Static Discos presents a new release from electronic music producer Grenda, the project of musician Eduardo Amezcua. The material serves as a celebration of the artist’s first ten years of activity, a journey that began with the EP Living Right, released in the summer of 2015, when he was still a teenager. Since then, the producer has consolidated a distinctive sonic proposal within Mexican electronic music, characterized by melancholic atmospheres and an experimental pop sensibility.
For Amezcua, this release carries a deeply emotional meaning. He explains that it marks a turning point in his artistic story: he began producing at age 15, “without being sure where I was going, only with the need to express myself.” Over time, he adds, came change, learning, and maturity, so this project represents “a way of looking back with affection, not with sad nostalgia, but with many happy feelings that I’m grateful for.”
One of the conceptual axes of the double single—tracks Umbral and Oblea—is reconnection with his creative origins. The track Oblea, he notes, emerges precisely from that inward return: the melancholy that has always been present in his music now reappears from a more conscious place. The producer also understands the release as a gesture of gratitude toward those who have accompanied him from the beginning: his family, collaborators, and listeners. Rather than closing a cycle, he says, these ten years constitute “the beginning of a new stage for Grenda, a stage of greater clarity and restraint, freer and with more love for this work of making music.”
Production and creative process
The pieces were composed and produced by Amezcua himself, combining analog synthesizers, acoustic instruments, and choral layers built from his processed voice. The approach privileged organic experimentation and the preservation of initial ideas, allowing the music to evolve naturally without losing the project’s original intuition.
Umbral: transition and exploration
The track Umbral was born from a clear idea: to create a piece that would accompany the passage of time through repetitive synthesizer patterns. Grenda explains that he chose to respect this premise from the outset and allow the composition to grow unhurriedly. He later incorporated analog rhythms processed with filters and distortion to reinforce its sonic identity, along with voices and subtle ambient layers that add intimacy.
For Amezcua, the piece symbolizes a midpoint between his past and his creative future: it functions as a transitional space and also as a personal challenge to explore more fragile, repetitive, and experimental sounds within the Grenda universe.
Oblea: sensory experience and performative intention
In contrast, Oblea transformed the conception of the entire EP. Grenda acknowledges that it was the piece that pushed him to integrate the musical with the visual and the sensory, helping him better understand the project’s aesthetic direction. The composition was built gradually through layers of acoustic piano, synthesizer arpeggiators, choir, and environmental textures, with the intention of generating a hypnotic state in which each listening experience feels different.
The artist conceives the double single as a work adaptable to the listener’s context: music designed to accompany different spaces and moments, capable of altering the perception of the environment. He also anticipates that the material could expand into a live format, maintaining the same search for experience and emotional connection with audiences.
Collaborations and credits
Production and composition were handled by Grenda, maintaining the aesthetic and sonic direction that defines this new stage of the project. Mastering was carried out by Man Made Mastering in Berlin, bringing depth and clarity to the final result. Project direction was coordinated by Ejival, while graphic design was developed by Denisse Mancera, whose visual proposal complements the conceptual identity of the release.
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