Mexican Institute Of Sound & Ritmos Tropicosmos
MEXICAN INSTITUE OF SOUND
This brainchild of Camilo Lara creates irresistible beats for the global dance floor. At home in Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Lagos, Mumbai, or New York, Camilo’s music can be heard in any of the new capitals of world culture. His live shows can only be described as punk performances that bring down the house every single time. This ethos has taken him around the globe, performing in every single continent.
His work has landed him 1 Grammy and 4 Latin Grammy nominations, and he has produced artists ranging from Los Angeles Azules (scoring the bestselling Mexican album of the last 25 years, 8 times diamond-certified sales), Lila Downs, Norah Jones, and Band of Horses. He has remixed Beck, the Beastie Boys, Interpol, Run the Jewels among others.
RITMOS TROPICOSMOS
Ritmos Tropicosmos is a seven-piece psychedelic cumbia group, from Oakland, creating heavy tropical rhythms with an emphasis on live percussion, synthesizers and familial stories put into song. Together in a time-warped crossroads of electric and acoustic instrumentation, Ritmos Tropicosmos stands somewhere within the traditional rhythms of the past and the futuristic soundscapes of The Now.