Our friend minusbaby (8bitpeoples) asked us to do a remix for him and it’s officially out! You can download for free the EP called “Left Remixes, Pt. 2″ from the Free Music Archive. Tim Koch (Ghostly) and Turing’s Apple also contributed remixes to this project. Show your 8-bit love and get this today. DOWNLOAD LEFT [...]
The super awesome music blog Club Fonograma released their latest compilation, and our song “Las Olas” from Memoria Textil is in it. This is a great chance to check out other Latin American bands doing great stuff. We love it. DOWNLOAD FONOGRAMATICOS VOL. 7
Hey all the album is now easily available to DOWNLOAD! Tell all your buddies! We got some great reviews from Club Fonograma (who gave the album a 4/5 and labeled it as Destacados) and Remezcla. Plus El Nuevo Día interviewed us! You can read these reviews, the interview and some more press here: CLUB FONOGRAMA REMEZCLA [...]
Hello, we have a new mini-album called “Memoria Textil”. It’s a limited edition of 100 handmade CD-R’s with screenprinted cover art on tanyon fabric. On February 2, 2010 we’ll make available the digital version of the album on balun.bandcamp.com for free/pay-what-you-wish! We would love to borrow your ears. CD-R and digital tracklisting: 1. El Arbol [...]
Hey all, here’s an unreleased song from our upcoming 2nd album in 2010! It will be released by Si No Puedo Bailar (Brazil) on vinyl, which we are pretty excited about! We’ll do a digital release too. This new song is called Camila. She’s one of our new friends. Been with us since last January. [...]
We talked, we laughed, we didn’t cry and we played some songs. That’s how we spent our time at Frecuencias Alternas. It was a lot of fun and thanks to them you can download a live recording of our performance. These songs will appear on our 2nd album, but until then this is the only [...]
We played 8static 5 in Philadelphia and we have some pictures and a live recording to share. It was a lot of fun and we thank Don a.k.a NO CARRIER for inviting us! The song is called “Las Abejas” and it’s new. Soon we’ll release that song, along with other new ones, on an MP3-EP [...]
Angélica wrote the Global Ear: San Juan piece for the April 2009 issue of the magazine and the folks at The Wire put up a site with a bunch of MP3s of the bands mentioned in the article including Balún. Woohoo! http://thewire.co.uk/articles/2260/
Happy holidays! We have our song “Minumina” in the newest MP3-compilation by the Mexican label At At Records. This album includes other shoegazer/electronic bands from Spain and Latin America such as Fax, Silvania, Resplandor, and Antiguo Automata Mexicano. This production is dedicated to Cocó Cielo, member of shoegazer/ambient band Silvania and electro-pop band Cielo, who [...]
Hey all, two months ago we went to Seattle where we played as part of the Decibel Fest. The city of grunge rock and Starbucks treated us really well! Met a bunch of nice people and had a great time at it! Special jumbo thanks & jumbo hugs to Yumiko and Billy who let us [...]