Latinsizer

BIO
Latinsizer basically is a bunch of sincroniced drum machines and synths controlled by pepe mogt.
Started around 1999 and with one Album and 12 inch records(ritmo 55 CD and NOMADA EP 12 inch), a combination of the melodic work of early synth Pop classics and the grit of urban Tijuana
Pepe Mogt has released material with his diferent alias on Because Music(france), Nacional Records(US), Palm pictures label (Tijuana Sessions vol 1), Mil records, Sonic 360 and Nettwerk labels, and has also done remixes and colaborations for Ennio Morricone for a Compost Records, Experimental music pioner Pauline Oliveros, Beck, Toby Dammit, Jessie Evans, Lucrecia(Colombia), Lenny kravitz, Rigo Tovar, 1 Giant Leap, Alan Parsons, David J (Love and Rockets) and Mambotur among others.
Latinsizer live
LATINSIZER VIDEO CLIP / Celofán
Tomatoes, Drum Machines, Onions, Knobs, Lettuce, Analog Synths, Beef,
Cables, Tortillas, Chilly and Nurses
More about Latinsizer Music go to:
www.latinsizer.com
ALBUM REVIEW
Title: Ritmo55 - Mil(Grooves Magazine, may 2005)
A member of the Nortec Collective and proprietor of the Mil label, Pepe Mogt is easily among the most visible of Latin American experimental producers. Best known for his work in the industrial band Artefakto, as well as for his releases under the Fussible moniker, Ritmo55 marks another milestone in Mogts development, the first full-length from the Latinsizer alias. Drawing clear influences from traditional Mexican idioms, classic analog synthesis, and contemporary indie-tronics, the album manages to conceal its ingredients quite well. Vintage beatboxes and analog synths give the songs a juicy, exciting tone, especially when line noise from said devices is audible.
Review by: John H DeGroot
Title: Latinsizer live at Mutek CD Its amazing what difference a package can make. The liner notes of the previous Latinsizer album, Ritmo55, relied heavily on hand-painted portraits of various vintage synths and rhythm machines, rendered in the traditional style of old Tijuana. Live at MUTEK.MX uses those same paintings for its cover, but filtered through a series of video screens that pixilate and distort the images slightly. The result is a package that sways the chronological ambiguity of the songs: While Latinsizer sounded earthy and nostalgic on Ritmo55, the more contemporary digipak of Live casts a cooler, more-streamlined pallor on it. On an initial listen, I didnt even recognize that half the tracks on the new disc were taken from Ritmo55, as the minimally treated originals are blended with newer remixes and unreleased tracks. Such is the craft of Pepe Mogt and the rest of the Nortec Collective that he helped create, straddling the border fence between past and future, tradition and innovation. Delivered in one continuous mix, Live at MUTEK.MX was recorded at Mexico Citys inaugural edition of the ever-expanding Canadian festival. Mogt keeps an upbeat pace onstage, stuffing 12 tracks into a 47-minute set while maintaining a sense of natural permutation from song to song. Vigia, Ensamble De Lupe, and Fon sound like one coherent whole, beginning the album with burbling, step-modulated synths and hissing hi-hats. If the majestic (and presumably unreleased) 0505 is an indicator of the quality of future Latinsizer releases, theres good news on the horizon; the layered electric piano and vocal harmonies are sublime, bringing to mind the pop sounds of vintage Kraftwerk. Mogts experiences as a member of industrial outfit Artefakto are reflected in the latter half of his set, beginning with the Paladium Mix of Dr. Punkie, a banging, abrasive 4/4 rocker with an EBM bass line. This darker aesthetic continues through Centro and Disel, two acidic, throbbing cuts that must have had Mutek security on orange alert; they would make worthy releases on the Goodlife or Deejay Gigolo labels. The original version of Dr. Punkie is the discs denouement, all twisted guitars and 808s, an electro-rock piece that recontextualizes all that came before it. At times fierce, sentimental, and vibrant, Live at MUTEK.MX is undeniable proof of the continued vitality of both live electronics and contemporary Mexican music. Name: John H DeGroot GROOVES MAGAZINE
LATINSIZER
Propuesta de corte sintético en la cual Pepe Mogt crea su música a partir de herramientas básicas.
La escencia de Latinsizer, podria ser un encuentro entre las armonías de corte pop, maquinas y las calles de TijuanaTitle: Latinsizer Ritmo 55 (Mil Records) 2004 Latinsizer es el proyecto del oriundo de Tijuana: Pepe Mogt , uno de los cerebros por detrás del colectivo Nortec y , sin duda, uno de sus integrantes mas carismáticos. En este caso sin los samples norteños que utiliza para su grupo Fussible y con la exclusividad de usar viejos syntes análogos. La del álbum muestra a las máquinas, usadas en el disco, reproducidas y pintadas a mano por un rotulista de Tijuana. El disco tiene mucho de ese de tratar de ponerle el costado humano a la electrónica y un tinte localista. Si bien el suso de viejos aparatos le da un sonido vintage, produce mas cierta idea de melancolia que de cosa retro. Algo de aquella máquina humana de la que hablaban nuestros ancestros los Kraftwerk.
Resena por Gustavo Lamas
MANAGEMENT/BOOKING Mexico:
Kaiman entretenimiento
http://www.myspace.com/kaimanentretenimiento
EUROPE BOOKING Run productions
http://www.myspace.com/runproductions