Anal Bum Cover selects, in the Electronica/Techno category, The Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 1 by Nortec Collective.
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Comprised of a small stable of producers who fuse traditional Mexican music with contemporary electronic music, the Nortec Collective debuted in 2002 on Nacional Records and proceeded to garner a respectable following, especially among critics.
Based primarily in Tijuana, the largest city in the Mexican state of Baja California, just across the border from San Diego, CA, the so-called nortec movement took shape in the late '90s. At that time, producer Pepe Mogt began fusing cutting-edge electronic music with traditional Mexican music of the region such as norteņo and banda. (For example, the actual word nortec comes from norteņo and techno.) Granted, this wasn't exactly a revelation, for electronic music producers had been fusing styles together from the get-go; however, it was relatively novel in Mexico, where electronic music had little presence at the time.
Tijuana was a particularly fertile city for the movement to take shape, because of its thriving club scene fueled by techno-savvy young stateside Californians who perennially cross the U.S.-Mexico border to party, not to mention the abundance of DJs who cater to these border-crossing thrill-seekers.
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Tracklisting:
1. Polaris - Bostich
2. Casino Soul - Fussible
3. And L - Panoptica
4. El Vergel - Bostich
5. Elemento N - Plankton Man
6. Norteno de Janeiro - Terrestre
7. Cantamar '72 - Clorofila
8. Trip to Ensenada - Fussible
9. El Lado Oscuro de Mi Compadre - Terrestre
10. Synthakon - Bostich
11. Tijuana for Dummies - Hiperboreal
12. Ventilador - Fussible
13. No Liazi Jaz - Plankton Man
14. Tepache Jam - Terrestre
Polaris - Bostich
And L - Panoptica