Cero39

In 2007, Mauricio Álvarez spent more than three years exploring the Colombian countryside between the Magdalena River and the Atlantic Ocean, immersing himself in diverse sounds and musical styles. He settled in Barranquilla, where he became Cero39. One head, multiple cities, many collaborators. In his 3 albums, 8 EPs, and over 90 published songs, Cero39 may well have invented tropical futurism (Remezcla, 2016): his rhythms are heavy, hard, and progressive, finely tuned for the dance floor. Elegant and heavy on the bass, yet still Caribbean, Latin, with hidden references to dembow and cumbia. The tropical is more of a feeling or mood. The bass is effective. His universe features genetically modified macaws that shoot laser beams from their eyes and bionic capybaras, all-terrain and jet-propelled. It's a completely new world.