The festival ceremony of the ax, for more than ten years, looking at the future of music
Festival The ax ceremony He distinguished himself with his eclecticism. In September 2013, their first edition united the psychedel of the team of animals with the electronics of Nicholas Jaar and the commitment to the Mexican artists that are different from each other, like rapper Simpson Akhuevo and the then debutant Little Jesus. In 2014, the event consolidated its identity as one of the few scenarios in Mexico, which rely on hip -hop When they announced Tyler, Creator, The American rapper, who at that time was still far from commercial success, which now presented him with two Grammy awards.
From these first posters you can follow a small lyrics – less well -known projects, less known at that time – as a kind of compass to see a musical future. In 2015, along with Snoop Dogg or Pusha T, it appeared Kali Uchis Long before success TelepathyThe field in 2016 is the previous five years of the tiny table, which gave it international glory, S. Tangan This was mentioned almost down the names with Alvaro Diaz, directly from Puerto -Riko and without a reggeton, which had a global impact that reached many years later. Rosalia Mexico said in 2019 when Motomams This was not a word, and already in 2024, Kendrick Lamar He forced Askapotslako to vibrate in front of the conflict with Drake, who looked at him and took him to the script of the Super Cup.
“From the beginning of the festival it was so. These were projects and genres that did not attract attention in Mexico, ”says Monstero Caster, a cultural promoter and one of the minds standing behind the ceremony. The bet for more than ten years has been associated with talents that cause and violate, “those who change the way of making art or culture.” What makes them step forward with trends? “Being so close to the public, so we were lucky enough to hit him and know well who would change the conversation.”
This 2025 was not different. The poster must satisfy all the tastes. Of the largest names, such as Tyler, the creator, who is repeated as a star act, as well as with Charlie XCX after positioning radioactive green Costume As a concept of 2024. Nathanael Kano will carry lies, which will contrast with K-Pop Tomorrow X Together, two of the most heard genres of the centuries and younger generations right now for centuries. At the same time, the Massive Attack is returning, the legendary English beip -band, which joined the Palestinian case and whose presentations are loaded with a political message. However, one of the surprises was the Argentinean duet Ca7riel & Paco amorosoWhich just a week before the announcement of the poster also debuted in the tiny table of the NPR with a session that adds more than 29 million views on YouTube and brought them the level of success that they did not expect.
Caster knows that they created a rather eclectic leveling, and that some of the artists speak with very specific niches. Half of this is completely intentionally, a way to talk with the world, “what looks like now Star warsWith the dark side fighting on the one hand, while the rest try to face it as much as possible. The other half, thanks to the public with which they formed a kind of “double road”: I respond positively and give feedback to the organizers themselves about what they expect to see at the festival, which goes both in the concept of others in Mexico City and in the living Latin American The metropolitan crownField
Grow to stumble
The ceremony has more than ten years of existence, when the festival grows and attracts more people, but not without any stans. The party, born and held in the dynamic center of Pegaso, sought to become an event on the outskirts of Mexico City to put an end to the centralism of concerts and become experience, far from urban chaos. But there were problems. Firstly, the distance and complications of the participants to get to the place. And the second, the most serious that the weather did not play in his favor. In 2017, a cloud day and strong winds that began, brought a bad omen. People were impatient to enter with a few hours of delay, the forum where Björk, Mia and Underworld would be presented. In the end, the organizers gave the news: the festival was canceled because the weather was too risky to fulfill it.
In 2020, the pandemic occurred, a full break in the world of the show, which served as regrouping and changing dynamics. When a ceremony was held in 2022, he already had a new house: a two hundred -year -old park, in Askapotzalko, north of the capital. The environmental space, which was previously one of the PEMEX oil refineries, held the show for three years and serves as a script for publications with the greatest help at the festival.
In addition to loud names, Caster has his own recommendations. There is Juan Cyrerol, a musician Corridos, who made his debut more than 20 years ago, with a concept, similar to what we now know how to run. Also, the Valgur, formed by Elizabeth and Hugo Valdudzo, the brothers who are from Jithech, Ohakhak, mix native sounds with electronic music in Zapotec. OR Louise Almagger“The next Tacvba cafe,” Caster predicted. “An artist, so well produced and with such unique letters that everyone should listen.”
And therefore, while people are preparing for a party, which will be two days of the festival, Caster and their team think about new talents that should be in the next publication – or that they should have been in this, “like Doechii, that we were even late.” He even thinks about such movements as the revival of emo, which a few days ago made a march to mark 20 years of the clash that they had against the punk in the glority of the rebels. Another way to say that the eyes of the ceremony see the future.
