Arhkota‘s third album for Static Discos is called “Benti“, and it features a collection of trippy songs that evoke different moods and dreamlike states. The album title is a dedication to Lubna Maher, Arhkota’s main collaborator and vocalist. “Benti” refers to Lubna’s daughter, meaning “My Daughter” in Moroccan Dialects. Benti provides a dynamic and collaborative…
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 –…
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…
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!…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
Static Discos is proud to release “From The Trees To The Satellites”, the debut EP by Trillones as a FREE DOWNLOAD. The man behind Trillones is Polo Vega, a native of Mexicali and not unknown to making personal and endearing sounds. As a member of the duo Ella Tiene Dos Androides, Polo and his brother…
Melting Walkmans by Seekers Who Are Lovers Seekers Who Are Lovers‘ last recording is Melting Walkmans an EP of cover songs by Queen, Roxy Music, Juan Gabriel, Van Der Graaf Generator, Carlos Berlanga, Camilo Sesto and The Go Betweens. The re-interpretations of these songs show Seekers Who Are Lovers (Ángel Sánchez Borges) experimenting with different…
We are proud to release Seekers Who Are Lovers‘ debut EP, You Are The Pride Of Your Street, as an expanded edition free download. The EP was originally released on Soundsister in late 2006 and we are re-releasing today with a couple of live bonus tracks that will serve as a precursor to Seekers Who…
Static Discos is proud to release the Where Are All The People Now? EP by SÁNCHEZ DUB. The México city producer has crafted an understated pop masterpiece that suggests that all revolutions, young and old, must never stop dreaming. Produced by Sánchez Dub (Andrés Sánchez) with Phil Vinall (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder, Das Pop, Zoé and Luke…
Between 2001 and 2003, Laura Becerra and Eric Gamboa recorded the demos that became the I Hate That Thing Called Blog sessions for the Carrie project, distributed on CD-R under Abolipop Records in 2003, which served as the base for the album Honey Blue Star, released by Static Discos and Dearstereofan in 2005. In retrospect,…
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 the debut EP by Macario. Macario’s debut is a swing out sister album of dark techno pop, haunting ambiance and cosmic mischief. Macario is Mauricio Urbina. Macario started as a fictional character Mauricio developed for a Hip Hop radio program in a college radio station in Puerto Vallarta, México.…
Fifth release from México’s FAX, who returns with one of his most eclectic releases. In what he describes as his definitive pop album, FAX manages to shift from melodic techno to shimmering electronic pop with vocals from Alex Ayuli (AR Kane), Valentina and Mariana Monjeau (Altocamet and Isla de los Estados). Zig Zag shows the diversity…
Carrie return with their sophomore release, 1981. This time around, Carrie’s sound is expanded beyond the folkie indietronica of Honey Blue Star. Carrie’s twee-pop influences and breathy lyrics now travel through the lands of The Postal Service and The Radio Dept.
Carrie returns with the first single of their forthcoming album, 1981. Feeding Little Dogs is an infectious and summery indietronica pop song in the vein of Dntel and The Radio Dept. Carrie is now Laura Becerra and new member Pelvis (Alex Gallo), who contributes backing vocals and instrumentation. The single includes remixes by Duopandamix, Cubenx,…
LA’s Kobol return with a second installment of their jazz inflited electronica. This time around Kobol showcase their remixing skills alongside new tracks and collaborations.
A collaboration between the Click New Wave label and Static Discos, releasing a collection of remixes, plus some new tracks from Peru’s Ciëlo, the avant pop and click techno duo based in Madrid.
Inspired by anime aesthetics, Icelandic pop, indietronica, shoegaze and indie rock, childs constructs a soft mélange of digital, analog and acoustic sounds they describe as ‘electronic lullabies’. Their music has also been described as “bedroom blues”. In between the epic soundscapes of Sigur Rós and the touch tone noise of a Morr Music lunchbox, childs…
It is a time for slowing down, or is it? For Rubén A. Tamayo, graphic designer by day and the electronic music producer by night known as FAX, living in Mexicali (a border city in Northern Mexico), the answer is a yes/no. Since his first release, a 12 inch on Germany’s Traum Schallplatten in 2001,…
