Title: NORTEC: "Tengo La Voz" (Music Video)
Description: Nortec Collective's Most Outstanding Music Video. Directed by David Niebla (www.davidniebla.com).

Title: 'TIJUANA MAKES ME HAPPY' --"NORTEC COLLECTIVE -
Description: Song is from Fussible of Nortec Collective album "Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3" (Nacional Records) featured in the Feature Film TIJUANA MAKES ME HAPPY-- album is in stores now! and new one "Tijuana Sound MAchine" is coming in may 2008 http://www.myspace.com/nortecbostichfussible Film coming out soon! www.tijuanamakesmehappy.com

Title: Nortec Collective @ Roskilde 2007
Description: Nortec Collective performing at the Roskilde Festival 2007 playing "Don Loope" by Fussible+Hiperboreal

Title: Nortec Collective Bellas Artes June 1st 2006
Description: Nortec Collective Bellas Artes June 1st 2006 Colective Nortec plating at "Palacio de Bellas Artes", Distrito Federal. this is the list of the songs on the video Zona N by Fussible Olvidela Compa by Clorofila Bar Infierno by Fussble Don Loope by Fussble+Hiperboreal Dandy del Sur by Fussible+Hiperboreal Tengo La Voz by Bostich Tijuana Bass by Bostich Polaris by Bostich (footage by Lxuk)

Title: Before Nortec Collective and Latinsizer / moog/oberheim/seq
Description: Back in 1988-1996 in Tijuana( US-Mexico Border) i was involved in diferent industrial, Noise Electronic Local Acts before i started with "Nortec Collective"(1999). At the same time i was working with Ramon Bostich to do an Ambient Noise Music Duo with a more analog synth touch, this poject called "Monithor" wich later become Latinsizer as a solo alias, this footage i founded in lost tapes from back in 1996, this video was taken at Monterrey city at an abandoned wharehouse from 1905 before it become a cultural park today (Parque Fundidora), Ramon and i did a total Analog Synth live set there in 1996 using using a couple of Moog Synths, Oberheims, analog sequencers and modified drum machines. enjoy De 1988 a 1996 estuve involucrado en varias agrupaciones de música electrónica post-industrial en Tijuana antes de empezar con el "Colectivo Nortec"(1999). Al mismo tiempo estaba trabajando en otro proyecto con Ramon Amezcua en un tinte mas Analógico, Ambient y ruido(Monithor), proyecto que luego se convirtiera en "Latinsizer" como proyecto solo y Bostich con Pointloma, este video lo recuperé de unas cintas perdidas de una tocada en Monterrey en 1996 en donde tocamos en el parque fundidora cuando estaba abandonado y se utilizaba para hacer fiestas de música electrónica y ahora es un museo y parque cultural(así pasa), en esta tocada es una ejecución de varios instrumentos analógicos(moogs, oberheims,y otros) con algunas cajas de ritmos modificadas y secuenciadores de step, espero lo disfruten, saludos info about the synths used(extracted from www.vintagesynth.com) MOOG ROGUE Cheap Moog bass? Some may say so... An even cheaper version of this synth was made by Realistic (known as the Concertmate MG-1). The Rogue has a decent Moog filter with an external input and syncable VCO's. Still it does have its limitations in design and synthesis capabilities. Very basic and easy to use, the Rogue is an inexpensive place to get good Moog sounds! It is very similar in fact, to the Moog Taurus which is a bass pedal synthesizer system. Unfortunately the Rogue shows no sign of MIDI or patch memory. It is used by Peter Gabriel, Add N To (X), 808 State, Latinsizer, Stereolab, Mr. Oizo and KMFDM. MOOG SOURCE Moog's Source was their first to offer patch memory storage as well as some other new features. It boasted 16 memory locations so you could finally save and recall your synth patches. A casette-tape jack was also implemented to transfer your patches to and from an external tape and free up the on-board memory for additional new patches. But in an effort to modernize with the eighties, the Moog had replaced all buttons, knobs and sliders with flat-panel membrane buttons and a single data-wheel assignment format. At the time, this may have seemed far-out, but in all actuality it is the Source's downfall. Parameters are edited not with hands-on sliders and knobs but by assigning a selected parameter to the dedicated data wheel. This is very tedious and does not allow for true hands-on tweaking during performances nor can you adjust different parameters simultaneously or while playing. These days, the membrane buttons don't always seem to work quite right either. However, those famous monophonic Moog sounds are still inside this synth which has two fat analog oscillators and the legendary 24 dB Moog filter. The Source has been used by Tangerine Dream, Jan Hammer, Depeche Mode, Devo, Vince Clarke, New Order, Ultravox, Josh Wink, Front Line Assembly, Moog Cookbook, Kitaro, Imperial Drag, The Cars, Phish, The Rentals, King Crimson, Blur, and Gary Numan. OBERHEIM MATRIX 6 The Matrix 6R is the Matrix 6 without a keyboard, retaining its membrane programming interface. Oberheim later produced the Matrix 1000, which is essentially 1000 patches from the Matrix 6 in a 1-unit rack-module, preset and editable only through SysEx. For professional studio work or live on stage, both the Matrix 6 keyboard and rack-mount are excellent and versatile synths that make a great source of bright and punchy sounds, vintage analog pads, textures and ambient sounds. It is used by Orbital Apollo 440, Jimmy Edgar, Philip Glass, The Grid, Future Sound of London, Astral Projection, Latinsizer, The Shamen, Mouse on Mars, Tangerine Dream and Cirrus. bostich y fussible

Title: Latinsizer / Celofán - (Nortec Collective/Fussible member)
Description: Latinsizer, video from the track "Celofán". Tomatoes, Drum Machines, Onions, Knobs, Lettuce, Analog Synths, Chilly, Cables, Tortillas, knifes, Beef and Nurses. download high resolution version here: http://www.latinsizer.com/latinsizer-celofan.mov ( 58 Mb )( ipod,quicktime, media player etc ) www.latinsizer.com www.myspace.com/latinsizer Music by Latinsizer @ 2007 Video by Sergio Brown / Pepe Mogt music made with MS-20, Drumulator, dr-110, Xpander and Four Voice Oberheim. In this project Pepe Mogt works with a very synthetic and basic set of musical tools to create a quirky approach to electronic music exemplified by "Ritmo 55", the first track released by Latinsizer which appeared on the Nortec Experimental CD. This approach could be described as a combination of the melodic work of early synth Pop classics such as Eno-era Roxy Music and Switched on Bach, modular synth based artists like Tangerine Dream and the grit of urban Tijuana, Latinsizer "live at MUtek.mx CD" has a more noise dance oriented aproach without loosing his analog roots Latinsizer becomes an alternate project to Nortec, and particularly, to Fussible, recently playing at experimental and dance music festivals like Mutek or Decibel, currently is working on his new album and EP, Celofán is a video of his latest works. MS-20 The MS-20 was one of Korg's first major successful portable analog monosynths and even today it is still a great little machine! The MS-20 is the big brother to the MS-10. It is an analog two-oscillator monophonic lead and bass synth with hard wired and patchable connections. The hard-wiring can be overridden however, using patch-cords. This type of hard-wired but patchable design was similar to the ARP 2600 of the late seventies. Of course the 2600 was much bigger and better. But the MS-20 offered a lot of flexible control and great sounds at a more affordable price. In addition to two analog oscillators, the MS-20 featured two resonant VCF filters, two VCAs, sample and hold, a noise generator, an assignable mod-wheel and lots of knobs! The VCF filter section is capable of high-pass, low-pass, notch and band-reject which is unique and different than your basic lowpass style filter. External sound sources can be routed through the filter section as well. In fact William Ørbit uses the filter in his MS-20 relentlessly to filter and tweak his samples, beats, delay returns, vocals, etc. As for its sounds, the MS-20 sounds great! It makes a great alternative for Minimoog-seekers. The MS-20 is great for just about any type of analog synth sound you could want! Fat round bass sounds, percussive bass or sounds, noise effects, squiggly-bubbly sounds or sinuous-worm leads are all waiting to be unleashed from inside this classic beast. The MS-20 is not only a great sounding instrument, but a great learning-synth. It is fairly easy and intuitive to operate but in doing so you can learn and understand more about synthesis and signal-flow. It is used by William Ørbit, Aphex Twin, Hardfloor, Air, SkyLab, Stereolab, Vince Clarke, Astral Projection, Biosphere, Apollo 440, Mr. Oizo, Jimi Tenor, The Prodigy, OMD, Freddy Fresh, Luke Vibert, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Add N to (X), Daft Punk, Coldcut, Die Krupps, Skinny Puppy, Electronic Dream Planet, Jimmy Edgar, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, The Legendary Pink Dots, KMFDM, Severed Heads, Royksopp, The Faint, The Shamen, Jean-Michel Jarre, and Portishead. FOUR VOICE / Oberheim A big step forward after the initial Oberheim SEM and Two Voice synthesizers came from the bigger and better Four Voice. Four dual-oscillator SEM modules each with its own filters and envelopes are joined together along with a simple analog mixer and 49-note keyboard to give you a polyphonic/polytonal Obie-beast! Unfortunately the Four Voice was blown out of the competition by the release of the polyphonic Sequential Prophet-5, which offered true polyphony with a single set of sound shaping controls and comprehensive patch memory. The Four Voice has been used by 808 State, Depeche Mode, Latinsizer, Styx, The Shamen, Gary Wright, Joe Zawinul and John Carpenter.

Title: Nortec Collective - Tijuana Sound Machine(Live)
Description: Nortec Collective Bostich y Fussible "Tijuana Sound Machine" Live KCRW Concert / Performance at Make Music Pasadena, California 2008. ES Música

Title: Latinsizer/live at Sunrise(Trisine+303 jam)nortec collective
Description: playing live at sunrise, Rosarito beach, Mexico. Pepe Mogt playing the song TRISINE followed by a jam with 303 bass lines and linndrum beats(more info about 303 and linn below). Latinsizer Pepe Mogt( nortec Collective, fussible ) In this project Pepe works with a very synthetic and basic set of musical tools to create a quirky approach to electronic music exemplified by "Ritmo 55", the first track released by Latinsizer which appeared on the Nortec Experimental CD. This approach could be described as a combination of the melodic work of early synth Pop classics such as Eno-era Roxy Music and Switched on Bach, modular synth based artists like Tangerine Dream and the grit of urban Tijuana, Latinsizer "live at MUtek.mx CD" has a more noise dance oriented aproach without loosing his analog roots Latinsizer becomes an alternate project to Nortec, and particularly, to Fussible, recently playing at experimental and dance music festivals like Mutek or Decibel, currently is working on his new album and EP, Celofán is a video of his latest works. The TB-303 is THE sound of acid and techno house music! It's a monophonic analog bass synthesizer married to a pattern-based step sequencer released in 1982. It features a single analog oscillator with two waveforms (ramp or square) and has a simple but excellent VCF filter with resonance, cut-off, and envelope controls. There are also knobs to adjust tuning, envelope decay, tempo and accent amount. How does it work? Well, it's not a performance synthesizer because you have to program a pattern of notes and timing info into it (sort of like a drum machine). Patterns can then be linked into songs. It was originally made to accompany a drum machine, the TR-606 specifically, and provide bass-line accompaniment to guitarists, keyboard players, etc. It was not a successful product in its time. As a result, creative DJs and aspiring electronic musicians found them for next to no money and began using them for techno and acid music. Usually a single pattern is continuously played while the performer tweaks the knobs creating an exciting and expressive musical event. The TB-303 has become one of the most sought after vintage synths ever! It has helped develop and stylize many forms of electronic music including House, Acid, Trance and Ambient. If ever there was a need for a repetitive bassline/groove or an extremely resonant and bubbly sound, the 303 is KING. Truly a unique machine with a very identifiable sound! It has spun off several imitators as well: Novation BassStation, ReBirth, Doepfer MS-404, MAM MB-33, Syntecno TeeBee, and more (see Related & Alternative Gear sidebar). Ironically, these days it's become trendy to dislike the 303 again, now because of over-use. But I don't and you shouldn't either because it is one-of-a-kind and it's just got that sound that everyone loves! Fatboy Slim says it best in his song "Everybody Needs A 303". The LinnDrum was the second machine from Linn Electronics. It's basically an upgraded version of the original LM-1 with added crash and ride cymbals to the kit. The LinnDrum uses samples of acoustic drum sounds. At the time, they sounded great and much more realistic and they were a fresh alternative to the analog drum sounds of the '80's drum machines. The LinnDrum also had a handy upgrade option, a well designed layout and interface, and live drum trigger inputs. The LinnDrum had beefed up the sampled sounds from 28 to a 35kHz sample rate. It features 15 sounds including bass, snare, rimshot, hihat, crash, ride, three toms, cabasa, tambourine, high and low congas, cowbell, and clap. Up to 12 sounds are available simultaneously. Individual controls are available to tune, pan, and mix each drum sound via dedicated knobs and sliders. An Accent is available for the kick, snare and hats. The handy upgrade options involve inserting new chips containing new sets of sampled drum sounds created by many session drummers of the time. The sequencer had some innovative features (for the time) such as swing, quantizing and memory storage! Two-bar patterns can be recorded in real or step time, with or without quantizing. There are 56 user patterns for storing your drum patterns. There are also 42 preset drum patterns. Patterns can be arranged into Songs for which there are 49 memory locations. Old songs and patterns can be off-loaded to cassette tape for storage. Designed for the studio, there are 15 individual outputs for each sound around the back as well as external sync and trigger but no MIDI (unless modified by a 3rd party). The LinnDrum's features made it the most professional drum machine of its time. It was widely used throughout the 1980s and there are about 5,000 of them which have been used by professionals (such as Sting, Prince, Jean-Michel Jarre, Sheila E., Todd Rundgren, Jimmy Edgar, Jan Hammer, Peter Gabriel), hobbyists, and educators alike!

Title: Nortec Collective at the Walker Art Center
Description: Performance by cool northern Mexico group Nortec Collective at the Walker Art Center on December 8, 2007 Credits 00:00-00:31 / fussible - Reten 00:32-01:28 / clorofila+Panoptica - olvidela 01:29-02:07 / Fussible - The Clap 02:08-02:25 / Bostich - improvisation with tenori-on 02:26-02:49 / Fussible+Hiperboreal - Don Loope 02:50-03:15 / Bostich - Mama loves Nortec 03:16-03:36 / Bostich - Rosarito 03:37-03:53 / Fussible + Latinsizer 03:54-05:12 / Fussible - Casino Soul

Title: Nortec Collective on Border Stories
Description: San Diego radio stations, fleeing the oversight and fees from the FCC, sometimes put their radio towers along the Tijuana hillsides. This is how Pepe Mogt discovered his love of electronic music coming from Europe and the U.S. He learned to DJ himself, and eventually blended the accordion, bass and snare of Norteño music with techno, creating a genre that could only exist in Tijuana, Nortec. http://www.borderstories.org/index.php/tijuana-tj-remixed.html

Title: Tijuana Makes Me Happy - Nortec Collective Vive Latino 2008
Description: http://www.vivefan.com Nortec Bostich + Fussible

Title: SEARCH /Broadcasting Tijuana Electronic Music to Outer Space
Description: Manglano-Ovalle transformed the bullfight ring of Tijuana located at the border in to a Radio telescope searching for "aliens". He suspended an antenna above the building and a receiving dish below, Live Electronic Music was brodcasted in the building, on the web, FM radio and into space. This project makes reference to the social situation of Mexican "Aliens". In the video Pepe Mogt(Latinsizer, Fussible, Nortec), Ramon Bostich(nortec Collective) and Leslie(Dream addictive) were making music with digital and analog sequencers and synths(Arp Odyssey, Oberheim), the audio out of this machines was sent to Manglano-Ovalle Transmiter in real time in to outer space. (around 2001) info about synths used: The ARP Odyssey was and still is a very popular synth because it is a powerful lightweight version of the awesome ARP 2600. It was also ARP's response to the Minimoog and the Odyssey became the most popular synth ARP ever sold! The Odyssey is a 2-oscillator analog synth (with duophonic capability) which sounds really nice; the Minimoog has 3 oscillators and is considered fatter. The Odyssey comes well equipped with all the tweakable features you'd expect: resonant low pass filter, ADSR envelopes, sine or square wave LFO and even a sample-and-hold function. It also added a few new features such as a highpass filter in series with the lowpass, oscillator sync capability and pulse width modulation. It is a very professional and expressive machine that can create nice analog basses, interesting leads and great effects and sweeping sounds or noises! There were many versions of the Odyssey over the years, each a little different. Pictured above is the Odyssey I (Model 2800). These original white-faced Odysseys used a tinny 2-pole VCF filter design (Model 4023) similar to old Oberheim SEM modules. They also used a rotary knob for pitch bending. These models were produced between 1972-74. Odysseys have been used by ABBA, Bomb The Bass, Ultravox, Gary Numan, LTJ Bukem, Air, Tangerine Dream, 808 State, Apollo 440, Nine Inch Nails, Astral Projection, Chick Corea, George Duke, Josef Zawinul, John Foxx, Vangelis, Elton John, Latinsizer, Jethro Tull, Fussible, Nortec Collective, Jimmy Edgar, DEVO, R.E.M. and Herbie Hancock TR-808 The TR-808 is a classic drum machine that used analog synthesis to create its sounds. The sounds have a very thin and pure quality and aren't grungy like it's successor the TR-909. In fact, the 808 has become the signature beatbox used in most R&B and hip-hop as well as a lot of dance and techno music. Booming bass kicks, crispy snares and that annoying cowbell sound made famous during the 80's are all part of the 808 and its famous sound. Its 16 drum sounds include the famous boomy low kick, snappy snares, low/mid/hi toms, low/mid/hi congas, rimshot, claves, hand clap, maracas, cowbell, cymbal, open hihat, closed hihat and accent. All of the sounds can be edited and/or tuned and have individual outputs. Unfortunately it is not MIDI equipped but it does use Roland's DIN Sync. The TR-808 was OK in its time. It just didn't sound like real drums. When the Linn Drum machines appeared, the 808 seemed doomed. But its unique sound and analog allure have found it a long-lasting home in many forms of music. Clearly the 808 has been one of the more important and famous drum machines in the history of music, spawning imitators (ReBirth, DrumStation) and band names (808 State). Famous users include Orbital, Uberzone, Download, Aphex Twin, 808 State, BT, Bomb The Bass, Sense Datum, The Prodigy, Josh Wink, Faithless, Skinny Puppy, Bushflange, Jimi Tenor, A Guy Called Gerald, Eat Static, Dr. Dre, Jimmy Edgar, Nortec Collective, Freddy Fresh, Richie Hawtin, Jean Michel Jarre, Cocteau Twins, Bostich, Marvin Gaye, Latinsizer, Luke Vibert, Ice Cube and Puff Daddy. A cool little box! So primitive and cute! The 606 was the percussion side-kick to the TB-303. It even looks like the 303. It stores up to 32 patterns and 8 songs. The 606 allows switching between Pattern Play and Write mode while running - making the 606 the only drumcomputer in the X0X series that can be edited while performing and switching patterns. It is also possible to link up to 4 consecutive patterns in Pattern Play mode. There is only a mono audio output, however there are mods from Kenton Electronics and Analog Solutions that will add individual outputs for each drum tone. TR-606 The 606 has seven analog drum sounds which are simple, yet great! Kick, Snare, 2 toms, open hat, closed hat, cymbal, accent. The hi-hats are a very tinny electronic sound and its toms are great for soft tribal patterns. These seven sounds alone are still quite popular today, and the 606 has been used by Uberzone, Cirrus, Sneaker Pimps, Download, Aphex Twin, Astral Projection, Nine Inch Nails, Mr. Oizo, Jimi Tenor, Kid 606, OMD, Moby, Freddy Fresh, Autechre, Luke Vibert, and Union Jack bostich y fussible

Title: Brown Bike - Nortec Collective Vive Latino 2008
Description: http://www.vivefan.com.mx Nortec Bostich + Fussible Brown Bike

Title: Nortec Collective and Alan Parsons
Description: Alan nos invito a participar en su album con el tema Tijuaniac, en esta escena se estan grabando los sonidos ambientales del tema. perdon mi camara es muy chafita.

Title: Nortec Collective - Polaris (Live @ The Glass House)
Description: Nortec Collective performing Polaris live at The Glass House