Here's the Music People Are Rocking in Latin America

It’s been ages since Club Fonograma released a new compilation. The site’s mixtapes are widely loved and distributed. The Covers Mixtape, released in 2010, was downloaded 80,000 times.

Papasquiaro, as in Santiago de Papasquiaro — the name of Reyes’s hometown in Mexico — dropped on June 9. It’s composed entirely of new tracks by some of Latin America’s most experimental artists. Chilean pop prince Gepe recorded a 50-second song on his iPhone as a favor to the music site. The Mexican group Capullo threw down an upbeat masterpiece called “Orientación Vocacional.”

All of the tracks may be new, but something suggests that this mix is about nostalgia for a lost past, as if Reyes were asking his followers: What if I had never left Mexico?