Titan

In the early 1990s, ex-Melamina Ponderosa guitarist Julian Lede joined keyboardist Emilio Acevedo and bassist Andrés Sánchez—later succeeded by ex-Fobia drummer/bassist Jay de la Cueva—to launch the Mexican alternative dance trio Titán. Their first album, Terrordisco, was tracked in 1995. A 1999 deal with Tombola! yielded an EP spotlighting “C'mon Feel the Noise,” which quickly earned airplay on MTV Latino. The follow-up, Elevator, emerged under producers Paco Huidobro, Craig Burrell, Ross Harris, and Michael Franti and carried the hit single “1,2,3,4.” Buoyed by that exposure, the band spent much of the next year on the road across the U.S. and Europe. The self-released, self-titled LP Titán appeared in 2005, after which the group entered an extended hiatus. More than a decade afterward, Titán enlisted British producer Nick Launey—known for his work with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and Arcade Fire—to create the long-awaited fourth album Dama, issued in 2016 and featuring guest vocalists that included Gary Numan and Siobhan Fahey.