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Nortec Collective - Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3

Nortec Collective

Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3


The third compilation from the loosely organized Nortec Collective offers four years of development from the debut, and that's apparent in a greater cohesion of sound. Where the debut offering sometimes seemed to graft Mexican elements onto electronic dance music almost as an afterthought, here everything is more integrated, as with Hiperboreal's "Dandy del Sur," where village banda meets Spaghetti Western. Not everything is good -- Clorofila's "Almada" seems to get stuck in a monotonous groove, for example -- but some are superb. On "Colorado," Fussible seem to channel the spirit of Talking Heads, while "Narcoteque" from Clorofila and Calexico brings Brian Eno to mind. Like any compilation,...

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