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. Music has long served as a point of connection to Selasco’s cultural lineage. His grandparents founded the influential Argentine label Music Hall in the 1950s, helping introduce vinyl records to the country and shaping a generation of popular music. Years later, after his family immigrated to the United States, his father started an independent record label, ANS Records, in Miami, focusing on bringing Latin American music to international audiences. Growing up surrounded by this archive—digging through stacks of CDs—Selasco developed an early relationship to sound as both inheritance and discovery.That sense of searching for connection would later define his work as Terror/Cactus. Since 2017, the project has evolved into a space where traditional rhythms and contemporary production intersect, creating immersive, rhythm-driven compositions that feel both intimate and expansive. His 2024 album Forastero (Shika Shika Collective) explored themes of identity, migration, and belonging, reflecting on the experience of existing between cultures while finding grounding in the natural world.His forthcoming album Colapso (June 2026) marks a shift in scale and intention. Where Forastero looked inward, Colapso turns outward—toward systems, resistance, and the unseen networks that move beneath the surface. Conceived as a rupture of old structures, the record 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.Tracks like “Transmisión Clandestina” imagine a pirate radio signal moving through unseen networks, while “Discoteca Fugitiva” channels dancefloor escapism through a global psychedelic lens, flickering between chicha and post-disco. Elsewhere, “Ritmo Subversivo” sets a cinematic tone—pulling from spy soundtracks and heist movies—while “Sabotaje Tropical” pushes a more urgent, disruptive force through driving percussion and jagged guitar work. In line with its themes of resistance and migration, Colapso directs 10% of its proceeds to the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP), and is released via Share It Music, a label that connects independent artists with community-focused initiatives, with distribution by Sub Pop.Terror/Cactus has released music on Shika Shika Collective, Nacional Records, Names You Can Trust, and Earthly Measures, and has toured across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina. His work has been featured by KEXP and Remezcla, and in 2025 he toured North America as direct support for Yin Yin. In 2026, he will appear at festivals including Pickathon, Timber, and Fusion Festival in Germany, while debuting an expanded live ensemble that brings the project’s evolving sound into a more dynamic, performance-driven space.With Colapso, Selasco continues to carve out a distinct sonic language—one that reflects not only a convergence of musical traditions, but a deeper inquiry into movement, resistance, and transformation. Rather than observing collapse, the album moves within it—carrying a sense of urgency and dreaming, where something underground begins to surface and take form.
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