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…
Uriel Villalobos delivers his second composition for Static Discos, Tentli, a modern composition full of brilliant meditation and sonority, a continuation of his previous sound exploration Tloque Nahuaque. Tentli also has a Spatial Audio mix on Dolby ATMOS. Villalobos explains to Soundcheck:Magazine about his creative process: “the possibility that this type of mix gives you…
Uriel Villalobos is a soundtrack composer and sound designer since 2009, with more than 30 film productions that have included his work. His compositions appear in fiction feature films, documentaries, animations, and short films with which he has obtained multiple international awards, including the horror film “1974: The Possession of Altair”, valued for his sound…
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…
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…
Ángel Sánchez Borges, the media artist known as Antiguo Autómata Mexicano (AAM), returns to his adolescent roots: Dadaism and Rock In Opposition movement influences, which inspired him to form the band Oh! Cráneo … (named after a poem by Georges Bataille) in the late 80s. 20+ Piano Improvisations, as the title implies, is an album…
Doreem (Tania Pomar, México City) returns with her second release for Static Discos: Nocturnina EP, a gothic opera in five acts, which also serves as a possible soundtrack for the cosmic winter solstice happening at the end of a strange and uncanny 2020. With magick in the air, Doreem carefully constructs a minimalistic synth-melodic narrative…
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 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…
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…
Electronic noisetress Concepción Huerta reworks one of Fax’s tracks off his The Changing Landscapes album, the result is breathtaking, eviscerating the original track into a maelstrom of sound that impacts the listener’s soul.
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…
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.…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
