Los Dynamite are a Mexican
indie rock
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band based in
Mexico City
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. Most of their songs are written in
English
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.
The band is made up of Diego Solorzano (vocals, guitar), Miguel Angel Bribiesca (bass) and Eduardo Pacheco (drums) and previously Felipe Botello (guitar).
They met first at
INHUMYC (a high school placed in the district of
Tlalpan
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, in Mexico City) and started playing together, helped by
Paco Huidobro. The band became famous when their song ''TV'' was used in a commercial of the cellphone company Telcel through summer of 2005.
Their influences include
The Velvet Underground
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,
The Clash
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,
Pixies
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,
New Order,
Joy Division
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Sumner and Hook formed the band after att ...
,
Depeche Mode
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Depech ...
,
[ ]Interpol
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and The Strokes
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.[ The band mixes rock with techno and punk.
They opened the concerts of ]Interpol
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[ and played at festivals like ]Creamfields
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. They have shared the stages with artists like The Secret Machines
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, Bloc Party
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, The Kills
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,[ ]The Stills
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History
The band's original lineup consisted of lead vocalist and guitarist Tim Fletcher, guitarist Gregory Paquet, bassist Olivier Corbeil and dru ...
, Dirty Pretty Things, Incubus
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, The Juan Mclean and The Faint
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.
Their songs ''TV'' and ''Katatonic'' placed in the charts of Mexican alternative stations like Reactor 105.7 and Ibero 90.9 as best singles of the year, and Mexican Rolling Stone
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placed them as the most promising Mexican bands. They released their first album, ''Greatest Hits'' (released through Noiselabs and produced by Paco Huidobro),[ in 2006, with the tracks: TV, Frenzy, Pleasure, Smile, Ready Ready, Hold On, I'm 32, No Me Sueltes, 24, Katatonic, Visions with their first video 'Ready Ready' directed by Pablo Dávila.
]
References
External links
Official Site
Official Myspace
Mexican rock music groups
Mexican post-punk music groups
Mexican indie rock groups
Mexican dance-punk musical groups
Post-punk revival music groups
Musical groups established in 2002
Musical groups disestablished in 2008
Musical groups reestablished in 2022
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