Performances/Projects
Since 1999, the Nortec Collective musicians have toured throughout the United States, Mexico, Europe, Japan and Latin America, and played New York's Central Park SummerStage and Irving Plaza, as well as the Winter Music Conference in Miami, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and shows at the Royal Festival Hall in London and Elysée Montmartre in Paris.
Former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo invited Nortec to provide music for the Mexican pavilion at the Expo 2000 in Hannover, and they have done remixes for Beck, Calexico, Ennio Morricone, Kronos quartet, Leigh Nash, and Lenny Kravitz among others.
In 2006 Nortec performed at the LA Weekly Detour Festival in Los Angeles, sharing the bill with Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, and Basement Jaxx. The band also performed "Que Bonita Bailas" for the AIDS benefit album Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin Redux produced by the Red Hot Organization.
Nortec's music has appeared in commercials for Volvo, Dell, Fidelity Mutual, Edwin Jeans (with Brad Pitt), Nissan and others.
The song "Tijuana Makes Me Happy" is one of the soundtracks in 2006 FIFA World Cup video game and the title song of the feature film by the same name.
An interactive book entitled "Paso del Nortec: This Is Tijuana" dedicated to the Nortec phenomenon was released in the US, Mexico and Europe in 2004.
In 2005, Nortec Collective released their most acclaimed work to date, the album Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3, which received two Latin Grammy nominations and earned significant airplay on tastemaker radio stations like KCRW (Los Angeles), KEXP (Seattle) and KUT (Austin). The omission of a Volume 2 was thought to have been in imitation of the Traveling Wilburys intentional numbering of their two albums as Volumes 1 and 3, but it was more in reference to an unfinished Volume 2 album that was not released.
The book "Nor-tec Rifa!: Electronic Dance Music from Tijuana to the World" by Alejandro L. Madrid was published in March 2008. It describes Nor-tec music's composition process and it relation to the nortena, banda, and grupera traditions.
The album Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible: Tijuana Sound Machine was released digitally on April 29, 2008 and in stores on May 6, 2008.
Corridos Urbanos by Clorofila was released digitally on April 7, 2010 and on CD April 13.
Bulevar 2000 by Bostich + Fussible was released digitally on September 14, 2010 on Nacional Records.
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