By Benjamin Ortiz, Special to the Tribune
Section: Arts & Entertainment
Date: April 20, 2008
“Bostich + Fussible: Tijuana Sound Machine,” Nortec Collective (Nacional Records)
With three volumes of “Tijuana Sessions” under their ranchero belts, the Nortec Collective of Mexican DJs and graphic artists presents two cornerstone turntable músicos, Bostich (Ramón Amezcua) and Fussible (Pepe Mogt), in a breakaway beats-and-banda summit. Bouncing at the waist with regional-Mexican flavored bass, horns and snare, this musical contraption bounds along like an assembly line of Norteño sounds that interconnect and build in gleeful prefab variation. Whether tickling the eardrum with rollicking clarinets and accordions or prodding the hips with bajo sexto and juicy brass, Bostich and Fussible focus their studio compadres in producing 15 crisp tracks (less than 4 minutes each) like a value pack of Tijuana gusto ready to mix to your own taste, as they do at hopping parties on the border.
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