Nick León, “A Tropical Entropy”: Miami beats

Welcome to Miami, city of speedboats and ghettos, of EDM and reggaeton, of conservatism and freedom, of skyscrapers perpetually threatened with burning or collapsing into the sea. It's all there, in this glorious commotion of futuristic techno pop that Nick León, DJ and producer among the most brilliant and curious of his generation , whose portrait we recently painted , has named his "Tropical Entropy". A first real album almost ten years after a youthful mixtape, when he was a junior rap producer, and which he wanted to reflect and live up to the city where he learned his trade and then found his voice.

A defector from Fort Lauderdale 30 miles to the north (one track is called Broward Boy , after the county where he grew up), born into a Colombian household, Nick León admits he needed to read about the city before giving shape to his very unique album. Miami de