Discover Argentina’s Prolific Underground Rock Scene
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# Discover Argentina’s Prolific Underground Rock Scene
Experimental rock music has a long tradition in Argentina. In 1973,
Billy Bond Y La Pesada Del Rock And Roll released *[Tontos][1]{:
target="_blank"}*, a proto-punk and musique concrète album, and in the
early '80s, the post-punk underground exploded in Argentina with a
proliferation of great bands like Los Corrosivos, Los Pillos, Todos Tus
Muertos, Mimilocos and La Sobrecarga. This music has never achieved
mainstream popularity, yet it never died. It's a dark reflection of the
city that connects with the culture of tango, which has retained its
original tragic and nocturnal sensibility despite the creation of new
versions that are geared toward tourists. It's been nine years since we
last lived in Buenos Aires full-time and there are still hundreds of
bands we don't know much about, but what follows is a survey of some of
the bands we do know and like. For anyone looking to go deeper, we
recommend [*South America is Part of the Problem*][2]{:
target="_blank"}, a compilation of underground music from the region
released by Stereo Neg earlier this year.
## Alan Courtis
Alan Courtis (sometimes stylized Anla Courtis) is an ex-member of
Reynols, the most important Argentinian experimental band ever, which is
famous all over the world for its unique conceptual approach. Its
drummer/lead vocalist had Down Syndrome. They made [one album][3]{:
target="_blank"} by amplifying and processing the hiss of blank tapes
and [another][4]{: target="_blank"} from field recordings of a chicken
farm. Courtis has released many albums of shamanic noise music since the
Reynols broke up, including collaborations with Acid Mothers Temple
founder [Makoto Kawabata][5]{: target="_blank"} and Sonic Youth's Lee
Ranaldo.
[Reynols - alclorse mogal 06][6]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener
noreferrer"}
## Mujercitas Terror
There are good bands, and there are bands that are more like alternative
universes. Marrying darkness and furious energy with intricate melodies
and a romantic sensibility, [Mujercitas Terror][7]{: target="_blank"}
falls into the second and rarer category. The group's lyrics can be read
as poems or as chapters in a never-ending novel. They've released two
albums so far, and according to [Bandcamp][8]{: target="_blank"}, their
third, *Fiesta Muda*, dropped yesterday. Carmen used to play keyboards
with them.
[Mujercitas Terror - Mujercitas Terror (2007) (Disco completo)][9]{:
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
## Travesti
Alejandro Torres and Fernando Floxon started their ¨hallucinatory
laboratory¨ in the early 2000s. Since then, they've released
several unique and totally essential efforts. The duo's sound has been
very influential in the last decade and perpetually mutates. As an
experimental band with a rock 'n' roll heart and a punk instinct for
confrontation, almost any sound can be and has been integrated into
their music. Their shows are legendary psychedelic affairs involving
free improvisation and noise over a relentless dance/kraut/punk pulse.
The above track is taken from their most ritualistic album, *Áxito*,
which was released in 2004.
[TRAVESTI AXITO adn a][10]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
## Uno X Uno
These guys are real veterans, and theirs is the only band from Buenos
Aires' underground explosion in the late '70s and early '80s that never
broke up. They somehow managed to retreat to their suburban home, build
a studio and quietly continue with their work. True experimenters, their
work is always unpredictable, from their early industrial stuff to
modern electronics, acoustic ballads with jazz drumming, ambient music
and beyond. Way in their 60s and as uncompromising as ever, the members
of [Uno X Uno][11]{: target="_blank"} continue to release great music
and play almost-secret shows.
[UNO X UNO - 02 - Saturno 5][12]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener
noreferrer"}
## Olfa Meocorde
Psychedelic in the sense of the Butthole Surfers,[Olfa Meocorde][13]{:
target="_blank"} is truly one of the wildest, fiercest bands we've ever
seen. They marry a wicked sense of humor with an ability to play,
corrode and fuck up myriad styles of rock music, and they've released
lots of noisy tapes and three song-oriented albums in 15 years.
[Olfa Meocorde - Jesus / Las mujeres][14]{: target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"}
## Pablo Reche
Pablo Reche is a solo noise artist who works with field recordings and
electronic feedback. He has released nine LPs and dozens of EPs via
labels all over the world since 1999.
[Pablo Reche - Gira (Full album)][15]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener
noreferrer"}
## DHD
[DHD][16]{: target="_blank"} are obviously influenced by noise rock and
industrial music but produce a very stark, bleak brand of electronic
rock. They're impossibly fierce live and apparently determined to leave
audiences deaf. I saw them clear out a room in a skinhead club in five
minutes. Live, their music may seem like just a (great) wall of harsh
noise, but they're actually playing songs, and if you dig into any of
their albums you'll find that they're unexpectedly catchy songs, despite
the dirty-realism subject matter of the lyrics.
[SoundCloud Track][17]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
## Minimalista País
[Minimalista País][18]{: target="_blank"}' early stuff is reminiscent of
Colin Newman's solo albums. Now they've developed their own unique
sound, which is showcased on the [PSH Ediziones][19]{: target="_blank"}
record label. Worth checking out.
[SoundCloud Track (137925071)][20]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener
noreferrer"}
## Zeitan
These guys opened for us last year in their town, Córdoba. They're
signed to the same local label that's also released some of DHD's
material, [Cruz Discos][21]{: target="_blank"}. We know nothing about
this band. We only know that they sound fantastic and you should listen
to them.
[ZEITAN - Via luminosa (Album completo)][22]{: target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"}
## Cuzcos
[Cuzcos][23]{: target="_blank"} is a man-and-woman duo who play drums
and bass guitar to make short, repetitive songs that are like
misanthropic meditations and calls for social unrest. They have a very
distinctive sound, somewhat like OM attempting to cover anarcho-punk
songs. You're better off listening to them and deciding for yourself.
The singer's electronic side project, Cunnus Cranco, is worth checking
out too.
[Cuzcos - El Triunfo Del Fracaso (2015) \[Full Album\]][24]{:
target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
## Compañero Asma
Hernán Espejo, a guitar player in legendary extreme metal and crossover
bands, has been recording under the alias Compañero Asma for more than
15 years. His songs number in the hundreds and cover an incredible range
of sounds and languages; he uses Spanish, French and English. He also
incorporates a lot of influences, like krautrock, intelligent pop, bossa
nova, folk, psychedelia and classic rock. It's all bound up by a strong
melodic instinct and Espejo's unmistakable voice and guitar playing.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2JwvE6qb4][25]
## Tildaflipers
[Tildaflipers][26]{: target="_blank"} was formed by veterans of several
hardcore and post rock bands and lead by Tomas Spicolli, an artist who
remains crucial in the development of DIY culture and street art in
Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. Its main influence is dub, but instead of
sticking to the genre, the band took its premises and techniques and ran
away with them to make a sound of their own. They can end up sounding
like pop sometimes, although they're coming from the opposite end of the
spectrum.
[Tildaflipers - Peron Digital][27]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener
noreferrer"}
## Di Giovannis
A young, dark-punk duo with a drum machine and lots of ¨anger = energy,"
[Di Giovannis][28]{: target="_blank"} took their name from one of the
greatest, bravest and most tragic anarchist heroes in Argentinian
history, Severino Di Giovanni. Their namesake was an underground
publisher, bank robber, anti-fascist activist, ¨idealist of violence¨
and former public enemy number one who was sentenced to death and
executed just before he turned 30.
[Di Giovannis - El Rojo Río (Sesiones Del Monte)][29]{: target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"}
## José Unidos
[José Unidos][30]{: target="_blank"} is a band, not a solo artist. José
Unidos was the alias credited to the prodcuer of the most universally
hated Clash album, *Cut the Crap*. Their music is very song-oriented and
elegant, with guitar riffs like melodic razor blades in the tradition of
Andy Gill and Will Sergeant. José Unidos has a particular Buenos Aires
quality you can't quite put your finger on, but it's there.
[José Unidos - Un Crucero][31]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener
noreferrer"}
## Nebularia
[Nebularia][32]{: target="_blank"} is landscape music: improvisation
with analog electronics and psychedelics in search of some kind of
godless illumination. They made the album *el título no puede expresar
el enigma* in collaboration with their friends Paises Bajos.
[SoundCloud Track (224155406)][33]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener
noreferrer"}
## Chillan Las Bestias
No one in [this band][34]{: target="_blank"} is from Buenos Aires. Three
of them are from Bariloche (where the Nazis hid after World War II), one
of them is from Uruguay, and the others are from Peru. Yet no other band
on this list sounds closer to the flagship music of Buenos Aires, tango.
Think Tindersticks meets \[Argentinian tango singer\] Edmundo Rivero or
Tom Waits lost in the Buenos Aires underbelly, hanging with sailors and
prostitutes around the port in the '50s.
[Chillan Las Bestias][35]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
## PAAR
[PAAR][36]{: target="_blank"} layers the spoken word of almost-deaf
poet, DJ and writer Nicolás Domínguez Bedini over improvised, meditative
rock mantras. The band features Fernando Lamas, a very influential
musician and producer who's been active since the '90s.
## El Mal
Part of a new scene that marries minimal electronics with anarchist
ideals, [El Mal][37]{: target="_blank"} is a duo based in Buenos Aires
that plays dark electronic songs.
[SoundCloud Track][38]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"}
[1]: http://www.discogs.com/Billy-Bond-Y-La-Pesada-Del-Rock-And-Roll-Vol-3-Tontos-Operita-20-De-Octubre-De-1972/release/3017169
[2]: https://stereonegrecords.bandcamp.com/releases
[3]: http://www.discogs.com/Reynols-Blank-Tapes/release/325745
[4]: http://www.discogs.com/Reynols-10000-Chickens-Symphony/master/710
[5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyI4LSss_vM
[6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB7gmdN3OHU
[7]: https://mujercitasterror.bandcamp.com/album/excavaciones
[8]: http://mujercitasterror.bandcamp.com/
[9]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPnm7qr1mXU
[10]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhdFfhi-lWc
[11]: https://priusdiscos.bandcamp.com/album/impresionante
[12]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjAyZccpZMI
[13]: https://olfameocorde.bandcamp.com/album/olfilaci-n
[14]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkjplYqCyl4
[15]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X51xxoquMHg
[16]: https://dhdteama.bandcamp.com/album/nuevas-formas-de-diversion
[17]: https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/112704115
[18]: https://pshediziones.bandcamp.com/album/minimalista-pais-e-p-2
[19]: https://pshediziones.bandcamp.com/
[20]: https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/137925071
[21]: https://cruzdiscos.bandcamp.com/album/los-zeitan-via-luminosa
[22]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pStxMPSwDAo
[23]: https://cuzcos.bandcamp.com/
[24]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0-o-MdMdjM
[25]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2JwvE6qb4
[26]: https://tildaflipers.bandcamp.com/
[27]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_LWztbn23I
[28]: https://digiovannis.bandcamp.com
[29]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObLskYew4Ig
[30]: https://joseunidos.bandcamp.com/album/administraci-n
[31]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJjP5fopqSQ
[32]: https://priusdiscos.bandcamp.com/album/el-t-tulo-no-puede-expresar-el-enigma
[33]: https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224155406
[34]: https://chillanlasbestias.bandcamp.com/
[35]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjt33kh7KyE
[36]: https://paar.bandcamp.com/
[37]: https://el-mal.bandcamp.com/album/jornada-espiritual-v-i-p
[38]: https://api.soundcloud.com/users/220355814
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text: '<p>Experimental rock music has a long tradition in Argentina. In 1973, Billy Bond Y La Pesada Del Rock And Roll released <em><a href="http://www.discogs.com/Billy-Bond-Y-La-Pesada-Del-Rock-And-Roll-Vol-3-Tontos-Operita-20-De-Octubre-De-1972/release/3017169" target="_blank">Tontos</a></em>, a proto-punk and musique concrète album, and in the early ‘80s, the post-punk underground exploded in Argentina with a proliferation of great bands like Los Corrosivos, Los Pillos, Todos Tus Muertos, Mimilocos and La Sobrecarga. This music has never achieved mainstream popularity, yet it never died. It’s a dark reflection of the city that connects with the culture of tango, which has retained its original tragic and nocturnal sensibility despite the creation of new versions that are geared toward tourists. It’s been nine years since we last lived in Buenos Aires full-time and there are still hundreds of bands we don’t know much about, but what follows is a survey of some of the bands we do know and like. For anyone looking to go deeper, we recommend <a href="https://stereonegrecords.bandcamp.com/releases" target="_blank"><em>South America is Part of the Problem</em></a>, a compilation of underground music from the region released by Stereo Neg earlier this year.</p><h2>Alan Courtis</h2><p>Alan Courtis (sometimes stylized Anla Courtis) is an ex-member of Reynols, the most important Argentinian experimental band ever, which is famous all over the world for its unique conceptual approach. Its drummer/lead vocalist had Down Syndrome. They made <a href="http://www.discogs.com/Reynols-Blank-Tapes/release/325745" target="_blank">one album</a> by amplifying and processing the hiss of blank tapes and <a href="http://www.discogs.com/Reynols-10000-Chickens-Symphony/master/710" target="_blank">another</a> from field recordings of a chicken farm. Courtis has released many albums of shamanic noise music since the Reynols broke up, including collaborations with Acid Mothers Temple founder <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyI4LSss_vM" target="_blank">Makoto Kawabata</a> and Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB7gmdN3OHU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reynols - alclorse mogal 06</a></p><h2>Mujercitas Terror</h2><p>There are good bands, and there are bands that are more like alternative universes. Marrying darkness and furious energy with intricate melodies and a romantic sensibility, <a href="https://mujercitasterror.bandcamp.com/album/excavaciones" target="_blank">Mujercitas Terror</a> falls into the second and rarer category. The group’s lyrics can be read as poems or as chapters in a never-ending novel. They’ve released two albums so far, and according to <a href="http://mujercitasterror.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Bandcamp</a>, their third, <em>Fiesta Muda</em>, dropped yesterday. Carmen used to play keyboards with them.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPnm7qr1mXU" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mujercitas Terror - Mujercitas Terror (2007) (Disco completo)</a></p><h2>Travesti</h2><p>Alejandro Torres and Fernando Floxon started their ¨hallucinatory laboratory¨ in the early 2000s. Since then, they’ve released several unique and totally essential efforts. The duo’s sound has been very influential in the last decade and perpetually mutates. As an experimental band with a rock ‘n’ roll heart and a punk instinct for confrontation, almost any sound can be and has been integrated into their music. Their shows are legendary psychedelic affairs involving free improvisation and noise over a relentless dance/kraut/punk pulse. The above track is taken from their most ritualistic album, <em>Áxito</em>, which was released in 2004.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhdFfhi-lWc" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">TRAVESTI AXITO adn a</a></p><h2>Uno X Uno</h2><p>These guys are real veterans, and theirs is the only band from Buenos Aires’ underground explosion in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s that never broke up. They somehow managed to retreat to their suburban home, build a studio and quietly continue with their work. True experimenters, their work is always unpredictable, from their early industrial stuff to modern electronics, acoustic ballads with jazz drumming, ambient music and beyond. Way in their 60s and as uncompromising as ever, the members of <a href="https://priusdiscos.bandcamp.com/album/impresionante" target="_blank">Uno X Uno</a> continue to release great music and play almost-secret shows.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjAyZccpZMI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">UNO X UNO - 02 - Saturno 5</a></p><h2>Olfa Meocorde</h2><p>Psychedelic in the sense of the Butthole Surfers,<a href="https://olfameocorde.bandcamp.com/album/olfilaci-n" target="_blank">Olfa Meocorde</a> is truly one of the wildest, fiercest bands we’ve ever seen. They marry a wicked sense of humor with an ability to play, corrode and fuck up myriad styles of rock music, and they’ve released lots of noisy tapes and three song-oriented albums in 15 years.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkjplYqCyl4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Olfa Meocorde - Jesus / Las mujeres</a></p><h2>Pablo Reche</h2><p>Pablo Reche is a solo noise artist who works with field recordings and electronic feedback. He has released nine LPs and dozens of EPs via labels all over the world since 1999.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X51xxoquMHg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pablo Reche - Gira (Full album)</a></p><h2>DHD</h2><p><a href="https://dhdteama.bandcamp.com/album/nuevas-formas-de-diversion" target="_blank">DHD</a> are obviously influenced by noise rock and industrial music but produce a very stark, bleak brand of electronic rock. They’re impossibly fierce live and apparently determined to leave audiences deaf. I saw them clear out a room in a skinhead club in five minutes. Live, their music may seem like just a (great) wall of harsh noise, but they’re actually playing songs, and if you dig into any of their albums you’ll find that they’re unexpectedly catchy songs, despite the dirty-realism subject matter of the lyrics.</p><p><a href="https://api.soundcloud.com/playlists/112704115" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SoundCloud Track</a></p><h2>Minimalista País</h2><p><a href="https://pshediziones.bandcamp.com/album/minimalista-pais-e-p-2" target="_blank">Minimalista País</a>’ early stuff is reminiscent of Colin Newman’s solo albums. Now they’ve developed their own unique sound, which is showcased on the <a href="https://pshediziones.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">PSH Ediziones</a> record label. Worth checking out.</p><p><a href="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/137925071" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SoundCloud Track (137925071)</a></p><h2>Zeitan</h2><p>These guys opened for us last year in their town, Córdoba. They’re signed to the same local label that’s also released some of DHD’s material, <a href="https://cruzdiscos.bandcamp.com/album/los-zeitan-via-luminosa" target="_blank">Cruz Discos</a>. We know nothing about this band. We only know that they sound fantastic and you should listen to them.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pStxMPSwDAo" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ZEITAN - Via luminosa (Album completo)</a></p><h2>Cuzcos</h2><p><a href="https://cuzcos.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Cuzcos</a> is a man-and-woman duo who play drums and bass guitar to make short, repetitive songs that are like misanthropic meditations and calls for social unrest. They have a very distinctive sound, somewhat like OM attempting to cover anarcho-punk songs. You’re better off listening to them and deciding for yourself. The singer’s electronic side project, Cunnus Cranco, is worth checking out too.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0-o-MdMdjM" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Cuzcos - El Triunfo Del Fracaso (2015) [Full Album]</a></p><h2>Compañero Asma</h2><p>Hernán Espejo, a guitar player in legendary extreme metal and crossover bands, has been recording under the alias Compañero Asma for more than 15 years. His songs number in the hundreds and cover an incredible range of sounds and languages; he uses Spanish, French and English. He also incorporates a lot of influences, like krautrock, intelligent pop, bossa nova, folk, psychedelia and classic rock. It’s all bound up by a strong melodic instinct and Espejo’s unmistakable voice and guitar playing.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2JwvE6qb4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE2JwvE6qb4</a></p><h2>Tildaflipers</h2><p><a href="https://tildaflipers.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Tildaflipers</a> was formed by veterans of several hardcore and post rock bands and lead by Tomas Spicolli, an artist who remains crucial in the development of DIY culture and street art in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. Its main influence is dub, but instead of sticking to the genre, the band took its premises and techniques and ran away with them to make a sound of their own. They can end up sounding like pop sometimes, although they’re coming from the opposite end of the spectrum.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_LWztbn23I" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tildaflipers - Peron Digital</a></p><h2>Di Giovannis</h2><p>A young, dark-punk duo with a drum machine and lots of ¨anger = energy,” <a href="https://digiovannis.bandcamp.com" target="_blank">Di Giovannis</a> took their name from one of the greatest, bravest and most tragic anarchist heroes in Argentinian history, Severino Di Giovanni. Their namesake was an underground publisher, bank robber, anti-fascist activist, ¨idealist of violence¨ and former public enemy number one who was sentenced to death and executed just before he turned 30.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObLskYew4Ig" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Di Giovannis - El Rojo Río (Sesiones Del Monte)</a></p><h2>José Unidos</h2><p><a href="https://joseunidos.bandcamp.com/album/administraci-n" target="_blank">José Unidos</a> is a band, not a solo artist. José Unidos was the alias credited to the prodcuer of the most universally hated Clash album, <em>Cut the Crap</em>. Their music is very song-oriented and elegant, with guitar riffs like melodic razor blades in the tradition of Andy Gill and Will Sergeant. José Unidos has a particular Buenos Aires quality you can’t quite put your finger on, but it’s there.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJjP5fopqSQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">José Unidos - Un Crucero</a></p><h2>Nebularia</h2><p><a href="https://priusdiscos.bandcamp.com/album/el-t-tulo-no-puede-expresar-el-enigma" target="_blank">Nebularia</a> is landscape music: improvisation with analog electronics and psychedelics in search of some kind of godless illumination. They made the album <em>el título no puede expresar el enigma</em> in collaboration with their friends Paises Bajos.</p><p><a href="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224155406" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SoundCloud Track (224155406)</a></p><h2>Chillan Las Bestias</h2><p>No one in <a href="https://chillanlasbestias.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">this band</a> is from Buenos Aires. Three of them are from Bariloche (where the Nazis hid after World War II), one of them is from Uruguay, and the others are from Peru. Yet no other band on this list sounds closer to the flagship music of Buenos Aires, tango. Think Tindersticks meets [Argentinian tango singer] Edmundo Rivero or Tom Waits lost in the Buenos Aires underbelly, hanging with sailors and prostitutes around the port in the ‘50s.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjt33kh7KyE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Chillan Las Bestias</a></p><h2>PAAR</h2><p><a href="https://paar.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">PAAR</a> layers the spoken word of almost-deaf poet, DJ and writer Nicolás Domínguez Bedini over improvised, meditative rock mantras. The band features Fernando Lamas, a very influential musician and producer who’s been active since the ‘90s.</p><h2>El Mal</h2><p>Part of a new scene that marries minimal electronics with anarchist ideals, <a href="https://el-mal.bandcamp.com/album/jornada-espiritual-v-i-p" target="_blank">El Mal</a> is a duo based in Buenos Aires that plays dark electronic songs.</p><p><a href="https://api.soundcloud.com/users/220355814" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SoundCloud Track</a></p>'
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# Discover Argentina’s Prolific Underground Rock Scene Experimental rock music has a long tradition in Argentina. In 1973, Billy Bond Y La Pesada Del Rock And Roll released *[Tontos][1]{: target="_blank"}*, a proto-punk and musique concrète album, and in the early '80s, the post-punk underg...
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It's been nine years since we last lived in Buenos Aires full-time and there are still hundreds of bands we don't know much about, but what follows is a survey of some of the bands we do know and like. For anyone looking to go deeper, we recommend [*South America is Part of the Problem*][2]{: tar...
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Courtis has released many albums of shamanic noise music since the Reynols broke up, including collaborations with Acid Mothers Temple founder [Makoto Kawabata][5]{: target="_blank"} and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo. [Reynols - alclorse mogal 06][6]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener nor...
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Carmen used to play keyboards with them. [Mujercitas Terror - Mujercitas Terror (2007) (Disco completo)][9]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} . ## Travesti Alejandro Torres and Fernando Floxon started their ¨hallucinatory laboratory¨ in the early 2000s. Since then, they've released s...
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The above track is taken from their most ritualistic album, *Áxito*, which was released in 2004. [TRAVESTI AXITO adn a][10]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} . ## Uno X Uno These guys are real veterans, and theirs is the only band from Buenos Aires' underground explosion in the late ...
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Way in their 60s and as uncompromising as ever, the members of [Uno X Uno][11]{: target="_blank"} continue to release great music and play almost-secret shows. [UNO X UNO - 02 - Saturno 5][12]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} . ## Olfa Meocorde Psychedelic in the sense of the B...
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They marry a wicked sense of humor with an ability to play, corrode and fuck up myriad styles of rock music, and they've released lots of noisy tapes and three song-oriented albums in 15 years. [Olfa Meocorde - Jesus / Las mujeres][14]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} . ## ...
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He has released nine LPs and dozens of EPs via labels all over the world since 1999. [Pablo Reche - Gira (Full album)][15]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} . ## DHD [DHD][16]{: target="_blank"} are obviously influenced by noise rock and industrial music but produce a very stark, ble...
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Live, their music may seem like just a (great) wall of harsh noise, but they're actually playing songs, and if you dig into any of their albums you'll find that they're unexpectedly catchy songs, despite the dirty-realism subject matter of the lyrics. [SoundCloud Track][17]{: target="_blank" rel=...
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Worth checking out. [SoundCloud Track (137925071)][20]{: target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"} . ## Zeitan These guys opened for us last year in their town, Córdoba. They're signed to the same local label that's also released some of DHD's material, [Cruz Discos][21]{: target="_blank"}. We...
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