Soundwaves: Going Varsity in Mariachi Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Available Now from Lakeshore Records

Lakeshore Records is set to release Going Varsity in Mariachi– Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally today, August 30 featuring music by Mexican Institute of Sound, Demián Gálvez and Mariachi Oro de ENHS. The album pairs a score that presents a modern beat-driven take on the vibrant music reinterpreting the meaning of Mariachi alongside the traditional, emotive musical performances by the South Texas high school ensemble. The award-winning documentary directed by Alejandra Vasquez and Sam Osborn is streaming now on Netflix.

In the world high school mariachi, musicians from South Texas reigns supreme. Under guidance of coach Abel Acuña, the Edinburg North High School team must turn shoestring and diverse inexperienced musicians into state champions.

Purchase/ Stream: https://lnk.to/goingvarsityinmariachi

Track List

1. Title Credits – Mexican Institute of Sound, Demián Gálvez
2. Mariachi is Home – Mexican Institute of Sound, Demián Gálvez
3. Rodeo Country – Mexican Institute of Sound, Demián Gálvez
4. Mariachi Vargas – Mexican Institute of Sound, Demián Gálvez
5. Extravaganza – Mexican Institute of Sound, Demián Gálvez
6. El Balaju – Mariachi Oro de ENHS
7. El Rey – Mariachi Oro de ENHS
8. Excentrico – Mexican Institute of Sound, Demián Gálvez
9. En Tu Pelo – Mariachi Oro de ENHS
10. La Guacamaya – Mariachi Oro de ENHS
11. Traspasando – Mexican Institute of Sound, Demián Gálvez
12. Guadalajara – Mariachi Siete Leguas

ABOUT MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND

Mexico City-based producer Camilo Lara creates irresistible beats for the global dance floor with his project: Mexican Institute of Sound. He writes music for film, TV and video games – sometimes composing the score, other times creating songs or incidental music. His work as a composer has landed him an Emmy, and as an artist and musical supervisor, he’s received multiple Grammy nominations and awards.

FILM, TV &GAMES

Camilo’s film and TV credits include:

Film scores:

• A Million Miles Away (Amazon)
• Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible,

No Good, Very Bad Day (to be released by Disney)

• Going Varsity in Mariachi (to be released by Netflix)
• Judy Baca documentary for LACMA ● Familia (Netflix)

TV Scores

• Home S2 (Apple TV), for which he won an Emmy
• VGLY (HBO)
• NEON (Netflix)
• Gentefied S2 (Netflix)
• Coyotl (Fall 2024 – HBO Max)
• La regla de oro (Fall 2024 – Amazon) ● La liberación (Fall 2024 – Amazon)
• VGLY S2 (2025 – HBO Max)
• Prefiero la muerte (2025 – HBO Max)

Camilo created the incidental music and was the musical consultant for Pixar’s Coco (where he even had a cameo!) and all seasons of Narcos Mexico. He was part of the music teams for Thor: Love and Thunder and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

Songs for:

• Coco (Pixar)
• Vacation Friends 1 and 2 (Hulu)
• Queer (upcoming Luca Guadagnino film, Producer Trent Reznor Track)
• Rudo y Cursi (Alfonso and Carlos Cuarón)

Camilo won a Grammy for producing the score and soundtrack for Alfonso Cuaron’s Y tu mamá también. His music has been featured in Narcos, Breaking Bad, Y tu Mamá También, Vacation Friends, Mosquito Coast, Californication and Ugly Betty, to name a few. He hosts his own radio station, EastLos FM, on the best selling game of all time: Grand Theft Auto V.

PRODUCER

As an artist and producer, Camilo’s work has landed him one Grammy and eight Latin Grammy nominations. He produced the best selling album in Mexico of the last 25 years (Los Ángeles Azules). His production credits include a wide spectrum of artists raging from rap superstar Santa Fe Klan and the king of Corridos Tumbados Natanael Cano, to legendary artists like Lila Downs, Norah Jones and Calexico. He has produced artists from across a broad range of genres, be it contemporary Congolese icons Jupiter & the Okwess, Band of Horses, Beck or Damon Albarn’s eclectic Africa Express.

Artists that have commissioned remixes from Camilo include: Metallica, Run the Jewels, Beck, Beastie Boys, Morrissey, Placebo, Interpol , Don Letts, Madness, Julieta Venegas, Tony Allen, Babasonicos, Hermitude, Amadou & Marian and Sofi Tukker, to name just a few.

CAMILO LARA IS THE MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND

Mexican Institute of Sound released his debut album Méjico Máxico in 2006. Since then, M.I.S. has released 5 albums: Piñata (2008), Soy Sauce (2010) Poitico (2012) Disco Popular (2017) Distrito Federal (2021), which made NPR’s list of “Best Albums of the Year”. His latest album is Algo Ritmo (2024), a retrospective of Camilo’s work over the past 20 years.

Mexican Institute of Sound has performed in every continent, headlining Mexico City’s Vive Latino in 2024 to a crowd of more than 80,000.

MEXRRISSEY & COLLABORATIONS

Camilo’s side projects are many and diverse and include a Morrissey tribute act called Mexrrissey (their record No Manchester is the first Mexican album to appear in the UK music charts, ever), and the 2016 album-documentary Compass, which featured collaborations with 80 artists from 8 different countries.

He’s collaborated with a wide range of artists from all corners of the globe including Beck, Damon Albarn (Gorillaz), Manu Chao, Cuco, Bia, Duckwrth, Dan the Automator, Graham Coxon, Cuco, Ludmilla, Bonde do Rolé, Sly & Robbie, Toots and the Maytals, Gogol Bordello, Amadeu e Mariam, Tricky and Tom Tom Club.

ALSO

Time Magazine named Camilo “One of the 80 Mexicans shaping contemporary Culture“. Spanish newspaper El Pais named him one of the “50 Most Influential People in Latin America”. Quien magazine named him one of the “50 People Who Are Transforming Mexico”.

ABOUT LAKESHORE RECORDS

Lakeshore Records is a GRAMMY-winning record label, and the soundtrack arm of the Cutting Edge Group.  Lakeshore Records is the global independent leader in top line soundtrack album releases, including such popular, critically acclaimed and classic soundtracks as Bridgerton, Stranger Things, Wednesday, Fallout, John Wick, Whiplash, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Drive, Cyberpunk 2077 / Edgerunners, Star Trek: Picard, Bojack Horseman, The Walking Dead, Napoleon Dynamite, Red Dead Redemption 2, the Grammy-winning Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok, the Academy Award nominated Lady Bird and Academy Award winners Moonlight, Little Miss Sunshine, American Factory, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Hurt Locker and many, many more.

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