Camilo Lara talks about the collaborative album that sparked the tour that Ruido Tovar named in honor of Mexican cumbia icon of the same name.

Mexican Institute of Sound. The final piece includes lyrics based on the Mexican constitution and traces the sound of the country from North to South. Today's Top Tune is an excerpt from the ...

It takes some real bravado to name your musical project an ‘Institute’ of anything. And it takes even more boldness to brand it with a country’s entire identity. Mexican Institute of Sound is quite a ...

The Mexican Institute of Sound's (MIS) name conjures images of white lab coats and clip boards, well-trained scientists primed to collate information and disseminate it unto the Mexican Republic. In ...

The Mexico City-based Mexican Institute of Sound consists not of an "institute," or even a band. It's just one man, Camilo Lara. Lara amuses himself by using the name "Mexican Institute of Sound." In ...

In the tradition of Frida Kahlo and husband Diego Rivera, the Mexican Institute of Sound hopes to spark a discussion with its next work of art. The cumbia-playing electronic music act will release a ...

Praised for its immersive approach to mapping out a drummer’s confrontation with hearing loss, writer-director Darius Marder’s “Sound of Metal,” now contending for six Academy Awards, features a ...

New York label Dutty Artz has teemed up with Songs From Home, a new imprint from the team behind Sahel Sounds, to release a compilation titled ¡Un Saludo! Mexican Soundsystem Cumbia In LA. Curated by ...

Mexican Institute of Sound is the creation of deejay/producer Camilo Lara, who got started making holiday “best of” mixes for his friends that included his own creations sampling traditional Mexican ...

Camilo Lara, who makes music as Mexican Institute of Sound, is hardly the only Latinx artist to meld traditional rhythms with contemporary electronic dance genres (Colombian group Bomba Estéreo, ...

Praised for its immersive approach to mapping out a drummer’s confrontation with hearing loss, writer-director Darius Marder’s “Sound of Metal,” now contending for six Academy Awards, features a ...

Run the Jewels have dropped a new visualizer for the Mexican Institute of Sound remix of their track, “Oooh La La.” Mexican Institute of Sound is the long-running project of producer/DJ Camilo Lara, ...