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
Freeload: Vince the Prince, March ‘09 Kuduro Mix
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We like the idea of this Dutch dude Vince the Prince flipping through his hard drive and just “finding” a bunch of Angolan and Portuguese kuduro on there like he did with this mix. The internet is one big Smurf yurt. Vince makes aces cumbia jams as Sonido del Principe you can grab over at Bersa Discos, and his DJ alter ego kinda killed this mix of kuduro, which essentially is/sounds like hybrid techno-booty-soca with Portuguese rapping, which in turn sounds like every party we ever wanted to go to ever. Get the tracklist, which includes a variety of kuduro practicioners from godhead Bruno M to a couple songs from this to extra-hot newish jacks Buraka Som Sistema, after the jump.
Download: Vince the Prince, March ‘09 Kuduro Mix
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posted on Mar 24, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Bersa Discos, cumbia, dance/electronic, freeload, kuduro, Sonido del Principe, Vince the Prince
Freeload: Sonido del Principe, “Pesebre”
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The excellent cumbia blog La Congona New Cumbia, which we told you about a week ago, just procured an exclusive of “Pesebre,” a track that clads cumbia’s tin rhythm and falsetto synths in a dubstep underthing. Sonido del Principe is what you get when you filter a genre from the South American tropix through the heart of the Netherlands. It is sweaty, sort of goth and el Principe’s real name is Vince. And he blogs!
Download: Sonido del Principe, “Pesebre”
