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…
Arhkota delivers a handful of remixes from a few trusted friends: Gail, Twin Color (Oneironautics), Fax, Kathia Rudametkin, Dream Comet and SUBXET to expand the avant pop experimentation of his well received Dreamy Hamilton album released on Static Discos last year. The Inner Sanctum blog applauded the remix result by writing: “In Dreamy Hamilton –…
A recent music mixtape by Static Discos for Casa del Lago UNAM, with approaches to the contemplative and rhythmic sonic avant-garde that includes tracks by Alejandro Morse (León, Gto), Gaspar Peralta (Tijuana, BC), Doreem (CDMX), Braulio Lam (Tijuana, BC), Fax (Mexicali, BC), Concepción Huerta (CDMX), Amina Cyu (CDMX), Guevara (CDMX), Microhm (CDMX), Aye Aye (Santiago,…
FAX has reworked and reshaped one of the tracks of his Changing Landscapes album. LAND III now has vocals by mexican singer Carmen Ruiz. The result is a moody and panoramic landscape that stretches and glides, becoming a sumptuous and ever evolving space that is both lush and eerie. FAX is the co-founder of Static…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
2015 was a wonderful year of stellar releases for Static Discos. After the 13th year glitch we had the joy of starting anew with a soundtrack release by Fax, followed by Schem‘s debut album and by Schez‘ deep and brooding debut EP for our label. Multimedia artist Lvis Mejía dropped his eclectic debut for Static…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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 the Where Are All The People Now? EP by SÁNCHEZ DUB. The México city producer has crafted an understated pop masterpiece that suggests that all revolutions, young and old, must never stop dreaming. Produced by Sánchez Dub (Andrés Sánchez) with Phil Vinall (The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder, Das Pop, Zoé and Luke…
Static Discos is proud to present Low and Behold, our latest compilation. We wanted eight friends to contribute a Slow Techno track. We wanted deepness and melodic greatness. We wanted poetry and lyricism. We needed to slow things down, to sit down and take a look at all the things we love and that circulate…
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…
Back in 2008 Static Discos and Cyan co-released Fonogram‘s early recordings and collaborations. Vicente García Landa, Fonogram, explains: “After One Second Bridge’s debut and uncertain future, I started working on the demos and music I had been working on before I met Matias. In that time I got in touch with some musicians and decided…
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.
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.
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
