Las Malas Amistades (which translates as "the Bad Friends) are an indie band from Colombia whose music incorporates folk instrumentation, indie electronic beats, no-budget keyboards, a lo-fi production sensibility and influences ranging from Colombian folk music to Tropicalia to post punk to pop. Founded in 1994 by a group of university students in Bogota, Colombia, the band made its full-length album with La Música de las Malas Amistades (1999), an independent release that is a compilation of home recordings from 1994-1999. Several years later, after the bandmembers had dispe...