Nortec Collective

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Nortec Collective is a Mexican music project from Tijuana that mixes electronic techno with Norteño sounds like tambora. The idea started in 1999 as a group of individual two‑person projects that began performing together as Nortec Collective.

In 2001 they released their first album, Tijuana Sessions Volume 1, including members Bostich, Clorofila, Fussible, Hiperboreal, Panoptica, Plankton Man and Terrestre. Panoptica and Plankton Man left in 2002. Their second album, Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 3, came out around 2005–2006 on Nacional Records and won wide praise, earning two Latin Grammy nominations.

In 2008 the collective stopped operating as a single unit, with the individual projects continuing separately. Highlights from the later era include the 2008 album Nortec Collective Presents Bostich + Fussible: Tijuana Sound Machine, which was Grammy‑nominated, and extensive touring in the United States, Mexico, Europe, Japan and Latin America. They also did remixes for artists like Beck, Ennio Morricone and Lenny Kravitz, and their music appeared in commercials and the FIFA World Cup soundtrack.

Other notable work includes the interactive book Paso del Nortec: This Is Tijuana (2004), Motel Baja (2014), and the live/DJ set by Bostich + Fussible for Boiler Room in 2015. By 2020, Nortec: Bostich + Fussible remained active at major festivals such as Coachella and Glastonbury.