{"id":3629846,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3629846/?format=json","airdate":"2026-03-16T19:20:03-07:00","show":66201,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66201/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Terraza Mantel","track_id":null,"recording_id":"4def37c8-ab22-4afd-ab95-49ab97e949dc","artist":"Wakal","artist_ids":["3ca536f0-227b-41cc-a2a7-3865307760d8"],"album":"Pop Street Sound","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"3c3d0511-d7ee-3ec3-a595-12a4638a017b","labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":null,"rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"“Terraza Mantel” is a vivid slice of urban sound collage from Mexican electronic artist Wakal, the project of musician Jorge Govea. The track appears on his debut album Pop Street Sound, released in 2003 on Konfort Records, a record that functions almost like an audio documentary of Mexico City’s streets.\n\nBuilt from a mix of electronic beats, field recordings, and found voices, “Terraza Mantel” captures the restless rhythm of the city. Govea spent years recording everyday sounds around Mexico City—buses, markets, conversations, and fragments of street life—and weaving them into electronic compositions that sit somewhere between house, trip-hop, and experimental pop. The result is music that feels alive with atmosphere, where rhythm and environment blend into a single moving texture.\n\nOn this track, the groove unfolds at a relaxed pace, with warm electronic tones and subtle percussion creating a hypnotic backdrop for the snippets of voices and environmental noise drifting through the mix. It feels like sitting at an outdoor café or balcony while the sounds of the neighborhood slowly pass by—cars, people, distant music—each element becoming part of the composition.\n\nLike much of Pop Street Sound, “Terraza Mantel” turns everyday life into music. It’s playful, observant, and quietly immersive, transforming the chaotic hum of a massive city into something rhythmic, intimate, and strangely beautiful.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6TDkqfTG9o","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}