"Landing somewhere between composer William Basinski's Disintegration Loops and DJ Screw's chopped'n'screwed production style, Desaceleradas slows the shaker-rattling, synth syncopations of cumbia rebajada into unrecognisable ambient territory. La Ronda y el Sonidero and Vinilos Trasnacionales contain hints of the signature cumbia shuffle and twanging synth melody, but Beatriz's added tape hiss, reverb and melodic warping transform the style into an eerie, ethereal soundworld of nightmare fairground music and yearning drones."
"Much more than just an academic exercise of slowing material down to its lowest possible bpm, Beatriz's arrangements force us to focus on the innate strangeness of the present moment. On Bootlegs, a single synth tone becomes drawn-out, harsh industrial distortion. Cholombia, MTY highlights the atonal dissonance produced between the notes of a slow motion melody and Los Balleza rings out with cacophonous reverb."
"On her latest record, Desaceleradas (Decelerated), Beatriz turns her attention to the 90s trend of cumbia rebajada. Slowing the Afro-Latin dance genre of cumbia to a sludgy tempo, cumbia rebajada is a dub-influenced take on a typically upbeat, party-driven sound. DJ Gabriel Duenez popularised the style with his bootleg cassettes; two of his earliest releases now form the basis of Beatriz's experiments."
Mexican-American producer Delia Beatriz (Debit) transforms early 90s cumbia rebajada into slow, eerie ambient soundscapes on Desaceleradas. She bases the record on two early bootleg cassettes by DJ Gabriel Duenez and slows the Afro-Latin dance rhythms into sludgy, dub-inflected tempos. Tape hiss, reverb, melodic warping and granular processing turn shaker rattles and twanging synth melodies into nightmare fairground music, yearning drones and industrial distortion. Tracks like Bootlegs, Cholombia, MTY and Los Balleza reveal atonal dissonance, cacophonous reverb and constantly shifting textures that induce unease rather than background meditation, demonstrating slowness as a source of dread.
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