We’re up to Spain to take part of this year’s World Music Expo, “the world’s biggest professional music Conference, Trade Fair and Showcase for world, roots, folk, ethnic, traditional, alternative world, local and diaspora music” (Le Monde), along with hundreds of other labels and companies from all over the world. The fair takes place from October 24 to 28 in the beautiful Andalusian city of Seville. Bajofondo Tangoclub, Balkan Beatbox, Dengue Fever and Mono Blanco are among the bands scehduled to perform, so you can be sure it will be a rocking event! If you are in the area, stop by our booth and say ‘Hi!’.

In the meanwhile, in Mexico, Konfort will be taking part in most of the important national electronic festivals: Mutek, Interface and Ekofest! Plus our usual monthly residence at Centro Cultural de España en México. Check our calendar for more details.

In other news, Deutschlandradio Kultur’s Breitband recently featured Mogwai’s monthly netaudio-charts which, in turn, featured our very own Incognito Traveller. You can check the article at breitband, and Mogwai’s show at http://mogwai.de/. Listen to the cast here.

Finally, we regret to inform about the sudden demise of Noise magazine. A great team and an awsome source of alternative music coverage in Mexico City. We will greatly miss you!

Now, if you haven’t already, go to our net-label site and download MHV’s 777! It will surely rock your socks off. No diggity, no doubt!

Sister net-label Impar, from Chile is releasing Emmerichk’s latest EP Solonia.

The later days have been full of good news and surprises in Konfort-land. Our most recent releases have gotten a lot of international attention, both in the press and in the blogsphere. In the August issue of The Wire (UK), Data was called “a surprising engaging portrait of a vigorous and varied scene.” it was also reviewd in this month’s issue of Go-Magazine (Barcelona) and will be featured in the next issue of Noise magazine (México).

The Incognito Traveller EP has also been received with strong enthusiasm, with rave reviews from the US and Germany. The track “Chaleur” was also named among the 100 best net-released songs ever by the Netlabelism blog.

If that was not enough, Ghaia was also named, by Mexican magazine Sonika among today’s new talents to keep in mind.

In other news, we will be attending this year’s DJ Expo World fair at Mexico city’s Expo-Reforma convention center. This tuesday at 4 pm, we will be part of an expert panel on net-labels.

We’ll keep you posted.