Plankton Man (born Ignacio Chavez, Nashio for short) is a Mexican musician and former founding member of the

Nortec Collective Nortec Collective was a musical ensemble formed by various individual one- or two-man production projects. The group came together in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico. Their genre mixes electronic music with musical elements and instrumentation o ...

. His music is inspired by traditional Mexican music such as the brass banda and the accordion accents of norteño music, as well as

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...

and

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elements.

Biography

Planktonman began his career in the early 1990s in his native Ensenada,

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as a guitarist for the now defunct electro-rock group Sonios. The band became well known throughout northwestern Mexico and southern

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Latin music Latin music ( Portuguese and es, música latina) is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all category for various styles of music from Ibero-America (including Spain and Portugal) and the Latino United States inspired by Latin Amer ...

scene. He then began solo work in electronic breakbeat music. Nashio is also half of the new duo

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, alongside Argel Medina (Arhkota), the drummer of Niño Astronauta. Their sound is a mixture of organic

glitch music Glitch is a genre of electronic music that emerged in the 1990s. It is distinguished by the deliberate use of glitch-based audio media and other sonic artifacts. The glitching sounds featured in glitch tracks usually come from audio recording d ...

and digital jazz played live with drum pads and a laptop.

Discography

*''The Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 1: Nortec Collective'' (Palm Pictures) *''Plankton Man vs Terrestre'' (Run Recordings) *"El Sinaloense" : Remix for

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(on the album '' Nuevo'') / Released by (

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) *''Feel My China Ii'' track: "Mexican Pencil Box Mix" : Remix for Mochipet / Released by ( Daly City Records)

Television work

*"My Kingdom",

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advertisement *"A Day in Life", Honda Civic advertisement *"Los Alacranes",

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Scoring

*"Collaboration with Mark De Gli Antoni on the scoring for

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" *"Featured track 'Lazer Metrayeta' on 411VM Skateboarding DVD #57",

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External links

* Mexican electronic musicians Musicians from Baja California People from Ensenada, Baja California Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{mexico-musician-stub