A nice Champeta tune I picked up while CD-R shopping and Limonada drinking in Cartagena, Colombia. Este es uno de los mas Buscadas: Lilibeth-Puya El Burro feat. Edwim For more background on African music and Colombia look out for my upcoming recap of my visit to Baranquilla.
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Champeta Champagne
I always find it fascinating how Champeta has evolved from Colombian DJs playing African soukous records, influencing bands of the time, to the new electronic soundsystem style – one part Baile funk, one part King Jammys. Just found a great interview with Edwin, a champeta DJ in Cartagena over The Aesthetic Poet which is super …
Petrona in Space
Ok, I have to wrap up this little post fest with the final track (last but not least) of my latest favorite afrolatinoclubremix tracks. New York’s Nate Mars comes with a great half time dancehall remix of a Petrona Martinez tune.Petrona Martinez-ARoRo (Nate Mars Remix) Nate just released a full length album, Concentric Circles. Buy …
Do you hear the Sonora?
I had a blast running around Texas last March, hanging with friends, drinking too much, going to off the wall parties. I got to take a little break from the madness that was SXSW and hopped down to San Antonio for DJ Sonora to introduce me and Isa GT to the madness that is Sonido …
Alerta
Our good friend, Colombian Tropical-electro star Isa GT has been destroying London and now the world with her DJ sets, live shows and bewildering amount of parties. From Champeta to Bass heavy club shit she’s know for leaving the heads ringing and dancefloors sweating. In short, we all love her. Isa has just voiced a …
Jose Antonio Torres Gualajo
Of all the cheap, pirated cd-rs i´ve picked up whilst in Colombia, the undoubted highlight would be an album by Jose Antonio Torres Gualajo called El Pianista de la Selva, in which he works his way through Pangos, Jugas and even some Rumbas. My favourite is this Pango which opens the CD. Jose Antonio Torres …
Colombian Dancehall con Champeta!
Regular readers here will know that we are big fans of Colombian Champeta. Today at WFMU I posted a Colombian Dancehall tune with what I hear as Champeta influences, produced by DJ Buxxi, one of the big producers from the island of San Andres. I was put on to San Andres by the great Geko …
Toto La Momposina
I got to know Vamanos through a shared love of all things tropical and after months of pub conversations and clubbing around London he’s asked me to contribute to the blog. My first post isn’t focusing on the bass but northern Colombia’s Toto La Momposina who is performing at London’s Cargo on the 16th. Most …
The Dutty Dutty Artz
Man. I’ve been catching up on my Rupture radio and I finally listened to the show where Geko Jones guested. The stuff he was playing on there blew my mind! And then he comes out with this! Afro Colombian, Afro Panamanian, Garifuna, Caribeño music resonates deeply in my musical heart. And here it is presented …
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