LA’s Kobol return with a second installment of their jazz inflited electronica. This time around Kobol showcase their remixing skills alongside new tracks and collaborations.
STA022 | Ciëlo | Radio Subterránea
A collaboration between the Click New Wave label and Static Discos, releasing a collection of remixes, plus some new tracks from Peru’s Ciëlo, the avant pop and click techno duo based in Madrid.
STA019 | Antiguo Autómata Mexicano | Kraut Slut
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
STA021 | Fax | Paracaídas Remixes
Paracaídas, one of the standout tracks from FAX‘s Primario album gets the remix treatment from latinamerica’s new wave of electronic minimal techno producers (Gustavo Lamas, Microesfera and Cubenx) and Daniel Fritschi from Germany’s Level Records. Fax also takes a stab at his own track, transforming the ethereal nature of the original track into a lush…
STA020 | Cubenx | Drift
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.…
Five Years of Static Discos | Ejival DJ Set
ejival · Ejival Live at Static Discos Five Ejival is one of Static Discos‘ founders. The sometimes Dj and writer delivers a selection of dancefloor killers from the Static Discos catalog released during its first five years. The DJ set includes tracks from H. Amézquita, Fax, Antiguo Autómata Mexicano, Terrestre, Ditch, Microesfera, Duopandamix and Cubenx.
STA018 | Duopandamix | Infrarrojo
Duopandamix’s second album continues the weird electro dub experiments and video game soundtracks that can only happen in an alternate reality.
STA016 | Childs | Yui
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…
STA017 | Fax | Primario
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,…
STA015 | Microesfera | Negative
Alejandro Amo and Ramiro Larrain are Microesfera, part of Buenos Aires’ techno scene since 1997. Along with Gustavo Lamas, Leandro Fresco and others, Microesfera is one of the southern cone most visible and forward thinking electronica dance acts. Always on the edge of music production, Alejandro and Ramiro have also produced more experimental fare as Vlisa…
STA014 | Pepito | The New World
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…
STA009 | Carrie | Honey Blue Star
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,…
STA012 | Fax | Ruido De Fondo_Defragmentado
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…
STA011 | Murcof | Martes & Utopía
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…
STA013 | Fax | Collaborations & Remixes
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…
STA010 | Kobol | Broken Ebony
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…
STA008 | Terrestre | Secondary Inspection
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…
STA007 | Pepito | Everything Changes
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,…
STA006 | H. Amézquita | Multi
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…
STA005 | Fax | Ruido de Fondo
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…
STA004 | Various Artists | Stock
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…
STA003 | Duopandamix | Afternuclearbomb
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…
STA002 | Murcof | Martes
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…
STA001 | Fax | Resonancia
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…