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The Nortec Collective.

I feel like I haven’t given these doods enough props on this blog. I used to be super into them when their first ‘album’ came out, and it slowly waned because they hadn’t toured much or new artists came into the collective, but there are some rad jams to be heard.

A quick primer on the Nortec Collective from wikipedia:

Nortec originated in 1999 when Pepe Mogt, started by experimenting with samples of old banda sinaloense and norteño albums and altering them on his computer or filtering them with analog synthesizers. He had picked up on the idea by listening to the percussive and angular grooves of the tambora and norteña music played at a family social event. Through some contacts in recording studios located in Tijuana’s notorious Zona Norte red light district, Pepe compiled tracks of isolated instruments from multitrack recording of tambora and norteño demo recordings that had been abandoned at the studios by the bands that recorded them. He began to burn these tracks onto CD-Rs, which he would later distribute to friends under the condition that they make a new track using the material.

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