Search - Nortec Collective :: Tijuana Sessions 3

Tijuana Sessions 3
Nortec Collective
Tijuana Sessions 3
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Pop, Latin Music
 
  •  Track Listings (15) - Disc #1

You'll be hard-pressed to find a more inventive, perplexing sound than "nortec," the hybrid of Mexican norteno music and techno beats perfected by the Tijuana-based Nortec Collective. The group introduced its sound on 2001...  more »

     
?

Larger Image

CD Details

All Artists: Nortec Collective
Title: Tijuana Sessions 3
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Nacional Records
Release Date: 7/26/2005
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Pop, Latin Music
Styles: Electronica, Mexico, Dance Pop, Latin Pop, Urban, Latin Electronica
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 689076374729, 3596971223021, 94633409750 0

Synopsis

Amazon.com
You'll be hard-pressed to find a more inventive, perplexing sound than "nortec," the hybrid of Mexican norteno music and techno beats perfected by the Tijuana-based Nortec Collective. The group introduced its sound on 2001's Vol. 1 and further hones the oddball hybrid here. Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3 showcases trippy beats, legit norteno rhythms, and playful vocals. It's an unlikely, sun-kissed soundtrack for late-night/early-morning chill-out sessions. Early tracks "Tijuana Makes Me Happy" and "Funky Tamazula" have an energetic, party-up vibe, and "Don Loope" is a percolating mix of cumbia rhythms and adventurous vocal loops. "Autobanda" even artfully straddles a bossa nova banda groove, and it works. Later on, Vol. 3 lapses into post-party states of trance and slow-dance, creating thoughtful sonic atmospheres that would be at home well outside the Tijuana borders. Through it all, the Nortec Collective keeps feet proudly planted in their Mexican metropolis, but this is definitely not your abuelo's norteno music. --Joey Guerra

Similar CDs


Similarly Requested CDs

 

CD Reviews

Great unique sound
MariaGitana | San Diego/Tijuana | 08/10/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"The sound of this album is fresh and quirky, danceable, and most important of all, very Mexican. The combination of sounds are brave, but work well- tambora and tuba banda beats meshed with electronic and other sounds. I also enjoy the cultural incorporation of voices and comments into the songs...



Being that I partly grew up in Tijuana, while listening to this music, you really do feel like it is representative of the sights and sounds of our crazy city. I am glad to see recognition being given to some of the talent that this dynamic, unique region has to offer.



Live, these artists are totally recommended..."
Esta Fiesta
S. L. Winant | Seattle, WA United States | 07/26/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"Pulling a Wilbury, the techno-musicales the Nortec Collective, after several under-the-radar solo releases, have released Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3. The first "Sessions" deconstructed everybody's favorite Baja border/drinking binge/accursed town, creating a sound that was at once turismo and commentary. On this second (I mean third) volume, they've almost turned into...Los Amigos Invisibles?! The turismo is still there...check the buses and the camcorder in the CD art. But on the most pro-TJ song, and I do mean song, "Tijuana Makes Me Happy," English lyrics, female backup singers, happy accordion, and beats introduce an explicit party vibe. What's the message?



The Nortec hombres have always mixed it up, and I don't just mean the Mexican signifiers and techno that have made them famous. Here, as on Volume One, two different strains of norteño come together: banda, the brass-band style originally from the Mexican state of Sinaloa, and 'true' norteño, the Mexican hermano to Texas conjunto based on the accordion and the bajo sexto. Nortec certainly knows the power of each style and samples the strong points: the beautiful fart of the tuba and the face-smacking snare of banda (the track "Autobanda"), and the lilting accordion and polka offbeats of norteño (the track "Olvídela Compa"). The result is post-Baja, where signifiers meet, dance, and chill out together. And when I say post-Baja, I also mean post-Alpert and the TJB; Nortec member Bostich puns a track title "Tijuana Bass."



Now the border mashup hits a new stride, and adds new sources. "Funky Tamazula" brings wahwah guitar. "Almada" almost takes the horn lines to Prado-style mambo. "Esa Banda en Dub" not only features Calexico (los dos Indie gringos de Tucson) but also slides into dub a la Thievery Corporation, with dashes of Eno and Ennio. "Bar Infierno," true to its title, is a sort of dark lounge. Round it out with the hilarious "Dandy del Sur," and los de Nortec have made Tijuana a party town again.



Fact is, Volume One wasn't all that easy to dance to; it was the idea that counted. Volume Three, however, calls for Modelos all around. Go ahead, put some tortillas on your comal, invite over tus "hip" amigos, and put on this CD. Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3 breaks ground not for fusions, but for moods. I'd shout a grito...but I might get in trouble."
AMMMMAZING!
nortecman | Los Angeles | 08/04/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

"I had been waiting long for this. It's finally here. It was not necessarily what I expected...it was much better! Not sure why they skipped volume 2...maybe because Nortec went through a transitional phase and it has now evolved into this amazing, more melodic combination of sounds.



Tracks like autobanda, colorado & tijuana bass were reworked in this volume. They were simplified and exquisitized. I highly recommend listening to the original versions. They were available in their website. I don't think they have them up anymore. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this album.



One complaint though. The tracks are shorter. It leaves me wanting more! I guess I'm used to their older 6-8 minute songs.



BUY IT!!!!"