![]() Shortly thereafter, the video started being played on music video channels and radio stations. Then, they started to get attention from the public and the press with their performances. Jonás liked Sepultura, Soda Stereo, and Mano Negra whereas Rosso liked Antonio Carlos Jobim, John Coltrane and a varied assortment of classical music.īack in early 1997, Plastilina traveled to Mexico City, where they recorded the video and the single of Niño Bomba, released under the independent label Tómbola! Recordings, which sold 5000 copies. Their previous musical experiences were very opposite: González came from a noise rock band called Koervoz de Malta, and Rosso from an avant-garde group called Acarnienses. There is a popular myth that the duo met while playing a Super NES at a Wal-Mart in Monterrey, however, Jonás has stated in an interview that this is not true. ![]() The band was formed in 1996 by Alejandro Rosso and Jonás González. The band often mixes several music styles like rap, dance and rock while often switching between English, Spanish, Italian, French and several other languages in the same song. The band has achieved, since the release of their 1997 single-debut 'Niño Bomba', both critical and commercial success. Alejandro Rosso is more involved with the creative process, providing most of the instrumentation and occasional background vocals.Īs of 2018, they have released four studio records. ![]() Jonás González is the lead singer and guitar player. They are part of the musical movement known as Avanzada Regia. Plastilina Mosh are a Mexican electronic and alternative rock band formed in 1997. (714) 758-1057.Alternative rock, pop rock, dance-rock, electronicĬapitol, Astralwerks, EMI, Nacional Records * Plastilina Mosh performs Sunday at J.C. We want to make fun of the structure and have a good time.” “That’s why we sometimes do senseless music and lyrics. “We want to forget a little bit of the bad times in our country,” Jonas said. Jonas and Rosso also hope to get across some of the humor they see in the world around them. We like words that re-create some ambience and atmosphere.” Unlike many of its hip-hop and rock peers in Mexico, “We don’t like to write lyrics that are understood, or that have political or social sense. “We use the voice like another instrument,” Jonas said. Lyrically, as with the group’s name, the duo places more emphasis on how words sound than the meaning behind them. The espanol bands they cite as influences include Argentine new-wavers Soda Stereo and Mano Negra. ![]() Jonas worked with a band he describes as “Primus meets Sepultura meets Cypress Hill.” Rosso was studying Bach to Stravinsky, Duke Ellington to Thelonious Monk. Rosso and Jonas began collaborating as Plastilina Mosh after playing in bands in Monterrey while in high school. It’s not going to their heads, though, and Rosso admitted “of course we have plenty of room to grow.” Mosh” gets regular rotation on modern-rock station KROQ-FM (106.7), a first for a band from the espanol scene. The duo’s collage-pop is generating plenty of media attention. Mosh’s other obvious hip-hop sensibilities, such as turntable scratch sounds made by Jonas’ guitar a la Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, has put them in Mexico’s burgeoning hip-hop camp along side Molotov and Control Machete. It’s with no surprise that Tacuba’s lead singer Anonimo can be heard on “Aquamosh” muttering Japanese words in “Bungaloo Punta Cometa,” or that the Capitol album was produced by Tom Rothrock and Rob Schnapf-who have recorded Beck and the Foo Fighters.īeck drummer Joey Waronker helps out in the very Beck-like English-language “Monster Truck,” with its blues harmonica, guitar-looping, syncopated rhythms and filtered voices. ![]() In the rock en espanol movement, which the duo does not consider itself part of-”Maybe we are an example of two guys in Mexico that have a global point of view,” said Jonas-the band could fit on a bill with avant-garde Cafe Tacuba or defunct French group Mano Negra, which experimented with electronic sounds, World Beat and Latin fusion. ![]()
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