EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Los Destellos - Elsa (Sonido Martines Remix feat. Fefe)
It's like unofficial Dutty Artz fam day around here! DJ /rupture's Soot label heralds Sonido Martines as the "most knowledgeable cumbiambero we know" and since /rupture (do we keep the slash?) is one of the most generally knowledgeable people we know, we're going to believe that the Argentinian DJ/producer is swimming in insight. Proof: Martines and Soot just released an excellent new compilation of "nueva cumbia" on Tuesday (buy it here), loaded with revitalized old jams like this one and some new digitally-birthed heaters. Dude has been busy on the La Paz-Lima-Bogota-Buenos Aires circuit for awhile, but is thankfully bringing the party to New York in November to play at the Natural History Museum and somewhere in Queens (he's also hitting Boston). More info on the MySpace.
DOWNLOAD: Faunts - Feel.Love.Thinking.Of (Lemonade Remix) + Explain (Home Video Remix)
It seems like Edmonton's Faunts are equally interested in hearing others' interpretations of their music as they are in making it. Last year they released a CD of 14 remixes of earlier material; and now that album number three, Feel.Love.Thinking.Of, has had time to rest on store shelves they've commissed another batch of remixes. Like Faunts, Lemonade and Home Video straddle the line between electronic dance music and rock. Lemonade turn their cumbia fascination on "Feel.Love.Thinking.Of." and end up taking it seaside to let balmy guitar lines whip through listeners hair and rolling bongos provide the beat. Meanwhile, Home Video finds Radiohead in Faunts' "Explain," letting the tension build behind swelling synths and smoldering guitar lines. Now it's time for Faunts to step up to the remixing console.
Sounds like: Radiohead, Senor Coconut, El Guincho
Faunts - Feel.Love.Thinking.Of. (Lemonade remix)
Faunts - Explain (Home Video remix)
Previously:
Faunts - M4 (Part II) (The Paronomasiac Remix)
Faunts - Memories of Places We've Never Been (T.H. White Remix)
Faunts - Feel.Love.Thinking.Of.
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Douster - Schlaggada (Swaggada Edit) + Two Tracks From Fauna (ZIZEK)
(Douster | Photo: Emiliano Granado)
Before The Phenomenal Handclap Band and Afrika Bambaattaa do it up at Santos tomorrow evening, Argentinian cumbia collective Zizek will be giving the subwoofers a workout when they drop by for a special performance alongside our friends in Tanlines. The Zizek crew of producers and DJ's formed around a party of the same name in Palermo, Buenos Aires, and also extends to their record label, ZZK, all serving as a vehicle for their skwonky mix of cumbia, dancehall, hip-hop, and club musics. Below are two weeded tracks from Zizek affiliates Fauna as well as an amazing bass-heavy flip of the "Swagger Like Us" sample from Douster, which sounds like a battle between cut-time 808 bombs and amped lo-fi reggaeton with the synth preset stuck on "bananas." Zizek are touring all around North America at the moment with a penultimate performance at Coachella, full list of tour dates after the break.
Sounds like: El Hijo De Cumbia, El Guincho, Professor Murder
Douster - Schlaggada (Swaggada edit)
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Nortec Collective's Bostich & Fussible - The Clap (Toy Selectah Mex-More Remix)
Viva la Revolucion! South of the border in Tijuana, rising from the hot rays, dust, and tequila-hangovers, there's a group of Mexican producers (known collectively as "Nortec Collective") who devilishly craft cutting edge electronic tracks. Peppered with synths, vocoders, synthesizers and drum machines over traditional Mexican Norteño beats, the tracks have feverish attitude while beating to the ground all stereotypes of classical Mexican compositions. This ain't La Bamba folks. Songs like Bostich & Fussible's The Clap (remixed by Toy Selectah who's also about to drop a Mad Decent release) are premium stuff you can groove to late night at 4 am when last called has been called but the raging bull inside of you still wants to bid strangers to dance.
Did we mention the guys from Hot Chip in a recent chat recommended to check these guys out? No joke.
SOUNDS LIKE: Mexican Institute of Sound, Pacha Massive, Panoptica
DOWNLOAD: Nortec Collective's Bostich & Fussible - Brown Bike
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Monareta - Me Voy Pal Mar
Since Monareta is named after a type of BMX street bike, it's no surprise this exclusive could double as slick soundbite for a bike race or computer game. It begins with layers of calypso-esque drums and a minimalistic funk beat. It climaxes with energy once female Spanish vocals kick in mid-way along with a dubtronic beat. The Columbian-born team Andres Martinez and Camilo Sanabria have been churning out their style of "danceable electro-cumbia and breakbeat" since 2000, influenced both by their home country and Brookyln's electro scene; thier new album proves just as cutting edge. Groove to the exclusive jam "Me Voy Pal Mar" below.
Sounds like: Pacha Massive, Nortec Collective
Exclusive New Download: Monareta - Me_Voy_Pal_Mar
DOWNLOAD: Mexican Institute of Sound - El Microfono
Picture this - I was returning from a day at beach with a motley crew of New Yorkers two weekends ago- 'pimpin' the back seat- ice cream with sprinkles melting in my hand- my hair an abstract art form (read: salty fro). Suddenly, my friend Shyam put Mexican Institute of Sound in the CD player. As a laid-back jazzy dub beat commenced over crackling microphone, and as Camilo Lara began his fast-paced beat rap with tropicala flair, we four salt monkeys all started to beat our heads in unison, tap our toes on the ground, and launch big, broad smiles. My gleeful state provoked me to write down the name of the band on a frayed piece of napkin and make note to bring it asap to RCRD LBL.
Thus with pristine pleasure that only comes after salty, sunny days on the beach, I bring you Mexican Institute of Sound (or far more romanitically termed "Instituto Mexicano Del Sonido" in Spanish). Play it loud, windows down (and if possible, head out the window banging to the beat).
Sounds Like: Nortec Collective, Kinky, Manu Chao
Download: Mexican Institute of Sound - El Microphono
Download: Mexican Institute of Sound - La_Kebradita_(Le_Hammond_Inferno_Mix_By_Holger)
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