Lyo Xs - Borde (2026)

Mexican producer Lyo XS debuts on Plasmodia with Borde, a collection of 8 tracks that listens to the edges the city turns its back on.

Field recordings from the Sierra de Guadalupe and the streets of Ecatepec capture the friction of an unyielding nature and the layered weight of an accumulating periphery. From that physical edge, Lyo XS weaves techno, noise, dub and percussive rhythms into a sound in which they brush against each other yet never merge, moving between open expanses and suffocating densities. Music that inhabits the margin on its own terms.

Borde does not document the marginal from the outside. In Latin America, the urban periphery is not merely a geographic location but a convergence point for the tensions the formal city prefers to ignore — a space in which collective memory coexists with systemic violence and, even so, distinct forms of humanity and possibility persist. From within those territories, the album becomes a sonic archive that lives at the place the disparate touch but don't resolve, in the limit, in the friction, in what remains when two worlds meet and hold their ground.

The album emerged from a live audiovisual show that debuted at MUTEK Mexico 2025 in collaboration with visual artist San Joserra. Through this piece, both creators explore the experience of
living on the periphery, posing a constant quest toward the center while navigating the complex boundaries of everyday life. The work thus becomes an auditory and visual testimony to the journey through these everyday boundaries.