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| | The Austin Chronicle Music: Rock en Tijuana: The Bastard Child of Norteño and Electronica, Nortec, 'The Future of ... (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Ramon Bostich, a somewhat shy dentist with four kids, is known as the "Godfather of Nortec" largely because of his track "Polaris," which with its driving Norteño rhythms, horns, and snare, became a popular dance-floor hit in 1999. |
 | | Nortec, says Cardenas, is a reflection of the local musicians' creative will to remain in Tijuana and make something unique to their environment, and perhaps in the process, change the city's reputation as a stomping ground for all-night strip clubs and tacky discotheques. |
 | | Presently, the scene is thriving in Tijuana, musicians and artists proud of Nortec, because they've created something unique that speaks of their lives in a city that for decades has been ignored as nothing more than a backwater crime-ridden border city. |
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