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Café Tacvba

Café Tacvba is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Beach Boys, Violeta Parra, Wendy Sulca, The Cure and The Clash. Those roots explain a lot about how Café Tacvba arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as El Gran Silencio, Plastilina Mosh, Porter, Panteón Rococó and Zoé, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Natalia y La Forquetina, Calle 13, Porter, Chicano Batman and Dildo, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 41 connections around Café Tacvba, reaching back through The Beach Boys and forward to Natalia y La Forquetina. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

Background

Café Tacuba is a Mexican rock band formed in 1989 in Naucalpan de Juárez, State of Mexico. The group gained popularity in the early 1990s. They were founded in 1989, before they had the current lineup of Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega, Emmanuel del Real Díaz, José Alfredo "Joselo" Rangel Arroyo, and Enrique "Quique" Rangel Arroyo, their friend Roberto Silva played the keyboards for a short period of time. Since the Cuatro Caminos World Tour, Luis "El Children" Ledezma has played the drums in every concert but is not considered an official member of the band, as well as Ramiro Del Real Díaz, who joined the band as a support musician playing the guitar since 2015.

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Café TacvbaThe Beach BoysVioleta ParraWendy SulcaThe CureThe ClashThe SmithsViolent FemmesThe WhoNatalia y La Forquet…Calle 13PorterChicano BatmanDildoJulieta VenegasNatalia LafourcadeEl Gran SilencioPlastilina MoshPorterPanteón RococóZoéLa Gusana CiegaKinkyMaldita Vecindad Y L…

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Café Tacvba connections

Café Tacvba grew out of The Beach Boys, Violeta Parra, Wendy Sulca and The Cure, shares an orbit with El Gran Silencio, Plastilina Mosh, Porter and Panteón Rococó, went on to shape Natalia y La Forquetina, Calle 13, Porter and Chicano Batman. 41 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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