Nortec, in my opinion, are a victim of their own press. Journalists, ever
desperate for a gimmick, jumped all over the Norteno-meets-techno pitch that
the Palm Pictures folks obviously fed them, and hyped it to bits -- despite
the fact that much of Nortec's music isn't really about that. Panoptica's
album on Cert 18, for instance, is just really good experimental techno.
Fussible's tracks are really good deep house. They didn't need this gimmick
to sell them, but now they're stuck with it. And I worry for them a bit,
because next time they come out with a record, the tech-Mex thing is going
to be old news, and no editor in North America or Europe is going to care,
and no matter how good their records are, they will have a very hard time
getting press. This is the catch 22 of PR...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elson Trinidad [mailto:elson@westworld.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 3:50 PM
> To: walker; acid jazz
> Subject: My beef with 'Nortec...'
>
>
> At 12:00 AM 8/16/01 +0200, walker wrote:
> >
> >Enjoyed the Nor-Tec collective for bringing out
> >positive, danceable Mariachi goes New Jazz goes Happy.
> >
>
> Which tracks sound like that? So far all the 'Nortec' stuff I
> heard sounds
> just like joe average deep house where the only thing 'Latin'
> on the tracks
> is the percussion (which is already a deep house staple
> anyway). I *have*
> heard that Nortec is supposed to incorporate some Mexican
> Norteno elements
> ot the music but unfortunately all I've heard has proven
> otherwise. Not
> trying to knock the genre, but I'd really like to know which
> tracks really
> do sound like NORteno and TEChno...
>
> Elson
>
>
>
>
> - 30 -
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