Nortec Collective

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Nortec Collective

Background information
Origin	Tijuana and Northern Mexico, Mexico
Genre(s)	Electronica, Techno,Nortec
Years active	2001–present
Label(s)	Nacional Records, Palm Records, Mil Records, Nettwerk, Because Music, Sonic 360
Associated acts	Paso del Nortec,Tijuana Makes Me Happy
Website	Nortec Collective
Members
Bostich,Fussible,Panoptica,Terrestre,Plankton Man

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, was the recipient of much critical praise and was nominated for two Latin Grammy awards in 2006.

1 Artists
2 Performances/Projects
3 Recognitions
4 Discography
5 See also
6 External links
7 References

[edit] Artists

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

[edit] 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 prestigious Winter Music Conference in Miami 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 phenomena 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. "With an impressive hybrid of musicology, ethnomusicology, cultural and performance studies, urbanism, and border studies, Nor-tec Rifa! offers compelling insights into the cultural production of Nor-tec as it stems from nortena, banda, and grupera traditions. The book is also among the first to offer detailed accounts of Nor-tec music's composition process."Amazon.com Product Description

A new album titled "Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible: Tijuana Sound Machine" is released digitally on April 29th and in stores on May 6th.

[edit] Recognitions

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

[edit] Discography

The Tijuana Sessions Vol. 1 (Released: 15 Jul 2002)
The Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3 (Released: 26 Jul 2005)
Nortec Collective Presents Bostich+Fussible: Tijuana Sound Machine (Released: 29 April 2008)