Club night, record label and promoter founded in Mexico City on 2010. It is a musical community that magnetises people and projects from different geographies of Mexico and the world. Focused on exploring peripheral rhythms, N.A.A.F.I produces events and situations that celebrate club and street culture. A benchmark in CDMX nightlife and contemporary music production in Latin America, it generates means of distribution and promotion for the best emerging talent.
Fausto bahía: Co founder of NAAFI, has been DJing alongside NAAFI talent for the last 12 years around the globe. As NAAFI's label manager Fausto Bahía is involved up-close in NAAFI's music releases but also in "music" itself supervising what's being published by the label but also thinking who they should invite to release. Born in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca but living in Mexico City for the last 16 years Fausto Bahia is a key player in Mexico's Cities dance music industry, but also reaching other countries as México is the largest Spanish speaking city in the world, impacting other major Spanish speaking scenes.
Lao: is Lauro Robles from CDMX, DJ, producer and also head of the NAAFI studio, his distinctive sound of deconstructed club is a mix of regional latin rhythms and effective club forms. He has played in important festivals like Unsound Krakow, Sonar Barcelona, Sonar Mexico, La Soñar Medellin, Mutek Montreal, CTM Berlín, and clubs like Razzmatazz Barcelona, Oil Club Shenzhen, All Club Shanghai, Final Taipei and Circus Tokyo to name a few. He has recently worked in studio productions with Gaika, Linn Da Quebrada, Nick Leon, Kamixlo, Cid Rim, Simo Cell, Eartheater, Noa Sainz, and more. he is currently A&R and head of the NAAFI studio in CDMX and NAAFI resident DJ.
Mexicanjihad: Architect from Oaxacat, cultural promoter, activist and DJ. He is the Creative Director of electronic music label NAAFI, queer production company TRAICIÓN, homosocial club CARNE, and the brand Psicodelia Mexicana. He has hosted shows on VICE, Onda Mundial and Redbull Radio. He has been published in i-D Magazine, Vice, Domus and Junk Jet. He has worked on projects for the kurimanzutto, SOMA, Museo Jumex, LABOR, Fundación Alumnos 47, Centro de Cultura Digital, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Archivo y Material Art Fair. His work has been exhibited by the Design Museum in London, Palacio de Bellas Artes in CDMX and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. As a DJ he has performed in forums such as Mutek Montreal, Festival Ceremonia, Lollapalooza, Novas Frequências, Unsound Festival, CTM Festival, WHOLE and clubs such as Panorama in Berlin, Cakeshop in Seoul and Razzmatazz in Barcelona. He is currently developing a podcast for Spotify Mexico, producing a prehispanic ópera with NAAFI & La Bruja de Texcoco and working as a consultant for creative and entertainment industries.
Fausto Bahía
LAO
MEXICAN JIHAD