The continuation of Cómeme’s ‘local transfer’ series, in which a guest DJ sonically presents a city. This month’s episode is a mix by interdisciplinary artist César Ch., presenting Ciudad de México.

"I would describe life in the vicinity of Mexico City as the eternal permanence within a limbo of unfinished expectations. Not so far out, not so far in. Having to go there, but never coming here. To call oneself a capital, but not quite. For the average city dweller, the imaginary of the State of Mexico, often undesirable, coexists with a sense of uneasiness with the irony that most of the people who pass through the city come from here.

On the surface, one might suppose that the music conceived in the state of Mexico is not much different from that created in the city. However, experiencing the city without living in it and adapting to the dynamics of Mexico's most densely populated area consolidates a cultural authenticity that is much more forceful and naturally diverse: punk from Neza, perreo from Coacalco, experimental from Satélite, club from Toluca and the now endemic Electrocumbia, as well as sonidero and 3ball from the state's borders. The aura of metropolitan music is charged with an eagerness to be an escape in the epicenter of chaos. This is what Edomex sounds like to me."