Tag: electronic
Pretty Lights to play La Zona Rosa on Wednesday November 11, 2009
Pretty Lights is the moniker of electro music pioneer and producer Derek Vincent Smith of Denver, Colorado. In live shows Smith pairs up with drummer Cory Eberhard manifesting Smith’s innovation and Eberhard’s beats into the most infectious down tempo dance grooves around. Austin, TX gets their turn to get down to Pretty Lights when Derek and Cory will bring their road show to La Zona Rosa on Wednesday November 11.
Don’t wait around to get tickets to catch this duo cast their spell over another dance floor. They’ve been selling out shows left and right since they hit the road in August playing to enthusiastic, late night party people from coast to coast.
Mexican Institute of Sound (MIS) is musical master mind, Camilo Lara. MIS is a large part of the strong electronic dance music coming out of Mexico and all of Latin America. Having always the recipient of great international critical acclaim, MIS is still relatively unknown to the casual music listener here in the States. Only hipsters and Latin scenesters have MIS albums it seems. Fans of Moby, The Chemical Brothers, Nortec Collective or even The Verve (yes, The Verve) should have MIS’s new album, Soy Sauce, in their collection.
- Posted on 04.08.2009 By
- Tags: MIS, Album Review, Mariachi, the verve, DJ, electronic, Latin Music, Latin Alternative, Pachanga Fest, Nacional Records, Mexican Music, latin
RH+ is a band that may surprise you after listening to their new album, Quintana Roo. Being on Nacional Records, home to international superstars such as Manu Chao and Plastilina Mosh, one might expect something more “Latin” sounding. With English vocals and no sign of any cumbia or salsa influence, one might guess that RH+ was a European group. I know Chile is a breeding ground for great rock en Espanol, but RH+ is more along the lines of Stereo Lab or Joy Division.
The BMX DJ duo is no stranger to Austin. I caught them hanging around after SXSW last year at the Gogol Bordello concert on St Patrick’s Day. They were walking around with bicycle helmets with wheels spinning on top of them. That alone should have tipped me off that these guys were different. Monareta is returning to Austin for SXSW again this year. Be on the lookout for them, as their show is not one you want to miss. For those of you who are strangers to Monareta, read and learn why Monareta's Picotero is one of the coolest albums I own.
