Guillermo Patiño is, from Barcelona, an active memory of the nineties. Co-creator of the legendary programme Radio Paramecio and a former regular at the storied bar La Floristería, as well as a writer for the magazine Disidencia, he was part of the heart of the local alternative movement. His voice blends street intuition with critical culture; his way of listening is also a way of building an archive. His work carries the pulse of free radio stations, basement concerts, fanzines passed from hand to hand and collectives that learned to organise without asking permission.
He does not seek the spotlight, preferring slow conversation, consistency, and care for the scenes that sustain cultural life once the trend has passed and the market has moved on. His chronicles attend to the margins, to neighbourhood memory, to music that resists closures and gentrification. Looking back, he does not idealise; he searches for keys to keep creating here and now.
