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…
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…
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…
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 Den5hion‘s Tu Fantasma as a Free Download. One of the many musical projects by one of Mexico’s most promising electronic music producers, Marco Polo Guitérrez, Tu Fantasma is a lugubrious and epic 22 minute track that is both a deep trip and overview of current urban post bass sounds. Switching…
FAX returns with a new cassette EP, The New Rage, for Indian Gold Records. Using a different approach for this recording Rubén Tamayo used old Casio keyboards, pedals and effect units. 90% of analog hardware was used in the recording of The New Rage. The melodies became songs instead of beats, unlike other traditional FAX…
Microesfera changes its own course to deliver an EP of electronic pop songs. A couple of weeks ago Microesfera returned to Static Discos with a collection of consistent deep techno based tracks called FEEL, within the EP a couple of tracks touched upon a more pop oriented structure. In REAL, Microesfera fulfills on its own…
Microesfera returns to Static Discos with a deep and nocturnal collection of electronic techno songs laden with sprinkle and pop. Whereas previous efforts by the Buenos Aires based producer, Ramiro Larrain, focused on the pragmatic and experimental, the FEEL ep is a more understated and melodic affair. This release marks a new era for Microesfera,…
Static Discos is proud to release Vampire Slayer‘s new EP, Silence Wave. Vampire Slayer is Valentín Torres, also member of Maniquí Lazer, Letters From Readers and La Indian Gold Orchestra. Valentín Torres, now living in Los Angeles, is one of México’s most active vanguard punk, rock and electronica musicians since the early 2000’s in the…
“All I Want” is the debut EP from electronic music producer Al-B. Hailing from the border region of Tijuana and San Diego, Al-B has delivered an EP that showcases his ability for deep contexts, off kilter experimentation, crystal clear ambiances and sublime downtempo kindness. Working as a DJ for many years, Al-B’s sound has evolved…
If those elusive moments of natural and instantaneous chemistry in music-making exist, then it happened with One Second Bridge, a music project formed by two young latin-americans residing in Barcelona at the start of the century, lead by Vicente García Landa (now in Fonogram) and Matias Bieniaszewski. One Second Bridge’s debut was released in 2006 by…
Static Discos is proud to release the debut EP of Transgresorcorruptor. Transgresorcorruptor is the experimental music project of Yamil Rezc, a Mexican musician and producer who has worked with Sub-Division, Hello Seahorse!, Zoe and Kampion. As Transgresorcorruptor, Yamiz Rezc took the sounds of a Harpischord and created three pieces that gradually expand, bounce, crash and collapse into…
Static Discos is proud to present Low and Behold, our latest compilation. We wanted eight friends to contribute a Slow Techno track. We wanted deepness and melodic greatness. We wanted poetry and lyricism. We needed to slow things down, to sit down and take a look at all the things we love and that circulate…
Static Discos is proud to release Residual Stock, our 40th release. The collection is an homage to all the matter and memory left behind by the sometimes complex nature of life. Residual Stock is not a collection of ‘odds and sods’ but a selection of things that were and still remain close to us, within…
Static Discos is proud to release Microesfera‘s self-titled maxi-EP. Buenos Aires minimalists Microesfera return with six tracks that explore the strange world of haunted techno with dreams, abandoned houses and kids with psychic abilities. Six tracks of straight up tech-house that are finely tuned with sharp detail and foreboding intensity. Microesfera are influential electronic music…
Si Me Duermo … Choco (If I Fall Asleep … I Crash), is a continuation of R. Mendoza as a member of Nortec Collective’s Panóptica, if not a leap forward. In it, R. Mendoza explores the post punk sounds that influenced him in his youth; the grimier sounds of the early 4AD (Xmal Deutschland, Dif…
Back in 2008 Static Discos and Cyan co-released Fonogram‘s early recordings and collaborations. Vicente García Landa, Fonogram, explains: “After One Second Bridge’s debut and uncertain future, I started working on the demos and music I had been working on before I met Matias. In that time I got in touch with some musicians and decided…
Fax delivers his sixth relase, Yo Recuerdo. Upgrading the sounds of his previous release, Primario, Fax continues the path into dreamy and downtempo electronica.Yo Recuerdo is also influenced by an ethereal sound, closer to the worlds of Guthrie and Budd or Biosphere, but retaining the minimal electronic feel Fax is best known for.
Alejandro Amo and Ramiro Larrain are Microesfera, part of Buenos Aires’ techno scene since 1997. Along with Gustavo Lamas, Leandro Fresco and others, Microesfera is one of the southern cone most visible and forward thinking electronica dance acts. Always on the edge of music production, Alejandro and Ramiro have also produced more experimental fare as Vlisa…
At the beginning of 2001, after leaving The Nortec Collective and producing multiple pieces for the dance floors under the name of Terrestre, the musician from Tijuana Fernando Corona (1970) decided to create Murcof. His intention was to continue weaving digital precision with acoustic warmth in an experiment with electronic and classical music in its…
A new album by FAX, Rubén Alonso Tamayo. Teaming up here with Ruben are Jonas Bering (Kompakt), Bern (Trapez/Traum), Mike Shannon (Cynosure/Force Inc), Ultra Red (Mille Plateaux), Alex Ayuli of AR Kane, M/A/R/R/S (Dreampop), Murcof (Leaf), Pepito (Static), Molair (Postair), Portable (Background), Millimetrik (Statik) and Karras (Mil Records). More than a remix album it is a collaborative…
Static Discos is proud to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of FAX‘s Ruido de Fondo. Ten years go we said: Fax’s post wallpaper techno is augmented with various sound process patterns and background noise interludes. Syncopated clicks scatter all around, warm dreamy melodies abound while dark moisture slips through the cracks. The rhythms are minimal and…
Murcof‘s Martes has become one of the greatest electronic music albums of the last twenty years. Martes has become a landmark by which many modern electronic artists aspire to. It has little to do that Murcof (Fernando Corona) is a Mexican from Tijuana and raised in Ensenada in BC. The later fills us with pride…
20 years ago, Fernando Corona (Murcof), Rubén Tamayo (Fax) and myself traveled to México City to play at a night club called Colmillo (Versalles 49). It was our first time playing a techno club in México City, and it was one of the few places at the time, if not the only, that catered to…
