“Chrome Web Lab”, an interactive exhibit at the London Science Museum, presents the invisible fabric of the Internet as embodied in the world. Rory Hyde spoke to its creators, and discovers a version of where the Web may be headed next.
Siete Catorce's version of the New North arrives from Mexicali, in a soundtrack filled with contrasts. This is a mysterious but festive mixtape, much like the desert that at night becomes a sea of lights.
Picaresque rhythms subtracted from old vinyls and golden age ghosts come together in a mixtape by Carlos Icaza, aka Tropicaza, reconstructing echoes of the footsteps on the dance floor of legendary Hotel Bamer nightclub Bamerette.
The birthplace of president Enrique Peña Nieto and infamous Grupo Atlacomulco, in the State of Mexico, inspires this mixtape by LAO, which mixes advanced techno and contextual beats worthy of the disorder and intrinsic dynamism of this new, posturban heart of Mexico.
Inspired by the sounds of Tlatelolco, in Mexico City, this futuristic, dystopic mix features young and experimental Mexican artists creating a cold, dark and advanced sound.
This eccentric combination of rustic rancheras, cumbias and corridos with techno, dubstep and factory-churned sounds captures many aspects of contemporary Culiacán, the pinnacle of Mexico's complex narco-culture.
Rio is a devouring city, a music regurgitating new forms. Its unifying force is its inability to be nailed down, to be articulated — it must be heard, consumed and regurgitated to perform its invasive power.
Determined, responsible and interested
in the phenomenon of time, Capricorn Yoshiharu Tsukamoto of Atelier Bow-Wow began his practice with an observation of Modern Tokyo.
The background noise of the streets of Tel Aviv is transformed, little by little, into one clear and distinct voice: that of hundreds of thousands of people walking back home.