Delia Beatriz’s latest as Debit continues her explorations of Latin American rhythm and identity through the lens of club music. The first and most obvious thing to note about Potpourri is that it is bangin’. Following last year’s woozy 90s elegy, Desaceleradas and the dreamy experimental ambient of The Long Count, the carnival of beats on the new album bring a jolt of restless energy. If those previous records drifted through interior spaces of memory and imagination; this one feels crowded and busy, a vortex of motion and ideas.
Marking Debit’s return to NAAFI, the move to the dance floor finds her picking up where her previous SYSTEM EP left off, mixing up guaracha with industrial techno and noise. ‘Referencepoint’ offers a scene-setting introduction:…
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The subgenre of cumbia, cumbia rebajada, was born in the ’90s when Gabriel Dueñez was DJing a club in Monterrey. All of a sudden his tape deck overheated, and the music began to slur. The beat of tracks like El Manicomio de Vargasvil’s “Mi Abuelo” were slowed from cumbia’s usual 100 BPM chug to a sluggish 65 BPM, their once peppy choruses resembling the gurgly bass of the Star Wars character Jabba the Hut. Fortunately for Dueñez, though, the dancers loved it.
Fellow Monterrey musician, Delia Beatriz (AKA Debit), met with Dueñez and his family in preparation for her second album Desaceleradas. She studied the history of cumbia rebajada, and used Dueñez’s first two mixtapes as source material for her hauntological rewiring.