Zen and the art of new music

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Some folks think by December all the releases for the year are complete. Not quite. This week we feature a new music show with albums that should be considered along with the year’s best.

We've got pop and alternative from Mexico, funk from Colombia, rock and ambient from New York and a Tejano master celebrated by his fellow Texans. Plus, Felix brings the zen.

Artists and songs featured in this episode:

- Diles que no me maten, 'Manos de Piedra - Revisitada'
- Dianna Lopez, 'Sun Frequencies (Renewal)'
- HUMBE, 'fantasmas'
- Rene Lopez, 'Any Chance'
- Duplat, 'Vete del País'
- Ruben Ramos. 'El Año Viejo (ft. Gaby Moreno)'

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0:00.0	Okay, so the Buddhist master went to the hot dog vendor and said,
0:04.3	make me one with everything.
0:07.1	Kid it?
0:07.7	No, I don't get it.
0:10.0	I just saw that one the other day.
0:11.7	It was pretty funny.
0:18.2	From MPR Music, this is all Latino.
0:20.4	I'm Felix Contreras.
0:21.7	And I'm Anna Maria Sayer.
0:23.5	Let the cheese mate begin.
0:24.8	Okay, so we took last week off.
0:27.2	We are very quickly, fastly, super speedily approaching the end of the year, but we're not there yet.
0:33.7	And people are still releasing music, Felix.
0:35.7	Yeah, we have to squeeze in a little bit more, even though we've already put our end of the year list together, which we will be getting to. But yeah, this week, tons of great music that's still coming out, and you get to go first. I do have a couple things up my sleeve, as per always. Okay, starting us off with a band that I have never brought in,
0:54.3	but is a band that I actually listen to personally a lot,
0:56.8	and I follow very closely.
0:58.3	They're probably one of Mexico City's most exciting alternative bands.
1:03.7	They're called,
1:04.4	They just released a new single that was actually a re-release of a track
1:10.0	they put out a long time ago.
1:11.4	It's called Manos de Piedra.
1:13.6	The camera the most circle of the floor of the cover.
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