Origen, the debut EP from A. M., Guadalajara based electronic music producer Alex Magaña, was born out of the idea of creating an expanding and hazy Muzak soundtrack. It is the result of breaking melodies, textures and musical passages, sampling old LP’s from the 70’s, Reader’s Digest collections, contemporary classical music and field recordings that…
Fax returns to Static Discos with a four track EP, Catalog Number 122, each one celebrating a lustrum of the 20 year period that our label celebrated in 2022. At the same time, the EP celebrates Fax’s career, 20 years of being one of Mexico’s most constant electronic music producers since his first release on…
Arhkota delivers a handful of remixes from a few trusted friends: Gail, Twin Color (Oneironautics), Fax, Kathia Rudametkin, Dream Comet and SUBXET to expand the avant pop experimentation of his well received Dreamy Hamilton album released on Static Discos last year. The Inner Sanctum blog applauded the remix result by writing: “In Dreamy Hamilton –…
Uriel Villalobos delivers his second composition for Static Discos, Tentli, a modern composition full of brilliant meditation and sonority, a continuation of his previous sound exploration Tloque Nahuaque. Tentli also has a Spatial Audio mix on Dolby ATMOS. Villalobos explains to Soundcheck:Magazine about his creative process: “the possibility that this type of mix gives you…
Uriel Villalobos is a soundtrack composer and sound designer since 2009, with more than 30 film productions that have included his work. His compositions appear in fiction feature films, documentaries, animations, and short films with which he has obtained multiple international awards, including the horror film “1974: The Possession of Altair”, valued for his sound…
Deep and whimsical imaginary video game soundtracks for feline entities is the core of Doreem‘s Iterations Felidae, her latest release for Static Discos. Mexican music writer David Cortés wrote on Nexos Magazine that from its brighter cover, Iterations Felidae seems to include less gloomy sounds than its predecessors; but we immediately realize that it is…
Alejandro Morse‘s Adversarial Policies, is a beautiful and melancholic ambient music suite to counter the Kafkaesque absurdities of our digital life. As we go along, the promised utopia of the digital age has been pushed aside by staggering disinformation, infinite meta data management and invasive cookie surveillance. “ … It’s an epic recording, halfway between…
Endlessness is a collaboration and album by sound artists Braulio Lam + Simonel, both from Tijuana, BC. A collection of memories, physical objects and natural spaces, which fade over time. Mexican music writer David Cortés summed it up this way on Marvin Magazine: “Endlessness is an immersive album, worked with multiple layers of sound and…
Ángel Sánchez Borges, the media artist known as Antiguo Autómata Mexicano (AAM), returns to his adolescent roots: Dadaism and Rock In Opposition movement influences, which inspired him to form the band Oh! Cráneo … (named after a poem by Georges Bataille) in the late 80s. 20+ Piano Improvisations, as the title implies, is an album…
Argel Medina Cota is the name of the producer and multi-instrumentalist behind Arhkota, who for more than two decades has distinguished himself by being part of high-caliber musical projects such as Sonios, Niño Astronauta and Kobol. These previous projects oscillated between avant-garde pop and experimental electronic music, putting Arhkota behind the driving wheel of a…
Doreem (Tania Pomar, México City) returns with her second release for Static Discos: Nocturnina EP, a gothic opera in five acts, which also serves as a possible soundtrack for the cosmic winter solstice happening at the end of a strange and uncanny 2020. With magick in the air, Doreem carefully constructs a minimalistic synth-melodic narrative…
Isolation and confinement, the natural habitat of musicians and electronic music bedroom producers, nothing new. Even so, this space of situations is typical for R. Mendoza, who returns with his second album for Static Discos, to explore the different emotions and cycles around the idea of love. His previous album, the celebrated “Si me duermo … choco”, was…
Fire Rituals is the second Microhm EP for Static Discos. Microhm is Leslie García, a transdisciplinary artist based in Mexico City. Fire Rituals is an EP of analogic techno sounds consumed by the flames of kraut and cold wave. In shamanic traditions around the world a fire ritual is a ceremony dedicated to the release…
Black Garden is an exercise in time and a space somewhere, a changing polaroid by the Mexican producer Amina Cyu. The recording invites you to explore opaque spaces of the sound spectrum and to listen to subtle phenomena that occur in the density of a palette that compresses an infinite number of colors to arrive…
The producer FAX (Rubén Alonso Tamayo) is one of the founders of the label Static Discos. In addition to editing his music on the label, he has also designed most of the catalog covers. On this mixtape, FAX traverses Static Discos’ 18-year back catalog to deliver a tour that is intense, disturbing, and full of…
15 years ago, Doreem (Tania Pomar, México City) created part of the music in this release for Pilar Gallegos‘ dance company performance of “Sin Título”. Alongside other music from that era, Doreem’s debut album for Static Discos weaves a collection of soundtracks for imaginary beings. If the premise for Gallegos‘ performance was the tale of…
A recent music mixtape by Static Discos for Casa del Lago UNAM, with approaches to the contemplative and rhythmic sonic avant-garde that includes tracks by Alejandro Morse (León, Gto), Gaspar Peralta (Tijuana, BC), Doreem (CDMX), Braulio Lam (Tijuana, BC), Fax (Mexicali, BC), Concepción Huerta (CDMX), Amina Cyu (CDMX), Guevara (CDMX), Microhm (CDMX), Aye Aye (Santiago,…
A deep and soft journey through the lens of Mexican electronic music producer Braulio Lam, an ever changing sound environment where the focus is the light that filters in between dreams and reality. His fourth release for our label, the 25 minute track Dream Lens, finds Lam in meditative form, creating a foggy narrative that quietly stretches…
The Aye-Aye wave arrives at Static Discos with an EP titled Everything Popular is Wrong. Hazy and danky abstract dub that serves to celebrate the decline of humanity in this new decade. Mutant disturbances that are popular songs, popular songs that are destruction and liberation. Dance, damn it, dance until the end of the world!…
Hotel Hastings is Alejandro Morse’s first release for Static Discos. This is a soundtrack to the book by Canadian writer Eduardo Padilla. The soundtrack starts as a meditative space that transforms itself into pure intensity and dark pulsating ambient motifs, a series of emissions and sound introspections that accompany the guests of this ghostly hotel…
FAX has reworked and reshaped one of the tracks of his Changing Landscapes album. LAND III now has vocals by mexican singer Carmen Ruiz. The result is a moody and panoramic landscape that stretches and glides, becoming a sumptuous and ever evolving space that is both lush and eerie. FAX is the co-founder of Static…
Concepción Huerta’s “Personal Territories” is a work that sonically narrates two fictionalized stories in parallel, two sites dealing with human invasion as its main theme. Site one explores sound based on a story of human’s pursuit of territory invasion. Territories humans invade when there is ‘other’ to the territories deemed colonizable. Site two uses sound…
GUEVARA is the project of Guillermo Guevara, a producer from Mexico City who has been a key player in the experimental electronic music scene for more than 20 years. Starting with Sonido Continental, which was part of the CDMX art scene around the celebrated La Panadería Gallery in the late 90s. At the beginning of…
Electronic noisetress Concepción Huerta reworks one of Fax’s tracks off his The Changing Landscapes album, the result is breathtaking, eviscerating the original track into a maelstrom of sound that impacts the listener’s soul.
Leslie García, under her Microhm guise, returns with three singles (Espectral, Servicio Magnético and With You) that explore slow techno through a dark prism of obscure patterns for the dance floor. A continuation in sound of her debut on Static Discos, Eternal Night. Deep and heavy beats, ready for crossing the abyss, as there is…
Static Discos celebrates its 100th release with a collaboration between MURCOF and FAX. The collaboration between both Mexican artists is a 100 second track. Static Discos 100 is at the same time an invitation to leave everything for a moment, to close your eyes and listen deeply for 100 seconds and forget the digital debris…
Multi-instrumentalist Braulio Lam has invited friends and admired artists to remix his Kinetic album. His deep dark ambient gets the remix treatment from the likes of Pepe Mogt, Fax, Ramón Amezcua with Eduardo Amezcua, Machino, Benfika, Flavius E. and Zero Doo, as each remixer takes the source material apart to create a cohesive collection of…
FAX returns with The Changing Landscapes his most lush and organic production yet, a recording of ever changing spaces, rhythmic atmospheres and moods. FAX has been a prolific electronic musician for more than 20 years. From minimal techno to contemplative landscapes, the work of FAX is distinguished by its rich sound design and detailed musicianship.…
Eternal Night is the debut album in Static Discos by Microhm [μΩ]. A sound collage that oscillates between noise, minimal wave, ambient, and slow techno. It is a tribute to nocturnal encounters, to the sensations that occur once the moon has made its appearance. How to become the night? How does time go by in…
After sending his soul to the third heaven, Rancho Shampoo died behind the cosmos after visiting his Rayovac ancestors. But his purpose did not end there as Rancho Shampoo returned to earth to reunite with Indian Dub Orchestra in the netherworld. Together they crossed the 12th doors, one door per each hour of the night,…
Gaspar Peralta‘s debut album on Static Discos, Entre el Clamor a Coro de las Estrellas del Alba, is a post-ambient manifesto that rumbles with unsettling quietness and profound loudness. Nested in between the worlds of modern classical music, post-rock and ambient music, Gaspar Peralta’s work creates a cinematic experience for the ears that is filled…
For his second release as Transgresorcorruptor on Static Discos, HIT, Mexican producer Yamil Rezc continues his exploration of sound with this new collection of analogic electronic improvisations that venture into kosmische music territory. Creating abstract meditations, sound nothingness and new spaces for thought, Transgresorcorruptor’s HIT is the perfect soundtrack for imaginary movies and traveling dream…
Static Discos is proud to release the second album by Braulio Lam. The young border producer has previously released Soundtrack For Vision on our label and his new album, Kinetic, expands the ambient experimental layers of that release into a darker web of suffocating soundscapes cushioned by soft dub techno rhythms. Born in 1992, Braulio…
STATIC DISCOS has started a series of collaborations between the label’s artists and brewers from Baja California, México. The first collaboration is between electronic music producer Braulio Lam and Lúdica Artesanal brewery from Tijuana. The collaboration consists of intervening the beer with music during it’s fermentation process. The result of this collaboration is a Milkshake IPA fermented with english yeast and the…
SILDA EP is the newest release by Static Discos founder FAX. Since his last release in late 2015, Constellation, Rubén Alonso (FAX) has been working on his side project Diahgonal and preparing this latest release. SILDA EP contains all the hallmarks of a FAX release, the melodic and shimmering electronics that have characterized his musical…
