Karen y Los Remedios’ ‘Las Muchachas (M.I.S. Remix)’: Latin Remix

In our Latin Remix of the Week collection, we highlight remixes that the Billboard Latin and Billboard Español editors deem remarkable and distinct. We may now not post a evaluation each week. That is our variety nowadays.

Karen y Los Remedios changed into a fascinating revelation in Latin indie with their 2023 nine-track debut album Silencio, a darkly poetic mix of eerie cumbia rhythms and delicate trip-hop influences. Made out of singer/songwriter Ana Karen Gonzalez Barajas, manufacturer Jonathan “Jiony” Muriel, and guitarist Guillermo Berbeyer, the trio provides a hypnotizing exploration with topics that discover sorrow, solitude, and mystical musings.

Amongst its tracks, “Las Muchachas” is particularly noteworthy, highlighting the gang’s penchant for experimental cumbia-pop fusion. Lyrical intensity is woven during the melody with traces like “Cuando tú me dices que soy inalcanzable, pienso en las estrellas” (“Whilst you inform me I’m impossible, I call to mind the celebs”).

Mexican Institute of Sound, helmed by way of Camilo Lara, reimagines this track with an leading edge twist. The Mexico Town DJ/manufacturer keeps the haunting attract of the unique whilst injecting spatial sound results and a lustrous glow to the vocals. Plus, he provides a reggae dub setting and a spellbinding violin-synth mix halfway, morphing the remix into an immersive revel in that respects the unique’s core whilst introducing dynamic auditory layers.

Lara is famend for his talent to meld conventional Latin sounds with exploratory digital components and kitschy Mexican folks. Along with his Mexican Institute of Sound (Instituto Mexicano del Sonido) venture, Lara has additionally been concerned within the band Mexrrisey (the Mexican Morrisey venture), and various soundtracks and movie ratings (Narcos Mexico, Coco).

Karen y Los Remedios’ “Las Muchachas (Mexican Institute of Sound Remix)” can be a part of the trio’s Silencio Remixes, to be launched on April 11.

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