Plastilina Mosh

The Mexican equivalent of the Beastie Boys (in musical style if not pop culture influence), Plastilina Mosh came up in the thriving musical climate of Monterrey, Mexico, alongside fellow electro-Mex rockers Kinky. P-Mosh, as their fans call them, bump and funk over old-school soul samples and wicked breaks, MC/singer Jonas cracking Spanglish MCA-like rhymes over Alejandro Rosso's cut-n-paste soundscapes. Dance-mad, groove-drenched, and wickedly fun, their 1998 debut is fiesta music all the way.

Too many recent "rock en español" hypes (Negu Gorriak, Niños con Bombas, Todos Tus
Muertos) prove only that gratuitously pissed-off slam-dance funk can sound repulsive no
matter what tongue it's rapped in. But two Mexican posses now exploding throughout Latin
America with alternative-rock takes on hip-hop suggest a future for roch en español
regardless. In fact, especially given their partly English vocals, it's not hard to im... More >