2. Know that the Nortec Collective from Tijuana and Ensenada are musicians, graphic designers, architects, filmmakers, visual artists and fashion designers. Their Tijuana is a border metropolis of almost two million people, a world hub where cultures, cash, languages, styles and sounds clash and connect without the proper documents.

3. Know that the Nortec Collective was officially born in 1999, when Fussible's Pepe Mogt started sampling and tweaking old banda sinaloense and Norteño records (traditional Mexican music) and that 'The Tijuana Sessions Vol.3' will be released in August and is their second album to hit UK ears.

4. Know that Nortec stands for Norteño-techno, the convergence of high-tech and low-tech, of North and South, of all things techno and all things Norteño, all the things that are part of North-western Mexico. But especially the music, the Norteño, ranchera, and banda sinaloense, three of Mexico's most important popular styles best known for their accordions, acoustic bass, trumpets, tubas, bass drum booms and firecracker snare rolls. The Nortec Collective create the sound of the First World in the Third and the Third World in the First.

5. Know that 'The Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3' features five musical members of the Nortec Collective: Fussible (Pepe Mogt), Bostich (Ramón Amezcua), Panóptica (Roberto Mendoza), Clorofila (Jorge Verdín) and Hiperboreal (PG Beas).

6. Know that there's been a strong electronic music scene in Baja California for the past 15 years, with crews like Avant Garde, Artefakto, 3dtv, Tlahuilia and Tijuana House Club; labels like Mil and Nimboestatic; and art magazines like Cha3 (edited by Clorofila's Torres). Know that it was fuelled by Tijuana's being a border capital for maquiladora factories and Tijuana's proximity to San Diego - Baja electro kids could hear Future Sound of London on San Diego radio station, 91X and drive across the border to crate dig for imports and raid swap meets for used equipment.

7. Know that the Nortec contingent are not the only ones out there but they are the only ones to rework the techno they've come up on - Yello, Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk - with the vernacular Mexican music their parents played at home.

8. Know that on 'Tijuana Session Vol. 3' the collective have decided to go live using members of Tijuana's Banda Agua Caliente.

9. Know that since 1999, the Nortec Collective musicians have packed rave parties throughout Mexico, Japan and Germany. Former Mexican president Ernest Zedillo invited them to provide music for the Mexican pavilion at Expo 2000 in Hanover, and they've done remixes for Beck, La Dosis, Titan, Julieta Venegas and Lenny Kravitz among others.

10. Know that Nortec is the border and the border is our future.

"It's a Third World sound using First World technology." - VIBE

"The Latin world hasn't been the same since the release of these frighteningly original, refreshingly cool Tijuana sessions." - ROLLING STONE (4 Star Review)

"Nortec is the latest and most visible aspect of a swelling wave of Latin and electronic music mergers - a movement that has burst from the underground to draw mainstream attention." - MIAMI HERALD

"A masterpiece of sublime and exotic melodic landscapes." - GEAR

"Remarkable, superb, a revolutionary new movement, the sound of the future." - LA TIMES

"Nortec is starting to filter into the pop music of Mexico and the dance culture of the world." - NEW YORK TIMES

http://www.myspace.com/nortec

For more information contact:
Nettwerk Music Group: Laura Bradley laura@nettwerk.com
020 7424 7522 / 07966 435 026