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…
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.
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…
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…
SCHEM‘s debut album for Static Discos, EXHALE, is at the same time deep and profoundly sexy. A collection of eight tracks that come from an artist with a diverse background of laser punk, screamo and live electronic improvisation. Previously releasing an EP on Indian Gold Records, SCHEM’s debut album continues the downward spiral into subdued…
Vampire Slayer returns with Ways to Die his first full length for Static Discos after his first release on our label, the Silence Wave EP, last year. Los Angeles based Valentín Torres sound as Vampire Slayer has come into its own with dark disturbing atmospheres, absorbing low end patterns and deep focused beats. Inspired in part by…
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,…
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 Den5hion‘s Tu Fantasma as a Free Download. One of the many musical projects by one of Mexico’s most promising electronic music producers, Marco Polo Guitérrez, Tu Fantasma is a lugubrious and epic 22 minute track that is both a deep trip and overview of current urban post bass sounds. Switching…
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…
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.
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,…
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…
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…
