Futuro Primitivo

Futuro Primitivo is the post-electronica alter ego of Matyas Mon, a music producer from Buenos Aires, Argentina.  For years Matyas was the frontman of the alternative rock band Drop Dead (Dreams!), they were well known in the underground scene of Buenos Aires because of their energetic shows and the use of english language in their songs, in a spanish speaking anti-english country.

He also worked as a science, technology, and society specialised journalist and as a professor of new technologies at the University of Buenos Aires, the most important academy in Argentina, and one of the most prestigious in Latin America and worldwide. On these works he was very critical of technology determinism.

After suffering personal troubles, including a rejected job at Google, he was sinking into a deep depression. Matyas then started to develop a very personal vision of music and the current times, and with that new point of view he made the decision to quit all his projects. In 2009, after more than five years of silence he came back to music with an electro-experimental concept called Futuro Primitivo.

He called himself a "primitivist musician from the end of the world", the media called him “the dark side of Manu Chao”. Futuro Primitivo's music style comes from a combination of post-rock, IDM, nu-jazz, and digital hardcore, all mixed with African syncopated rhythm, with a characteristic sound that emerges from using only virtual instruments, a music sequencer, and a mouse.

Futuro Primitivo's debut release, "Everyday Life is War", is a concept album made available as "pay-what-you-want" model, curiously the same day the War on Gaza started. Its second album, "Yesterday Was Ok, Today is Dramatic", will be released during the second quarter of 2010. On stage, Futuro Primitivo employs visual elements to accompany performances.

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