Mexicans Do It Mejor

¡No le provoca!

Finding shiny gems in a mud puddle is a great feeling, is it not? This is the only way to describe what it's like when Perez Hilton posts music on his blog. Mostly he likes really gay, stupid stuff that we are either bored by or are passionately anti. Sometimes though he likes really gay, stupid stuff we think is awesome, as is the case with Maria Daniela y su Sonido Lasser.
MDSL is part of the Nuevos Ricos roster of electronic acts and is comprised of composer Emilio Acevedo and singer Maria Daniela Azpiazu. Acevedo had previously been active with a group called Titan, also on the Nuevos Ricos label, before starting a new project called Sonido Lasser Drakar and asking Maria Daniela to join in "just for fun". They recorded a self-titled debut and released the follow-up, Juventud en Extasis in December of last year.
Lead single "Pobre Estupida" is frenzied Hi-NRG dance craziness like we had no idea anybody not living on the Continent made these days. It is accompanied by a suitably trippy video, all cascading graphics and Maria Daniela doing what looks to be a variation on the Macarena. Our other favorite track of theirs is the slightly more menacing "Pecadora Normal", which sounds a bit like music for futbol fans to riot to. Our Spanish is nowhere near where it used to be but we swear at one point she says "no he matado a nadie" which translates to something like "I didn't kill anybody!" WTF?!
Neither of their albums are available in the U.S. just yet(unless you feel like paying 30-something dollars on Amazon), although hopefully somebody smart will pick that shit up one of these days. For the moment they are on a West Coast tour so go out and see them if you have the chance and tell them we think they're pretty firme.

"Pobre Estupida" video:


"Pobre Estupida" mp3

"Pecadora Normal" mp3