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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
