Ghost Tracks

Review: Porter — Cuxillo

Review: Quiero Club — Oportunidad de Oro

Largely unauthentic and boring band Quiero Club is back with a new single Oportunidad de Oro which is far worse than their worst song to date.

Oportunidad de Oro is an unoriginal and generic song both lyrically and musically. It is…

Review: Los Macuanos — Epílogo

Darkness fell on Macuanosland. Ruidosón champs are back with a somber chronology of 21st century’s Mexico. With few words, Los Macuanos manage to immerse the listener in an environment of distrust and despair that many Mexican citizens live every day, and piece together a…

FIRST

A collection of artist that are (or were) pushing the boundaries of music.

PS: put your crossfade to 5 sec.

Modern Blues

This playlist started as an attempt to expose modern blues players but I quickly realized most of them suck big time. Instead it evolved into a list of great blues songs

How to listen:

• Cross-fade: 0 sec
• Shuffleable

Review:La Flor del Lingo — Guadalupe Flava!

This is quite a good surprise. La Flor del Lingo’s Guadalupe Flava, a record almost 20 years old, finally came to Spotify a few weeks ago, to my complete ecstasy.

Review: Café Tacvba — Jei Beibi

Jei Beibi, Café’s latest record is a collection of songs that neither sound original nor entertaining to the average listener that’s not a hard-core fan. Los Tacvbos have been repeating themselves for some years now creating the same pop-rock ballads since Cuatro Caminos…

Review: Gepe — Ciencia Exacta

I kept myself isolated from the Gepemania because I felt Gepe’s music was leaning towards pop a bit more than I would really like. Somehow I made it through “Ciencia Exacta” and I loved it — also helped the fact that the record is short, at 32 min front to back).