STA112 | R. Mendoza | Love 1.0

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…

STA094 | Braulio Lam | Kinetic

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…

STA092 | Fax | Silda

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…

STA078 | Antiguo Autómata Mexicano | Metamistake

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…

STA077 | Antiguo Autómata Mexicano | Microhate

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…

STA074 | Lvis Mejía | Lostoys

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.…

STA069 | Various Artists | Low & Behold 2

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…

STA065 | Trillones | Naive Again

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,…

STA062 | Macario | Topure

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…

STA063 | Microesfera | Sunny Day

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…

STA064 | Fax | Motion

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,…

STA061 | Microesfera | Ilusión

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…

STA055 | Microesfera | Real

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…

STA054 | Microesfera | Feel

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,…

STA053 | Iváno | Krom

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…

STA052 | Machino | 1995

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…

STA036 | Macario | My Own

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.…

STA033 | Microesfera | Maxi EP

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…

STA032 | Fax | Zig Zag

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…