THE MEXICOS

Undone & Undo

Shooting Star - Amy Diamond Cover

I released some music under the name “The Mexicos” in the early 2000s. For some reason people listened to it and I got to play some shows and some festivals in Sweden AND abroad. Everything was super weird back then, but also nice.

Anyway, the rest of the music isn’t available online. Well maybe on Youtube somewhere. I’ll see if I can dig it up and post it to Spotify and make the big bucks. In the meantime I found a funny blog and this is what people had to say back then:

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Exerpt form https://www.cloudberryrecords.com/blog/?p=7300

I’m heading to Sweden and not to Mexico on this post. Some swedes had no better idea to call their band The Mexicos and I don’t blame it, it is a beautiful country. Did they ever visit it? I hope they did.

I remember listening to them back in the mid 2000s. It was the time of Soulseek and blogs. I used to love all things Sweden then and collected CDRs, demos and live gigs of small Swedish indiepop acts. Among the labels that were important at the time, one that championed bedroom lofi pop was Bedroom Records. And it was them indeed who would release the self-titled mini-album “The Mexicos” (BED018).

This CDR was released in 2005 and included six songs: “Lofi Referee”, “Grenoble”, “The Paralympics”, “Undone & Undo”, “The Mexican Fury” and “It Takes Two to Finish Disco”. The art for the record is credited to Lisa Hall and Tommy Svenningson and the only other credit on the sleeve is that of John Haglund who played drums on “Undone & Undo” and “It Takes Two to Finish Disco”.

The band did appear on three compilations. The first one was from 2005 and was the very fine “Popkonst, Love & Understanding” which was released by Popkonst Recordings (POPK12). The band contributed the song “Undone & Done”.

A cover of Haddaway’s euro-pop hit “What is Love”, was included in the “This is Love” CD compilation released by Dig Your Own Grave (DIG003) in 2006. Actually every band on this compilation covered this same song. 12 bands! Among them we find Komon, My Enemy, Bare Knees and All of My Brother’s Girlfriends.

Lastly the band had the song “Förmögenhet” on a compilation called “Har Du Hört Den Förut? – 29 Svenska Artister Tolkak Förmögenhet” that was released by Diskret Förlag. Some very fine bands appear here like Action Biker, Ring Snuten, Gentle Touch among others.

I kow the band used to have a website and also a Myspace. Sadly these don’t exist anymore. So there’s barely any information about them. I will rely on you, my Swedish friends, to fill in the blanks! Who were The Mexicos? From where in Sweden did they come from? Did they have more songs? What happened to them? Were they in other bands? Many questions that I hope get answered some day!

EDIT February 22nd 2020.

My friend David has pointed me to some interesting new info about The Mexicos!

First of all there was a blog for The Mexicos. Here there were shared a bunch of songs which are not available to download anymore. Among these covers we find: “Sweet Chili of Mind”, “What is Love”, “Strange Things”, a cover of Aaliyah’s “Try Again (Remexified)”, three covers of Håkan Hellström “Klubbland – betaversion”, “Nu kan du få mig så lätt (who can hell stream)” and “En midvinternatts dröm”. According to David the band’s leader was called Mikael and he also found out that he used to collaborate with a Douglas Holmquist. Together they were called the Mex-Icons and they would do more songs like “Shooting Star” a cover of the Amy Diamond’s original.