Back in August, electronica podcast Jammy Toast featured ” It’s always the same BS: We kiss and I have to leave in a hurry” by Hz from his Living Undercover EP, and “Hide Ruds” from Rubinskee’s Telúrico EP. You can listen to the podcast here. The podcast is really worth a listen. It showcases an amazing selection of electronic music published under creative-commons licenses and other copyright-safe agreements.

Congratulations to Jazz Funkster combo Sr. Mandril! Their sophomore release Terragroove has been featured in Indie Rocks! list of the greatest albums of the decade! The list appears on this month’s (January 2010) issue of the magazine, so go an get it now!

Up-and-coming Mexican netzine Apolorama features an interview with Flux and drxl in its 11th issue for October and November 2009. Read it here.

Also, we have just posted to our flickr account the pictures from CzG and Rubinskee’s trip to Japan Music Week 2009 in Tokyo.

“Naco is Chido” is a humorous mockumentary about seminal Mexican rock band Botellita de Jerez, directed by Sergio Arau. The story, writen by Sergio Arau, Armando Vega-Gil and Tihui, begins when some students (played by Mexican band Yucatán a Go-Go) find the lost master copy of the last CD of the band, which will actually turn into the newest one. When it gets to the record company, with Macuca, an executive there, she hires a secret detective to find the members of the band, in order to have a promotion concert with them. The detective finds them. Cucurrucucu is in a mental hospital, Mastuerzo gets busted for making explosive songs, and Uyuyuy is a homeless living in Los Angeles. The movie contains mockummentaries on the seminal importance of the band from people like La Lupita, Roco from Maldita Vecindad, Gustavo Santaolalla, Armando Manzanero, Laura Esquivel, Carlos Monsiváis and others. The soundtrack contains new covers of songs from the band’s first three albums by bands like Café Tacuba, Molotov, Liquits, Plastilina Mosh, El Gran Silencio, Instituto Mexicano del Sonido, Kinky, Yucatán a Go-Gó, Alejandro Otaola, La Cantante Calva, Tex Tex, Los de Abajo, and our own Señor Mandril.

Intolerancia Records is also launching the soundtrack for Adolfo Martínez Orzynski’s film “Juegos Inocentes“, featuring bands like Hummersqueal, Descartes a Kant and Señor Mandril. Ignacio Riva Palacio, Abril Reyes, Eréndira Ibarra, Alan Fernando, Alberto Reyes and Oswaldo Zárate star in this teen weekend gone bad adventure.

The Incognito Traveller’s “Marguerite” is currently the top track in the large ‘Pixies Palace‘ group tag radio at Last.fm (for which over 5000 artist, albums and tracks have been tagged to date). No suprise then, that when DJ Marie Craven, know to many as Pixieguts, was invited to guest DJ the latest podcast on Solipsistic Nation, she wrapped up the show with this beautiful track. Check the whole show here, and download the episode here.

Pixieguts is a member of the bands Cwtch and PIXSID. She is also the founder of the Palace Network and co-produces the Pixicast with Dave Almgren, also know as Voide. Pixicast is a show that focuses entirely on music that comes from indie and netlabels.

Fans of minimal technohead Emmerichk rejoice! You can now download a brand new track and a new remix by the Mexican producer. The brand new tracks is called “Teseracto” and is part of the 4th Anniversary special compilation “Selfmade” from Japanese netlabel Yuki Yaki. It is available for free download both as an MP3 and an Ogg file.

Also, Chlienean netlabel Pueblo Nuevo has just delivered its 50th release, “El Poder Corrompe“, a 6 tracks EP by Chilenean producer Daniel Jeff, featuring also a few remixes, including Emmerichk’s remix of “Mas allá de” (7:16) avaialable for free download as a 320 kbps mp3, Ogg Vorbis and Flac file.

Sr. Mandril is inviting Musicians, Producers and Bands remix one or more of his tracks. Soundfiles for songs like “Perro Groovero”, “El otro Joe” and “Funky Monkey” are available for download right now, and the last day to send us your remix is January 15, 2010. The most original remixes will be selected by the band to appear on Sr. Mandril´s third album, on the second quarter of 2010, which will be distributed around Mexico and Canada. You can download the tracks here:

http://www.discoskonfort.com/srmandril_rmx/index.html

Send your remixes on mp3 format to srmandril@myspace.com and contacto@discoskonfort.com. Good Luck!

Japan Music Week is a yearly festival show-casing the best emerging artists and new music, in every genre from hiphop, techno, rock and pop, to folk, classical and jazz. It will feature as many as 300 artists and DJs from dozens of countries and from cities around Japan. We are proud to announce that CzG & Rubinskee will be the only two Mexican artists featured this year. The event will be called “Ojos de Venado” and, if you are in Tokyo around that time, you cannot miss it!

In other news, Silent Beats have just finished recording their latest collection of electronic improvisation pieces that seamlessly blend experimentation, popular and traditional music. The Ep,m inspired by Afro-American, indigenous and Western music, is called “Nu School Ragtime”, and was co-produced between César Juárez-Joyner & Alán Santos (aka. Woodmade sounds / popfilter records). The Incognito Traveller has also just finished recoding his long awaited follow-up to his netlbael blockbuster self-titled EP. The album, tentatively titled “Raven” is — in its author’s own words — “a work conceptually founded on Milton Erickson’s “A Special Inquiry with Aldous Huxley into the Nature and Character of Various States of Consciousness” where writer Aldous Huxley is guided into a deep hypnosis. In such state, he describes meeting with his own self at different ages and revisiting his own stages of growth and intellectual development.” So keep your ears open for those two forthcoming releases.

MHV uploaded a Dubstep set available as free download as the sixth posdcast from fellow artists collective Nimbo. You can listen to it here:

Playlist:

01. Squarepusher - Abacus 2
02. Various Production - Bside
03. Mayhem - Split second (scuba remix)
04. MHV - Mutilator v8
05. MHV/Orvonton - Sueño (MHV remix)
06. Jack sparrow - The fullest feat Biggings
07. Ramadanman & Appleblim - Justify
08. MHV - Vloop Q
09. King Cannibal - So… embrace the minimum
10. MHV - Vapor
11. Debruit - Soles sweat feat 215tfk & Stray (Reso remix)
12. 2562 - Third wave
13. Untold - Dante
14. Millie & Andrea - Temper tantrum
15. Unique 3 - Take this love (Milanese remix)
16. Jakes - Custard cream
17. Joker & Jakes - 3k lane
18. Bar 9 - Triple drop
19. MHV - Frozen donut (version)
20. Kupa - All those momentes
21. Mekha & The root - The dark passenger
22. Chase and status - Eastern Jam
23. Autechre - Cfern