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Christian Catalán
Christian Catalán

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Regarding his experience in the media, it has been quite extensive and varied. Christian began his professional career at Radio Ciutat de Badalona as part of the team of the Decibèlia program, a dance music magazine that had a certain impact in the second half of the 90\'s. His beginnings were from very low down, picking up the phones and receiving calls from listeners who wanted to go on the air to request an album or dedication. He ended up hosting the program in its summer editions. During those years (1998-2000), he carried out technical tasks, production, editing and carrying out the sound design of the program (bursts, jingles and callsigns), as well as some voice-over tasks both for some music computing section and for advertising. It was a season that served as a school for him to learn how the radio worked inside. All this combined with the occasional session at nightclubs, program parties, and the production of demos of the electronic music of that time (within the machine genre), made from home with a PC 486, where finally in the year 2000 he was able to condense those efforts in the publication of his first vinyl album titled Noizer Sound under the pseudonym Christian Beat, where he remixed the main theme of the well-known Lucasfilm video game, Monkey Island.

At the end of 2000 and until 2004, he became part of the Flaix Group family, where the stations Flaix FM, Ràdio Flaixbac and the now defunct Flaix TV were brought together. He was mainly part of the Flaix FM station, one of the most important dance music radio stations in Catalonia in those years (and he also did work for Ràdio Flaixbac, since they shared the same floor in the old Banco Pastor building on Paseo de Gracia of Barcelona). Within that enriching breeding ground of sharing work experience within the Old School of Flaix (one of the sweetest times he remembers on a professional level), he was able to continue learning and growing personally and professionally, performing technical tasks, advertising production (Flaix was innovative in that area), voiceover, doing some mixing sessions and what was most important, ending up in charge of the brand\'s sound design (bursts, jingles and callsigns, total sound identifiers). In those years he released two more vinyls, the 2001 remixes of the first Noizer Sound vinyl, again remixing Monkey Island, and another dance maxi single in the Levantine style of that time, titled I Wanna Fly, together with Eva Martí (famous vocalist of a multitude of singles , like the well-known remix of Fly on the Wings of Love by XTM). As an anecdote related to video games, he was about to present two programs (one dance) and the other dedicated to video games called Game Flaix, but they never saw the light of day and of which only one pilot remains.

During that stage he analyzed maxisingles in the music magazine DJ1 where he also made his first steps writing video game reviews in the same magazine, now defunct, which was the sister of the well-known rock\'n roll magazine, Popular 1.

Arriving in 2005, he returned to his origins and began a new and challenging stage at Ràdio Ciutat de Badalona. There he would return as a sound technician, editor and designer of the banners for the radio archive within the corporate website. He would also produce, direct and present a light-hearted radio magazine dedicated to video games and humorous derivative topics called Level Up with numerous collaborators, for two seasons. But the biggest challenge would be to jump within the same company, to television, to be part of Panic, an ambitious magazine dedicated entirely to video games directed by Martí Santander. In those years, there were few, if any, television spots dedicated exclusively to video games. With the effort involved in a change of record from radio to television, the first season served as a school for him to learn the fundamentals of this medium and defend himself in various facets such as recording, editing, voiceover and presentation of various spaces within the program. This was because Panic was a self-produced program even though the Badalona Comunicación set was used. Several events were also covered in both Madrid and Barcelona and Christian ended up in charge of co-producing the program with Martí Santander, deciding on content and directing the visual design of the program, which included dividers, intros and credits. Panic lasted no more and no less than 7 seasons (2004-2011), covering generations of consoles such as PS2, PS3, XBOX, X360, GBA, DS, 3DS and WII. A program that was contemporary with the journey from analog television to the digital medium, when those devices called DTT began to be known.

Within that stage, more or less around 2006, Christian began the development of a radio program dedicated exclusively to classic video games, focusing especially on the Spanish software, called Game Back, the germ of what years later would be the Youtube that was made known. Some sections, the sound design and a couple of interviews, until now unpublished, were recorded and pre-produced. One of them to the late artist and well-known cover designer of many covers for Spanish games, Alfonso Azpiri. The other to Jorge Granados (Made in Spain, Ziggurat). The program never finished starting and the recorded interviews could be considered the first that were done for a radio medium dealing exclusively with the subject of classic video games.

In 2012 he finally started Game Back on YouTube. A channel dedicated to disseminating classic video games and hardware, in the most professional way possible. In those years on YouTube there was hardly any content of this type, becoming in some way a pioneering channel, especially within YouTube Spain and which is still active today, storing more than 3 million combined visits only with the dedicated videos to the Sega Megadrive and the Nintendo Game Boy. The pilot video would be a Retrovision (the name he would give to detailed analyzes of some well-known classic titles) of the well-known Data East video game, Sly Spy. A little later, he would inaugurate the Machine Room section, with a detailed report on the Game Boy. The initiative was a success, quickly gathering more than 1,000 subscribers (a considerable number at that time).

Between 2007 and 2010 he also worked for an advertising production company, HUE Studios, editing works in both audio for radio and video for websites and television.

Starting in 2013, he began working for Visiona TV, a Barcelona production company dedicated to the production of content for general channels such as TVE, La2, TV3, Antena 3, Cuatro and other channels (including local television stations such as those in Barcelona and the Balearic Islands). . Among the programs in which he participated are Dos Días y Una Noche (A3, 2016), Dinàmiks (TV3, 2015-2016), El Pla Sardà (BTV, 2014-2015), Tres14 (La2, 2014), Va Passar HERE ( Betevé, 2013-2019). Regarding documentaries: El Madrid Real (TV3, 2013), La Felicitat segons Vicenç Ferrer (TV3, 2013), Alexandre Deulofeu (TV3, 2016). And movies: Anomalous (2016), Horror Vacui (2017), From Law to Law (2017).

In 2017 he changed his profession for his hobby and vice versa. Currently he is dedicated to the fitness sector, he is a personal trainer, guided class instructor and Crossfit coach. After a long hiatus in 2016, he returned to Game Back in 2022, with much more content.

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Christian Catalán is a spanish video game communicator and streamer. He's currently Fundador / Director in Game Back since july 2012.

Within the video game press it stands out his role as in Game Back (since july de 2012).

You can know more about Christian Catalán visiting his social media profiles in X, Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitch, Discord (Servidor), Patreon, or eMail.


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