Farenheit 451

Farenheit 451 was one of the most interesting groups of the second batch of bands that emerged during the "Movida madrileña". Effective and imaginative musicians, they managed to create brilliant songs that were never used correctly by the record industry. Farenheit 451 formed in Madrid in 1980 around Jorge Grundman (voice and keyboards), who was accompanied by Juan Carlos Oliden (guitar), Carlos Ibáñez (bass) and Oscar Bergón (drums). 

Jorge was fascinated by the musical structures of the New Zealanders Split Enz and the electronic pop of Brian Eno. The specialized critics soon aligned them in the "cultured"' side of the Madrid pop, along with other groups such as Alphaville or La Mode.

1983 was a good year for Farenheit 451. At that time, the newly created independent label MR by Paco Martín edited the song "Taxi al Aeropuerto" on the Madrid compilation album 'Maquetas', a beautiful and catchy jewel of electronic pop. Shortly after, a maxi-single was released with four tracks, an excellent work of elegant pop, although it was missing some song that had the same commercial hook that the one published before. 

It had to wait for a year to hear something new from Fahrenheit 451, and the expected return came -again- through a compilation album, '4473910', which included the vibrant "Ojos a tu Alrededor". This song also appeared in the MR label compilation, 'I love MR'. But far from being consolidated as one of the products with more future on the spanish pop, the group ended up dissolving before the impotence of MR to adequately exploit the potential of its already overloaded (and irregular) roster. In 1985 Jorge Grundman would reappear with Trópico De Cáncer, a duo of refined electronic pop that released an album on the multinational Virgin (recently landed in Spain). [SOURCE: GRUPOS NACIONALES NUEVA OLA 80]