Dr. Alejandro L. Madrid, Professor of Music, Harvard University, donated dozens of field recordings of music events and interviews that he documented and analyzed for his book Nor-tec Rifa!: Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World.
Dr. Madrid also serves as Editor, Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music Series, Oxford University Press and Co-editor, Twentieth-Century Music, Cambridge University Press
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Interview with Alejandro López
Alejandro Lopez and Alejandro L. Madrid
Alejandro López talks about the electronic music scene and Tijuana and the music that young people are making more generally.
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Interview with Bulbo TV & Hans Fjellestad
Hans Fjellestad, Omar Foglio, José Luis Figueroa, and Alejandro L. Madrid
Bulbo TV & Hans Fjellestad conversation about the creation of the media project called "Galatea" and its subproject called "Bulbo". The conversation explains the difficulties that the producers confront in their location of Tijuana, Mexico, as well as the audience and purpose of their TV program, which are documentaries related to music.
The recording consists of two different interviews.
- The first interview with Omar Foglio and José Luis Figueroa from Bulbo TV took place in Tijuana, Mexico on 21 May 2004 (ends 00:53:01).
- The second interview with Hans Fjellestad took place in San Diego, CA on 22 May 2004 (begins 00:53:02).
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Interview with Claudia Algara
Claudia Algara and Alejandro L. Madrid
Claudia Algara talks about her art (music, poetry, photography) including themes in her work, collaborations with Nortec, and the influence of that Tijuana has on her work.
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Interview with Hector Falcón
Hector Falcón and Alejandro L. Madrid
Hector Falcon talks about his musical background, sampling and loops, Nortec’s influence on him, Nopal beat records, and the music scene of Tijuana.
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Interview with Iván Díaz Robledo
Iván Díaz Robledo and Alejandro L. Madrid
Iván Díaz Robledo of the Nortec Collective talks about the electronic music scene in Baja California, including experimental music, DJ-ing, collaborations between musicians, parties, and the local drug culture.
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Interview with Jhoana Mora
Jhoana Mora and Alejandro L. Madrid
Jhoana Mora talks about promoting parties and bands and organizing the Esquina Norte International Conference
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Interview with José Luis Martín “VJ Mashaka”
José Luis Martín and Alejandro L. Madrid
José Luis Martín “VJ Mashaka” begins with a discussion about the border between art and academia as a point of departure to discuss the art of VJing, including how it works, the significance of visual culture and ethnography to music, its political and aesthetic value, its past, present, future, and the creation of new ways of understanding through music and his involvement in the Nortec Collective.
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Interview with Manrico Montero "DJ Linga"
Manrico Montero and Alejandro L. Madrid
Manrico Montero "DJ Linga" talks about the Ambient music scene in D.F. Mexico scene vs. International scene, the difference between regional music scenes like Baja California (Nortec) and huge competitive music collectives in Mexico City, the electronic music circuit in Mexico and the relationships and sounds that come from camaraderie in this circuit. Influence of Nortec on international scene.
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Interview with Octavio Castellanos
Octavio Castellanos and Alejandro L. Madrid
Octavio Castellanos talks about the history of Nortec including its defining musical, visual, and symbolic elements, its relationship to the city of Tijuana, key figures, political aspects, and his involvement in the movement.
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Interview with Pedro Gabriel Beas
Pedro Gabriel Beas and Alejandro L. Madrid
Pedro Gabriel Beas (PG Beas) emphasizes the musicianship of electronic music, his various electronic music projects, as well as his involvement with Nortec.
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Interview with Reynaldo Román
Reynaldo Román and Alejandro L. Madrid
Reynaldo Román discusses his role as an organizer in the student run "Proyecto de Foco," a month long festival celebrating Latin American culture sponsored by the Cultural Studies Program at Columbia College in Chicago.
The objective of the event is to showcase the vanguard of art, design, and music in Latin America (Argentina, Mexico, and Puerto Rico) and to use these fields as a point of departure to contemplate contemporary social issues.
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Interview with Rubén Mirada Tovar
Rubén Mirada Tovar and Alejandro L. Madrid
Rubén Mirada Tovar talks about the evolution of the Tijuana music scene.
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Interview with Salvador "Sal" Vázquez Ricalde
Salvador "Sal" Vázquez Ricalde and Alejandro L. Madrid
![Interview with Leslie Garcia (Microhm [μΩ]) 01 by Leslie Garcia and Alejandro L. Madrid](https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/alejandromadrid/1020/thumbnail.jpg "Interview with Leslie Garcia (Microhm [μΩ]) 01 by Leslie Garcia and Alejandro L. Madrid")
![Interview with Leslie Garcia (Microhm [μΩ]) 02 by Leslie Garcia and Alejandro L. Madrid](https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/alejandromadrid/1021/thumbnail.jpg "Interview with Leslie Garcia (Microhm [μΩ]) 02 by Leslie Garcia and Alejandro L. Madrid")
