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…
Isolation and confinement, the natural habitat of musicians and electronic music bedroom producers, nothing new. Even so, this space of situations is typical for R. Mendoza, who returns with his second album for Static Discos, to explore the different emotions and cycles around the idea of love. His previous album, the celebrated “Si me duermo … choco”, was…
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…
Multi-instrumentalist Braulio Lam has invited friends and admired artists to remix his Kinetic album. His deep dark ambient gets the remix treatment from the likes of Pepe Mogt, Fax, Ramón Amezcua with Eduardo Amezcua, Machino, Benfika, Flavius E. and Zero Doo, as each remixer takes the source material apart to create a cohesive collection of…
Static Discos is proud to release the second album by Braulio Lam. The young border producer has previously released Soundtrack For Vision on our label and his new album, Kinetic, expands the ambient experimental layers of that release into a darker web of suffocating soundscapes cushioned by soft dub techno rhythms. Born in 1992, Braulio…
SILDA EP is the newest release by Static Discos founder FAX. Since his last release in late 2015, Constellation, Rubén Alonso (FAX) has been working on his side project Diahgonal and preparing this latest release. SILDA EP contains all the hallmarks of a FAX release, the melodic and shimmering electronics that have characterized his musical…
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…
Constellation is the seventh studio album by Static Discos founder FAX. Constellation marks a return to basic sound patterns of electronic music while maintaining a sumptuous pulse of ethereal exploration with the use thick thumping analog sounds. Never sounding retro, FAX is able to balance the old with the new, resulting in a record full…
Metamistake is a companion album to Microhate. Metamistake was supposed to be released on Polyfusia Records, the label by Seefeel‘s Mark Clifford around 2005. The collection is filled with nuanced techno that buoyantly floats alongside billowing swirls of incessant activity. Luring Disco, a brooding industrial soundscape of machine whirrs and string plucks, offers a start contrast to the…
Microhate was originally released in 2005 by Background Records, the label that Andy Vaz founded in Düsseldorf in 1988. Very much enthralled to the minutia of microsound compositions (although the album’s tile suggests it’s not all a bed of roses), Microhate sees AAM flexing his SND/Sutekh/Jelinek muscles with eight precision tooled missives. Choosing a method…
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.…
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…
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…
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 “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 re-release Microesfera‘s 2003 debut album, Ilusión. Alejandro Amo and Ramiro Larrain started playing as Microesfera in 1998, releasing home made CD-R’s and appearing in compilations. According to Ramiro Larrain, Ilusión came out on the cusp of “Argentina’s spring of techno”, which lasted from 1998 until 2005. Back in 2003, Amo…
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…
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,…
KROM is Ivano‘s debut for Static Discos. Iván Kim-Castellanos, alongside Machino, Al-B and Subtle System are part of a band of techno producers that slip back and forth through the busy border of San Diego and Tijuana. The camaraderie of this alliance shows up on Ivano‘s KROM EP, which features collaborations with Machino and Mirror…
MACHINO is back with a new single track for Static Discos, an eerie and moody floor banger which comes packed with two remixes from border techno producers Iváno and Memo & Rex. “I am a very nostalgic person and I was remembering the mid 90’s, the time when I was in middle school. I was…
The first release of 2013 is a remix collection of tracks by Machino‘s Frequency Holders. As a companion to the original release, the remix compilation also showcases the work of new electronic music producers from the from the magnetic border space of Tijuana, San Diego and Mexicali: Inkjet, Netika, Los Rombos, 4004 and Al-B. Frequency Holders…
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 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…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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!
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.
