Product Description Debut release from acclaimed former Nortec Collective members Plankton Man & Terrestre. An all-out, back-to-back battle of the beats that shows why these two artists are Norteno superstars! Includes nine track bonus disc profiling forthcoming Provider artists. About the Artist Plankton Man aka Ignacio Chavez grew up in the Mexican port town of Ensenada, eighty miles south of Tijuana. He cites nintendo as his earliest musical influence, and as the thing that made him want to write songs. After a brief stint with the piano, he switched to guitar and joined Sonios, a well known Mexican band. He soon grew restless being within the traditional confines of a band. One night he and his friend Fernando (Terrestre) went to a rave, and it was there he heard jungle for the first time, and was so impressed by the beats, he knew this was what he wanted to do. Armed with some knowledge of computers from school, and influences ranging from jazz to rock to funk, Plankton Man was born. soon after this he received a CD full of traditional banda sinaloense and norteno samples to play around with and was asked to join the Nortec Collective, a group of musicians, dj`s and graphic artists from Tijuana who were mixing the old and new, music and visuals, to create a fresh and exciting new scene. The Nortec Collective released a compilation album on Palm Pictures, but Ignacio decided once again to go out on his own. Recently he released his first 12", contributed to the soundtrack for the Finn Taylor film "Cherish", appears on the new Kronos Quartet album and will be joining them for shows in New York`s Central Park and Los Angeles this summer. Terrestre aka Fernando Corona was born in Tijuana but grew up in Ensenada. The soundtrack to his childhood was filled with the songs of The Beatles, Carpenters and classical composers. It was after a friend of his father gave him a tape of Jean Michel Jarre at age 11 that Fernando developed a rabid interest in electronic music. Listening to everything from electronic prog to 80`s british synth pop, he bought a cheap casio synth and began to experiment with sounds. Also a member of Sonios, he left to dedicate himself fulltime to his solo project Terrestre. He soon joined forces with the, still in the making, Nortec Collective, co-producing their debut album. Not content within the structure of the collective, Fernando also left to pursue his own projects. Recently he has done remixes for artists as diverse as the Kronos Quartet and Enrique Iglesias. Never one to be idle, he also composes under the name Murcof, combining chamber and classical music elements with digital processing. Murcof`s first album "Martes" has just been released through the Leaf label in England, and this summer he will be touring Europe, Canada and Japan, where a Terrestre track was recently licensed for a jeans ad starring Brad Pitt. Plankton Man vs. Terrestre is their first full length release since leaving the Nortec Collective, and is an all out, back to back battle of the beats that shows why these two artists are Norteno superstars!
