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- Date Released: April 7, 2009
- Genre: Electronic
- Style: Latin
- Label: Nacional Records
Giddy sonic promiscuity from the Fatboy Slim of the cantina
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We Say...
In the beach towns of Mexico, where rootless backpackers rub up against the modern jet set, the culture is equal parts strolling norteño and throbbing nightlife. Here's a band — one man's insatiable recording project, really — that finds virtue in such musical promiscuity.
Mexican Institute of Sound is the giddy blenderphonics of Mexico City's Camilo Lara, a major-label executive by day who turns into a crate-raiding DJ and electronic experimentalist by night. He's a cantina Fatboy Slim. On its third album, MIS picks up where the first two left off, mashing together traditional accordion with axle- rattling bass bombs ("Cumbia"), working a tuba sample into an irresistible jock jam ("Yo Digo Baila") and combining dirty processed guitar and some mighty fine whistling in a song about a strip tease ("White Stripes").
The real brain-scrambler, however, is "Sinfonia Agridulce," a drowsy mariachi-style nod to the Verve's mega-hit "Bittersweet Symphony," which itself, of course, was rooted in an orchestral Stones sample. You don't have to eat the worm to attempt to fathom so many layers of cultural extrapolation: MIS's music is intoxication for its own sake. -
They Say...
Camilo Lara's happy funtime Mextronica (that's Mexican music combined with of-the-moment electronic beats and synth sounds) has reached a kind of apogee on this third full-length CD. The style-hopping is more frenetic than ever, from the self-explanatory album opener "Cumbia" to the rockabilly guitars (courtesy of Café Tacuba axeman Joselo Rangel) of "Hiedra Venenosa" and the staticky, distorted beats worthy of Mr. Oizo on "Comite Culificador." There's even a full-on mariachi band -- Los Carreteros del Bajio, whose booking info is included inside the digipak -- trudging through a melancholy Spanish-language take on the Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony," translated as "Sinfonia Agridulce." Each of Lara's three albums has featured vocals more strongly than its predecessor, and this one is almost entirely rapped and sung. The rapping (presumably mostly by Lara himself, though the credits are unclear save for pointing out a few guest appearances and a remix of "Alocatel" by Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys) is decent, but the singing is almost comically lackluster, particularly on "Sinfonia Agridulce." Most of the tracks get in and out relatively quickly and painlessly; the only exception is "Yo Digo Baila," which takes a relatively thin idea and pushes it past the five-minute mark, dragging the album down early. It's a good thing cuts like "White Stripes" (not about the Detroit duo) and "Karate Kid2" are there to keep things light and entertaining. Other artists like Kinky and Nortec Collective are plowing similar traditional-meets-modern grooves, but Lara and his Mexican Institute of Sound, which has blossomed into a full live band, seem to be having more fun than anyone on their scene right now, and that lightness of spirit translates to disc more often than not.
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| 01. |  |
Cumbia |
2:16 |
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| 02. | |
Alocatel |
3:39 |
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| 03. | |
Yo Digo Baila |
5:11 |
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| 04. | |
White Stripes |
3:22 |
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| 05. | |
Hiedra Venenosa |
2:51 |
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| 06. | |
Te Quiero Mucho |
2:02 |
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| 07. | |
Jalale |
2:56 |
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| 08. |
Comité Culificador Part 1 |
0:45 |
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| 09. | |
Comité Culificador Part 2 |
3:08 |
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| 10. | |
Karate Kid 2 |
3:34 |
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| 11. | |
Reventon |
3:31 |
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| 12. | |
Sinfonía Agridulce |
4:11 |
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| 13. | |
Alocatel (Ad Rock remix) |
4:55 |
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| 14. | |
Chiflideur |
1:27 |
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| 15. | |
El Borracho
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3:34 |
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15 Total Tracks, 47:22 Total Length
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Credits
- Eddy Schreyer - Mastering // MASA - Artwork // Jeff Antebi - Photography // Pat C. - Vocals // Camilo Lara - Keyboards // Camilo Lara - Programming // Camilo Lara - Instrumentation // Camilo Lara - Group Member // Joselo Rangel - Guitar // Paty Cantú - Vocals // Gian Paolo Morábito - Engineer
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