Antiguo Autómata Mexicano - Press Kit

ANTIGUO AUTÓMATA MEXICANO Press Kit

Antiguo Autómata Mexicano aka Ángel Sánchez Borges (Monterrey, México, 1971) recorded his first album in 2005 (Background, Records 43LP) and now is celebrating it´s 10th anniversary with a reloaded only digital synthesis Live Set reconstructing some of this album, new themes and a special approach to his 2004 lost album called Metamistake, both to be re-released by Static Discos from Tijuana (Fall 2015), original home label of internationally acclaimed classic-minimal electronic act Murcof.

“(Microhate is) an album that wants to be listened to from beginning to end and is so convincing that you want to play it in repeat mode.”

De:Bug Mag

“AAM hails from a similar scene as Murcof but whereas Murcof explores the dramatic pause of the classical minimalist form, AAM establishes and embellishes a murky respiration resonating even at its most shallow.”

XLR8R

“Borges seems most drawn to micro-leaning computer music as a way to conjure atmosphere; there’s a lot of suggestion in Borges’ music, hints at various possibilities, and you never get the sense that the technology-- always at the forefront considering the persistent use of glitches and noise-- is the music’s subject.”

Pitchfork

A project such as AAM is rare for Monterrey, an industrial culturally and politically conservative city best known in Mexican music circles for norteña music and the “avanzada regia”—a movement that included hip-hop, rock, and electronic bands once considered commercially viable by MTV and the record industry... the music of Antiguo Automata Mexicano with its abstract and challenging disposition stands in rather sharp contrast to most music from Monterrey.

B2 Berlin

“...largely informed by stints in post punk and free jazz...delicate but danceable and the closest thing the label (Static Discos) has to a Plastikman LP…”

URB Magazine

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