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Discos Nutabe is an electronic music label from Medellín, Colombia. Inaugurated back at the end of 2013, releasing arounds that evoke the universality of House within electronic music, and the very fact of creating it from this city for the city. Championing the fact that those of us who are enthusiasts of this style can also be part of the creation and origin of musical production and its diffusion by promoting community, movement and self-management.
Since 2014, this label embarked on the mission of releasing House from Medellín, with a kind of “Medellin trilogy” lead by label members and collaborators from throughout the years such as DCM, Dijon Traithlon and Vandel. “Orígenes” was our first release by DCM, where the artist took inspiration from the fundamental elements of North American House with nuances of New York Deep and Chicago Jack. Such influences are present in Daniel’s artistic intention with “Swing”, “6 AM” and “Esperaándote”. At the time there was a movement in the city with the adoption of vinyl by many local DJs in the city, thus being able to play their icons on vinyl.
For 2015, one of our most seasoned members, Dijon Triathlon, with a well-forged past in Latin American diffusion with the netlabel “Series Media”, with more of a focus on IDM, released three tracks in the record “Pandemia”. Titled thus, for the tropical place in the world that Colombia occupies, as it is also a pejorative term for what does not work in everyday life compared to the first world. With strong influences from German House of the 90s, Microhouse and Minimal Funk, this inheritance and appropriation is recounted in “Chikungunya”, “Leishmaniasis” and “Chagas”, the tracks contained in this EP.
Ending this so-called trilogy, in 2016 Vandel presented “Inundación”, an EP of a solemn and profound character with tracks that represent his most intimate vision of Deep House. Nuances and touches that evoke the transmuted sound of labels such as Mirau Musik, Sistrum Rec or Soul People Music, to name some of the projects that carry the most introspective House. “La realidad es utópica”, “Dulce Martirio” and “Dos Escenas” comprise this EP.
There has been no linearity in terms of styles, everything has been an intimate declaration of the sound the artist was pushing for. After this trio of releases there was a break, until a new conversation started brewing with another city in 2017. Bogotá, which welcomed us
through Enrique León and the ELO label. The following year would present “Visitante”, an amalgam between House and Techno, Techno downgraded, a mechanical amalgam of Acid, Electro and a concrete response to what was previously done in Discos Nutabe with “Devolución” and “Generación”, and with “Trans” as the bridge of organic sounds between the origin of the label and the visitor.
For the 2nd of the records produced in Bogotá, we have “Niebla” by Lunate, musician, visual artist and cultural manager. This record was signed in 2019 as a letter of love and hate to the city that synthesizes the universality of Colombia. Acid landscapes around Techno beats with “Bogotá Adentro”; Reminiscences of the 80s with “A la luz de los cerros”; And “Luz de Domingo” with acid-painted breaks.
This collection see’s its first digital release, a snapshot of the Discos Nutabe history and a prelude to something new from the label.
