Terror/Cactus calls the new single “Discoteca Fugitiva,” roughly “fugitive nightclub,” a dancefloor that only exists while the music is playing. Buenos Aires-born, Seattle-based producer Martín Selasco has spent nearly a decade building a project where cumbia, Argentine folk and Peruvian chicha feed into psychedelic electronics, and the results always feel like they could dissolve into the air the moment the rhythm stops.
“Discoteca Fugitiva” is taken from Colapso, his second full-length, due 12 June on Seattle nonprofit label Share It Music. The record expands the live band around Selasco’s production: Kate Olson on alto sax, clarinet, flute and soprano sax, Mike Gebhart on congas, David French on drums and timbales, all of it layered through field recordings, dub-soaked delays and synthesiser work.
Selasco grew up boxing CDs for his father’s Miami label, ANS Records, discovering Bolivian, Peruvian and Colombian music from the warehouse shelves. The family connection goes further back: his grandparents founded the Argentine record company Sicamericana and its label Music Hall Records. That ear for Latin American sound across decades and borders is embedded in Terror/Cactus, and Colapso channels it outward, into questions of migration, resistance and what holds together when systems fail.
Listen to “Discoteca Fugitiva” HERE and pre-order your copy of Colapso following THIS LINK – Ten percent of the album’s proceeds go to the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.