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Whether harmlessly titilated or thoroughly offended by their name, it's impossible to keep credit from where it's due. San Antonio's own Mexicans with Guns can be found sticking up ear drums all along the interwebs. What's to be expected from such a name? B'more rhythms, ghetto-tech influences, and bass lines that sound like they're being squeezed fresh from a robo-Floridian orange. Do not fear Mexicans with Guns, and your feet will thank you. - Urb Magazine
Mexicans with Guns is an avid remixer of other artists (Faunts, Animal Collective, and XRABIT & DMG$ among them), but for once, he's getting the remix treatment of his own work. The Nuts and Bongos EP is a single track that appears in six different variations, including an instrumental version and four remixes. Here's Ninjasonik's take on the track. - XLR8R
2009's busiest remixer, Mexicans with Guns, takes this epic, cinematic, and decidedly shoegaze track from Faunts and whips it into a bass-heavy, ghettotech frenzy. - XLR8R
Exclusive download of Mexicans with Guns remix of Holiday in Congo by Rainbow Arabia.
http://rcrdlbl.com/artists/Rainbow_Arabia/track/Holiday_in_Congo_Mexicans_with_Guns_Remix - RCRDLBL.com
Damn, this is all over the place but it made my day at work today. Mexicans with Guns has been delivering some of the hottest tunes lately and I hope they keep them coming. - Radio Sidekick
Let's start out the week on a totally NAFTA vibe. We, an American blog, are giving you a free download of a band from Canada remixed by some other guys called Mexicans With Guns (who could have easily ripped the name straight from the headlines). Now how's that for some North American musical free trade?
If you don't know Faunts, then you don't know sh*t. They're from Edmonton, led by two insanly talented brothers and they make dreamy, experimental post-rock that with melt your face off. The track we've got for you is a remix of Feel. Love. Thinking. Of. and it's yours for the low-dough price of nada so grab it right here
- MTV Subterranean
We've never been fans of crunk, reggaeton or dancehall, but this remix hit our mailbox last night and challenged our tastes. - Undomondo
Discography
Rainbow Arabia - Holiday in Congo (Mexicans with Guns Remix)
Cyne - Sleep (Mexicans with Guns Remix) - Home Tapes Label
Yppah - Gumball Machine Weekend (MwG Remix) - Ninja Tune
Jogger - Nice Tights (MwG Remix) - Friends of Friends
Faunts - Feel.Love.Thinking.Of (MwG Remix) - Friendly Fire Records
DMG$ - Follow the Leader (MwG Remix) - Big Dada
Nuts and Bongos EP - Exponential Records
2008
Ernest Gonzales - Lullaby 5 (MwG Remix) - Exponential
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MEXICANS WITH GUNS is the incredibly raw and exciting discovery of Exponential Records label head Ernest Gonzales. The story is that EG left San Antonio in search of a new sound…his journey lead him to the cutty edges of Mexico. There he found a man behind a mysterious mexcian wrestling mask tearing down the streets with big bass and a nasty swag. They came back to the US in Feb when MwG began his onslaught; breaking out remixes for the likes of Rainbow Arabia, CYNE, Faunts, Yppah, Bassnectar as well as unsanctioned remixes of Animal Collective and Major Lazer and shared the stage with the likes of Peanut Butter Wolf, Daedelus, Eliot Lipp. Mux Mool, Jogger and more.
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