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Banana Clipz
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2010 has seen the term "tropical" tossed around more than ever, but Banana Clipz producers Oro11 and Chief Boima are anything but newcomers to the movement. Their self-titled debut EP is the culmination of several years of work, and effectively melds modern, bass-heavy club sounds with the rhythms of Africa, Jamaica, and Latin America.
Oro11 is the co-founder of the Bersa Discos, the West Coast cumbia imprint whose low-end-heavy brand of cumbia and other Latin sounds helped bring an entire new sound palette to first-world dancefloors. Currently residing in Los Angeles, the California native previously spent several years in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he first began fusing cumbia with hip-hop, dancehall, and electronic music.
Chief Boima is a New York-based DJ, producer, writer, blogger, and academic. Basically, if you've spent any time investigating so-called "tropical" music in recent years, it would be impossible not to stumble across his name, his writing, or his productions. Well-versed in a variety of African, Latin, and Caribbean sounds, he frequently writes for our own acclaimed Ghetto Bassquake blog right here. He's also been adopted by New York's Dutty Artz collective, a label/crew headed by DJ Rupture and Matt Shadetek that released his Techno Rumba EP earlier this year.
Together, Oro11 and Chief Boima are Banana Clipz, a project that began when both artists were living in Oakland. Forged over the course of three years, their EP distills the pair's shared love of Afro-Latin-Caribbean sounds into a modern club template, one partially inspired by Bersa Discos' monthly Tormenta Tropical party in San Francisco, where Boima was a frequent guest DJ and even more frequent dancefloor participant.
While Oro11 and Chief Boima might be responsible for the beats on the Banana Clipz EP, the seven-track release features a number of guest vocalists, including white-hot Oakland/Panamanian rappers Los Rakas, Bay Area-based Guyanese dancehall MC Tidal, Sierra Leone-born singer Khady Black, and Black Nature of San Francisco's Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars.
The Banana Clipz EP is released on 29th November 2010.
Recent Blogs About Banana Clipz
Cumbiaton of Mexico City
I often bang on about my trip to Tepito market in Mexico DF in 2010 where I picked up a sweet selection of pirated cdrs of 3ball, cumbia, duranguense and a load of other regional mexican party styles. A couple of the most exciting cds for me were reggaeton – but not the normal synth drenched smooth Puerto Rican melodic vocal style of the last few years. These tracks were closer to the original brutally funky percussive led chopped up dembow tracks like Tra Tra Tra based around vocal samples. So over the last couple of years, I always seem to throw a few of these down in my own sets and thought i’d share a few.
One track that I loved immediately was this one by DJ Pablito Mix
And this one by Peruvian DJ Yoger
DJ Yoger – La Gente Sabe que somos de la calle Remix
Yoger gets a shout out on the intro of this hammer of a track by a crew of girl MCs, Las Pisikatas.
Los Pisikatas – Leyes de Reforma
and this one by DJ Amparito
Vice recently posted up a really cool short film by Bernado Loyola on the Mexico city cumbiaton scene presenting the inspiring Under Style DJ collective led by Pablito Mix. Vamonos.
Batida FREE Remixes – Kambas Remixturam
Batida smashed it at their recent Boiler room/Studio Africa sets which you can watch here. Make sure you catch them this year. They’ve also recently dropped an excellent free album of remixes by folk like Spoek Mathambo, Octo push and the highly awesome NaZaretH Yumbala remix we put out.
Like their Facebook page to download
DJ Spoko
Some excellent new SA house jams from DJ Spoko who you may remember collaborated with Mujava on the classic Bacardi house track, Township Funk.
Firstly JB horns punctuate ‘Cucumba’.
And from his new buyable Ghost Ship EP on True Panther Sounds, I’m loving ‘Azange’ featuring vocals from Magaula & Puzuzu from Ghetto Boyz.
Check this In The Studio interview with him at XLR8R
Spoek Mathambo Boiler Room set
A great Dj set I was lucky enough to catch (Thanks OkayAfrica) a few weeks back by our favourite, Spoek Mathambo at the Diesel+Edun Studio Africa Boiler Room session.
Via Discobelle
Recent Comments
i am looking for a latin for a new club.
http://soundgoods.net/2010/06/15/dale-tumbao-mixtape/
Hey can I get a break up with my girl type of lyrics. Thanks man