The music melds Mexican and South American traits with ongoing European trends. Growing up in a middle-class home in Mexico City's genteel Coyoacán neighborhood, Camilo Lara watched MTV and listened to the Happy Mondays and the Charlatans, "in my room, very loud." But whenever he drifted into his family's communal living spaces or the kitchen, he'd get a shot of José José, classical music, cumbia (which the family's cook favored) or "some crappy Mexican pop."