Mexico City

Tribal guarachero is having a second moment, anchored by N.A.A.F.I. and its twenty-track compilation TRIBAL 2025. Around it: Debit, Rosa Pistola, DJ Mouse, Alan Rosales, and a reunited 3BallMTY touring the original lineup.

The backdrop is less fun. The city's "La Noche es de Todos" enforcement operation logged 885 suspensions and 172 closures across 2025.

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Tribal guarachero came back, and this time it brought a compilation

N.A.A.F.I. put out a twenty-track compilation and a genre that got written off as a novelty fifteen years ago is having a second, more serious life.

Abstract, colorful cover art for chimp! EP described as wiggy and woozy by Bandcamp Daily

A prolific, inscrutable project on Bandcamp that turns slow techno and hip‑hop into something deliciously off-kilter.

chimp! — Mexico’s wonderfully wrong mystery-techno

Bandcamp Daily flagged chimp! as one of August’s most baffling acts: prolific, mysterious and expertly ‘different‑fi’. We like this—because it refuses to behave.