Tropitek, Fluorescent Music

Tropitek is Immanuel Miralda, a young Mexican producer that got himself a bipolar reputation for being the responsible and creative mind behind the urban cult neo-cumbia sideproject, Afrodita. But we all have guilty pleasures, and Ima’s greatest fetish is to dance cumbias dressed as a prehispanic warrior along with his fellow goddess friend, Karin, by night. So what? The rest of the day, Ima is pretty much a laidback radio DJ and multidisciplinary artist residing in La Condesa who just happens to have one of the coolest moustaches we’ve ever seen.

Eventhough Tropitek might seem like another of his eccentric and wild cumbia experiments, it’s most likely to be the place where Ima gets the chance to really play with his very own kinda shit: Electro. Yeah you read it right. We’re going bananas!

This is not your daily fluo-house kind of stuff, this is straight-up-your-ass electro and there’s nothing but true love to this genre living in each vocal, synth, beat and bassline inside this wonderful, deep, fun and yet… dark record. So fly...


// Fluorescent Music //

1.- Fosforescente
2.- Electroplasma
3.- Boeng 343
4.- Tropitek
5.- Tiburón
6.- Parchis


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All music produced by Immanuel Miralda except "Tiburón", lyrics and voice by Luis Morales. Mixed and mastered by Jossie Telch in Black Bird Studio. Mexico, D.F. Photograph by Diego Ibañez. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 License. The Poni Republic, 2009.

E.lebleu: You, Me & The Werewolves

Four years can really make a difference. In 2005, Eric Gamboa delivered through Soundsister Two Years Off, a delicate, ethereal ambient folk album based on electroacustic experimentation, field recordings and noisy, warm introspection. But something changed. Gamboa is in a different place now, and with You, Me and The Werewolves (Poni Republic, 2009) he has a new goal: to make you dance!

In only 6 songs, this EP really gets diverse, taking elements from the wide dance territory, like techno/house/minimal/hiphop-ish beats, chopped vocal samples, wobbling basses, moving synths, clicks'n'cuts, you name it. The only vocals are provided by Poni fellow Nuuro, on the track "The Mothman", which sounds like a late-night England. This isn't the only collaboration: Mexican friend Rugoso adds flavor to "Polynesian Rush", while Gamboa wrestles with laptop artist Plug on a pretty fun, upbeat, live versus called "Pony Ride". Damn, I'm already tapping my toes.

This new E.lebleu release deserves at least a listen, but I recommend 2 or 3, just to have those beats burnt into your brain. So, who knows? If at first he took two years off, then four, then maybe in six years we'll get a grind / hardcore punk album or something like that. We'll wait and see.

Text by Cheky


// You, Me & The Werewolves EP //

1.- The Two Lines Between Us
2.- The Mothman feat. Nuuro
3.- I Wish You Were Real
4.- Like Tigers in the Back Seat of My Car
5.- Polynesian Rush feat. Rugoso
6.- E.lebleu vs. Plug - Pony Ride (Party In My Room Edit)

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All songs were produced and arranged by E.lebleu. Except "The Mothman", lyrics were written and sang by Nuuro. Artwork ("Ghostlar") by Gustavo Abascal. Eric would like to thank everybody involved with the making of this release. Especially Ainée. Peace out, you fucking satanist. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.5 License. The Poni Republic, 2009.