Arhkota‘s third album for Static Discos is called “Benti“, and it features a collection of trippy songs that evoke different moods and dreamlike states. The album title is a dedication to Lubna Maher, Arhkota’s main collaborator and vocalist. “Benti” refers to Lubna’s daughter, meaning “My Daughter” in Moroccan Dialects. Benti provides a dynamic and collaborative…
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STA124 | Uriel Villalobos | Chicxulub
Uriel Villalobos is a soundtrack composer and sound designer since 2009, with more than 30 film productions containing his work. His compositions appear in fiction feature films, documentaries, animations, and short films with which he has obtained multiple international awards, including the horror film 1974: The Possession of Altair, valued for its sound design. He…
STA123 | A. M. | Origen
Origen, the debut EP from A. M., Guadalajara based electronic music producer Alex Magaña, was born out of the idea of creating an expanding and hazy Muzak soundtrack. It is the result of breaking melodies, textures and musical passages, sampling old LP’s from the 70’s, Reader’s Digest collections, contemporary classical music and field recordings that…
STA122 | Fax | Cat No 122
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…
STA116 | Braulio Lam + Simonel | Endlessness
Endlessness is a collaboration and album by sound artists Braulio Lam + Simonel, both from Tijuana, BC. A collection of memories, physical objects and natural spaces, which fade over time. Mexican music writer David Cortés summed it up this way on Marvin Magazine: “Endlessness is an immersive album, worked with multiple layers of sound and…
STA108 | Amina Cyu | Black Garden
Black Garden is an exercise in time and a space somewhere, a changing polaroid by the Mexican producer Amina Cyu. The recording invites you to explore opaque spaces of the sound spectrum and to listen to subtle phenomena that occur in the density of a palette that compresses an infinite number of colors to arrive…
STA109 | Doreem | Seelen
15 years ago, Doreem (Tania Pomar, México City) created part of the music in this release for Pilar Gallegos‘ dance company performance of “Sin Título”. Alongside other music from that era, Doreem’s debut album for Static Discos weaves a collection of soundtracks for imaginary beings. If the premise for Gallegos‘ performance was the tale of…
STA110 | Braulio Lam | Dream Lens
A deep and soft journey through the lens of Mexican electronic music producer Braulio Lam, an ever changing sound environment where the focus is the light that filters in between dreams and reality. His fourth release for our label, the 25 minute track Dream Lens, finds Lam in meditative form, creating a foggy narrative that quietly stretches…
STA106 | Aye-Aye | Everything Popular is Wrong
The Aye-Aye wave arrives at Static Discos with an EP titled Everything Popular is Wrong. Hazy and danky abstract dub that serves to celebrate the decline of humanity in this new decade. Mutant disturbances that are popular songs, popular songs that are destruction and liberation. Dance, damn it, dance until the end of the world!…
STA105 | Alejandro Morse | Hotel Hastings
Hotel Hastings is Alejandro Morse’s first release for Static Discos. This is a soundtrack to the book by Canadian writer Eduardo Padilla. The soundtrack starts as a meditative space that transforms itself into pure intensity and dark pulsating ambient motifs, a series of emissions and sound introspections that accompany the guests of this ghostly hotel…
STA107 | Fax & Carmen Ruiz | Land III (Vocal Mix)
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…
STA104 | Concepción Huerta | Personal Territories
Concepción Huerta’s “Personal Territories” is a work that sonically narrates two fictionalized stories in parallel, two sites dealing with human invasion as its main theme. Site one explores sound based on a story of human’s pursuit of territory invasion. Territories humans invade when there is ‘other’ to the territories deemed colonizable. Site two uses sound…
STA103 | Guevara | Ataraxia
GUEVARA is the project of Guillermo Guevara, a producer from Mexico City who has been a key player in the experimental electronic music scene for more than 20 years. Starting with Sonido Continental, which was part of the CDMX art scene around the celebrated La Panadería Gallery in the late 90s. At the beginning of…
STA100 | Murcof & Fax | 100
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…
STA099 | Braulio Lam | Kinetic Remixes
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…
STA097 | Fax | The Changing Landscapes
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.…
STA098 | Microhm | Eternal Night
Eternal Night is the debut album in Static Discos by Microhm [μΩ]. A sound collage that oscillates between noise, minimal wave, ambient, and slow techno. It is a tribute to nocturnal encounters, to the sensations that occur once the moon has made its appearance. How to become the night? How does time go by in…
STA095 | Gaspar Peralta | Entre el Clamor a Coro de las Estrellas del Alba
Gaspar Peralta‘s debut album on Static Discos, Entre el Clamor a Coro de las Estrellas del Alba, is a post-ambient manifesto that rumbles with unsettling quietness and profound loudness. Nested in between the worlds of modern classical music, post-rock and ambient music, Gaspar Peralta’s work creates a cinematic experience for the ears that is filled…
STA093 | Transgresorcorruptor | HIT
For his second release as Transgresorcorruptor on Static Discos, HIT, Mexican producer Yamil Rezc continues his exploration of sound with this new collection of analogic electronic improvisations that venture into kosmische music territory. Creating abstract meditations, sound nothingness and new spaces for thought, Transgresorcorruptor’s HIT is the perfect soundtrack for imaginary movies and traveling dream…
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…
STA091 | Machino | Las Manos
Since his debut in Static Discos in late 2011, Machino has become one of México’s most consistent techno producers, releasing more than 24 albums, EPs and singles across as much many labels from distant places in Eastern Europe to local labels back home in the border of Tijuana and San Diego. Every once in a…
STA090 | Various Artists | Losing Money, Gaining Friends
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…
STA088 | Braulio Lam | Soundtrack For Vision
Braulio Lam is an electronic music producer from the border region of Tijuana and San Diego. His debut EP for Static Discos, Soundtrack For Vision, is a deep and meditative ambient journey of found sounds, texture, random panoramas and guitar loops. Born in 1992, Braulio Lam has traversed the Tijuana music scene as a guitarist…
STA087 | Cyané | Stand Sol
Cyané is a music producer and artist from Mexico that began as a singer-songwriter in Hawaii, immersed in a music scene characterized by free form and improvisation. Throughout her career she invited various artists from the music scene in Guadalajara, Mexico, her place of birth, to record her first and second albums, both published independently,…
STA080 | Fax | Constellation
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…
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.…
STA073 | Schez | Vaasdna
Static Discos is proud to release Vaasdna EP by Schez. Jorge Sánchez was born and raised in Culiacán Sinaloa, but now resides in México City after some years of living in Guadalajara. Schez debut EP for Static Discos shows a young electronic music producer capable of creating slow evolving tracks full of vivid detail and…
STA071 | Fax | Pie de Página
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…
STA072 | Schem | Exhale
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…
STA070 | Kampion | Acoxpa
KAMPION, one of Mexico’s most respected underground producers returns with ACOXXPA, his debut album. Guillermo Guevara, the man behind KAMPION, has been creating electronic music for more than a decade with his projects Sonido Continental and Duopandamix. His productive career has seen him release music on the Filtro and Gridlife netlabels. With a sound that…
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…
STA068 | Macario | Topure Remixes
Macario returns with an Topure Remixes, an EP of remixes of his album Topure plus a couple of new tracks. The reworkings come courtesy of Cubenx, Fonobisa, Schez and Scan Mode, who further Macario’s original tracks into psychedelic and abstract dance floor mysticism. Macario completes the EP with two bonus tracks, the instrumental “Camelina” and…
STA066 | Fonogram | Hymns
Vicente García Landa returns as Fonogram with Hymns, his new EP on Static Discos. Through his various musical projects, Fonogram, Versual and One Second Bridge, Vicente García Landa has consolidated a personal vision that does not compromise his taste for elegant pop while gently hinting towards sound experimentation. Hymns is the first of two EPs…