5 Latin American producers transforming underground club music
On this list we present 5 producers that had a huge impact on our music selections in 2019. These Latin American artists not only helped to make visible the work of producers in the region but also transformed club music with their individuality and identity, reaffirming the premise that the best music within the genre is being made outside the white dominated scene.
The truth is that our list was even longer and despite the merit of the 5 producers below, we invite you to explore further because this pool of Latin American underground club music talents is very deep.
Abssys
Diego Blancas under the name of Abssys, is a DJ and producer from Toluca, Mexico, first started under the name of Rizoma which in 2018 mutated his current alias.
2019 was a promising year for Abssys, premiering several singles independently, along with other producers of the “online global club music scene” such as Merca Bae and through local netlabels. A constant hustling effort that cannot be taken for granted.
Abssys’ musical project focuses on club music experimenting with reggaeton rhythms and Grime beats. Since the launch of his first EP “Stone Buddhas”, Diego has remained active in the local scene playing in parties organised by local projects such as T.A.U and Hypersonics.
If someone is representing us well (to Latin America) on the underground club music global stage, it is this 23-year-old from Toluca.
Listen to his mix on the WIDE Radio Fiesta Vol. 6
TAYHANA
Next on our list is the argentinian DJ and producer residing in Mexico, Tayhana, is the co-founder of the HiedraH Club de Baile collective based in Buenos Aires, which seeks to promote the singularity of identity and cultural minorities in Latin America in order to create a new libertarian policy concerning the joy of bodies.
2019 was a hectic year for this artist, who represented Latinx talent on a European tour that cost her detention at the immigration office in Glasgow, UK. The detention only reaffirmed the additional challenges that Latin American DJs and producers face even in the so-called developed world, making their struggle to compete in the music industry even more visible.
The most important thing of 2019 is that Tayaha released the album “Tierra de Fuego” in November with collaborations by Wasted Fates and Aggromance through NAAFI, the Mexican music club collective of which she is also a member. And it is this album that we cannot ignore, and it positions Tayhana among the Latin American artists that you should know this year.
Syntrovert
Santiago Marin Keith best known under the alias of Syntrovert, is a DJ and producer from La Serena, Chile who has ascended through the release of different singles, an EP and his second album entitled “The Gathering” through the DNTFCK label , which has received the attention it deserves from different specialized electronic music media.
Syntrovert’s productions redefine and deconstruct club music to rebuild it from political concepts, Latin American identity, and human continuous evolution. Santiago describes the material as: transition, training, introduction, urban feudalism and industrial reggaeton.
“…a style strongly influenced by feudal, gothic photography, tribal sounds, urban imaginaries and epic narratives was unified. the “medieval / cyborg” comes a bit from my debut, the swords and armor. It is further enhanced with my personal tastes. However, the war is not a matter of calling violence, but of personal improvement, and the means to express it is nothing more than assiduous elements to the genre: music club badges, afro elements, Latin American elements as well as elements of the European and Asian electronic music.” – Syntrovert.
Prepare for battle with “The Gathering”.
OCTUBRXLIBRV
More than two years ago (2016) Venezuelan DJ and producer Octubrxlibrv started publishing music on Soundcloud, we came across his profile by accident and we saw ourselves in a broken mirror. Currently, he is in an enigmatic unknown location, flourishing somewhere where African and Caribbean rhythms come together with dense atmospheres: (coughing) Medellín.
Soler’s project under the alias of Octubrxlibrv is inspired by the fusion of electronic sounds with Caribbean ancestral roots, while exploring esotericism as part of his obscurantist music proposal with the ultimate goal of creating visual and rhythmic witchcraft at its finest.
His latest production released through DNTFCK is titled “MALALA”, 7 highly percussive tracks that invoke Afro-Caribbean spirits along with popular urban references, this album emerges as a ritualistic soundtrack for the witchcraft of contemporary occultism on the dance floor.
El Irreal Veintiuno
From the State of Mexico we present Bryan Dálvez under his pseudonym El Irreal Veintiuno: DJ, producer and visual designer.
His style as a producer is focused on club music, one that can bend to make a hybrid sound, vindicate the existing and evolving peripheral rhythms from an insightful and euphoric vision. Listen to his mix for the WIDE Radio Fiesta vol. 12.
In March this year, he released the EP “24 / 7”, mixed and mastered by Siete Catorce in which he explores the sonic representation of time, what remains unexpressed and the odyssey of the mind. Between this EP and the variety of singles that premiered during 2019, there is no doubt of its place in Latin American producers transforming underground club music.
