Los De Abajo

Emerging from Mexico City's burgeoning punk underground, Los de Abajo coalesced around vocalist Liber Terán, guitarist Vladimir Garnica, bassist Carlos Cortez, saxophonist Damián Portugal, keyboardist Carlos Cuevas, and percussionist/drummers Yocupitzio Arellano and Gabriel Elías. What began as Latin ska gradually turned more political and punk-driven between 1993 and 1994. Two cassette albums preceded their signing with Luaka Bop, which issued the self-titled release in 1998. Traditional Latin forms entered the picture on 2002's Cybertropic Chilango Power, and three years later the band delivered its first live set, Complete & Live (L.A./04). LDA v. the Lunatics arrived in 2006.