“Mexico City” (Used 5 times)

SPIT is the latest work from Argentinian sound artist Sol Rezza, manipulating sounds sourced from lawn mowers and lakes, crickets and dogs, into strange sonic narratives. Take "Revolution as a Loop" (below), and experience the full 47-minutes here on FMA or at Sol Rezza's Radio-Arte. Be sure to use headphones, because SPIT was designed for not only designed for stereophonic listening, but selected for the first series of concerts in the Turbulence Sound Matrix, Steve Heimbecker's 64-channel surround sound system.

Sol Rezza is also half of Panz4 Troupé, a duo with Mexican multimedia artist Daniel Iván. Here's a video of Matar al Gato 2.2: Ekpyrotica as performed live at Mexico City contemporary art venue Laboratorio Arte Alameda:

The Ekpyrotica series deals with the idea of Ekpyrosis, proposed by the Stoic philosophers. They believed the universe is repeated after every "great year", and that this repetition is preceeded by the universe's destruction via a "conflagration" (read more)

Mexico City's garage-punk group Los Negretes introduced themselves with a link to this deliciously destructive video of "Puta Ciudad" from La Blogotheque's Take Away Show:

The 7-piece shares six tracks from their albums Los últimos diez minutos de Maria Duval and Mexico City Blues. Los Negretes' music ranges from the short burst of "Los Últimos 10 Minutos de María Duval" (reminding me of Davila 666) to the 8-minute "Canción Lenta" that sounded a lot more like Low. There are also two very different version of "Mexico City Blues," the first is stripped-down lo-fi folk like the band formerly known as OCS while the second is a VU-inspired epic that makes the most of the 7-piece lineup. Los Negretes are coming to Austin for SXSW, and are planning a tour around South America and Europe so keep an ear out here and there.