Friday, October 24th at 8pm, ISSUE Project Room is proud to present a release event for Desaceleradas, the new album by producer and composer Delia Beatriz (DEBIT) out via Modern Love this November. The evening will feature a live A/V performance by DEBIT that transforms Desaceleradas into “an immersive hauntological environment,” and an opening set by Yaz Lancaster previewing their forthcoming solo LP with PTP Vision.
Raised in Monterrey, Mexico, Beatriz has long explored the intersections of memory, migration, and sonic lineage. Her upcoming album Desaceleradas traces the roots of cumbia rebajada—a slowed-down strain of cumbia born in Monterrey in the 1990s when local sonidero Gabriel Dueñez’s overheated turntable warped the music into woozy, half-speed grooves. A happy accident became a cultural touchstone, mirroring the distortions and resilience at the heart of the immigrant experience.
With Desaceleradas, Beatriz revisits Dueñez’s early mixtapes as a living archive, revoicing the music with her ARP 2600 synthesizer, her mother’s accordion, and careful granular processes. The result is a hallucinatory dialogue with Monterrey’s sound system history, echoing across dub reggae in Jamaica, vaporwave, and contemporary electronic music. Tracks like “La ronda y el sonidero” dissolve cumbia’s syncopated shuffle into clouds of ruptured rhythm, while “Cholombia, MTY” gestures toward the Cholombianos, cumbia’s vibrant subculture of Monterrey youth.
If Beatriz’s 2022 album The Long Count sought to recover submerged pre-Columbian histories, Desaceleradas embraces a different kind of remembering: slowing down as a means of resisting cultural erasure in an accelerated, algorithmic present. In sculpting cumbia rebajada into a symphony of breath, distortion, and memory, DEBIT offers not only a tribute to Monterrey’s sonic ecosystem but also a call for more human, attentive forms of listening (and dancing).
Opening the evening, Brooklyn-based composer and performer Yaz Lancaster makes their ISSUE debut with a preview of their forthcoming solo album AFTER, also out this November. Written for violin, voice, and electronic production, the project traverses dreams, memory, and invented realities through a post-genre language that weaves together sampling and sound collage. For their first live events at ISSUE, both Lancaster and Beatriz bring a pulse to the archive.
Born and raised in Monterrey, Mexico before her family relocated to Texas, Delia Beatriz (DEBIT) has long straddled two distinct worlds. As a DJ, her selections burn the unmistakable swing of Latin club music into ironclad techno frameworks, and as a producer and composer, she drifts seamlessly from avant-garde and drone modes into experimental dance music without hesitation. Beatriz has been performing and recording since 2009 while she was studying in Providence, Rhode Island, soaking up the city's fertile DIY noise scene, and taking extracurricular classes on synthesis. Later on, while living in Argentina, she attended workshops on circuit bending, and learned to make her own oscillators and effects pedals. Her next phase was triggered by a move to New York City, where she DJed regularly in the local dance scene and established the DEBIT moniker. Her debut album “Animus” was released in 2018 by Mexico City collective N.A.A.F.I., and wove pneumatic club sounds with melancholy ambience. She swiftly followed it up with “Love Discipline,” a beatless opera of futuristic, cinematic and sinister soundworks. While she was studying a graduate degree in Music Technology at NYU, Beatriz assembled “System,” an EP solidifying the duality of her unique approach, reconstructing tribal guarachero music using sounds snatched from industrial techno with collaborations from Teklife's DJ Earl and tribal innovator Javier Estrada. In 2022, Beatriz released her sophomore album “The Long Count,” an ambitious electroacoustic tome that delves into the past to peer into the future. Using research into Mayan wind instruments, Beatriz developed digital instruments and harnessed machine learning to compose music that feels completely out of time. The album was released on legendary British imprint Modern Love in February, receiving critical acclaim from DJ Mag, MixMag, Pitchfork, Dazed, Resident Advisor, Crack Magazine among many others, while also being named Global Album of the Month by The Guardian.
Yaz Lancaster is an experimental artist living in Lenapehoking (Harlem, NYC). Their work is grounded in queer, DIY, and liberatory frameworks; and it utilizes electroacoustic composition, sampling/collage, improvisatory modes, and consideration of relational aesthetics. Yaz performs as a violinist with their voice, extended techniques, and electronics; sound designer/electronic musician; genre-maximalist DJ; and as “death ambient” project medium. (with gg200bpm). They have had the opportunity to collaborate with Centennial Gardens (Dreamcrusher and KING VISION ULTRA), Charles Gaines, claire rousay, Eliza Bagg, Miss Grit, Nyokabi Kariuki, and Wadada Smith (among others); and to perform at Lincoln Center, MoMA, National Sawdust, Roulette Intermedium, Nowadays, The Poetry Project, The Lot Radio, Fridman Gallery, Light & Sound Design, and a multitude of NY underground DIY venues. Recent commissioners include Asia Stewart/The Shed, Beth Morrison Projects, Black Mountain College Museum & Art Center, International Contemporary Ensemble, and Opera Philadelphia. Yaz was nominated for a 2025 Gaudeamus Award, and was recently a Pioneer Works music resident (Feb-Mar 2025). Yaz is also a poet, music writer, and organizer. They founded and curate HEAVY HEARTS, an ongoing series celebrating vulnerability and community necessary in presenting harsh and experimental sonics. They are a member of PTP Vision artist collective.
