Nopal Beat Records encompasses two very rich cultures, which on the surface appear quite different, but have found common ground through this enterprise.
The culture of electronic music made its way into the Mexican underground in the late nineties. A very global, abstract, universal art form met with all the idiosyncrasies of the Mexican personality. Dance music acquired an entirely new meaning in a place where dance means cumbia, mambo and chachachá.
Nopal Beat Records set out to create something new out of this encounter. To create music that would be accepted by a global generation, regardless of geography, but that wouldn’t sound like electronic music being produced elsewhere. The music of Nopal Beat is something new. It is not fusion. It is the Latin identity interpreted through the technology, vision and creativity of electronic music. It is acid cabaret, a term coined for the Nopal Beat sound, with a resonance into the origin of its music. It is inspired by the Mexican nightlife, by dark dance halls and colorful women, high heels and fishnet stockings.
Since 1999, Nopal Beat Records has been a label that carefully selects the producers and dj’s that belong to it. They all have a unique way of connecting their vision of latin culture to music, and their vision of music to their work. Acid cabaret is made personal and inimitable in every record and every live set by the artists of Nopal Beat. Every detail, down to the design of the releases, is carefully thought out to be coherent with the identity of the label and its music. Nine years after its establishment, the label has evolved with its artists, acquiring maturity from those who have been there since the beginning, and freshness from newcomers.