Plastilina Mosh

Originally from Monterrey, Mexico, and emerging from the Avanzada Regia scene of the late 1990s, Plastilina Mosh brought together Alejandro Rosso and Jonás González as a duo blending alternative rock, hip-hop, electronic music, big beat, acid jazz, lounge and pop with a marked taste for sound collage. After the Niño Bomba EP in 1997, Plastilina Mosh gained attention with Aquamosh in 1998, their first bilingual album in Spanish and English, recorded with collaborators such as Money Mark, The Dust Brothers, Jason Roberts and Café Tacuba. Their music circulated on Mexico’s and Latin America’s alternative stages, driven by tracks combining danceable rhythms, keyboards, guitars and shifts in tone. Juan Manuel, released in 2000, emphasized the duo’s pop and dance orientation, while Hola Chicuelos in 2003 developed a more fragmented songwriting approach and leaned more heavily on stylistic contrasts. After the compilation Tasty + B Sides in 2006, Plastilina Mosh released All U Need Is Mosh in 2008 and thereafter continued their activity with concerts, breaks and new tracks. Plastilina Mosh remains associated with a flexible, mobile and deliberately hybrid form of Latin crossover.