Musica de Tijuana.....

El dia de ayer perdiendo el tiempo viendo la television y el clasico de buscar algo interesante en la programacion me encontre con el canal 13 de TV Azteca donde entrevistaban a los ya tan mensionados NORTECOS, en el programa de shalala.....

¿Qué es Shalalá?

Shalalá significa: cualquier cosa va.

Muy shalalá significa: con toda libertad.

Shalalá es un programa en el que Katia D´Artigues (periodista) y Sabina Berman (escritora) reciben en su casa a personas para conversar en plena libertad, sin censura, sin corrección política, sin competencias ideológicas. Con vino y cena, eso sí.

¿A qué personas? A personas clave de esa conversación colectiva que está formando hoy, el mañana de nuestro país: artistas, políticos, pensadores, filántropos, empresarios, entre muchos otros.

Di lo que quieras y haz lo quieras. Te damos preguntas para entenderte mejor. Lo único que puede irritarnos es la mentira, la simulación.

He visto el programa solo en 3 o 4 ocaciones y si en verdad es algo interesante ser interrogado en este tipo de programas que tiene un buen criterio para mi gusto. Una de las preguntas mas importantes fue para mi, que si Tijuana era una tercera nacion?? Y lo que mas me gusto fue la respuesta de los Nortecos. Una respuesta solida y con sus vivencias muy a la corde con muchas de la vivencias que yo he tenido. Yo si considero que Tijuana tiene muchisimas cosas que no tienen otras fronteras y el tema es muy extenso pero buscando algo de tijuana me encontre con este primer video de los anos 60's donde ya era famosa Tijuana y las gentes que vivieron en esas decadas mencionan lo grande que era Tijuana y lo divertida que era.... claro los tiempos cambian la poblacion ha crecido y los resultados creo que todos los habitantes de ella los conocemos. Pero en estos tiempos hay gente como los Nortecos que se dedican hacer cosas PRO-Tijuana y eso hay que reconocerlo. Aca les dejo con algunos datos de la primera banda mencionada Tijuana Brass de Herbert "Herb" Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass or as Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass or just TJB for short.

Alpert set up a small recording studio in his garage and had been overdubbing a tune called "Twinkle Star", written by Sol Lake, who would eventually write many of the Brass' original tunes. During a visit to Tijuana, Mexico, Alpert happened to hear a mariachi band while attending a bullfight. Following the experience, Alpert recalled that he was "inspired to find a way to musically express what [he] felt while watching the wild responses of the crowd, and hearing the brass musicians introducing each new event with rousing fanfare."[5] Alpert adapted the trumpet style to the tune, mixed in crowd cheers and other noises to create ambiance, and renamed the song, "The Lonely Bull". He paid out of his own pocket to press the record as a single, and it spread through radio DJs until it caught on and became a Top Ten hit in 1962. He followed up quickly with his debut album, The Lonely Bull by "Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass". The initial version of the Tijuana Brass consisted of studio musicians. The title cut reached #6 on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart. This was also A&M's first album (the original number was 101), but was recorded at Conway Records.

Nortec (from the combination of "norteño" and "techno") is an electronic musical genre from Tijuana (a border city in Baja California, Mexico) that first gained popularity in 2001. Nortec music is characterized by hard dance beats and samples from traditional forms of Mexican music such as Banda sinaloense and Norteño - unmistakably Mexican horns are often used.^[1]

In 1999, Pepe Mogt was experimenting with both Norteño (popular folk music in Tijuana) sounds and Electronica ( techno ). This sound would turn out to be Nortec, a style he created and later shared with a group of like minded musicians that would eventually turn into the Nortec Collective.

Situated near the United States border, and in the US cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Tijuana's musical scene is heavily influenced by the border, and in particular the United States and Europe.