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(16 customer reviews) 11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Great unique sound,
August 9, 2005 MariaGitana (San Diego/Tijuana) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tijuana Sessions 3 (Audio CD)
The sound of this album is fresh and quirky, danceable, and most important of all, very Mexican. The combination of sounds are brave, but work well- tambora and tuba banda beats meshed with electronic and other sounds. I also enjoy the cultural incorporation of voices and comments into the songs...
Being that I partly grew up in Tijuana, while listening to this music, you really do feel like it is representative of the sights and sounds of our crazy city. I am glad to see recognition being given to some of the talent that this dynamic, unique region has to offer.
Live, these artists are totally recommended...
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
A Delight!,
June 28, 2006 Gary Peterson (San Diego, California USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tijuana Sessions 3 (Audio CD)
Let me start out this review with two overwhelming generalizations, both of which, of course, have many exceptions. First, I really enjoy electronica music. Second, I don't care for Mexican music. Now, having said this, you can imagine my mixed feelings about reading a review (in the Wall Street Journal, as I recall) about an album of Mexican electronica by Nortec Collective entitled "Tijuana Sessions, Vol 3." The review was quite laudatory. My curiosity was piqued. I couldn't resist ordering the CD.
"Tijuana Sessions, Vol 3" is a delightful CD, without question. It's good listening right from the first spin, and it's one of the most unusual and creative albums I've ever heard. The music is unique; nothing I've heard compares. The musical program is done in techno style and has all sorts of strange sounds against a throbbing bass and drums background, but most of the tracks also have horns, guitars and accordion parts. It's a strange mix. Imagine a good British techno band,...Read more
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Esta Fiesta,
July 26, 2005 S. L. Winant "aceethno" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Tijuana Sessions 3 (Audio CD)
Pulling a Wilbury, the techno-musicales the Nortec Collective, after several under-the-radar solo releases, have released Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3. The first "Sessions" deconstructed everybody's favorite Baja border/drinking binge/accursed town, creating a sound that was at once turismo and commentary. On this second (I mean third) volume, they've almost turned into...Los Amigos Invisibles?! The turismo is still there...check the buses and the camcorder in the CD art. But on the most pro-TJ song, and I do mean song, "Tijuana Makes Me Happy," English lyrics, female backup singers, happy accordion, and beats introduce an explicit party vibe. What's the message?
The Nortec hombres have always mixed it up, and I don't just mean the Mexican signifiers and techno that have made them famous. Here, as on Volume One, two different strains of norteño come together: banda, the brass-band style originally from the Mexican state of Sinaloa, and 'true' norteño, the...Read more
