Dr. Alejandro Madrid, Professor of Music, Cornell University (NY) donated dozens of field recordings of music events that he documented and analyzed for his book Nor-tec Rifa!: Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World.
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Interview with Alejandro Lopez
Alejandro Lopez and Alejandro L. Madrid
Alejandro Lopez 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 and Alejandro L. Madrid
Bulbo TV & Hans Fjellestad conversation about the creation of the media project called Galatea and it’s subproject called Bulbo. It explains the difficulties that the producers confront in their location, Tijuana. As well as the audience and purpose of their TV program, which are documentaries related to music.
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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 Falcon
Hector Falcon 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 Ivan Diaz Robledo
Ivan Diaz Robledo and Alejandro L. Madrid
Ivan Diaz 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 Jhoanna Mora
Jhoanna 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 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 PG 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 Reinaldo Ramon
Reinaldo Ramon and Alejandro L. Madrid
Reinaldo Ramon 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 Ruben Mirada
Ruben Mirada and Alejandro L. Madrid
Ruben Mirada talks about the evolution of the Tijuana music scene.
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Interview with VJ Mashka
VJ Mashka and Alejandro L. Madrid
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.
![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")
