Meridian Brothers / Mexican Institute of Sounds – DJ SET
About This Event
Meridian Brothers and Mexican Institute of Sound share a DJ-set billing at the Knitting Factory. Meridian Brothers, led by Eblis Álvarez, folds electronic processing and experimental structures into cumbia, vallenato and salsa. Mexican Institute of Sound applies a crate-digger, club-minded approach to regional and pop sources; both favor arranged textures and careful transitions over spectacle.
About the Artists
Meridian Brothers / Mexican Institute of Sounds – DJ SET
Meridian Brothers / Mexican Institute of Sounds appears in New York City as a DJ set at the Knitting Factory, placing two Latin American projects on the same bill. Meridian Brothers is led by Colombian musician Eblis Álvarez, whose classical training informs a hybrid of electronic processing and experimental structures with dance-lineage forms like cumbia, vallenato, and salsa.
Meridian Brothers
Meridian Brothers is a Colombian group founded by classically trained musician and producer Eblis Álvarez. Their work folds electronic process and avant-leaning structure into the vocabulary of cumbia, vallenato, salsa, and related dance traditions, aligning with the electrocumbia and chicha tags that often follow them.
Mexican Institute of Sound
Mexican Institute of Sound is a Mexico-based group working in the Rock/Pop lane, often folding DJ practice into a band-minded approach to rhythm and arrangement. In New York City they have appeared at the Knitting Factory, including a shared bill DJ-set night with Meridian Brothers.