Konfort Latinamerica & Festival Torre de los Vientos
On June 1st, Discos Konfort is releasing the ultimate compilation in Latin American cutting edge electronic music: the three-volume-set KLA (Konfot Latin America). Bringing together the talent of more than two dozen artists from Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela and Uruguay, Discos Konfort presents three CDs from the cutting edge of electronica. Each CD is carefully selected and sequenced to have its own personality. Disc one is a long journey from the soothing atmospherics of Fernando Lagreca to MHV’s distorted beats; while disc 02 showcases a vast canvas of melodic tunes, from the jazzy laid-back “Bit Waltzing” by Gélido to the soothing glitches of Farmacia’s “¿Qué se le va a hacer?’. Progressive Chill-Out Music, maybe? Finally, CD3 adds vocals to the mood-enhancing electronics, showcasing a new way of understanidng the idea of a ’song’.
Every friday in June, Discos Konfort presents live electronic music at La Torre de los Vientos, the sixth station from La Ruta de la Amistad, the series of sculptures constructed on the southern region of Periferico for the 1968 Olympic Games. This monumental sculpture by Gonzalo Fonseca, from Uruguay will serve as stage for weekly performances by Abduct (June 26), HZ & Kaoxx (june 5), MHV & Protter (June 12) and a very rare live performance by Zofa and the N-Band (June 19). The events are free and open to the public every friday of June from 6pm onwards.
This month celebrates the 25th Anniversary of seminal radio station Rock 101, and even though this might seem like a completely unrelated event to Discos Konfort and its fans, let us not forget that Vincent Velasco, one half of Konfort band Hermetic Sound, was one of the men behind the microphone of Extasis 101, the first house (mostly, acid-house, although they also played a lot of techno) specialty show on Mexico City airwaves. We’ve come a long way, baby!