Nortec Collective

Primer VL: 2006

Ediciones VL: 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011

The Nortec Collective is comprised by five artists: Fussible (Pepe Mogt), Bostich (Ramón Amezcua), Panóptica (Roberto Mendoza), Clorofila (Jorge Verdín) and Hiperboreal (Pedro Gabriel Beas).

These producers create and perform a style of music called Nortec - a fusion of Norteño ("from the North") and Techno, documenting the collision between the style and culture of electronica and traditional Mexican music.

Nortec Collective is not a thing or a genre or a group or a band, but an entire electronic aesthetic. It is a convergence of high-tech and low-tech, of North and South, of all things techno with all things norteño, of all the things that are a part of the rural and urban. The sound of the Nortec Collective is the sound of the First World in the Third and the Third World in the First.

Since 1999, the Nortec Collective musicians have toured throughout the United States, Mexico, Europe, Japan and Latin America, transformed LA rock clubs, and ruled the stage of New Yorks Central Park SummerStage and Irving Plaza, as well as the prestigious Winter Music Conference in Miami, shows at the Royal Festival Hall in London or Elysee Montmartre in Paris. Former Mexican President Ernest Zedillo invited Nortec to provide music for the Mexican pavilion at the Expo 2000 in Hanover, and theyve done remixes for Beck, Calexico, Ennio Morricone, Kronos quartet, Leigh Nash, and Lenny Kravitz among others.

An interactive book entitled Paso del Nortec- This Is Tijuana dedicated to the Nortec phenomena was released in the US, Mexico and Europe.

The Latin World hasnt been the same since the release of Nortecs frighteningly original, refreshingly cool Tijuana sessions. -Rolling Stone

They sample the hoots of brass-band tubas and the stuttering drumrolls of nortena bands into a computerized international dance-music hybrid, and by grounding it in local music they suggest both a sense of history and a sense of humor. -New York Times