Panoptica

Biography

Robert Mendoza, Tijuana, Mexico. Citing inspiration from the roosters that wake him every morning and claiming his PC as his most important tool, Mendoza finds the shared aesthetics between house, techno, breakbeat, dub and traditional Mexican music. He is closely associated with Nortec, the loose collective of Tijuana-based musicians (including Murcof, Ruisort and Loopdrop) whose electronica incorporates elements of popular traditional Mexican music. This electronic rethinking of traditional music is often derived from samples of tapes sold by bands of local street musicians: fragments of barely recognizable 12-string guitars, tubas and snares are coalesced into the most intriguing of techno. ‘I like lots of Mexican music from folkloric to popular, but the music that very much rules the north of Mexico is Norteno and Banda. They are the two most popular and regional styles of music, and that’s what you hear everywhere, even if you don’t want to....

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