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 …
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DJ Negro – Dominican Dem Bow Power mix
While the internet continues to get hyped about moombahton, I have to say I’m a lot more excited about some of the more vocal led dem bow riddims coming out of the Dominican Republic over the last few years. The island seems to have taken the more brutal minimal elements of early reggaeton back in …
Ghetto Bassquake’s Essential Carnival Mixtapes 2012
With Notting Hill Carnival around the corner, thought I’d do a megapost of my favourite recent mixtapes to get you in the flag waving mood whether you’re going to carnival or not. I’m not going to waste your time, these are all certified rum and redbull accompaniments from Afrobeats to soca to pure latin rave. …
So Shifty feat. Madera Limpia ‘Rumba’
We’re big fans of Germany’s Tropical party crushers, So Shifty. Over the last couple of years they’ve been tearing up the internets with their rowdy remixes and excellent mixtapes of dancehall, soca, Azonto, cumbia and all that good stuff. Just in time for carnival, Man Recordings are releasing their new Spanish caribbean inspired reggaeton jam. …
Lil Silvio Voice Breakage
I’m Sumsin, London-based socamerenguetek dj, producer and voice. Please welcome me to the Ghetto Bassquake scribbling scenario. I’ll be joining the team here to highlight sprouts from the world of global bass as I find them. With some urgency, I bring you my first finding. There was no press release, no Twitter trail, no noticeable …
The Don
I don’t know who Lucenzo is, but he got Don Omar on a Kuduro-Funana beat and that’s okay with me. Gotta love the dialogue in the beginning! In case you don’t have it here’s the Don’s throwback jam that I’ve been hearing everywhere lately: Don Omar-Hasta Abajo Remix feat. Daddy Yankee And, if that one’s …
Los Rakas Abrazame Video
Following their excellent turfed up video for Soy Raka, our favourite Panamanian/S.F. duo Los Rakas come in with another banger of a video for the Uproot Andy remix of Abrazame (summer anthem). Got to admit that even though I’m a tough guy, this makes me come over a bit tearey eyed, but don’t tell anyone. …
Panama Turf War
Everyone’s favourite Panamanian-Bay Area reggaetonica hyphie rockers, Los Rakas have just dropped their sick new video for ‘Soy Raka’. As you can see it’s mad sunny and full of nuts dances I can’t do. If you haven’t got it yet, grab their Hold Yuh refix by Uproot Andy that Boima posted and their highly awesome …
Down South with Poirier
Not content with his bashment-soca-dancehall maelstrom, Montreal’s excellent Poirier takes his dancefloor armageddon to South America for some latin tinged hammers with the ZZK crew. His new EP Las Americas Vol 1 features reggaeton inspired vocals from MC Boogat and its a killer as you would expect, named Kalima Shop Titi (after him out of …
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 …
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where can i get these!?? i want them so bad now!
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