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Vistas Fijas

Vistas Fijas (7" EP)

Label: Laudano

Format: 7" EP

Genre: Electronic

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The sole 7" EP by three key figures of Mexico's underground (1985). Minimal synth, ambient textures, post-industrial drift. Nearly 18 minutes of haunting electronic experimentalism at its most spectral.

Amazing find! ** Original copies of this wonderful 1985 rare E.P. Hand folded gatefold cover. ** The other side of the moon. The sole EP by Vistas Fijas, released in 1985 on Laudano, represents the collective and electronic side of the Mexican underground ferment: three of the most important figures in Mexico City's underground - Rolando Chía, Armando Velasco, and Carlo Salinas - gathered together in a mini-album that drifts between minimal synth, ambient textures, and post-industrial restraint. Nearly 18 minutes of music pressed onto a single 7" - an extended play in the truest sense, pushing the format to its physical limits. If Rolando Chía's solo album Sara Juega Y... is an interior monologue, this 7" is a conversation among multiple voices, a dialogue between different sensibilities that intertwine without ever overlapping. The shimmering downtempo of "Gotas," signed by Salinas, sinks into sublime colors while swaying hypnotically; the abstract explorations of "Arcano" and "Sinfin," born from the collaboration between Chía and Velasco, drift through liminal zones where synthesizers and drum machines become almost physical matter; "Dias De Margarita" closes with a delicate, mournful thread - a haunting electronic lullaby that ties this EP to Chía's solitary poetics. These musicians would continue to weave a network of collaborations that, from the mid-eighties through the "Concierto del Eclipse" of 1991 in Tula, would forge a unique speculative cosmology - merging Mesoamerican mythologies with innovative sonic technologies. This is one of two essential documents - alongside the Tratado De Insectos De Metamorfosis Completas EP with Darsel Salinas - capturing the moment when Mexican experimental music found its own voice, distinct from both the American and European avant-garde traditions it drew upon. Listened together with Sara Juega Y..., these two records offer a sonic map of a parallel Mexico, where acoustic intimacy and electronic drift, solitude and community, coexist in a precarious and beautiful equilibrium.

 

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Cat. number: 002
Year: 1985
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Issued in 8" x 9" folded paper sleeve.