Stream: Morrissey, “When I Last Spoke to Carol (Toy Selectah Remix)”
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It’s the REMOZZZZ! You probably already know that Morrissey enjoys a vast and dedicated Mexican/Mexican-American fanbase, and that Toy Selectah is one of Mexico’s preeminent producer/DJs. So this is not actually that weird, even though it feels kind of weird. Can we get a full album project, perhaps? We like Morrissey with accordions and brass better than guitars. It suits his longing. NYC, don’t forget to go see Toy Selectah live tomorrow with Uproot Andy and Geko Jones at Santos.
Stream: Morrissey, “When I Last Spoke to Carol (Toy Selectah Remix)”
Freeload: Tzochitl Soundsystem, “Hay Guey (Toy Selectah Remix)” MP3
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Bersa Discos #5 just dropped and it is a Toy Selectah extravaganza, including the Mexican producer reworking a Tzochitl Soundsystem track into a midtempo tropical club banger with extra accordion flavor on the downbeat and… an air horn! We wonder if he used the Mad Decent iPhone app for that, since he is ostensibly part of their crew. Either way this song is making us hungry for nopales on general principle—we like to eat them straight out the jar.
Download: Tzochitl Soundsystem, “Hay Guey (Toy Selectah Remix)” (via Ghetto Bassquake)
Buraka Som Sistema and DJ Sega Blow America’s Mind + New Jams
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Just going to throw it out there: There’s not a whole lot that’s cooler than picking up some tour-only merch. Yeah, we get a little nerdy like that, but whatever. The ever-reliable Mad Decent blog tells us that for Buraka Som Sistema and DJ Sega’s American tour (kicking off with a Buraka show this Friday at Coachella) the dudes are selling mix CDs and 12-inches galore. The site also tells us that the “show is gonna be crazy with the full Buraka experience!” We don’t really know what that means but if Buraka Som Sistema’s remix of Lykke Li’s “Dance Dance Dance” is any indication, it means we are going to make fools of ourselves nearly instantly. Down below you can hear the Lykke Li remix, as well as Sega’s “My Luv is the Ish,” which sounds like the soundtrack to an uptempo middle school dance. Check out the full flyer after the jump, and then sleep until they hit your city so you can have energy for the mega-rager we’re sure this tour will be.
Download: Lykke Li, “Dance Dance Dance” (Buraka Som Sistema Remix)
Audio: DJ Sega, “My Luv is the Ish”
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posted on Apr 15, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Buraka Som Sistema, DJ Sega, electronic/dance, freeload, Lykke Li, Mad Decent, Toy Selectah
Freeload: Toy Selectah’s Mex More LP
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The last time we tried to put Lil Wayne and Devendra Banhart on the same mixtape, it did not turn out pretty. Though “Prostitute Flange” and “Tonada Yanomaninista” share equal space in our hearts, heads were not ready for our wicked good mash-ups. But Mad Decent’s resident Mexican headcase Toy Selectah has shown us the way: On this album-length collection of his recent remixes, both Wayne and Devendra get smashed to cumbiaravertontropical bits along with Chromeo, Air, Café Tacuba, Justice, Santigold, Feist, The Outfield and a bunch of others that should otherwise never ever be together unless they get stuck on a plane to the Grammys or something.
Download: Toy Selectah’s Mex More LP (via Mad Decent)
NYC: El Sonidero Digital at Santos’ Casa de la Fiesta
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To paraphrase el jefe Phife Dawg, whether you’re “brown, yellow, Puerto Rican and Haitian” (and also a bunch of other people from all diasporas back to the Cro-Mags, we don’t discrimihate), you need to go to this party. Peace / love around the world forever. The Chicanas among us expect to rep (and wreck) fully this Latin ’splosion tonight at Santo’s Playhouse in beeeyootiful downtown New York, as a hot sidebar jump to the Latin Alternative Music Conference. DJs include Toy Selectah (pictured above), from Monterrey, MX’s dope hip-hop crew Control Machete, possibly dropping some cumbia? Maybe not. Also Stereotyp from Vienna doing dub time and LA-via-Monterrey turntable bruiser Mexican Dubwiser. Go celebrate the fact that Luis Miguel and Aracely Arambula are expecting again! Oh don’t front you know you read ¡Hola! So it’s supposed to be super packed but show up, maybe you can pretend to be part of the house band and carry in a bongo like Marc Antony in El Cantate.
