Oscar takes on practically every job involved in making a record: writing, arranging, playing, recording, mixing and mastering. The Mérida musician’s album, “antidepresivos,” released on September 30, 2026, explores life, death and the passage of time through the experience of your twenties and thirties. Written, recorded and produced between January and September 2026, it represents an ambitious workload, especially when you also happen to be the person responsible for getting the bass recorded.
His way of describing the project is much more forceful: “un chingo de ruido coherente.” A great deal of coherent noise. The term “coherent” implies that the noise has to be responsible; each layer must contribute. Since guitar, bass, violin, drums, piano and requinto are all included, Oscar has a plenty of material to organise.
Existence, Mortality, Time
-PurpleMistress
The instruments go through digital effects and are placed beside samples, contemporary processing playing a central role in the process. In this context the requinto is especially interesting since it extends the range beyond the standard guitar-band arrangement. Here both the act of playing an instrument and the decision regarding its recording are seen as creative aspects of the job.
Oscar carried out the work on the drums at the if6was9 studio in association with recording engineer Frédéric Hatchondo, while the rest of the work was done in his own studio where he carried out the further arrangements and production. By the time mastering was reached, he had been involved with these songs throughout virtually their entire development.
His influences include Spinetta, My Chemical Romance and some little-known J-rock groups; recent examples are Lupe Fiasco’s “Samurai” and “Death Stranding 2”. This is a rather specific set of interests, as it brings Argentine songwriting, theatrical rock, rap and the atmosphere of video games all into one creative realm. The way Oscar combines physical instruments, samples and heavy processing allows these various interests to come together.
In your twenties and thirties, thoughts about time take on a personal urgency because choices build up over time, years become simpler to measure, and death starts to be mentioned in various ways. Oscar puts these concerns at the heart of an active project which took him many months to carry out. The dedication involved has its own significance. An artist reflecting on what it means to be alive has spent nine months creating something using his hands, his instruments and his computer, and has taken responsibility for nearly every decision made during that time.
