Bomba Estereo, “Fuego (Pacha Massive Fiyah RMX)” MP3
Colombian electro-tropical ensemble Bomba Estereo had a sleeper hit in “Fuego” over the summer, a loping cumbia-like rhythm with spat-out vocals that sounded like they were coming from a repressed dragon gearing up to torch the city. In Pacha Massive’s remix, though, the scorched heat transforms to pure humidity, with synth flourishes, a brooding bridge and some dude punctuating vocalist Liliana Saumet’s delivery with “fiyah, fiyah” like a really understated hype man. Incidentally! If you are in Austin next week, Bomba Estereo is playing the Levi’s®/FADER Fort, and it should be excellent.
Download: Bomba Estereo, “Fuego (Pacha Massive Fiyah RMX)”
DJ Orion, Carajo Colombia! Mixtape MP3
For Carajo Colombia, Austin’s DJ Orion has been hard at work re-editing cumbia classics for the genre-melding dancefloor, making tropical heat exponentially sweatier with the unwieldy kicks of Baltimore club and boom-bap-ified digital rhythms. DJ Orion will be playing Que Bajo this Thursday, February 25th. Know what else is cool? This Friday he and Uproot Andy will be special guest DJs on The Let Out on East Village Radio, playing equally classy cumbia/tropical/whatever they feel like. Feel free to walk by the EVR studios if you’re in New York to see us all dancing like maniacs.
Download: DJ Orion, Carajo Colombia Mixtape (via Generaton Bass)
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posted on Feb 22, 2010 in MP3 / STREAMS
El Hijo de la Diabla, “La Pollera Colora (El Pollo Loco RMX)” MP3
This joint filters cumbia classic “La Pollera Colora” (aka that wide circular traditional Colombian dress) through a dubby low-end and drums that go hard, a reinterpretation of a traditional rhythm for digital media and devilish dancefloors. Speaking of, El Hijo de la Diabla is the new side project of Ivan Rodriguez, guitarist in live Tijuana cumbia band Koñorteño. Also check out his “Pon de Floor” remix because it is sick.
Download: El Hijo de la Diabla, “La Pollera Colora (El Pollo Loco RMX)
(Soundcloud, via Bootlegumachine)
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posted on Feb 1, 2010 in MP3 / STREAMS
Blank Point f. Del Patio, “Watagatapitusberry (Toy Selectah’s MexMore RMX)” MP3
Today the Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop critics poll literally ROCKED the internet, and though we are generally list-shy, we think it is a travesty that not one single person (including our forgetful selves) voted for the interminable Dominican-American teen hit “Watagatapitusberry” (original video after the jump). Do people not read the YouTubes anymore or something? This post is an attempt to remedy that, with Mexican superstar DJ/producer Toy Selectah’s “MexMore” take on the track replacing DJ Class’s “I’m the Shit” beat with something more cumbia-fied, lending its weirdness to specifically tropical dance sets and hopefully ensuring we’ll be running around our neighborhoods squawking “¿¡EL QUE!?” this summer, too. Go check out the rest of Geko Jones’ top five Latin tracks for January ‘10.
Download: Blank Point f. Del Patio, “Watagatapitusberry (Toy Selectah’s MexMore RMX)”
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posted on Jan 20, 2010 in MP3 / STREAMS
Video: Major Lazer, “Hold the Line (Frikstailers Cumbia RMX)”
It’s weird how this cumbia remix almost makes Mr. Lexx sound like he’s speaking some sort of mutant Spanish—is there a name/such a thing as a Spanglish patois? Linguists, get at us. It basically goes without saying that our novio in the glasses with the moustache is killing it, not least because he can SHOOT LASERS OUT OF HIS EYES (our perennial answer to the question “Which superpower do you want”). Big ups to Argentinian producer/DJs Frikstailers for making this video all wild and neon, and to Flamboyant Paradise for directing and including hot dogs (check out his awesome reel here). (via Bootlegumachine)
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posted on Dec 22, 2009 in MUSIC VIDEO
Huelepega Soundsystem, “Amor Doombiambero” Mixtape MP3
Toronto’s outre cumbia collective Huelepega Soundsystem are named after Mexican and Venezuelan glue-sniffers (who also have an eponymous film), therefore term the hazily elongated music they make “Doombia.” On this “Amor Doombiambero” mixtape, made in anticipation of their next album, the rhythm experimenters tease up their original songs into a muted full experience that sounds like wandering in the desert with heatstroke, drugged out and pleasantly terrifying, an audio representation of the illest parts of Latin America and, to that end, an indirect political statement in itself. Tracklist after the jump.
Download: Huelepega Sound System, “Amor Doombiambero” Mixtape
(via Generation Bass)
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posted on Dec 11, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS
Sabo & Cassady, “Kuff Kumbia” MP3 & Que Bajo/Release Party Tonight (NYC)
Hey Nueva York, tonight is not only the latest installment of the contemporary Latin extravaganza that is Que Bajo, it is the release party for Sabo’s new release on venerable Bersa Discos. Concordantly, they’re offering this shimmy of a dancehall-sampling cumbia to get you in the mood, simmering with accordion shuffle and a little cross-the-island patois vibes. Que Bajo gets it in, and tonight they’ve got guest DJs Sabo and Disco Shawn (Bersa Discos) and residents Uproot Andy and Geko Jones, so crank your internal radiator and dress to sweat cause shit is getting tropically basslike tonight. Flyer/info after the jump.
Download: Sabo & Cassady, “Kuff Kumbia”
El Remolon, “La Bonita” MP3
- story Peter Macia
Thanks to the peripatetic Jace Clayton aka Rupture, the world this morning has its hands on not only this beautiful, barely cumbia El Remolon song from the 2008 Mexican film Voy a Explotar (produced by Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal), but every other song from the soundtrack, which includes music from Mexico, Spain and several South American artists. New old music and a new old movie for your new old Wednesday. Watch the trailer for Voy A Explotar (I’m Gonna Explode) after the cut.
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posted on Sep 30, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS
La Yegros, “Trocitos” MP3
We’ve been waiting for the La Yegros since we saw her destroy NY Tropical a few months back… and at last, the Trocitos De Madera EP landed in our inbox. Her voice is amazing: somehow she conveys a raw urgency while sounding completely relaxed and conversational. Maybe it’s world-weariness? The lyrics are about a girl who cries out “little pieces of wood” in the jungle, so that could do it. “Trocitos”’s cumbia swang was produced by King Coya, who also co-composed the amazing-looking waterworld dance performance Fuerza Bruta, so obviously this is on another fantastical level, but on the EP it also gets treatments by dj/rupture, Matt Shadetek, El Remolon (he of ZZK blood) and Marcelo Fabian. So anyway, when are we all moving to Buenos Aires?
Download: La Yegros, “Trocitos”
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posted on Sep 16, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS
Sonido del Principe, “Cumbia 4 Life” Mixtape
Sonido del Principe, who may in fact be the biggest fan/purveyor of cumbia in Noord-Brabant, Netherlands, has made a compilation of his cumbia remixes which number way more than we thought before they were all sitting next to each other like this. Cumbia por vida indeed. As it happens, we’ve been addicted to his near-dubstepping refix of Bomba de Estereo’s addictive single “Fuego,” which is included, and a great example of what a specifically European sensibility injects into the genre—regular cumbia gets a little weirder, digital cumbia tracks get digitalier, and Mims sounds like he’s being backed by a full 12-person percussion section with accordion in 1983 Bogotá (sort of). If you actually live in the Netherlands this is the next best approximation of tropical climates, but if you will be in Argentina, Canada or the United States during the month of November, you should make a note of his tour dates.
Download: Sonido del Principe, “Cumbia 4 Life” Mixtape
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posted on Sep 1, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS
