INTERRUPCIÓN: Karen y Los Remedios + Concepción Huerta + La Pinche Tefi
The third and final episode of INTERRUPCIÓN this year! The Mexican trio Karen y Los Remedios have been touring around the world with their self-created type of dark cumbia, and will now make their Dutch debut right here at WORM. They will be joined by Concepción Huerta, also from Mexico, while La Pinche Tefi from Colombia will be in charge of the turntables. There’s a small vinyl market through the label Discos Elgozo, and Mitze Apocalipze will once again be your host. It promises to be a mesmerizing end to the 2025 INTERRUPCIÓN-trilogy…
Karen y Los Remedios
From Mexico we welcome Karen y Los Remedios, ready to hypnotize you with their pitched-down rebajada cumbias, blended with the pulsating spectral voice of Karen that carries vulnerability, contemplation and longing. Chameleon-like foundations explore cumbia in its many forms, crossing the American continent with norteño airs, pitched-down rebajados, psychedelia and even traditional Peruvian music, taking in ballads, Afro-Latin percussion, reggaeton and the more electronic sounds of dream-pop, trip hop and downtempo. A mystical, motley mixture, the ideal soundscape to fight the voices in your head while you melt on the dancefloor and scare away the ghosts of your past, your body surrendering to the dance. The project is led by Ana Karen G Barajas, an artist and arts and social sciences researcher born in Mexico City and raised in Guanajuato, in the company of Mexico City native Jonathan Muriel (Jiony) and guitarist Guillermo Berbeyer (Z.A.M.P.A.), who after many years on Mexico’s alternative scene decided to get together and bring this existential cumbia project to life. The group released their first long play Silencio in 2023 and earlier this year followed a selection of remixes from the album.
Concepción Huerta
We were able to see Concepción Huerta last year at the Rewire Festival in The Hague, where she made a lasting impression that resulted in us inviting her to perform here in Rotterdam. The work of Concepción Huerta is rooted in drone, musique concrète, and hauntingly visceral textures, thereby evoking powerful image-driven narratives. In May this year she released El Sol de Los Muertos, a magnificent album released on cassette, that invites to reflect, as a historical reexamination. Huerta’s sonic vision evokes an image of open veins. Not human veins, but those of the earth itself, the open veins of Latin America. The album is, in a way, a reflection on dispossession, resource extraction, and colonization. But beyond being a historical commentary—one that some might relegate to a forgotten past—it is also a reminder of the present, of how these practices persist in contemporary, postmodern guises.
La Pinche Tefi
La Pinche Tefi is the DJ alias of Bogotá-based visual artist and photographer Stephanie Ascanio. Her sets, played mostly on 45 rpm vinyl, are built for dancing—connecting Latin records from different decades and scenes into a playful, high-energy flow. Expect cumbia, salsa, boogaloo, merengue, and plenty of surprises, always leaning into rhythm and joy rather than purism or nostalgia. She’s taken her collection to clubs across Europe and the US, moving dancers with sets that feel spontaneous, sweaty, and full of personality. La Pinche Tefi doesn’t aim to educate or impress—she’s there to keep the party going, record by record, beat by beat.
Label presentation: Discos Elgozo
We’re happy to share our passion for vinyl with our visitors. That’s why we’ve invited the label Discos Elgozo to showcase their recent releases. Based in Austria, the label draws inspiration from the music of the Colombian Caribbean, and kicked off their existence with a series of singles by female-led groups celebrating ancestral traditions through a lens of queer feminist expression. Their latest release was a 7"-single by the legendary Petrona Martinez, which will of course be on sale during the event!
Hosted by Mitze Apocalipze
About the program: INTERRUPCIÓN is dedicated to music from Latin America and its diaspora. This is the final event in the series this year. After this, the team of Cinema Colombiano will focus on organizing the 10th edition of their annual film festival on the 18th, 20th and 27th of September. Meanwhile, tune in to their radio show every other Wednesday at 4pm CET on Radio WORM.
More info: www.cinecol.nl
Poster by Studio Alerta
