Flying Free: the club anthem built on purpose now gets a documentary

If you've ever been to a Spanish wedding or village fiesta, you've probably heard it near the end of the night. Flying Free just won't go away, and now it has a documentary.

Flying Free. Historia de un himno tells the story behind the track and the club that inspired it. It's directed by Jordi Papasey.

What happened?

The film features the people who made the song. That includes Marc Escudero (DJ Skudero), his brother Xavi (Xavi Metralla), singer Marian Dacal and producer Rubén Moreno (DJ Ruboy).

The song belongs to mákina, a fast, energetic style of electronic music. It is also linked to hard trance because of its piano melody and driving rhythm.

Where did it come from?

Flying Free was no accident. It was made to give the club Pont Aeri more visibility and popularity. The club opened in Terrassa, near Barcelona, in December 1991 as a family business run by the parents of Marc and Xavi Escudero.

As we reported earlier, the club expanded in 2000 with venues in Manresa and Traiguera, in Castellón. Another huge venue followed in 2002 in Vallgorguina, with room for thousands of people. Pont Aeri closed for good in December 2012.

The brothers asked Moreno for an anthem. "We thought about it a lot, it wasn't something for one afternoon," he said in an interview.

Why does it still work?

The producers slowed the tempo to 158 beats per minute, compared with the usual 165 to 175. They brought in Dacal, nicknamed "the voice of mákina".

The lyrics were simple because time was short. They even got the year wrong: the song says "since 1992", but the club opened in 1991.

The song came out in 1999, at the height of Pont Aeri. Twenty-seven years later, it is still the track people want to end the party with.