Tijuana?s Electronica Leaders Score Nominations for ?Best Alternative Music Album? and ?Best Recording Package?

Nortec Collective to Co-Headline LA Weekly ?Detour Festival? on Oct. 7th Along With Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, and Basement Jaxx

Tijuana?s electronica leaders Nortec Collective have scored two Grammy nominations for their latest album ?Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3? (Nacional Records), including ?Best Alternative Music Album? and ?Best Recording Package?. Latin America?s most important electronic act received glowing praise for ?Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3? from such prestigious outlets as Rolling Stone, LA Weekly, XLR8R, and the New York Times, and saw the album hit #1 on top digital retailers iTunes and eMusic in the initial week of its release.

In addition to the United States, the album ?Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3? is available in Europe, Latin America, Canada, Japan, and Australia; the group is planning European dates in the spring. Nortec Collective will also be co-headlining the LA Weekly Detour Festival in Los Angeles on Oct. 7th, sharing the bill with Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, and Basement Jaxx. Nortec Collective’s music has appeared in commercials for Volvo, Dell, Fidelity Mutual, Edwin Jeans (w/Brad Pitt), Nissan, and others. Tracks from ?Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3? can also be heard in two recent video games, EA Games ?FIFA 2006? and ?FIFA Street 2.? An interactive coffee table book entitled ?Paso del Nortec- This Is Tijuana? dedicated to the Nortec phenomena was released in the US, Mexico and Europe.

The Nortec Collective is comprised by five artists: Fussible (Pepe Mogt), Bostich (Ram?n Amezcua), Pan?ptica (Roberto Mendoza), Clorofila (Jorge Verd?n) and Hiperboreal (PG Beas). These musicians created and perform a style of music that they invented called Nortec - a fusion of Norte?o (”from the North”) and Techno, documenting the collision between the style and culture of electronica and traditional Mexican music. The album features the singles ?Tijuana Makes Me Happy,? ?Tengo La Voz?, and ?Tijuana Bass.?

Nortec Collective is not a thing or a genre or a group or a band, but an entire electronic aesthetic. It is a convergence of high-tech and low-tech, of North and South, of all things techno with all things norte?o, of all the things that are a part of the rural and urban. The sound of the Nortec Collective is the sound of the First World in the Third and the Third World in the First.

?Nortec create updated lounge sounds for both dancing and chilling.?.you don’t even need a passport or to leave your name on the guest list to dig it. *** 1/2 stars.?
ROLLING STONE

Finally, Nortec achieves what it set out to create: a sonic ambience that evokes the strange, stimulating, scary and promising place its members call home. ***1/2 stars?
LA TIMES

?Mexican regional music is the best-selling Latin music in the United States. But Nortec Collective’s music [on ?Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3?] gives the old sounds some long-term insurance: it makes them cool.?
NEW YORK TIMES

?#7 Latin Album of the Year. Four years after it changed the landscape of Latin music with its pioneering blend of dreamy electronica and banda sinaloense, a revitalized Nortec goes pop on ?Tijuana Makes Me Happy? and discovers the joys of replacing its customary samples with live musicians.?
Chicago Tribune

?Nortec Collective?s ?Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3? is among Emilio Estefan?s Top 10 Picks of the year.?
PEOPLE EN ESPA?OL

?#1 Album of the Year.?
EL UNIVERSAL (Mexico)

?#5 Latin Album of the Year. As the curious sound of the tuba section mixes with more familiar dub and hip-hop breakbeats, the record becomes an invitation to an endless Tijuana club crawl. The use of live musicians adds to a growing sense of melodicism and maturity.?
NY NEWSDAY

?#8 Album of the year.?
AUSTIN CHRONICLE

?#4 Album of Year . Who knew techno and norteno music would fuse so well? Nortec Collective, that’s who, with their fun, hip and innovative sound.?
Tucson Citizen

?Top 10 Latin Albums of Year.. Second installment, never mind the “Vol. 3″ on the title, from the five-man studio group of Mexican DJs that merge samples of traditional norte?o and banda bands with electronica flourishes is more cohesive, smoother than the debut.?
Dallas Morning News

?#7 Top Album of Year. ?Vol. 1? was a fin de siglo manifesto and soundtrack to the post-modern revolution led by Bostich and Fussible in the collective’s Sin City home. Six years later (and bypassing ?Vol. 2?), the idea — Mexican cowboy norte?o horns ‘n’ accordions recombined with various techno strands — is as fresh as ever.?
NEWARK STAR-LEDGER