DEBIT: Desaceleradas

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 in November 2025. 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).