Federico Crespo discovered Static Discos in Montreal, or vice-versa, a couple of years ago at one of the Mutek Festivals. To our surprise the kid was not only handsome but talented as hell. We are proud to release some tracks of his long stack of demos he had lying around in his failing Macbook Pro.…
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…
Antiguo Autómata Mexicano follows his much lauded Kraut Slut with a new ep. The new tracks are an analogous mixture of kraut, minimalist tech and free jazz. The extensive EP also features remixes from Latinsizer, Cubenx and LOD and contributions from drummer Carlos Icaza. Antiguo Autómata Mexicano has previously released music on the German Background…
Pepe Mogt (Nortec Collective) delivers his second album on Static Discos. A dance electronic music affair filled with sharp analogic production skills that bridge the gap between pop music, punk and aceeed!. Features contributions from Flavius Etcheto, japanese diva Peco and a remix by Lucrecia Dalt.
A compilation from Cubenx, the Morelia born electronic music producer now based in Europe. The tracks span his formative period, 2005-2008, which were released on Cyan, Sinergy Networks, I Need It netlabels and Static Discos. Maximal and melodic techno, Cologne style, yo!
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…
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.
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.
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,…
Seekers Who Are Lovers’ Ángel Sánchez Borges returns under the name he uses for instrumental journeys into beat-driven minimalism on this, his first release for the Tijuana-based label Static Discos. – Pitchforkmedia
Cubenx‘s (César Urbina) debut for Static Discos was an EP of two floor-bangers that put his work on the international map and was instrumental in getting him signed to France’s Infiné Music. Drift is a maximal techno classic from the era, a sleek and dreamy. It comes paired with a remix from Antiguo Autómata Mexicano.…
Duopandamix’s second album continues the weird electro dub experiments and video game soundtracks that can only happen in an alternate reality.
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,…
The New World, Pepito‘s third album, takes the electronic music duo of Ana Machado and José Márquez into a candy-colored underworld where pop music legends share Cuban espressos with IDM pioneers and indie rockers offer long, loving back rubs to Hip Hop beatmakers. Written and recorded in just six months, The New World is Pepito’s…
Honey Blue Star is Carrie‘s debut for Static Discos, originally released in Spain as a split label release with Dearstereofan. Honey Blue Star could be best described as a collection of warm electronic folk songs, full of dreamy tones and sophisticated twee. Carrie’s music is part of a reference that weaves the worlds of Piana,…
A snapshot of Fax‘s pulsating and luminous live set during his Ruido de Fondo era. A sleek techno and experimental dance set that glides through rearranged tracks from his first couple of albums on Static Discos. The release was an exclusive to México, as Ruido de Fondo CD and Double LP were a US only…
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…
Electronic duo Kobol, Arhkota and Nashio Chávez, are originally from Ensenada and currently living in the city of Los Angeles. Kobol‘s music unites the sounds of free jazz alongside dynamic rhythms, precise and enigmatic textures alongside live acoustic impressions. Kobol creates a musical language that goes beyond nu-jazz and basic IDM patterns, as they break…
Mexican electronic music has slowly drifted away from the spotlight it had in recent times under the reflective shield of The Nortec Collective, a merry group of music producers from the border city of Tijuana that held the highest standard in their country for a cross fertilization of electronic music and regional popular sounds. The…
Pepito is José Márquez and Ana Machado. Though of Cuban and Mexican origins, respectively, the members of Pepito are based in San Francisco, California. Pepito is punky IDM with English and Spanish lyrics, optimistic modernism, political discourse with the gratification of an ever expanding universe, crafty songs that hook you up and never let go,…
On his only release for Static Discos, H. Amézquita delivers a refined and exquisitely danceable collection of tracks. Multi introduces the minimalist rhythms sounds of micro-house, techno and dub, flooding these spare, pointillist landscapes with nuance and details grounded in experimental dance music. Multi, which was co-produced with Fernando Corona (Murcof) in 2003, reveals simplicity…
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…
STOCK is a compilation of Mexican electronic music, a now that serves to illustrate the news of various producers in the country within the global context of electronic music. The premise of this compilation is simple, to show ten artists who are about to transcend outside of Mexico and who show the musical production chops…
We met Duopandamix (Gabriel Acevedo and Guillermo Guevara) in early 2002 through Álvaro Ruiz, who gave us DPM’s demo and instantly fell in love with it. At first we thought it was another side project of Álvaro Ruiz but we soon learnt that Duopadamix did exist and were part of an artistic movement centered around…
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…
