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Article: Run to the border; The music of Nortec Collective takes electronica to the streets of Tijuana.(VITA.MN)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 6, 2007
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Byline: Britt Robson
The first inspiration for what would emerge as the Nortec Collective came through loud and clear. It was the 1980s and Tijuana was enjoying the world's best radio reception, courtesy of San Diego stations skirting U.S. law by setting up huge, powerful towers in Mexico to try to broadcast as far north as Los Angeles. "What was big back then were the techno-pop bands like New Order and Depeche Mode," says Roberto Mendoza, a-k-a "Panoptica" in the Nortec Collective. "So when all of us kids wanted to be in a local band, we didn't grab a guitar, we grabbed a synthesizer. By 1988, `89, there were like, hundreds of bands in Tijuana and about 70 to ...