Now serving: Tech-Mex. Pioneering artists based in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Spain are mixing the music of their heritage with club-culture beats for a spicy new blend known as Latintronica

“Electronic and Latin music would seem to reside at polar ends of the music spectrum. One is precise, the other passionate. One is the brutalist Bauhaus beats of Kraftwerk, the other is the languid romanticism of the Buena Vista Social Club.

Yet a wave of electro-Latin music — dubbed Latintronica in some quarters — is bridging the yawning divide. With roots in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Spain, pioneering Latintronica artists are merging the rhythms of their homeland with the music of global club culture. The results are often a savvy and soulful marriage of two musical worlds.”

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