Ela Minus Nominated For Latin GRAMMY® Award
29th September 2025
Ela Minus, Colombian artist and "exhilarating producer” (Remezcla), was nominated for a 2025 Latin GRAMMY® Award: “QQQQ” for Best Latin Electronic Music Performance. The frenetic DÍA album highlight was described by Pitchfork as “the sort of glow-stick-twirling thumper that could topple a Coachella dance tent.” Released earlier this year to much fanfare, Ela’s second album, DÍA, is a rarified feat in electronic music, where cutting-edge production and space-shuddering sonics meet a burgeoning singer-songwriter’s real sense of self-reflection and private reckoning. Landing on several mid-year “Best Of” lists from major publications including Billboard, Rolling Stone, Paste, and Stereogum, DÍA is both introspective and expansive, the wide sweep of its songs revealing more of Ela as person and producer than ever before. The album was mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Heba Kadry.
In other Ela Minus news, Synth History’s first ever in-depth video documentary, Synth History: Ela Minus, is now available to watch. Directed by Synth History founder Danz CM, the debut episode of this new series is an intimate look at Ela’s story and the making and inspirations behind DÍA. Coinciding with the series’ release, Ela and Danz will host screenings on October 21st in New York City at The Roxy Cinema and on October 26th in Chicago at The Music Box Theater as part of Synth History's Iconic Scores.
Danz comments: “Couldn't be more excited that the first ever Synth History documentary is on Ela Minus! It was fun to nerd out about synths for the day. We shot the whole thing on 16mm film and MiniDV, staying true to the Synth History aesthetic. We wanted to make it feel kinetic and fun and different from your traditional music doc!”
Ela Minus Tour Dates
Sat. Oct. 11 - Bologna, IT @ Robot Festival
Sat. Oct. 18 - Miami, FL @ III Points Festival
Thu. Oct. 23 - Brooklyn, NY @ Elsewhere (Hall) *
Fri. Oct. 24 - Chicago, IL @ Outset *
Tue. Oct. 28 - San Francisco, CA @ The Independent *
Wed. Oct. 29 - Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex *
Thu. Nov. 6 - Caracas, VE @ TBA
Fri. Nov. 7 - Medellín, CO @ La Pascasia
Sat. Nov. 8 - Cali, CO @ Parque de los Poetas
Sun. Nov. 9 - Bogotá, CO @ Teatro Bonfire
Ela Minus DÍA
Album | 17th January 2025
Colombian artist Ela Minus' 2020 debut acts of rebellion, felt intentionally small, as if pounding inside the club with late-night reverie, DÍA is both introspective and expansive, the wide sweep of its songs revealing more of Ela as person and producer than ever before.
DÍA is a record about becoming, from a process that entailed self-discovery at a deliberate pace to songs that seem to collectively ask where we go from here, long after we’ve been broken butlong before we intend to be broken forever. Throughout the 10 songs, mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Heba Kadry, the same team behind acts of rebellion, Ela seems to saddle a line between worlds of pop accessibility and experimental aplomb, her incandescent choruses always surrounded by meticulous and imaginative sonics.
Ela Minus DÍA
Album | 17th January 2025
Colombian artist Ela Minus' 2020 debut acts of rebellion, felt intentionally small, as if pounding inside the club with late-night reverie, DÍA is both introspective and expansive, the wide sweep of its songs revealing more of Ela as person and producer than ever before.
DÍA is a record about becoming, from a process that entailed self-discovery at a deliberate pace to songs that seem to collectively ask where we go from here, long after we’ve been broken butlong before we intend to be broken forever. Throughout the 10 songs, mixed by Marta Salogni and mastered by Heba Kadry, the same team behind acts of rebellion, Ela seems to saddle a line between worlds of pop accessibility and experimental aplomb, her incandescent choruses always surrounded by meticulous and imaginative sonics.
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