Hard drive to hip jive — Nortec set to rock the pier
By Daily Press Staff
SM PIER — The Santa Monica Pier will get a hard taste of Mexico tonight, as the Twilight Dance Series continues with some funky South-of-the-border stylings.
Tonight’s outdoor concert — part of a weekly summer series — features the electro-funky Plastil-ina Mosh and the techno-influenced Nortec Collective.
Plastilina Mosh, a duo from Monterey, Mexico, are known for producing some of the hottest electronic rock in the music biz — fusing the funky sounds of the ’60s and ’70s with the heavily-produced flavor of the ’80s and ’90s.
The group recently gained the attention of hip-hop veterans the Beastie Boys.
Plastilina Mosh is coming hot off a tour with Los Amigos Invisibles and Cornershop.
Nortec Collective, meanwhile, was spawned from a recent electronic craze spreading among artists of many genres in Baja California.
Championed by musicians, artists, filmmakers and even architects — electronics provided the inspiration for Nortec Collective’s mixture of techno and the region’s traditional musical flavorings.
The band was virtually born in 1999, when bandmember Pepe Mogt mixed ranchera styles with techno on his hard drive.
Tonight’s attendees can expect lots of powerful synthesized mixes, as the band’s fusing of genres is known to evoke an exotic blend of old and new.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 11, 2005. Read the original PDF.