This dance comes from the Mexican Colonial period, when the Spanish hacendados on the coast used the labour of the black slaves, to replace the indigenous people who didn't support the mistreatment to which they were subjected. Due to the unfair treatment and the excessive load of Work to which black workers were forced, many of them fled to inhospitable and hidden places, where they somehow attained their freedom, knowing them as maroons. The places of refuge were called: palenques, quilombos or cumbés. 
These groups of fugitives had the opportunity to preserve customs, traditions, music, dance and religion, as elements of their identity tied to their African roots; For most of the slaves assimilated themselves to the way of life of their masters, The Catholic Church agreed to have them celebrate this festivity in the name of the Christian God. 
The concept of adoration to the God Ruja has been replaced by the veneration of the dead, reason why it is danced only in  the days of 1 November 1st and 2nd (Día de Muertos); And it's customary for the dancers to walk around the houses where altars are placed. Usually the celebration involves food, drink of alcoholic beverages and general festive ambient. 

The dance is performed by a group of 24 dancers in two columns and all are male. There is a mayor devil or El Viejo and his wife La Minga or La Vieja, mother of the devils. She dances with El Viejo, her children, the devils or with spectators whom she is provocative and flirtatious. There are communities where they add some characters to this dance, such as Lucifer, Death and Time, with masks and attire appropriate to their representative role. 

Track was made from field recordings made in November 2015, in Oaxaca, Mexico. 

This track is part of a workshop exercise that certainly has its flaws, as i'm not a full time musician or anything similar. Just want to make a contribution to the electronic community of my country. 

This track will be part from a future project involving afro-descendant dances from Mexico, which sometimes(almost all the time) gets vanished from the public eye, and certainly being one of the pillars of what we call mestizaje

Danza De Los Diablos - Juxtlahuaca

Brief death of an old computer logic board, recorded, arranged into another computer to make sound and compositions around it. Decay and solitude.

Signal Processing