Mexicans With Guns
Mexicans With Guns is the incredibly raw and exciting discovery of Exponential Records label head Ernest Gonzales. The story is that EG left San Antonio in search of a new sound…his journey lead him to the cutty edges of Mexico. There he found a man behind a mysterious mexcian wrestling mask tearing down the streets with big bass and a nasty swag. They came back to the US in Feb when MwG began his onslaught; breaking out remixes for the likes of Rainbow Arabia, CYNE, Faunts, Yppah, Bassnectar as well as unsanctioned remixes of Animal Collective and Major Lazer and shared the stage with the likes of Peanut Butter Wolf, Daedelus, Eliot Lipp. Mux Mool, Jogger and more.
Mexicans With Guns 12″ “Me Gusto”
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Ernest Gonzales is from Texas. San Antonio, Texas. A barren land where the Mexicans and Texans duked it out on a stretch of days in late February/early March 1836 to gain control of southeast Texas. Better known as the Battle of The Alamo, this event has become the cornerstone of Texian folklore and a pre-cursor to what you’re about to listen to in the coming year.
Mexicans with Guns review in Groovemine
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Reviewed by Mat Lindenberg at Groovemine:
“If the opening seconds of ‘Dame Lo’ hold any clues to the future of mysterious one-man project, Mexicans with Guns, then I’m pretty stoked to see what follows on this EP.
Over a rattling re-sampled latin guitar, spliced vocals, and maracas, “Dame Lo” builds and builds and teases for more then a minute before it finally drops that same low-end, car shaking bass that’s more or less ubiquitous in any music today that involves even the hint of a laptop or synthesizer.
It’s a pure crowd-pleaser, but it’s the perfect lead in to the sort of bass-tinged ranch ghetto-tech of Mexicans With Guns, one half sharp club sensibilities, one half aggressive Latin influenced experimentation.
Also included is the no less interesting “Los Perritos,” which lives up to its name by heavily sampling barking dogs, and three versions of early single Me Gusto. The one featuring Marquitos Garcia, who founded retro-funk collective Chico Mann, is easily the best, but the Ghost in Tapes remix is no slouch, stretching a three minute fiesta-ready barnstormer into a mostly unrecognizable epic that nicely compliments the other, more grounded, tracks.”
Mexicans With Guns in LA June 11
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We got word that San Antonio resident, Ernest Gonzales is going to be in the City of Angels this weekend and performing a set on Friday June, 11th at Senor Fish in downtown LA. Mexicans With Guns “Me Gusto” single is out in stores now and being played on BBC Radio One.
And our homie, Jeff Weiss, just released an interview at LA Times blog. Read here:
“Like Ernest Worthing, the protagonist of Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” Ernest Gonzales leads a double life. Most of the time, he goes by his given name, the identity of the introspective and sensitive soul behind last year’s “Been Meaning to Tell You.” Released on local label Friends of Friends, it was ideal after-the-high music, the soundtrack to the desolation and disorientation of sleeplessness and depleted serotonin.
With cuts like “Purple Heart,” “We Can Live in a Forest,” and “Dancing in the Snow,” it circled the intersection of the Postal Service and Daedelus, with beats that hummed with the low-lidded glow of 4 a.m. streetlights and a songwriting craft often absent in electronic music.
Then there is Mexican with Guns, a luchador-mask-sporting alter ego who makes adamantine beats that sound like dubstep remixes of Baltimore club tracks made by a man who may or may not have assassinated Herb Alpert in a fit of rage. Listening to his “Me Gusto” 12-inch released by Stones Throw subsidiary Innovative Leisure, one would assume that Mexicans with Guns had clamped Gonzales in a figure-four leg lock and imprisoned him in a room with nothing but Ableton software, a crate full of dusty mariachi records and undisclosed stimulants, with the orders to make the soundtrack to watching 48 consecutive hours of lucha libre.
The boss of his own Exponential Records — San Antonio’s premier purveyors of “electronic music for humans” — Gonzales’ doppelganger comes to Los Angeles this Friday to play “Buena Suerte: A Benefit for No More Deaths (No Mas Muertes),” along with Alpha Pup-artist Take. In advance of the show, he spoke to Pop & Hiss about lucha libre, the creation of his alias and his favorite action film.” More of the interview!
“Dame Lo” by Mexicans with Guns
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