Ernest Gonzales is many things. Middle school teacher. Record label owner. Husband. Father. Even as a producer, he wears many hats. As his alter ego Mexicans With Guns, Gonzales makes hard, aggressive beats rooted in dirty low-end bass, collaborating with hard-edged rapper Freddie Gibbs and electro-Afrobeat fusionist Chico Mann. But sometimes he takes off his Lucha Libre mask and explores his softer side, creating gorgeous, lush electronica under his given name, and that's where we find him on his third Friends Of Friends release. In a lot of ways, Natural Traits picks up where his [...]
Here are my favourite songs that came out in 2011. The Wilhelm Scream - James Blake Otis (feat. Otis Redding) - Jay-Z & Kanye West I'm On One (Shlohmo Remix) - DJ Khaled featuring Drake, Rick Ross & Lil Wayne Dat Ass - Earl Sweatshirt The Look - Metronomy Baby's Arms - Kurt Vile Hard In Tha Paint (Shlohmo's sit down remix) [...]
Improbable. Une starlette italienne du début des années 80, une romance sur fond de trafic d'armes et régime castriste, des rythmes afro-caribéens. C'est " Maracaibo ", le titre de Luisa Colombo qui va faire l'unanimité à ton mariage. Ecrite en 1975 par Luisa 'Lu' Colombo et l'auteur David Riondino , la chanson "Maracaibo" ne trouve pas preneur, les maisons de disque jugeant les paroles indécentes dans le contexte de Guerre Froide. C'est finalement les réarrangements merengue- biguine proposés par le compositeur Mario Saroglia qui finiront par convaincre la maison [...]
Mixtape is from Dave in San Francisco. Follow him on twitter: @davetell Thank you Dave for creating this mixtape! If you want to curate a guest mixtape here on FridayMixtape.com just get in touch . The full version is not done uploading yet. My slow internet here means it will be another 2 hours or so. The individual tracks are up below. I will update this when it's done. Play Friday Mixtape 125: Download Friday [...]
You wouldn't necessarily expect music from the man who owns Exponential Record s, teaches middle school technology, has two kids, and created the production moniker Mexicans With Guns to be mellow. But, like the Renaissance man that he is, Ernest Gonzales has eluded stereotypes with his latest single, "The Prudence of Evolution," a minimalistic, sample-free track that speaks to Gonzales's versatility as much as to his pure talent as an artist. With a fresh spin on classically clean electronic archetypes, "Prudence" is a play-on-repeat-worthy preview of the rest of his ten-track LP, [...]
Next Friday, October 21st, Trouble & Bass will team up with Dutty Artz for a CMJ Showcase at Public Assembly (70 N. 6th Street, Brooklyn). Trouble & Bass will take over the front room, and will feature sets from Drop the Lime, AC & Dell, The Captain, Deathface, Samo Sound Boy, Zombies For Money, and Udachi. Meanwhile, Dutty Artz will be tearing it up in the back with Toy Selectah, Mexicans with Guns, Gun Selectah, Atropolis, Matt Shadetek, and unannounced special guests. Entrance is free with your CMJ badge; $10 without. We're giving away a pair of tickets [...]
Released today on Think 2Wice Records is the much anticipated Star Time EP by DJ Melo . The EP features 6 original tracks as well as remixes by Sazon Booya , Boyfriend and Fellow , all of which have done a great work on making this release a must-have. Current favorites of mine off this EP are "Lunar Eclipse" and "The Comeback" which are two big bangers and also "Corrosion", a beautifully crafted track that has been on repeat for the past 20 minutes or so. Preview some tracks taken from Star Time [...]
Today the much hyped collaboration between Mexicans with Guns and Toy Selectah gets released by Friends of Friends . Three varied originals with remixes by LOL Boys , Lorenzo Vektor , HxdB , Shadetek , [...]
Super-cool dudes Toy Selectah and Mexicans with Guns have teamed up to start the new project called Gun Selectah. The two made some very hyped up club tracks that were just released on vinyl by the amazing LA label Friends of Friends . The 73 is still available for the collectors out there and for the iPod/ iPhone/ Zune lovers, the digital release is September 27th. We (LOL Boys) are one of the remixers along with DJ Orion, Lorenzo Vektor, Hxdb, Shadetek, and Sonora. Of course I'm partial to mine and have been dropping it in [...]
It's time to listen to a bunch of the tracks I have not posted recently. Here is the next NOT POSTED mix. These are just a few of the songs that would get their own individual posts here on GIMME TINNITUS if I only had the time. You can stream all the songs in this mix using the Yahoo media player at the bottom of the page OR if you are browsing with Chrome you can play (and scrobble ) the whole page using the ex.fm extension OR you [...]
Flash Bang Grenada - 10 Haters Hellfyre Club: 2011 "They are who we thought they were." Former NFL coach Denny Green's often parodied words are the first that come to mind when listening to Los Angeles's Flash Bang Grenada. Regan Farquhar's ability to bend his pneumatic vernacular around a gamut of eclectic production as the hole-poking, semi-solemn Busdriver has been noted. Dude is nice…slept-on or not. Fellow Project Blowedian and esteemed battle-rapper NoCanDo is the simpler Yin to Busdriver's verbal Yang for the Flash Banging and their debut 10 [...]
Take a pool, sun lotion, flashing lights, tennis court, more sun lotion put it all together and you'll understand Flash Bang Grenada - the duo of Nocando and Busdriver - better. They like weird shit. Yes, they stole your Call of Duty clan name, but they give you awesome music in return. "Moisturizer" features production from Mexicans with Guns , who, slap together a dub wah-wah dance-able beat. Busdriver and Nocando have unconventional styles. And, they mesh so well, it's ridiculous. Hit the skip for the video.
Mexicans With Guns man Ernest Gonzalez has teamed up with Toy Selectah (Antonio Hernandez) to form Gun Selectah . The duo are releasing a split 7" on the amazing Friends of Friends label ( buy here ), and it includes the killer 'Como un Perro'.
It's been a big week for LA-based FoF Music, the label responsible for some recent stellar releases from Salva and Groundislava, as well as Shlohmo's debut LP Bad Vibe s, which will see a release in two weeks. Bad Vibes capitalizes on the creative peak that the label's been seeing this year, expanding FoF's historically more stripped-down aesthetic to a more flowing, experimental vocal style, heavily influenced by both electronic and hip-hop music, but also containing a notable R&B slant. As a token of gratitude to fans and a great promotional tool, the label [...]
You may have heard Mexicans With Guns from his collaborations with Freddie Gibbs and Bun B or Nocando , or maybe you even got his debut LP Ceremony (if you haven't, you should change that). Regardless, the Texan producer is back with a free gem for us all, "Burning the Codices". Not to far removed from the sonics of his LP , it would sound right at home on Ceremony . The track is packed, like many other MWG tracks, with as much bass as there are tribal influences. The track is [...]
Here's how the Pop Massacre concept works. The folks at Friends of Friends Music gather classic pop tracks from the past and present and then send them to some of their favorite electronic/left-field hip-hop producers. The resulting effort is a sprawling mindfuck of a remix project that really only can be described as a Pop Massacre . Cats like Jonwayne , Mexicans with Guns , Shlohmo , Radius , and Salva have gotten their mitts on joints by the likes of Ginuwine, Christina Aguilera, Sisqo, and the [...]
Download: Mexicans With Guns Feat. Freddie Gibbs & Bun B - Highway To Hell (Ridin Dirty 7" Remix)
Mexicans With Guns - Restart ft. Sahsa Perara This is the first track I've ever heard from San Antonio-based producer and recording artist Ernest Gonzales. His music is a hybrid of Hispanic Folk and Electronica with sultry vocals often laid over the tracks as is the case with "Restart" above. Gonzales, also a middle-school teacher recently released Ceremony on Stones Throw Records. Have a listen to this track and then tell me you don't [...]
Ceremony, Mexicans With Guns Innovative Leisure Records, USA Rating: 79 by Jeff Seigel One of the greatest things about Club Fonograma lays right within its name--we're a club. And like any great club, we appreciate an outsiders' perspective on the things we discuss. With that in mind, we've invited Jeff Seigel, formerly of Stylus Magazine but now a visual artist working out of http://www.theprivatesector.or g , to review the latest from Mexicans with Guns. Be it foible [...]
Fingers :Skateboards circa 1994 where the nose and tails just sorta sloped up like a banana. Bangers : Terrycloth Towels. Fingerbanger 1 : Black Tambourine - Dream Baby Dream (don lowed) -- "You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, [...]
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