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For this year’s artist album on his label Cadenza Records Luciano explores a new direction into the world
of pop music, or at least something very much like it. If you’re searching for a new direction in
contemporary club music, Los Updates may just be the musical reset you’ve been looking for. Quirky,
moving and instantly memorable, it’s a sophisticated pop song album displaying a rare degree of musical
maturity.

Los Updates is the latest project from Chilean mastermind Jorge González, long one of the country’s bestknown musical ambassadors. Jorge has been a central figure on the Latin American musical stage since the ’80s—first as the co-founder of Chile’s beloved political rockers Los Prisioneros, then as a restlessly inventive solo musician and as one half of Gonzálo Martínez, the experimental electronic duo with Dandy Jack. Now based in Mexico City and working alongside Loreto Otero, Jorge presents Los Updates, a new project combining electro-pop with sprightly house and techno. Los Updates expand their collaborative scope by reaching out to Jorge’s inner circle from back in Santiago and beyond: Ricardo Villalobos, Dandy Jack, Luciano, Tobias Freund and others - all deliver defiantly original remixes of Los Updates across a trilogy of 12-inch singles – released on Cadenza Records this year - and a remix compilation on CD will follow in 2009.
But here, if you please, Luciano presents Los Updates First If You Please: an eight-song suite that makes the definitive Los Updates document.
Jorge backs up an unforgettable vocal performance with equally compelling production, crafting an addictive groove out of rubbery synthesizers, clattering drum machines and oddball samples galore. There’s no doubt that he has top-notch studio chops, but González makes his outsider status a virtue: His beats don’t sound like anyone else’s.
The album is a “kinky journey,” to quote Jorge, into rare chemicals, sexual madness, and hearts beating at 128 BPM; by turns whimsical and biting, it’s a showcase of Jorge’s off-kilter storytelling, a sentimental adventure across continents and musical styles. House, pop, 2-step, 8-bit, funk, rave and balladry all come together in a glorious and glittering amalgam that’s at once loosey-goosey and precise as clockwork. The air is thick with sounds as bright as scarab beetles—squelchy synthesizers, sirens, electric guitars, acid squiggles, cascading ice cube clatter—and loops skip back and forth in bursts of nervous energy. At the center of it all is Jorge’s voice: seductive, inimitably rich, impossibly suave and yet, sometimes, even a little weird. A voice to fall in love with.
A record release tour of Los Updates will start in fall 2008.

1 4 Wheel Drive
2 My Soulmate And I
3 Some Pictures Of You
4 I Don’t Feel Like Coming Home
5 Sexual Madness
6 Inviting You Here
7 It’s Getting Late
8 Charlie Hold On

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