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.

On the issue of September 2006, the mexican magazine SONIKA published a list of Mexico’s best records of all times. Compiled by the cast of collaborators of the magazine, it includes a list of the seven best records of mexican electronic music, including a couple of our compilations: Mínimas Texturas 005 and Máximas Texturas 006. the complete list (in chronological order) is as follows:

Various: Nortec Collective vol. 1 (2001)
Murcof: Martes (2002)
Ruisort: Acapulco Now (2003)
Various: Stock. A Static Discos Compilation (2003)
Various: Konfort Mínimas Texturas 005 / Máximas Texturas 006 (2003)
Kobol: Broken Ebony (2005)

Thanks to everyone who showed up at our record release party for Data at El Eco. Thanks to you, the party was quite a success. Bifidus, Denizen, Emmerich, Abduct and Hz all put on a great show. The sound system and acoustics at the museum made the experimental sounds from these young mexican artists sound as majestic as they should. People wandered from the concert hall out into the main yard and onto the bar, as the sounds of Data filled the space and the VJ projections brought the museum’s walls to life.

If you missed it and want to see how it all went, or if you were there and want to refresh your memories, we have uploaded some photos of the show to our Flickr page, as well as to the live images section of this site.

Héctor Zárate, also known as hZ, just released his latest EP An Upcoming Summer on mexican net label Cyan Recs from Mexicali. 4 new tracks of melodious experimentation, we are sure you will like. Download it now.

After a small period of self-described “hibernation”, mexican net-label Filtro is back with another net-release: HISTERESIS, featuring, among others, a few tracks from Konfort artists:

7. Emmerichk – Maquiventa and
10. Zofa - Cycles.

Download the whole compilation at Filtro.