Catch me this Thursday with Texas’s finest tropical party kings, DJ Orion & King Louis from Peligrosa on their 1st European tour, along with Musicalia residents, Isa GT & Arcade. FREE ENTRY.FREE BBQ! Info here.
Category Archive for: "South America"
La Makina del Karibe – ‘Maki Man’
A few months ago, A.J. Holmes played me his great remix of a champeta track ‘Maki Man’. Its finally been released along with some other banging remixes from our dudes Moroka, Daniel Haaksman and Hat & Hoodie. Like most Colombian champeta tracks it has a strong west african soukous flavour and can’t fail to cheer …
Isa GT’s Navidades con Etoro 2011
Our homie Isa GT is one of the hardest working djs we know, playing across the world, directing videos, promoting nights and releasing music on Man Recordings. She has now launched her own label, Etoro records, and for the third release she has curated the first of an annual series of Christmas compilations. She says.. …
American Bread
Like Manu Chao versión 2.20, Calle 13 use a mix of sounds and rhythms from across a vast sampling of cultures to make political and cultural points about identity. For the above song they use a rhythm called Sayas, that stems from the Afro-Bolivian community in and around Yungas, the valley region in the Andes range outside …
Ritmos de Huayño Electronicas
Photo: Max Cabello Been fishing about for Huayno remixes for some reason. Before I’ve only really ever listened to Wendy Sulca stuff in this genre and thats pretty much where my knowledge ends. I just watched this new VBS film about the Huyno murders, looking at the unsolved death of one of Peru’s biggest huayno …
RIP Joe Arroyo
This morning Colombian salsa legend Joe Arroyo sadly died aged 55 due to complications due to pneumonia. I haven’t been this sad upon hearing the death of a musician in a long, long time. “El Joe” is everywhere you go in Barranquilla and I am often surprised if I don’t hear Joe’s voice at least …
MC Gi – Berimbau
I’m always a sucker for the Bermibau and shouty Brazilian girls so loving this bumping new one by Sao Paulo’s MC Gi, produced by El Super Gummi. But what I really need to hear is a MC Gi on a beat with MARINA GASOLINA.
João Brasil presents DJ Waldo Squash
6 months ago I was talking with London’s resident Brazilian MPC demon, João Brasil at Secousse about technobrega and pressed him about who the best producers are that aren’t horrendously cheesy. He played so many great jams in his set that night so I asked João to make us a mix especially for Ghetto Bassquake …
Bersa Discos #7 – DJ Negro ‘Sabor a Gaita’
Now the sun is coming out, my Ecuadorian neighbours have starting playing their amazing cumbia tunes again. Which got me thinking that I’ve had a shameful lapse in that sound over the last few months. Luckily our West coast friends at Bersa Discos just sent us their latest crunked out cumbia jam, taken from another …
The Forbidden Dance
Why April 2011 has inspired a mini Lambada revival, I don’t know but it’s here. Firstly, one of our longtime favourite blogger/DJs/ethnomusicologists who you probably already know about, Wayne & Wax was inspired by Nguzunguzu’s Moments In Love mix by dropping his own cyclic variations of The FORBIDDEN DANCE for The Clustermag blog, blending versions …
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love me some Bongo! I didn't know you used to play in a project with him, got any recordings?
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