The Beats of Baja
Techno and Tex-Mex Push Their Love Over the Borderline
It’s midnight—the intangible border merging today and tomorrow, like la fronteramerges Tijuana with San Diego. Three hours ago, a masked Mexican wrestler dressed in a shiny, silver business suit played cumbias on a Casio keyboard in front of the Jai Alai while he called out, “Bienvenidosa Nortec City!” Three hours from now, Bostich will take the stage, and twiddle some high-tech knobs to further globalize the nortec sound.
This new aesthetic is changing Tijuana’s image as a cantina-strewn throwback to the Old West. And Bostich may be the “godfather of nortec,” but he already speaks about life beyond that. “Nortec is not a genre but a way of life,” he insists. “We are just now seeing the fruit of all this. Who knows what it will transmute into next?”
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