I think this might be the only song on Future Thursday that I can’t see as being from the future. Why is it in this category, then?

Nostalgia.

At the time this came out, NOTHING in Latin America sounded or looked like this: the concept of joking while still making serious music was brand new for Latin America, save for very limited exceptions. I’m too tired to expand on this right now but let’s just say that, in Latin America, due to class-relations and a culture strongly entrenched in Spanish colonialism it’s very difficult for bands to be truly rebellious. (Rebellion sometimes just means being free to have fun and make silly music and videos.)

But make no mistake, these are serious musicians. There was something about this where, behind a really strange, fake, over-produced (camp) form there was an undeniably funky substance. There was no synth game like this in Latin America (of course there’s the old Latin Jazz masters such as the ones in Irakere but, for all intents and purposes, that’s a different “Latin America”). And this also the most noticeable usage of drum machines, sequences and samplers in the mainstream (might as well have been the first time); it didn’t feel like a Rock band who tried to sound modern in between practising with “real instruments”. This WAS modern, this WAS new.

[Sorry for using the term “Latin America” so many times, too tired to write more elegantly …]

• Plastilina Mosh – Mr. P. Mosh