M. César Juárez-Joyner to lecture on Mexican Music and Culture in Paris

Under the title “L’univers musical mexicain, référence culturelle et miroir d’identité“, M. César Juárez-Joyner, the artist behind the Ready Made Sound System moniker will give a lecture on thursday February 25, at the Instituto Cultural de México, in Paris.

Rubinskee Remixes Pau y Sus Amigos
A couple of months ago, Discos Tormento held up a remix context, asking producers from Mexico and the rest of the world to submit their remixes of the track “Buzzards” from the forthcoming debut album by Pau y Sus Amigos, entitled “El Bar de Peter Pan“. Among the many remixes submitted, Rubinskee’s Remix was selected to appear in the aforementioned album. Congratulations!

Konfort Records is ready to set 2010 on fire with a cavalcade of new releases, singles, albums and eps, including Ravine, the long-awaited follow up to The Incognito Traveller’s debut Ep; Secret Hexagon, the debut album from beatmaster MHV; Mirazapatos from Pesina Siller; eLzz ep by Enrique Gongora, and Res Vita Est from newcomer Bluevet and more, including the follow up to the avant garde electronics compilation Data! Stay tuned!

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.

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.

n0theen is a Hungarian non-profit / commercial free internet radio station (24/7 audio stream) which webcasts Copyleft, Public Domain and Creative Commons music only, and focuses on new, independent and unsigned artists. A few months ago, it invited musicians from all over the world to submit unpublished songs for a compilation titled “thanks for notheen”, to show their support and sympathy for the radio. The final two-volume compilation gathers new music from Germany, Finland, the Czech Republic, Brazil, among other countries. Included in the first volume, “Daystream“, there are new tracks from Zofa, MHV, Rubinskee with Mekha and Silent Beats, César Juárez Joyner aka Ready Made Sound System’s new project with Alán Santos aka woodmdesounds (la orquesta slenciosa, shy genious) and Itzam Cano (Zero Point, Anti Materia):

a. MHV – Ssunn (3:33)
b. Silent Beats - Ilution (6:14)
c. Rubinskee & Mekha – Thru my eyes (5:45)
d. Zofa – Z (5:40)

You can download the whole volume here.

Among ten artists from Asia, America and Europe, German auto-maker Mercedes Benz’s 26th volume of its bimonthly online-compilation series “Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape” features “Bit Waltzing” from Konfort Record’s own Gélido. The compilation is available for free download via the Mercedes site for a limited time.

To celebrate 10 years defending the Amazonian Rainforest, activist organization Greenpeace released a special video, directed by Mexican filmmaker David Zamorano, currently living in Prague. The video is set to Alba 1’s track “Tensión Superficial” from the So Simple Ep. You can download the track here and the whole EP here.

On June 16, 17, 18 and 19, 2009, the first international conference and record fair on The Future of Independent Music will take place in San Salvador, capital city of El Salvador, Central America. Discos Konfort will represent Mexico, along with representatives from Papaya Music (Costa Rica), Costa Norte (Honduras), Stonetree Records (Belize), Moka Discos (Nicaragua), Istmo Music (Salvador) and others. There will be round table discussions on topics such as copyright, media promotion, databasing and others. On Friday the 19th, DRXL from Discos Konfort will join Roberto Nicieza from Astro Discos (Spain) to talk about emerging markets in Mexico and Spain. On the weekend, live free music will play on the Metrocentro mall parking lot.

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!

Finally, after years building an international following on the electro scene, releasing tracks on labels such as Bungalow (Germany) and Escalator (Japan), plus being featured on the Emergente, Máximas Texturas and ¿Cuál es tu Rock? series, julio de la Garza, aka Ghaiais releasing his debut album Wireworks this June on Discos Konfort, distributed by Noize Kontrol Distribution. The album features some of his previous singles, like Bring it Up!, Beat? and Milk, plus half a dozen new techno anthems ready to light dancefloors across the globe on fire. Finding the right balance between electro and techno, futursim and nostalgia, lowbrow and highbrow, Ghaia knows how to make your head bob, your feet bounce and your whole body move to the beat. From he sampled stabs of At Home to the hard banging synthlines of Uno, Ghaia has brought with him a funky arsenal and by the end of Wireworks, you too will surender.

If you have not heard Ghaia’s music already, you can download the track “Beat?” for free right here, thanks to our friends in Discoteca, and check here below the video for Bring it Up!.