Mexicans With Guns is the nom de electro of San Antonio-based, luchador-mask-wearing Ernest Gonzales, a producer/remixer/recording artist fond of cross-breeding Hispanic folk music with electronica.
A better-than-usual assortment of club hits, obligatory star collaborations and filler, ?Ceremony,? Mexicans With Guns? official full-length debut, is a dark, bass-heavy mixture of dubstep, hip-hop, ?90s-style drum ?n? bass and old-school 8-bit.
Though Gonzales can be a little too downbeat when left to his own devices (like on ?Death and Rebirth,? a chirpy, clattery bummer of a track), ?Ceremony? is enlivened by guest turns from gangsta rapper Freddie Gibbs (who turns up on the awe-inspiring, otherwise funereal ?Highway to Hell?) and Antibalas?s Chico Mann, whose cameo on last year?s hit ?Me Gusto? helps make that gauzy, cumbia-inspired track the lightest, greatest thing here.
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