Video: Douster, Triassic EP Teaser
Hugo Douster was one of our favorite interviews in a while (we featured him in FADER 63, downloadable here for free in pdf form). We talked about his Triassic EP (out today on ZZK!), how he creates little movies in his head while making songs, and how this album was clearly about dinosaurs and imagining the jungle. Then he told us his next stuff is based on Mel Gibson in Braveheart. This video is appropriate, a stop motion animation tale of life in the day of a bunch of dinosaurs hiding in a cave, running away from T-Rex, and ultimately finding god just before the dinosaur rapture (plus a Busy Signal sample). The whole EP is this awesome, lego blocks of weirdness built on drum patterns influence by reggaeton.
Ghetto Palms 74: Erup vs. Poirier! / Free King Coya Mix! / Exclusives!
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- photo Martei Korley (F61)
When it rains it cold monsoons around here. As it happens, two different exclusives I’ve been scheming on for several weeks—1) a sneak preview of Poirier’s version of “Click Mi Finger” from the forthcoming Truckback remix EP and 2) a full, free download of the unreleased ZZK vol. 7 mixtape from Buenos Aires braincase King Coya—came to fruition simultaneously. In short, pretty much everything I’m running in this week’s blend is a crazy exclusive of some kind so let me just jump into the tracks.
NYC: ZZK at Union Pool + Santos
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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)”
Freeload: Tremor ZZK Mixtape Volume Five
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Jace Clayton’s feature on cumbia in our summer music issue discussed the insane fervor Buenos Aires has for the music in all its forms. He stopped by the Zizek club night, met with some of architects, and found the genre to be as supple and diverse as hip-hop or rock. Cumbia sounds immediately grinding and loud, as if all rap was automatically Wu-Tang, all rock was necessarily Black Sabbath. But as this mixtape — volume five in Zizek’s “ZZK” series — shows, it can be lulled to its itchy base while still being fertile. Tremor, who falls more along the experimental side of the genre, has reworked, reedited and remixed a host of tracks (beginning with MIA’s “Boyz”) into tiny guitar and electronic accordion conglomerations. Lovers of chacha subtleties and digitized shakers have found their hero.
Download: Tremor ZZK Mixtape Volume Five
