Pepito
Everything Changes
[Static Discos; 2004; IDM/Electro-Pop]
Rating: 7.4
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"2004's first essential release." -idmnews.com*
"The Postal Service meets the Buena Vista Social Club"
-SoCal Herald*
"San Fran's own Pepito makes us happy to call this place home." -San Francisco Today*
"Brilliant!" -electropoptoday.com*

Okay, those are all fake quotes from fake sources but if they were real publications, that's what they would be saying!

Translated to english, a pepito refers to a gold nugget found by mining. This is what fans of IDM will find in this real life San Francisco couple of José Márquez and Ana Machado. Influences from their native lands of Cuba and Mexico (including lyrics in both Spanish and English) blend with next level electro-pop and glitchy beats to create the Pepito sound.

The album opens with an interesting, head-bobbing modern take on the frozen man brought back to life in the future theme (William James McFee?) with habla con él. Unfortunately, we're left wondering "What can he say after all those years?" Seems we never find out what becomes of a frozen man...

Sometimes soothing, sometimes punky, for most of the remainder this record plays like a blippy, danceable love song. A love song to each other and to the music itself. "lately, I ain't sleeping right 'cause the beat of my heart keeps me up all night."

Highlight and title track, todo cambia, with it's slow electric guitar riff over a broken, glitchy beat reminds us with a story of despair, that everything changes and everything's the same...

*if anybody writes under these names, they are in no way endorsed by us. it's a joke.

 
   
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