The Nortec Collective is from Tijuana, which has a very US-influenced
culture, as well as being a mix of many cultures from the rest of Mexico.
I wouldn't call a composer using sound samples that are personal to them
"gimmicky", I'd argue that most anyone with integrity does that. Maybe the
sounds they use already have too many strong negative connotations for you
to enjoy them, or maybe you just don't like what they do with them.... in
any case, I think their stuff is pretty great, but then I grew up 50 miles
from TJ in San Diego, so maybe those sounds have some personal meaning to
me.
dan
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, ugly and mean wrote:
quoted 11 lines I was originally annoyed by your "third world" comment, but I actually> I was originally annoyed by your "third world" comment, but I actually
> agree with this clarification. Even the Nortec Collective or whatever
> it's called that everyone raves about seemed kind of gimmicky. "Oh, the
> white people will dig this one" type of thing. I don't really know if
> it's because the only thing that gets to .. first world or whatever
> countries is the watered down crap with ethnic gimmicks, so white people
> can tell other white people, "oh, cool, there's this new group from Mexico
> that's so cutting edge - they fuse IDM with ... traditional Mexican
> instrumentation. I'm so open-minded and multi-cultural for liking it!"
> If it would have been good, I would have liked it regardless of all that,
> but it made me yawn over and over again.
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