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Jorge has been a central figure on the Latin-American musical stage since the 80s-first as the co-founder of Chiles 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 (Martin Schopf). Now based in Mexico City and working alongside Loreto Otero, Jorge presents Los Updates, a new project combining electro-pop with an unusual approach to minimalist house and techno. Designed both as a studio affair and a live performance, Los Updates expands its collaborative scope by reaching out to a crew of well-known Chilean and European musicians who were central to the development of Chilean techno in the mid 90s: Ricardo Villalobos, Dandy Jack, Luciano and Tobias Freund, all of whom deliver defiantly original remixes across a series of 12-inch singles. Tobias. fills the A-side with his remix of >Pictures of You< simply one of the most dazzling things youll hear this year. tobias. recent string of work-singles for Wagon Repair and Ostgut Ton, as well as remixes for Two Armadillos and Jim Rivers-has shown him to be a master of the hypnotic groove, and here he entrances like never before, laying down a stark 808 drum pattern which he threads through dubby keys, analog explosions and liquid bass figures. On the B-side Cadenzas Luciano is getting late and brings his inimitable touch to the remix of >etting Late<. Luciano reworks the song into a lean, bleepy groove that marries the cool restraint of vintage DBX to Lucianos own effusive style, buoyant and percussive and completely enveloping..