Nortec Collective is a Tijuana/Baja, California-based outfit of producers and DJs who fuse pulsating electronics with traditional Mexican music. The so-named nortec movement began in the late 90s when producer Pepe Mogt began to mix electronic music with traditional sounds from the regions called Norteño and Banda. (The word ―nortec‖ is a mash-up of the words Norteño and techno.) Their music is as energetic as the hoards of college kids who cross the border to visit the Tijuana night clubs that their music comes alive in.
After some nomadic experience around Europe, El Guincho arrived in Barcelona at the age of twenty, where he started a hip hop project called Los Feriantes, played drums in a freestyle jam band and formed the band Coconot. With Coconot he released Novo Tropicalismo Errado in February 2006, the result of two years of non-stop listening to Tropicália and Kraut-Rock records. After a year of touring with the band, he came up with the idea of El Guincho and recorded Alegranza, a mix of afro-beat percussion, calypso harmonies, psych tropicália, world music samplers, doo wop, trance repetition, underwater pop, steel drums and island feeling plus club oriented song structures, uptempo beats and exotica production. El Guincho‘s live set is a unique experience. People call it ―amazonic rave‖: voice, a floor tom, some percussion and El Guincho‘s Pandora‘s Box of samplers.
Born Anamaría Tijoux in Lille, France in 1977, daughter to a French mother and a Chilean father while in political exile during Pinochet's dictatorship, Anita Tijoux became famous in Latin America as the female MC of hip hop group Makiza during the late nineties. In 2006 she crossed over to the Latin mainstream pop due to her collaboration with Mexican songstress Julieta Venegas in the radio hit "Eres para mí". She is currently promoting her first solo album, Kaos.
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