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Enjoy Music from Nortec Collective's "Tijuana Sessions Vol 3" Cd
Nortec Collective features five artists:
Bostich (Ramon Amezcua), Clorofila (Jorge Verdon), Fussible (Pepe Mogt) and Hiperboreal (Pedro Gabriel Beas).
These producers create and perform a style of music called Nortec - a fusion of Norte?o ("from the North") and Techno, documenting the collision between the style and culture of electronica and traditional Mexican music.
Their Latin Grammy-nominated Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3 leaned more toward the techno half of their sound, but here Bostich and Fussible get closer to their Nortero side. It’s far from an acoustic album, with loops, vocoders, and synths throughout. But the accordions get turned up higher, the horns become brassier, and acoustic percussion plays a bigger role.
The beats still draw more from techno, though traces of Nortero’s polka-bounce remain, as on “Shake It Up.” Some songs lean more toward electronics (“Rosarito”) than others (“Brown Bike,” which includes vocals), but everything is efficient, nothing clocking in even as long as four minutes.
They're not hard-core Nortero–no Mexican corridos about life on the border, say–but definitely closer on the family tree.
What is TENORI-ON (Both Pepe and Ramon use the TENORI-ON)
CONCEPT
Media artist Toshio Iwai and Yamaha have collaborated to design a new digital musical instrument for the 21st century, TENORI-ON. A 16x16 matrix of LED switches allows everyone to play music intuitively, creating a "visible music" interface.
