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…
Amina Cyu is a music project by Paulina Lasa, who hails from Mexico City. Her music is inspired by moths, guitar sounds, and guitar pedal effects. She has released various EPs, including Black Garden (Static Discos, 2020) and Más Humilde (Antimateria Sonora, 2021), along with other tracks on her Bandcamp page. Her new album, The…
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 –…
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…
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 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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
Rancho Shampoo and La Indian Gold Orchestra are a music sect comprised of Rubén Alonso Tamayo, Rodo Ibarra, Hernán Franco, David Bautista Toledo, Julián González, Valentín Torres, Gerardo Montoya, Cristian Franco and led by the shaman Rancho Shampoo. This project was born in a village on the now mythical Sangrado de la Panocha Mountain near the…
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…
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…
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 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…
Static Discos is proud to release Frequency Holders, the debut album by Machino. The producer from the Tijuana – San Diego area has fashioned a collection of tracks that shift from the techno of his debut EP to the tranquil ambient burners he showcased on the Low and Behold slow techno collection. Frequency Holders shows the…
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…
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,…
Federico Crespo‘s third EP for comes right on the heels of his previous release on Static Discos. The C Sides EP may reference the styles of his previous output but at the same time feature a subtle and exploratory side of Federico Crespo while retaining the elegant soundscapes he has become known for. The C…
Static Discos is proud to release Antiguo Autómata Mexicano‘s Surspacea EP. In a recent interview, AAM explained the desire to create a recording of cosmic rock at its core, grounded and earthly and not as an escape route to other worlds, but as a space where kraut, disco, techno and progressive sounds melt into something else.…
Static Discos is proud to release Federico Crespo‘s second EP. Federico Crespo has crafted an elegant EP which continues to grow on the house and techno sounds from his previous EP. The five tracks slowly build on post balearic sounds, carefully layering simple and melodic jams on top of soft beats. Even at its most…
