As Terrestre Fernando Corona (of Murcof fame) was one of the founding members of the Nortec Collective which transformed the city of Tijuana Mexico into a city of art, sound and “one of the most important new cultural Mecca’s”, as described by Newsweek, in the late nineties. Fernando left the Nortec Collective to concentrate fully on Murcof in 2002.

His post Nortec Terrestre sound is a leap forward, as featured in his Secondary Inspection album for Static Discos, fusing Murcof’s brooding darkness with the processed sounds of street musicians Fernando recorded of the streets of Tijuana, reducing them to a pulp of post 9/11 paranoia. A dense and polyrhythmic machination that veers into minimal techno’s most intense moments this side of Plastikman or the early Kompakt sound. Terrestre delivered one of the most talked about electronica albums of 2004 landing him a place in The Village Voice's 2004 Pazz and Jop charts.