After winning a fund from the National Television Council to produce the program 31 minutos,[1] Álvaro Díaz and Pedro Peirano, both journalists graduated from the University of Chile, came up with the idea of including a segment in the project where a musical classification was presented.

Initially, Díaz wanted to use songs by Florcita Motuda,[2] but Peirano was inclined to compose them and recommended Pablo Ilabaca, guitarist of the funk rock group Chancho en Piedra at that time, to develop them.

[4] Rodrigo Salinas and Daniel Castro, members of the La nueva gráfica chilena collective, added the lyrics of some songs.. "Tangananica Tangananá" is one of them; At first Díaz rejected it because it didn't sound like anything,[5] but Peirano and Castro reused it to give life to a story between the dispute between two brothers to choose which is the best word: Tangananica or Tangananá.

[9] 31 minutos came to light on the open channel Televisión Nacional de Chile on March 15, 2003, and during the passing of the chapters the share of the state signal increased and became a success.

[12][13] Jorge González, vocalist of Los Prisioneros, stated that he was a fan of 31 minutos,[14] and he recorded his own versions of "Baila sin César" and "Tangananica Tangananá" for the album En las raras tocatas nuevas de la Rock & Pop.

[18] The double-disc prize Platinum was delivered in the conversation program De Pe a Pa, hosted by Pedro Carcuro, for more than 50,000 copies sold.

[25][26] Aplaplac, the production company of 31 minutos, edited the album independently again, and in November 2014 released the compact for the first time on vinyl, together with the Mexican label No vision.

[6] In AllMusic, Evan C. Gutierrez praised the album saying that is "impishly fun, innocent, childlike and yet very hip" and "the styles are produced with equal amounts of whimsy and musical savvy.