NORTE©
I'm doing my presentation today but I won't have time to put in everything. ...
Here's a really interesting article I found about the beginnings of Nortec Music - How it got started, who started it, what became of it.... and all before the creation of Nortec Collective.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010611/fnortec.html
At the end of the 90's no one was really interested... it took until 2001 to really get it going. Pepe Mogt and his friend Melo Ruíz went from a band Artefakto (which broke up) and started experimenting with techno under the name Fussible. They started combining it with Norteño music. "Amezcua premiered a track called Polaris that earned him the unlikely title of Godfather of Nortec. Loud, sometimes dissonant but full of complicated rhythm and humor, Polaris is a dance-floor hit that sounds like nothing so much as a strange circus arriving in an even stranger town. It captured Tijuana perfectly"(Time article).
This is something new that Pepe Mogt did.... it's very different... but I like it... calm, chill, and the visuals are amazing. I want one of these statues in my yard!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0E6Fyrm4Ws
I feel as though Nortec stems from, or is an example of all the new forms of fusion music coming from out of the West Coast. Genres like dubstep and especially trance had started in California in the early 2000's as this sort of neo-house music, and seeing as Nortec started in Tijuana, it's not hard to believe that it could've been apart of that fusion music movement
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