in celebration of their first anniversary, Etel Magazine’s fifth issue features an interview of mexican housemaster Rubinskee.

Etel Magazine callss Rubinskee’s music “highly recommended”, “adictive” and “varied in its stock of tempos and musical forms.” In the interview, you will find out about Rubinskee’s musical evolution, influences, future projects and thoughts on such topics as the current independent electronic scene in Mexico, being a part of Discos Konfort, and starting your own electronic music project.

Las weekend, Rubinskee performed as part of the Raveolution festival at Pasagüero, in downtown México City. We have uploaded a couple of pictures to our flickr page, so check them out.

First of all, thanks to everyone who showed up last weekend for another Replicant Night. The first pics are already up on our flickr page, so check them out. The vibe was cool and the beats were fierce, and we are already looking forward next month’s Drop Tour through Guadalajara and Aguascalientes, so if you are near any of these cities, look for further information soon.

But it is not only Mexico, this month Señor Mandril is returning to the Montreal Jazz Festival, up there in the land of maple leaves. After the success of 2006, they have been moved to a larger stage, the Scene Groove Bell, Clark Parking, Montreal Canada, where they will be showcasing their latest material, Terragroove, the funky and latin jazzy affair Rolling Stone magazine has been raving about. Mark your calendars for Sunday night, June 29. It is free!

In other news, D-Konstrukt’s remix of Flux & Vega’s “Menudencias” has become the opening titles’ theme for the UNU’s podcast series on climate change in Africa. Watch these important messages on Google Video, Yahoo Video, Vimeo or Youtube.

April has been a great month for us at Konfort. The Incognito Traveller EP has broken the 15,000 downloads barrier, and is now headed for its 20,000th download. Thanks to everyone who has supported the record! Blogs in French, German, English Spanish and Portuguese have given it fab reviews! If you have not downloaded it yet, what are you waiting for? Get it Now!

Keeping our international presence alive, we took off earlier in the month to Paris for this year’s Qwartz Electronic Music Awards. With not much knowledge of French language, we took a stand at the accompanying independent labels fair at the famous Cirque De Hiver. Thank you for all the friendly people we met in Paris.

Our good friends at Dancefloor Mayhem and Discobelle music blogs have just featured Rubinskee’s Telúrico Ep on No Copy Protection, which they labelled “seriously funky”!



Also, last year, Rosco remixed BNLoco’s Canción Playera for a download only EP available via I-Tunes.



You can hear Rosco’s remix on Sonic 360 media player.

Some time ago, the guys at Highend Tech & Style Magazine gathered a bunch of us labels, artists and the like to pick our brains on the future of music in a high tech society. Well, the issue is finally on stands! So, go grab a copy and tell us what you think.

Also, thanks to all of you who showed up this weekend for the second Acido al Parque festival. You got not only to hear Flux — in a rare live set — bring down the house, but also to see him wearing one of our new long sleeve shirts! Classy!


And, of course, do not miss Rubinskee and The Incognito Traveller performing live on the latest installment of our Replicant Night series. Like usual, Centro Cultural España, free entrance!

As previously announced, them good folks at Solipsistic Nation have featured No Copy Protection on today’s special podcast on Creative Commons Netlabels, along with Thinner and Monotonik.

You can find the show at http://solipsisticnation.com/?p=117 or download it directly here. The podcast starts with a brief interview with DRXL and contains tracks from Cri Kong, Polifonia Visual, Rubinskee and Hermetic Sound.

Also, on December 8th and 9th, the 121st Anniversary of Diego Rivera’s birth will be celebrated with the Fourth Independent Record Labels Festival at Museo Anahuacalli, in Coyoacán. Like usual, Discos Konfort will be there, and YOU will be able to buy our records directly from our hands for (very!) cheap. This is a once-a-year opportunity to meet us and get the final copies of our hard-to-find older releases as well as the new DATA, so do not miss it!

Anahuacalli is at Calle Museo 150, Col. San Pablo Tepetlapa, Delegación Coyoacán, a few blocks from tren ligero Xotepingo

Besides Discos Konfort, other 40 record labels will be featured, plus free live music by acts like Magisterio, La Función de Repulsa, Danzonera Distorsion Club, Instituto Mexicano del Sonido, San Pascualito Rey, Armando Merino, Entretango, Los Carácuaros, Sonex, Paté de Fuá, Iraida Noriega, Magos Herrera y Acerina y su Danzonera!

Finally, don’t miss our free showcase at Discoteca next Saturday, or any of the half-a-dozen shows we have lined up for you in the next couple of weeks!

This weekend, we were interviewed by our good friend Jopseph at Solipsistic Nation. No Copy Protection will be one of the net labels featured on the Solipsistic Nation Podcast for Friday November 30. Hear DRXL talk about Konfort and No Copy Protection, plus some music by Cri Kong, Hermetic Sound, Rubinskee and Polifonia Visual.

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

In other news, Zofa and DRXL were interviewed by DJTV, so keep your eyes out for this new TV space for electronic music.

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)

We’re happy to let you know that we’ve been mentioned in an article written by Laurent Diouf and featured in the QWARTZ web site (Under their news section).
This article talks about the mexican electronic scene and says some pretty things about us.
Hope you can read it.

Read the full article in English or en Français.

Très bien!