Ritmo Peligroso

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Ritmo Peligroso
OriginMexico City
Genres Punk rock, Post-punkLatín Rock
Years active1978-present
LabelsComrock, WEA Polygram, Discos Orfeón, Universal Music.
Members
  • Piro Pendas
  • Avi Michel J.
  • Mosy Bit
  • Jorge "Gato" Arce
  • Oscar Contreras Jr
  • Manny Murillo
Past members
  • Eduardo “Mongoose” Avila.
  • Fernando Nava
  • Diego García
  • Pablo Rascón
  • Jorge Bautista
  • Rafael Espinosa
  • Armando Pinaca
  • Marcelo Aramburu
  • Johnny Danger/Cable (Paco Méndez)
  • Cándido Neria
  • Carlos Warman
Website www.ritmopeligroso.com

Ritmo Peligroso is a Mexican post-punk/rock band that was created in 1978 and known until 1985 as Dangerous Rhythm. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Under that name, they created the first Mexican punk rock band, with strong influences from international punk subcultures. They sang most of their music in English. They would evolve to different sounds over the years, finally reaching the one that would bring them such enormous success in the mid to late 1980s.

In the new incarnation of the band in 1998, bassist Avi Michel Jr., drummer Jorge Gato Arce, and guitar players Moongus Ávila Costa and Mosy (the newest member of the band) that joined these band in 2012, share the stage with Mexican/Cuban singer Piro Pendas. His style has come to be considered punk rock and New Wave. The band released a compilation disk on the Comrock label, promoted in Mexico to make commercial rock in Mexico more accessible there. It included two Ritmo Peligroso songs: Marielito, about the arrival of a Cuban in the Mariel boatlift, and Modern Minds.

Later, known by then as Ritmo Peligroso, the group changed its style to incorporate elements of Latin rock and Latin rhythms, in a self-titled album which gave them their two big releases: Déjala Tranquila and Contaminado. On December 15, 1989, Ritmo Peligroso participated in an environmental concert organized by WFM radio at the WTC arena in Mexico City with their signature song, Contaminado. Their latest album, Matacandela, was produced by Sabo Romo of Caifanes and co-produced by Piro and Avi Michel J. The band is working on a live recording CD/DVD together with a documentary telling the history of the group.

Discography

As Dangerous Rhythm

As Ritmo Peligroso

Compilations

Members

Current Lineup

Former members

References

  1. «Biografía de Ritmo Peligroso», ritmopeligroso.com 2013.
  2. "Interview with Piro Pendas". 2 February 2013.
  3. "Return of a Classic".
  4. "Ritmo Peligrosos refuses to disappear".