México tiene la más fresca y latente escena musical en el planeta

El pasado fin de semana Alan McGee estuvo nuevamente de visita en el DF; La Bipolar y El Patio de Mi Casa fueron los dos bares donde de “Death Disco Dj Set” se hizo sonar. A su regreso al Reino Unido, Alan comenta lo siguiente en el Guardian Unlimited:

Why it’s all going off in Mexico

Thanks to some great bands and wildly enthusiastic audiences, the place has the most exciting music scene on the planet.

I’ve travelled a lot and concluded that it’s Mexico which has the freshest, most alive music scene on the planet. I spent the last weekend there with Hector Mijangos from Noiselab records, who as well as exposing new talent has an international back catalogue to die for including Arcade Fire, the Kills, the Libertines and Interpol.

I started going down to Mexico two years ago and indie music was just a concept. Now the whole scene is exploding. I’ve seen Placebo play to 17,000-strong crowd crazier than the Glasgow Barrowlands on a Saturday night. You only have to DJ for the crowd to go completely off their nuts: last Friday, 400 music fans crammed into a little bar downtown and tore the place apart, with people dancing on the table I was DJing from.

Some of the bands are now on the verge of international success. Zoe are superstars in most of South America: if they chose to sing in English they’d be massive in the UK too. Red McQueen and Subdivision (who the Yeah Yeah Yeahs love) have amazing potential as well. But my money would be on Los Dynamite from Mexico City. Their demo is very Justice-like, and one song in particular could be a smash in Britain if they finish it off right.

It’s great when you plug into scenes abroad. I’d never expected Mexico City to have a happening music scene but the place is buzzing – all 27 million of them. Great music knows no borders – just look at Air or Peter, Bjorn and John. Travel the world and find a new scene. And of course, the weather here in February is great.

Así que no nos sorprendamos si tenemos en los próximos meses la visita del “Death Disco Dj Set” nuevamente.