terror/cactus

Terror/Cactus is the project of Argentine-born producer and multi-instrumentalist Martín Selasco. Born in Buenos Aires, raised in Miami, and now based in the Pacific Northwest, his work draws from a wide range of Latin American musical traditions—Argentine folk, Peruvian chicha, Colombian cumbia—woven into hypnotic electronic production shaped by psychedelic guitar, field recordings, and dub-influenced textures. The result is a sound that moves fluidly between cultural landscapes, rooted in tradition but oriented toward something more exploratory and unbound.

Colapso, Terror/Cactus’s upcoming album (June 2026) looks outward—toward systems, resistance, and the unseen networks that move beneath the surface. Conceived as a rupture of old structures, the album treats collapse not as an endpoint, but as a generative force—an opening through which new forms of expression can emerge. Field recordings, synthesizers, and saxophone move through psychedelic guitars, live drums, and layered percussion, with contributions from both touring members and studio collaborators. The result is something lush and textured, but also raw—music that carries a quiet sense of tension beneath its surface.

Influenced by ongoing dialogues around migration, cultural memory, and resistance, Colapso frames collapse as a generative act—where breakdown becomes a catalyst for reinvention, and sound acts as a transmission between worlds. Across the record, fragments of urban life—street recordings, passing voices, ephemeral moments—interweave with elements that feel more ancestral and atmospheric, creating a sense of movement between past and future, city and landscape.

A portion of proceeds will be donated to Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in keeping with our nonprofit mission.