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Erick Rincon was born August 17, 1993 in Monterrey, MX. Rincon began as a DJ at 16-years-old. Today, he is a well-known Tribal-Guarachero DJ and producer. Rincon is considered one of the best Tribal DJs by many of his fans in combining sounds of South American indigenous tribes with the new age electronic music to create the tribal (trival) genre. Furthermore, his name is inextricably linked to the tribal genre. He is even referred to by some fans as a "total prodigy". Recent recognition with group 3Ball MTY has led to the signing of Erick Rincon to Pollinate Records in London and he will be releasing an upcoming EP. The combination of tribal sounds with new age electronica makes Rincon an important cultural maker in the way Rincon is representative of the genre to the fans, in the fashion the genre has created and in the transcultural nature of tribal music.

3Ball MTY
Rincon recently joined two other DJs to form the group, 3Ball MTY alongside Sergio Zavala (DJ Beat Sheeqo) and Alberto Presenda (DJ Otto). Together they gained recognition with their single "Inténtalo" featuring El Bebeto and America Sierra. The group formed in 2009 and gained some fame in 2012 with the single, which reached No.1 on the Billboard Latin Songs chart for two non-consecutive weeks. In February of 2012, 3Ball MTY began their first tour of Mexico together. While Rincon is known as one of the best tribal DJs, the tribal music genre really began 2001.

Tribal
Tribal is a type of dance music popular in Mexico and the Latino community of the US. It is claimed to be a new genre of music combining techno, electro house and club music, with cumbia, regional mexican music, and Afro-cuban beats. Tribal has become popular with the young Latino community in parts of the US, primarily with teenagers. The tribal genre began in Mexico City, then moved to Monterrey in 2007, and finally to the US in 2008.

Tribal music is known to have began around 2000-2001 (youtube video) with Ricardo Reyna who was known for mixing the music Tribal house, a combination of different Mexican pre-hispanic music sounds with electronic or house music. This is how the new musical genre emerged in Mexico called Tribal Guarachero. The name was given to it by the particular use of shakers that gave that unique touch in each of the themes created by Ricardo Reyna, such is the theme "Aztec Dance" which was a success in Mexico.

After the success of Danza Azteca, several producers in the same era followed that style, such as DJ called "Tanke" (now called Xookwanki) who created the song "La Cumbia", also a success in Mexico and other parts of the US. Due to the success of these productions, many DJs started creating similar productions with the same idea. One of them being Erick Rincon, who is best known in all Mexico for his mixtures of Tribal Guarachero and who was mainly influenced by the ideas and productions of Ricardo Reyna.

In late 2005, new talents continue to revolutionize the Musica Tribal, such as the Mexican DJ "DJ Mouse", who was gradually converting the "Tribal-Prehispanic" to "Tribal Guarachero" or "Tribal Guaracha" using cumbia basslines, guacharacas cumbieras, shakers, percussion and prayers and songs from Afro-Cuban and African descent. In early 2006, DJ Mouse continued to develop the "Tribal-Guarachero" with DJ Manuel Palafox and DJ Haas, creating songs such as "Folklore", "The Sound of Harp," "Guitar- DJ Mouse & DJ Manuel Palafox" and "Rhythm-DJ Tribaleando Hass."

Tribal Dance and Mexican Pointy Boots
By the end of 2006 Tribal-Guarachera music was gradually becoming an essential part of the dance floors of the City of Mexico and so was also reaching many parts of the Mexican Republic, to states such as Oaxaca, Veracruz, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Morelos, and so on. Along with the tribal guarachero genre began a fashion of botas picudas, or Mexican pointy boots. These boots are made with extremely elongated tips and are worn by Mexican dance groups that dance to tribal music. In the music video for the single “Intentalo”, the dance groups featured is donning the sweeping fashion. The boots are said to have originated in 2009 in Matehuala in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi. In true globalizing fashion, the trend has extended into the United States along with the genre and the boots can be seen in Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Oklahoma. The tip of the boot is known to be as long as five feet and often decorated with sequins, lights, or mirrors. The boots are often worn with cowboy-like hats and skinny jeans to accent the boots.

Even though people who wear botas picudas are sometimes called “nacos” (tacky) and “chuntaros”, they’re not ashamed of them, they argue that it’s a part of their identity and they feel comfortable wearing them.

There are several tribal dance groups in Mexican communities in the United States and Mexico. Their dressing style is very particular but most striking are their pointy boots. Since the beginning of trival music, pointy boots were used although they were of a normal size, but they began to increase the height of the boot until it went out of control. Now there are even pointy boots contests and the longer ones were about seven feet high. Most buy boots with normal peaks and later make the peak larger with additions of hoses and screws. Also they decorate them for the occasion, for example for the Independence Day of Mexico, they are decorated with the colors of the Mexican flag and for Halloween with bloody skulls and dolls.

One of the most popular groups of tribal dance is from Matehuala, Mexico, they call themselves, Los Parranderos. They have won several dance competitions in their hometown for their creative way of doing choreography and dressing. They say they mostly dance to songs from 3Ball MTY. According to Rincon, the first time he saw the Tribal dance groups dancing with pointy boots was in the Far West Rodeo in Dallas, Texas.

Some people criticized these groups for their garish way of dressing and especially their extravagant boots. But there are others who think they have the right to freedom of expression. The presence of the boots in both Mexico and the US is representative of the overall transculturation of the tribal genre.

Erick Rincon and Transculturation
The transculturation, or merging and converging of cultures (Lecture, 4/17/2012), that occurs with the tribal genre and through the fast-paced fingertips of Erick Rincon can be demonstrated through the three-stage process of transculturation. Beginning with acculturation, or the acquisition of new cultural material from a foreign culture (Lecture, 4/17/2012), the tribal genre ‘accultures’ the new age electronic music of the United States and combines it with tribal sounds from South America and Africa. Next, deculturation can be found in the way that new age electronic/techno music has become a dance outlet for teens, not just in the raves in Southern California, but in the backyards of teens in Jalisco, Mexico as well. This global dance craze has provided an outlet for youth who often feel displaced and lost in their identities. On the other hand, tribal sounds and music are often considered one of the core, intricate pieces of indigenous culture. The deculturation experienced by both indigenous tribes and today’s youth has become intertwined in the creation of the tribal genre and the botas picudos. Finally, this creation of the new cultural phenomenon itself (Lecture, 4/17/2012) has been the neoculturation of Erick Rincon and the fans of tribal music.

Erick Rincon is considered a cultural producer through his production of tribal music and through the way many fans associate him as "the god" of today's tribal genre. Furthermore, the fashion of tribal fans and Erick's successful transculturation process of the different sounds of tribal demonstrate his ability to produce culture in a way that crosses many different borders throughout the Americas.