We were lucky enough to snag Mexico’s incredible high octane reggae etc band ANTIDOPING as part of their Canadian Festival circuit this June! a 10-piece band with a full horn section - somehow we are going to pull this off inside Mateada! An absolutely unmissable experience. Earplugs recommended. Dancing shoes mandatory.

Antidoping is a Mexican band originally from Coyoacán, Mexico City, founded by the brothers Manuel and Pedro Apodaca in 1992. Considered a reference of reggae in Mexico and one of the most important groups of the genre in Latin America.

The fact of living in the Caribbean gave them the opportunity to feel the mystical magic and social commitment of rasta music that for about four years they practiced and were recreated with covers of the best Jamaican reggae groups in projects from different places in the town and organically gave rise to what we know today as Antidoping.

Throughout their career they have released seven albums that have become classics of Spanish reggae and Mexican popular music. His most recent Knock Out material was mixed by the Jamaican reggae legend Errol Brown, Bob Marley's engineer, Prophetic Culture, Alborosie, Culture, Dennis Brown, Alton Ellis, among many others.

Antidoping was a direct participant of the Razteca Movement, a unifier of reggae groups in Mexico. A band that started playing in the streets of Coyoacán and since then have traveled much of the Mexican republic, some countries in Latin America, the United States, Canada and Europe.

In Mexico they have presented themselves in the most important forums in the country, as well as in festivals such as Vive Latino on three occasions, as well as in others more specialized in the Reggae and Ska genre sharing the stage with great national and international icons such as the Reggae Live Festival, Zion District, Skatex, among many others.

The music of Antidoping combines elements, roots and forms of the cultural mosaic of the city, with the rhythm and flavor of the Rastafari movement to create an alternative within the expressions of the country's musical medium and offers those who listen to it, the possibility of being sensitized in body, mind and soul through a fresh and committed reggae capturing their experiences within a range of concepts that affirms their convictions towards respect, fun, peace, reunion with nature and humanity.

With this formula, they have conquered the hearts of many followers around the world throughout their 32 years of uninterrupted trajectory.

$30 Adv / $35 Door

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