N.A.A.F.I
N.A.A.F.I (No Ambition And Fuck-all Interest) is a DJ collective, club night, and record label based in Mexico City. The collective was founded in 2010 through a series of parties first established by Alberto Bustamante a.k.a. Mexican Jihad and Fausto Bahía a.k.a.
N.A.A.F.I
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- 2010
- Headquarters
- Mexico
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N.A.A.F.I (No Ambition And Fuck-all Interest) is a DJ collective, club night, and record label based in Mexico City. The collective was founded in 2010 through a series of parties first established by Alberto Bustamante a.k.a. Mexican Jihad and Fausto Bahía a.k.a.
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Sound has been described as being influenced by drum & bass, techno, Mexican hip-hop, South African house, the traditional and folk music styles of Latin America, brass-heavy banda, rolling reggaeton, and cumbia. Described as being on the cutting edge of Mexican club culture, valuing homegrown music styles over "malinchismo" or imported styles from the Anglophone. The label has been described along with Pan-African label NON Worldwide as part of a wave of club music from the Global South which has become increasingly visible in the latter half of the 2010s that has "helped to loosen the west’s stranglehold on club culture" and initiated a movement to "decolonize the dancefloor." In 2017, their compilation album NAAFI 2.0 was released. In 2020, they released their ten-year anniversary compilation album NAAFI X. British musician GAIKA released his Seguridad EP on the label, featuring various artists from the collective, including Tayhana, Omaar, Lechuga Zafiro, Zutzut, Lao, Wasted Fates, and Debit.
• Jamez Manuel - Agua Remixes (2012) • Siete Catorce - Ep2 (2013) • Paul Marmota - Nueva (2013) • Lao - Catedral (2013) • Smurphy - #Geminiss (2014) • Various - N.A.A.F.I Tribal (2014) • Javier Estrada - Tribal Prehispánico (2014) • Various - N.A.A.F.I Tribal (2014) • Imaabs - Distancia (2015) • Various - NON vs N.A.A.F.I (2015) • Mock The Zuma - Gauss (2016) • Zutzut - Placas (2017) • Lao - Perfil (2017) • Various - N.A.A.F.I 2.0 (2017) • Kali Mutsa & Imaabs - La Devoración (2017) • OMAAR - NO! (2017) • OMAAR - GTR (2017) • MC Bin Laden - Tototo (2017) • OMAAR - Progressive Tribes (2017) • Lechuga Zafiro - Testigo (2018) • Debit - Animus (2018) • Wasted Fates - Mundialero (2018) • Lao & Speak - Singularity (2019) • Taso x Siete Catorce - Grandes Éxitos (Vol. 1) (2019) • Wasted Fates - Turbio (2019) • Linn da Quebrada & Lao - fake dói (2019) • Debit - SYSTEM (2019) • WRACK - Despertar 醒 (2019) • Tayhana - Tierra del Fuego (2019) • Various - NAAFI X (2020) • Nick León - Aguacero (2020) • GAIKA - Seguridad EP (2020) • Lila Tirando a Violeta - Limerencia (2020) • Dj Fucci - FAUNA EP (2021) • OMAAR - Drum Temple (2021)
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- 1.Ravens, Chal. NAAFI are redefining Mexican club music. DJ Mag. 27 August 2019.
- 2.Gorton, Thomas. Dazed 100: N.A.A.F.I. Dazed Digital.
- 3.Mexico's N.A.A.F.I record label is changing club culture. Los Angeles Times. 14 July 2016.
- 4.McDermott, Patrick D. How N.A.A.F.I Is Changing Party Culture By Ignoring All The Rules. The Fader. 9 March 2016.
- 5.Pearl, Max. Label of the month: NAAFI. Resident Advisor. 30 October 2015.
- 6.Wei, Whitney. More to the floor: the decade the dancefloor was decolonised. The Guardian. 22 November 2019.
- 7.Mrozek, Patryk. Mexican collective N.A.A.F.I. to release label compilation TOMORROW (just in time for what must be at least somebody’s birthday?). Tiny Mix Tapes. 8 June 2017.
- 8.Donohue, Caitlin. Mexico City’s NAAFI Collective Releases 10 Year Anniversary Compilation. Remezcla. April 2020.
- 9.Phillips, Stephanie. Gaika – ‘Seguridad’ EP review: Brixton star creates a sultry soundtrack to Black British life. NME. 7 July 2020.
- 10.Wilson, Tayler. GAIKA Announces New EP, ‘Seguridad’. Hypebeast. 23 June 2020.
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