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Nortec Collective

Nortec Collective is a musical ensemble from northern Mexico. Their musical genre includes electronica in the nortec ("norteño" + "techno") style.

Nortec Collective's second album, "Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3," (Nacional Records) was the recipient of much critical praise and was nominated for two Latin Grammy awards in 2006.

2008's "Tijuana Sound Machine" by Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich and Fussible (Nacional Records) was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album. [1]

The Nortec Collective has borrowed several elements of the Chinola sub-culture and have used them both in their songs (Narcoteque, Almada) and in their visuals and album covers.

Artists

The Nortec Collective is composed of four artists: Fussible (Pepe Mogt), Bostich (Ramon Amezcua), 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.

Performances/Projects

Since 1999, the Nortec Collective musicians have toured throughout the United States, Mexico, Europe, Japan and Latin America, and played New York's Central Park SummerStage and Irving Plaza, as well as the Winter Music Conference in Miami, the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and shows at the Royal Festival Hall in London and Elysée Montmartre in Paris.

Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo invited Nortec to provide music for the Mexican pavilion at the Expo 2000 in Hannover, and they've done remixes for Beck, Calexico, Ennio Morricone, Kronos quartet, Leigh Nash, and Lenny Kravitz among others.

In 2006 Nortec performed at the LA Weekly Detour Festival in Los Angeles, sharing the bill with Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, and Basement Jaxx.

Nortec's music has appeared in commercials for Volvo, Dell, Fidelity Mutual, Edwin Jeans (with Brad Pitt), Nissan and others.

The song "Tijuana Makes Me Happy" is one of the soundtracks in 2006 FIFA World Cup video game and the title song of the feature film by the same name Tijuana Makes Me Happy.

An interactive book entitled "Paso del Nortec: This Is Tijuana" dedicated to the nortec phenomenon was released in the US, Mexico and Europe in 2004.

In 2005, Nortec Collective released their most acclaimed work to date, the album "Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3", which received two Latin Grammy nominations and earned significant airplay on tastemaker radio stations like KCRW (Los Angeles), KEXP (Seattle) and KUT (Austin).

The book "Nor-tec Rifa!: Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World" by Alejandro L. Madrid was published in March 2008. It describes Nor-tec music's composition process and it relation to the nortena, banda, and grupera traditions.

The album "Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible: Tijuana Sound Machine" was released digitally on April 29th, 2008 and in stores on May 6th, 2008.

Recognitions

Nortec Collective's album "Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3" (Nacional Records) received two Latin Grammy nominations in 2006 for "Best Alternative Music Album" and "Best Recording Package."

The 2008 album "Tijuana Sound Machine" by Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich and Fussible (Nacional Records) was nominated for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album for the 51st Annual Grammy Awards. [1]

Discography

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b http://www2.grammy.com/grammy_awards/51st_show/list.aspx#12

References

  • "Nortec Collective Nominated for Two Latin Grammy Awards" (Press release). Nacional Records. August 2006. {{cite press release}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  • "Nortec Collective Official Website". Retrieved 2007-12-18.
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