Dilo! Club Unicornio Presents Mexican Institute of Sound at Transamerica Redwood Park: Free public concert featuring local and international DJs in the heart of downtown San Francisco
Club Unicornio returns to San Francisco with Dilo!—a free public concert in the Transamerica Redwood Park on Friday, September 19. Featuring a headline performance by the internationally acclaimed musician and producer, Mexican Institute of Sound—with additional sets by local DJs Sonido Franko, Earth Angel, and Turbo Sonidero—Club Unicornio will transform the iconic park into a vibrant celebration of music, art, and community.
Founded in 2002 by San Francisco-based artist Julio César Morales, Club Unicornio presents Dilo! as a way to reimagine downtown San Francisco as a lively, welcoming space fueled by artistic expression and cultural pride. This special event is presented in conjunction with Morales’ new exhibition, My America, at Gallery Wendi Norris, which opens to the public on the same day and is located just a block away from the Transamerica Redwood Park. The centerpiece of that exhibition is a sound installation created in collaboration with Mexican Institute of Sound, who was recently named by El País as one of the “most important figures in Latin American music.” Dilo! also coincides with “OJO”, Morales’ first career-spanning survey at UC Davis’ Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
Dilo! is produced by Noise Pop and Gallery Wendi Norris, and sponsored by a generous grant from the Svane Family Foundation, with in-kind support from Transamerica Pyramid Center and additional support from Artadia.
Lineup
Mexican Institute of Sound
Sonido Franko
Earth Angel
Turbo Sonidero
Event details
Friday, September 19, 2025
Doors at 6:30 pm
Performances until 9:30 pm
Transamerica Redwood Park
Entrance on Sansome Street at Mark Twain Alley (between Clay Street and Washington Street)
San Francisco, CA
Drinks and specialty cocktails will be available for purchase in the Redwood Park
The event is free with RSVP, which may be made at www.noisepop.com.
About Club Unicornio
Club Unicornio, founded by Julio César Morales with Luis Illades, Juan Luna-Avin, Joe Franko, and Eamon Ore-Giron, originated as a nightclub in San Francisco dedicated to Latin music curated and DJed by visual artists. Known for spinning obscure tracks from across Latin America and integrating live video projections, the club evolved into a record label releasing vinyl records from influential acts such as DJ Lengua and Chicano Batman. The collective has since toured internationally, with performances at prestigious venues including AIT Tokyo, Istanbul Biennale, MUCA Roma (Mexico City), San Juan Triennial (Puerto Rico), Singapore Biennale, Whitney Biennale (New York), Hammer Museum/LACMA (Los Angeles), Chicago Art Fair, and Prospect (New Orleans). One of the core objectives of the project is to bring rare and underrepresented Latin music to broader audiences.
About Julio César Morales
The artistic practice of Julio César Morales (b. 1966, Tijuana) employs a range of media and visual strategies to explore issues of migration, underground economies, and labor, on personal and global scales. He works by whatever means necessary: in a series of watercolor illustrations, Morales diagramed means of human trafficking in passenger vehicles, while in other projects he employed the DJ turntable, neon signs, the historical reenactment of a famous meal, or the conventions of an artist-run gallery to explore social interaction and political perspectives.
Morales’ artwork has been shown at venues internationally, including; the Lyon Biennale, France; Istanbul Biennale, Turkey; Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles; Singapore Biennale, Singapore; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; Prospect 3, New Orleans; SFMOMA, San Francisco; Perez Art Museum, Miami; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Museo del Barrio, New York City; The UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco, amongst others. His work is in private and public collections including MoMA, New York; The Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles; The Kadist Foundation, San Francisco and Paris; The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Deutsche Bank, Germany; and The Office of Art in Embassies. Morales has been written about in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Artforum, Flash Art, Frieze, Art Nexus, and Art in America.
Julio César Morales works and lives in San Francisco and is represented by Gallery Wendi Norris.
About Mexican Institute of Sound
Mexican Institute of Sound (Camilo Lara) is a renowned Mexico City-based musician, producer, and DJ. Over the last two decades, he has recorded seven albums and served as a producer and collaborator for major musicians around the world. His music has also appeared in Y tu mamá también, Breaking Bad, Narcos, Californication, and Ugly Betty, and he has worked with Marvel Studios on the soundtracks for the films Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Thor: Love and Thunder, and served as a musical consultant for Pixar’s Coco. Most recently, he was selected by FIFA to remix the official anthem of the FIFA World Cup 2026 for host city Mexico City. Time Magazine named him "One of the 80 Mexicans shaping contemporary culture,” El País named him one of today’s most important figures in Latin American music, and Quién magazine named him one of the "50 people who are transforming Mexico." His work with Julio César Morales for My America marks the first time that Mexican Institute of Sound has collaborated for an artwork or art exhibition.
