalamazoo  PICNIC (CD REVIEW) ...Boasting plenty of memorable material with 15 tracks, Picnic may very well go down as one of the most uniquely engaging releases of the year. / Obscuresound (read more...)  PICNIC (CD REVIEW) ...I am so far most enamored with the title track, a dreamy, yet slightly off kilter song whose vocals kind of make it sound as if it were recorded on an island inhabited by friendly ghosts. / Squaregirls (read more...)  PICNIC (CD REVIEW) ...If you’re into Elliott Smith and Belle & Sebastian, you'll really enjoy Cineplexx. / afrojacks.com (read more...)  PICNIC (CD REVIEW) ...Picnic is surely going to be one of my favorite releases of the prior couple of years. / The Flame's Flight  PICNIC (CD REVIEW) ...Espiral reviewed 7,5... In the international language of bedroom psych auteurs who dream of Mellotron fields, it doesn’t particularly matter. / paperthinwalls.com (read more...)  PICNIC (CD REVIEW) ...There is a fair amount of experimentation throughout the album, which works in the darker electropop of "Droga Paliativa" and the haunting folk in "De Picnic Sin Mi"...my favorite tracks are the more straight-forward pop songs, like "A Mi Lado" and "Belle & Sebastian" / chris, Indiepages.com  PICNIC (CD REVIEW) Cineplexx - warm and friendly pop for a springtime picnic. April 17th, 2008 by Knut “Picnic” is Sebastian Litmanovich’s fifth overall album and his debut on Portia, and here he is helped by Duglas Stewart (BMX Bandits), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub), Jad Fair (Half Japanese) and Federico Aubele (all of them have co-written songs or performs on the tracks on the album). Sebastian’s music has a lot in common with especially Stewart’s and Blake’s music, so they seem to be the perfect collaboration partners for Cineplexx. If you like Belle and Sebastian, The Radio dept, BMX Bandits, Camera Obscura, Little Name, Jens Lekman, Flaming Lips, Teenage Fanclub or the Beach Boys, you’ll love Cineplexx. It’s a wonderful album, and a perfect companion to the coming days of Spring. The albumtitle is perfect. “Picnic” is the exact image I get in my head when I’m listening to this album. I see myself resting on the grass on a warm spring day, the sun is shining, the birds are singing and Cineplexx is playing somewhere in the background. Mmmm! “Picnic” is a wonderful collection of pop songs, with Sebastian’s warm and almost whispered Spanish vocals in front (except on “Tiger Trap” where Duglas Stewart sings). The album is full of pretty melodies, lush strings and harmonies, but far underneath all the niceness, you’ll discover more noisy, fuzzy and strange elements, - sometimes also darker - , which makes the album more interesting in the long run. The title track, where Jad Fair is involved, is almost psychedelic in its playful and dreamy arrangement. Wonderful! This is one of the album’s really strong sides: The more you listen to it, the more you’ll discover. / Knut, Ear Drums Music  PICNIC (CD REVIEW) ...desde España nos llega un ejemplo de auténtico buen pop independiente (si, indie) a cargo de Cineplexx, grupo de un solo integrante (Sebastián Litmanovich), quien lleva editados un par de EP's y que esta vez se rodea de invitados como Norman Blake (de Teenage Fanclub) o Duglas Stewart (de los BMX Bandits) para crear un disco redondo, lleno de guitarras acústicas y teclados, que nos remiten a The Beach Boys, Flaming Lips y por momentos a unos Family más low-fi de costumbre... / Alex M. Revista Sonika (MX)  PICNIC (CD REVIEW) ...Una colección de pequeñas composiciones pop. "A mi lado" se trata de un tema precioso, pegadizo y realmente cautivador. /Palabelia.com  PICNIC (CD REVIEW) ...a light airy hint of twee-pop which sometimes borders on eighties light synth pop. Their sound is a little Belle & Sebastian like, with the chamber pop sound of The Clientele added in with a smaller dose of Magnetic Fields. /parasitesandsycophants.blogspot.com 
CONCERT REVIEW Cineplexx & The Odeons ...Experimental music, suggestive sounds, dreamlike melodies and a lot of savoir faire that leaves a sweet after-taste. / Laura Bo Lecool.com

CONCERT REVIEW Cineplexx & The Odeons ...pop lo-fi flotante y orquestado teñido de psicodelia. /popmadrid.com

CONCERT REVIEW Cineplexx & The Odeons ...Is an elegant and compact melodic pop band, filled with good vibes, sensibility and delicateness, with an air of humour and passion. Their concerts are an enjoyable, emotional voyage who leave you feeling good inside. / Alex Brahim, Lecool.com

RESTAR (CD REVIEW) 
...Cineplexx welcomes the listener into the intimate atmosphere of the evening when this album should be played. the music on this album it's only for intimate home listening. Sounds that are slowly appearing from the background and often they're forming a specific dreamy ambiental aura around the tracks. Sounds very dreamy and may put the listener in a state of lucid dreaming, it's something I haven't heard often and on this album Cineplexx is doing that in a very nice way, making a kind of 'good night' music to sleep by. Music that is not connected to any concrete genre or style, but still it has elements of some of them, even a special kind of, let's name it, 'lucid dreaming techno music'. 
VITAL WEEKLY (BR) 

RESTAR (CD REVIEW) 
...is a neat kaleidoscope of clicks and tones that recalls the early days of low-impact Techno when minimalism could still be counted out in minims. About two tracks in, this gives way to brittle swirls of sound and slowly flickering emotions, just lively enough to hold the attention longer than you´d expect on "Edredon", one of two tracks to feature rough beats and treated guitars. The tempo starts building again on "Desagüe" and the full-bodied pulsing of closer "Bosque"..
THE WIRE, Ken Hollings (september 2006)

La danza sincronizada de los cacahuetes magnéticos (sonar 2005)
En el área Sonarama ubicada en el Centro de Arte Sta.Mónica, el humor ácido e inteligente del dúo argentino Cineplexx gustó bastante al publico que allí se encontraba a pesar de la gran oferta que habia en otros escenarios del Sónar en ese momento. Su espectáculo denominado "La Danza Sincronizada de los Cacahuetes Magnéticos" es un inquietante documental (imaginario) realizado y ejecutado en vivo, junto con Alex Beltrán, el cual contó con una muy buena selección musical.
POPCHILD .

Distancia, Beisbol, Tres DVD performance / cineplexx, glaznost, aBe, Neasden Control Center & Wevie Stonder.
This year's MECAL Barcelona International Short Film Festival held it's first ever Live Cinema session, presented by ROJO.
Alongside more traditional films competing in the Festival, ROJO presented a trilogy of experimental short films which mixed audio, film and graphics. Located two floors below the ground, the Auditorium was a fitting location for live audio-visual symphony which was ROJO.distancia.beisbol.tres.
Packed to the rafters, those without seats sat in the aisles, or perched on arm-rests. As the lights went down, the projector flickered into action and the magic began.
The show was a mix of digitalised visual and sound technologies edited and projected in real time, bringing together Neasden Control Centre motion graphics and Abe visuals with audio from Glaznost, Cineplexx and Wevie Stonder. Half-lit by the bluish light from their monitors, the artists were deep in concentration, as they put together this unique event in front of our very eyes. Their diverse styles and influences complemented each other to create a deliciously dizzying performance.
As the lights came up, the crowd erupted into applause and lingered in hope of a second helping. Instead they got to take home a free DVD, as a souvenir that they witnessed one of the first public forays into Live Cinema.
As hard- and software increases in speed, visual artists are catching up with the real-time editing capabilities of laptop musicians. The ability to manipulate and generate images instantly is creating a new performance art in the realm of electronic pop culture. As this event demonstrated, experimentation with samples and computers creates a show as unique as real and as unpredictable as any concert or theatre play...
SHIFT (JAPAN), Lotje from Maxalot

Electrocardiograma / cineplexx
The raw muscle of human emotion meets the cold circuitry of modern anatomical medicine, courtesy of Argentina´s Sebastian Litmanovich, whose songs come packaged with a disembodied red heart on its cover and a sequence of electrical pulses on the accompanying insert cards. Subdued meditative compositions, delicately strummed on an acoustic guitar, are enhanced by a melancholic universe of electronic effects. Slide guitar echo and chime deep into the darkness, while korgs drift in and out of the crepuscular mix. Sounds to accompany the slow death of feelings once fondly remembered.
THE WIRE, january 2002 #215, Ken Hollings

"CINEPLEXX Electrocardiograma ****
Electronica is sounding awfully homogeneous these days, but Argentine muso Sebastian Litmanovich -- the sole member of Cineplexx -- is definitely onto something. Comprised of spartan beats, rustling background noise, celestial slide guitar and the unadorned honesty of Litmanovich's voice, the music of Cineplexx is not only unique, but deeply affecting. Electrocardiograma is eerier than 1999's Posologia, as Litmanovich continues to find that precarious balance between the brave new world of electronica and the gritty mythology of folk."
EYE magazine

"....For bands like Mouse on Mars and Matmos, exploiting this old style affords another opportunity to confound listeners. Other artists, however, strive to evoke the rural montages conjured by old-timey folk with modern frills, of course. On Posologia (1999) and the newly released Electrocardiograma, Argentinean songwriter Sebastian Litmanovich who records as Cineplexx casts a more mesmeric version of folktronica. With whispered Spanish vocals and wind-blown production, Litmanovichs records are vivid evocations of a desiccated Patagonian landscape...."
SHIFT magazine

CINEPLEXX POSOLOGIA (ALBUM REVIEW)
Somewhere between delight and horror lies Cineplexx, the new project from up-and-coming Argentine electronic musician Sebastian Litmanovich. On one level, the music on Posologia is the stuff of dreams -- ghostly, breathy Spanish vocals that could have been recorded in a hollow cave weave around sluggish rhythms, woeful, nearly subliminal keyboard/guitar melodies and an almost transparent array of intelligently arranged samples. But slowly, the nightmare rolls in, as a disturbing, off-kilter wash of ambient noise echoes throughout each piece, enveloping, consuming, and blurring the distinctions between post-rock, jazz and techno textures. The end results are at once soothing and unsettling, but it's that bizarre juxtaposition of causes and effects that makes Posologia such a unique and darkly alluring piece of work.
Nov 10, 2000 By M. Tye Comer / CMJ