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…
Since his debut in Static Discos in late 2011, Machino has become one of México’s most consistent techno producers, releasing more than 24 albums, EPs and singles across as much many labels from distant places in Eastern Europe to local labels back home in the border of Tijuana and San Diego. Every once in a…
A rhythmic ambient suite by Vlisa, Argentinean producer Ramiro de la Cruz Larrain of Microesfera. A collection of soft panoramic exercises, which according to Larraín, “were produced with digital techniques mixed with modular systems and simple patches”. For this album, Larrain wasn’t trying to go deep into production and the detailed composition he does with…
Static Discos is 15 years old this 2017. To celebrate we are releasing three compilations titled: Static Discos 15: Losing Money, Gaining Friends, one for each five years, which span all of the artists that have contributed music to this label since 2002. The state of electronic music in México and Latin America has grown…
Braulio Lam is an electronic music producer from the border region of Tijuana and San Diego. His debut EP for Static Discos, Soundtrack For Vision, is a deep and meditative ambient journey of found sounds, texture, random panoramas and guitar loops. Born in 1992, Braulio Lam has traversed the Tijuana music scene as a guitarist…
Cyané is a music producer and artist from Mexico that began as a singer-songwriter in Hawaii, immersed in a music scene characterized by free form and improvisation. Throughout her career she invited various artists from the music scene in Guadalajara, Mexico, her place of birth, to record her first and second albums, both published independently,…
We Used To Talk For Hours is the debut album by Camille Mandoki, a collection of songs and sound explorations. Through sound manipulation, improvisation and songwriting, Camille Mandoki achieves depth and melancholic expressions that go beyond pop stylings. Mandoki’s vocal dynamics and musical sensibilities reach a non place that is optimal for the space in…
Versual’s debut EP was created through deep sense of exploration by Vicente García Landa, the mexican electronic producer that has previously released music as One Second Bridge and Fonogram. His debut EP is reminiscent of late 90’s indietronica filtered through electronic music’s first summer of love in the early 90s. Vicente García Landa says that Versual’s music is…
Grenda returns to Static Discos with his first full length, Untouchable Skin. After his much acclaimed debut EP Living Right, the debut album sees Grenda hone his production skills. Untouchable Skin takes Grenda into the realm of finely crafted pop songs while retaining his penchant for electronic dream wave sounds and ethereal hip hop aesthetics.…
2015 was a wonderful year of stellar releases for Static Discos. After the 13th year glitch we had the joy of starting anew with a soundtrack release by Fax, followed by Schem‘s debut album and by Schez‘ deep and brooding debut EP for our label. Multimedia artist Lvis Mejía dropped his eclectic debut for Static…
“There is no death, only a change of worlds” says Rancho Shampoo, whose new Alberca de Lava (Lava Pool) EP is a step beyond his 2013’s debut, El Vuelo Del Golondrino. The moody and atmospheric Alberca De Lava juxtaposes the trippy tribal sounds of his first outing with the Indian Gold Orchestra to a more…
Hymns II continues with Fonogram‘s exploration of 80’s and 90’s British indie rock, electronic sounds, ambient, folk, experimental and contemporary music. The EP contains three instrumental tracks and its two vocal songs are sung by Vicente García Landa and Joaquín García. The Hymns EPs are Fonogram’s last declaration of pop music, a tribute to the artform itself. “I’ve always…
Constellation is the seventh studio album by Static Discos founder FAX. Constellation marks a return to basic sound patterns of electronic music while maintaining a sumptuous pulse of ethereal exploration with the use thick thumping analog sounds. Never sounding retro, FAX is able to balance the old with the new, resulting in a record full…
Trillones (Polo Vega) returns with his first full length, El Tiempo Es Circular (Time is Circular). After two successful EP’s, Trillones has become one of Mexico’s most respected, popular and well written about electronic music artists. His first album is a collection of electronic pop songs with a feel good narrative of epic proportions. Trillones…
Metamistake is a companion album to Microhate. Metamistake was supposed to be released on Polyfusia Records, the label by Seefeel‘s Mark Clifford around 2005. The collection is filled with nuanced techno that buoyantly floats alongside billowing swirls of incessant activity. Luring Disco, a brooding industrial soundscape of machine whirrs and string plucks, offers a start contrast to the…
Microhate was originally released in 2005 by Background Records, the label that Andy Vaz founded in Düsseldorf in 1988. Very much enthralled to the minutia of microsound compositions (although the album’s tile suggests it’s not all a bed of roses), Microhate sees AAM flexing his SND/Sutekh/Jelinek muscles with eight precision tooled missives. Choosing a method…
Machino returns to Static Discos with Cuervos, an EP of dreamy atmospherics, blunted beats and sunkissed guitars. Shying away from his trademark techno, Machino this time opens up to more downtempo and ambient experimentation that showcases his production skills and diverse soundprints. The EP contains collaborations with Al-B and Luis Sutil, plus a couple of…
Grenda’s debut EP for Static Discos, Living Right, is a deep, ethereal and emotional collection of songs that glide smoothly under a glowing hip-pop landscape. Downtempo and ambient shades filter each pass of sound waves surrounded by floating vocals that are deeply linked to a synthetic panorama filled with monochrome sunsets. The music of the…
Lvis Mejía is one of the most influential young Latin-American contemporary artists. His oeuvre of conceptual works reflects multiple forms of expression and spans various installations, films, audio-visual performances, electro-acoustic music, and a symphony, not to forget the written word. To the Berlin-based Mejía, Art is a place where abstract ideas and unbridled emotions converge.…
Static Discos is proud to release Vaasdna EP by Schez. Jorge Sánchez was born and raised in Culiacán Sinaloa, but now resides in México City after some years of living in Guadalajara. Schez debut EP for Static Discos shows a young electronic music producer capable of creating slow evolving tracks full of vivid detail and…
The disappeared have become the footnote which bothers and interrupts the fictional tale of Mexico’s democracy and progress. The images of forgotten ruins located at Tijuana, Mexico, are inscribed with footnotes detailing a dispositive for forced disappearances. The ruins of three locations built by the organized crime with the purpose of disintegrating human bodies and…
SCHEM‘s debut album for Static Discos, EXHALE, is at the same time deep and profoundly sexy. A collection of eight tracks that come from an artist with a diverse background of laser punk, screamo and live electronic improvisation. Previously releasing an EP on Indian Gold Records, SCHEM’s debut album continues the downward spiral into subdued…
KAMPION, one of Mexico’s most respected underground producers returns with ACOXXPA, his debut album. Guillermo Guevara, the man behind KAMPION, has been creating electronic music for more than a decade with his projects Sonido Continental and Duopandamix. His productive career has seen him release music on the Filtro and Gridlife netlabels. With a sound that…
The second installment of the Low & Behold series continues with contributions by Ñaka Ñaka, White Visitation, Schez, Federico Crespo, Microesfera, Vampire Slayer, Mirror Pop, Trillones with Rancho Shampoo and Iváno. As with the original release, the Low & Behold series is an exercise in slow tempo, deep atmospheres and melancholic obsession. Photo from Louie…
Macario returns with an Topure Remixes, an EP of remixes of his album Topure plus a couple of new tracks. The reworkings come courtesy of Cubenx, Fonobisa, Schez and Scan Mode, who further Macario’s original tracks into psychedelic and abstract dance floor mysticism. Macario completes the EP with two bonus tracks, the instrumental “Camelina” and…
Vicente García Landa returns as Fonogram with Hymns, his new EP on Static Discos. Through his various musical projects, Fonogram, Versual and One Second Bridge, Vicente García Landa has consolidated a personal vision that does not compromise his taste for elegant pop while gently hinting towards sound experimentation. Hymns is the first of two EPs…
Vampire Slayer returns with Ways to Die his first full length for Static Discos after his first release on our label, the Silence Wave EP, last year. Los Angeles based Valentín Torres sound as Vampire Slayer has come into its own with dark disturbing atmospheres, absorbing low end patterns and deep focused beats. Inspired in part by…
TRILLONES returns with a second EP, Naive Again, for Static Discos and Indian Gold Records. Since his debut, From The Trees To The Satellites, released at the end of 2013, Polo Vega has quickly become a critics and festival darling in México, thanks to his spirited and colorful techno based template. For his second EP,…
Macario‘s full on debut for Static Discos follows his previous My Own EP. On Topure Mauricio Urbina, the man behind Macario, fulfills expectations with a collection of electronic pop songs interspersed with instrumental tracks. On the three years between his debut EP and Topure, Macario has grown up and created an intimate setting full of…
Microesfera returns to Static Discos with a new full length, Sunny Day, a bright collection of electronic songs that furthers into pop territory. After his previous two EPs on Static Discos, Feel and Real, Microesfera has been able to perfectly mix the edgy post-house music the Buenos Aires project started with more than a decade…
The Motion EP marks the return of FAX to Static Discos. Almost 15 years after his first release on the label he founded, FAX shows a lucid craftsmanship of electronic sounds that go deep and wide through headphones or amplified systems. Following the experimental leanings of his last release, The New Rage, on Indian Gold,…
Static Discos is proud to release Relatos, a new album by Andrés Almeida. A well known music producer and actor from México City, Andrés Almeida has released music with Los Wendys, Songs For Eleonor and Almeyda. According to Andrés Almeida, “Relatos comes from the need of creating music with narrative as a starting point, with sounds…
Static Discos is proud to release “Numbers” a new single by Mirror Pop. Formed at the beginning of 2012 by Memo & Rex and Johnny Rox, Mirror Pop is an outlet for their creative endeavors. The lead track Numbers is a dark dance floor banger that combines its deep and melodic overtones with rooted basslines…
Static Discos is proud to re-release Microesfera‘s 2003 debut album, Ilusión. Alejandro Amo and Ramiro Larrain started playing as Microesfera in 1998, releasing home made CD-R’s and appearing in compilations. According to Ramiro Larrain, Ilusión came out on the cusp of “Argentina’s spring of techno”, which lasted from 1998 until 2005. Back in 2003, Amo…
