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Triple Check

Atentamente, Triple Check — EP artwork: band around a desk on white background

Triple Check is Felipe Basurto, Miguel Ferrer, and Diego Garrido from Burgos. The three of us met at school (Jesuitas) and, from May 2020 onward, started writing and recording at home, releasing songs on streaming platforms from there.

None of us came in with a musical education or a roadmap—we had to learn it all from zero: writing, production, how a song even gets finished and out the door. There was also no budget—not a single euro of “project money.” We put the whole thing together with what we could scrape together (a mic, an interface, time in a room) and a lot of trial and error, which is how the first batch of material became our debut EP, Sabemos (five tracks), before a longer run of singles and later the Atentamente, Triple Check EP (2023).

In the band I focus on production, mixing, and lyrics; Miguel Ferrer sings and produces; Diego Garrido sings. We tend to write from improvisation at the mic and then shape the track, rather than always starting from a finished page of lyrics.

The music

Spanish pop-rock with modern, radio-friendly production—closer to El Canto del Loco, Pignoise, or Despistaos than to a straight rap act. Hooky guitars that sat well on Spanish streaming playlists around 2020–23. Songs about nights out, relationships, and looking back at our twenties.

Collaborations and one-off production passes matter too—e.g. the single Checkout (on Spotify with the rest of the catalog) featuring Safree, with production by Johnatan Pons — Checkout sounded noticeably better with Johnatan producing. Spotify has the full, current catalog; Atentamente, Triple Check (2023) is the release that best represents us.

Listings, venues, and ticket hubs

A few public links (venues, old bills, ticket hubs) — not a full history:

Spotify (by the numbers)

All-time streams on Spotify, per the artist catalog in the app, are past 1.7M plays, with several tracks in the six figures. Three of us, no label—people still replay the songs.

Live

We’ve played gigs around Spain—smaller rooms, a few outdoor stages, shared bills. The photos are from that side of things. An early one was in Burgos at bar Carabás (Tomaticket) — video (YouTube). We’ve also played Sala Vesta in Madrid (video), at Sidecar in Barcelona (Plaça Reial), and at Sala Porta Caeli in Valladolid on a night with Iskender. Later, a Madrid date with SANTAS at Café la Palma (Feb 2023, event page). We still change the set and book shows when we can.

Triple Check — outdoor stage, band holding TRIPLE CHECK banner, large crowd
Triple Check — indoor venue, band with TRIPLE CHECK flag and audience

Booking: the links below, or the email on my home page.

What it is to me now

Triple Check is still a meaningful stretch of my life. A DM about a song hits harder than any Spotify stat. We started from nothing—no training, no money, just the three of us figuring it out as we went. Still weird and nice that strangers have our songs saved.