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”
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posted on Oct 15, 2009 in EVENTS, MP3 / STREAMS, OTHER tags Cassady, cumbia, Disco Shawn, Dutty Artz, Geko Jones, Que Bajo, Sabo, Uproot Andy
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.
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 tags cumbia, dj/rupture, Dutty Artz, El Remolon, King Coya, La Yegros, Marcelo Fabian, Matt Shadetek
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
Ghetto Palms 66: DJ Sabo / Cumbia Exclusives!
- story Eddie "Stats" Houghton
- photo Gabriele Stabile (F55)
Will Sabatini is a good dude to know. He is what, in marketing speak, is called an “influencer.” As the guy behind the counter at Turntable Lab in the East Village he has been a vital conduit for the dissemination of sounds like baile funk and cumbia to America, and just in case the DJs and vinyl nerds who shop there don’t know exactly what to do with these incommensurable beats, he has been going all over the damn world giving game to lesser selectors with his own DJ sets under the name Sabo.
Pau y Amigos, “Buzzards (Bootlegumachine’s Vulgar Norteñito RMX)” MP3
There is a general office consensus that certain members of our staff (ahem) will be completely hypnotized by any tracks that sample nature sounds. (AHEM!) While this is not 100% true, it’s impossible to deny the madcap humor of the squawking buzzards lacing their way through this bassed-out norteño cumbia remix, and the humor is the whole point, is it not? Pau, a vocalist/producer from Mexico City whose amigos comprise a music/visual arts collective, has been having a remix contest for the original, which is a pretty straightforward disco track about how buzzards are gonna outlive us all because they like to kill and you know, have feathery backs and shit. We kind of want Bootlegumachine’s remix to win—it completely re-envisions the original through the lens of trad norteño/quebradita shit (the origins of which he will totally break down for you here), nestling it in nicely with the cache of new digital beats that crib from old-style/indigenous global bass. Chilling hard with these buzzards, man. (Via Generation Bass)
Download: Pau y Amigos, “Buzzards (Bootlegumachine’s Vulgar Norteñito RMX)”
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posted on Aug 11, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Booglegumachine, cumbia, electronic/dance, Pau y Amigos, quebradita
Hipi Duki Muzik, “Soundamerica v. 3″ MP3
You’re probably wondering what’s popping with the South Americans these days, and Hipi Duki is offering some of the answer: lithe cumbias, technorati baile funk, humid minimalism, digital chatter mimicking street noise, overdriven synth licks, Zizek blends and, as ever, Mala Rodriguez. With the third installment of their Soundamerica mixes, the Barcelonan art/music collective whipped up a sweet mix of heat and dropped it on one of our favorite blogs, Generation Bass., to sonically soundtrack the palm trees you’re chilling under, you with your frothy caipirinha and all. Tracklist after the jump.
Download: Hipi Duki Muzik, “Soundamerica v. 3″ Read More
Cinco de Mayo Cumbia Explosion
- story THE FADER
Mexico has had such a shit deal lately. Well maybe longer than lately, that whole NAFTA thing kinda messed the country over, and the whole century of stolen elections and revolutions and whatnot, but we digress. It’s Cinco de Mayo! Time to get crunk! To soundtrack your guacamole-n-Tecates party that we just know you’ll be having, La Congona has posted five new cumbias that are awesome.
Ghetto Palms: New Laden / Banana Clipz / Bubu / Huepelega Soundsystem / Horace Andy / Courtney John
- story Eddie "Stats" Houghton
Every week resident FADER selector Eddie STATS runs through dancehall riddims and other artifacts from the ghetto archipelago.
Sometimes things come in waves, sometimes they come in unpredictable sparks and flashes. That’s what happened this week and even though I try to fight it, sometimes the sparks blow my mix format all to hell and this ends up being more of an mp3 blog than a palmcast. All I can say is, I don’t decide these things, the Ghetto Archipelago does. I am just the vessel through which it chooses to speak to music nerds. This week it said: Bubu!
NYC: ZZK at Union Pool + Santos
- story THE FADER
FINALLY, it’s the arrival of the ZZK Records tour stateside from Buenos Aires. Born out of that city’s poppinest cumbia club Zizek (as chronicled in F55), the label roster is packed with amazing purveyors of digital Latin music. Tonight at Union Pool and tomorrow at Santos (with FADER faves Tanlines), the serious business of ragga-cumbia duo Fauna, major French producer Douster and El G will summon the tropical vibes and hopefully chase away some of this crap rain. Bonus! ZZK gave us this Alcides track as a teaser and it is banging. More ZZK US tour dates after the jump.
Download: Alcides, “Violeta (El Remolon remix)”
