Feat. Banda Misteriosa — a recording session for Camilo Lara, the producer and DJ behind Instituto Mexicano del Sonido, whose own catalog spans Grammy and Latin Grammy nominations, production credits for artists from Los Ángeles Azules to Norah Jones, and a music supervision credit on Pixar's Coco.
Camilo Lara built Instituto Mexicano del Sonido on a specific method: take Mexico's folk and cumbia DNA and run it through electronic production until something genuinely new comes out the other side — a sound distinctive enough that El País named him among the 50 most influential people in Latin America. A session for an artist with that track record runs on a different standard than most studio dates: the bar for what counts as "good enough to keep" is set by someone who has already proven what excellent sounds like, repeatedly, at an international level.
Assisting on a session like this means working inside that standard in real time — keeping the signal chain clean, the takes organized, and the room ready to capture whatever Lara and Banda Misteriosa needed the moment they needed it, with zero margin for the kind of technical hiccup that breaks a take's momentum.
Served as assistant audio engineer for the recording session, supporting signal flow, session setup, and capture for Instituto Mexicano del Sonido's "The Lunatics" featuring Banda Misteriosa.