“This is succch a brrrrutal irrrony! Never in my life did I dance or sing, it’s the obscenity of gesturrre, I cannot do it” replies Slavoj Žižek when asked “isn’t there a dance music club named after you in Buenos Aires?”
The Žižek Club – originally starting within Niceto Club’s spaces, in the porteño district of Palermo – is a movement, or better a collective, born in the early Noughties and aiming to shake up not just the music scene, but the dance floor itself. Nim, Gran C. Dull aka El G, Villa Diamante, Tremor, Dat Garcia, El Remolon, King Coya, Tito Del Aguila, are artists who, fed up of looking outward, choose to explore their roots, introducing electronica to cumbia, folklore and popular music.
Week after week, Niceto Club lives party after party up until 2008, when the rest of the world starts becoming aware of the scene. The same year ZZK Records – among the most important label for what we could clumsily call Latin American electronica – is born.
