Press release
On June 12, Terror/Cactus will release their new album Colapso on Share It Music (pre-order). Today the band is excited to release the album’s the lead single “Transmisión Clandestina” and its accompanying music video. The song debuted at Frequency State and is availabile now on all digital platforms for playlists shares.
On the song the band’s Martin Selasco says, “‘Transmisión Clandestina’ (Clandestine Transmission) imagines a pirate radio taking over the airwaves with a transformative signal that causes listeners to awaken and experience uninhibited freedom. The song combines the rhythmic shuffle of cumbia with layers of euphoric psychedelic guitars and synthesizers to create a feeling that is uplifting and expansive.”
In partnering with Seattle nonprofit record label Share It Music and in line with Colapso’s themes of resistance and migration 10% of proceeds from the album will be donated to the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP).
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, introducing 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 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 lush and textured, yet raw – music that carries a quiet sense of tension beneath its surface.
Influenced by ongoing dialogues about 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 ancestral and atmospheric elements, creating a sense of movement between past and future, city and landscape.
