Month: March 2008

DAY BREAK

More evidence that teen dancehall producer Stephen ‘Da Genius’ McGregor is pretty much creating his own genre (by splicing open silent time and organizing all the bits of guitars, voices, drums, synths, and glittering sky that fall out):

Eddie Stats’ new column ups a riddim mix of McGregor’s latest beat, DayBreak. great writeup, insane vocal runs…

speaking of reggae & daybreaks, here’s some cumbia remniscent of a dark, metaphysically heavy Lee Perry production. Traigan aguardiente!

Includes the lyrics: “que si no hay pelea no va a amanacer”

the dawn won’t come without a fight.

Super Combo – Cumbia de las Velas

SONIDO Y LA NUEVA CUMBIA ARGENTINA

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yes! coming soon on Soot: a compilation of Nueva Cumbia Argentina selected by Sonido Martines! 12″ for the DJs, then CD for the rest of the world. we’ve been working on this for months, almost there… heads up for some European dates w/ Sonido & myself in April.

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[12″ roughs by Zurita]

last nite’s party in SF was inspiring — 400+ folks came out and dance the night away with us!

while Sonido’s comp focuses on the Buenos Aires scene, the sound travels. Here’s a fresh slice from Mexico, Grupo La Cumbia de Darwin Perea. . This synthy tune belongs to the cumbia subgenre of ‘negrita’ tunes. Which are about love, lust, human ownership, loss, and memory — slavery music! (sort of).

Grupo La Cumbia – Le Negrita

“TO ALL MY BROWN GIRLS IN THE WHOLE WORLD, WITH AFFECTION”

-a donde vas negrita?

-a Nueva York mi amor.

TORMENTA TROPICAL

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Fans of cumbia and other tropical sounds should come to the Bersa Discos party in San Francisco tomorrow (sat.) nite, where i’ll be DJing krunk kumbia heaters alongside Bersa bredren and some of Buenos Aires’ Zizek gang.

ive been chatting a lot about cumbia lately, so i’ll take this moment to say: reggaeton production as lively & creative than ever. here’s a supercharged cover tune, sort of… from a Dominican-German? singing one of the songs labeled inappropriate by Clear Channel post 9/11:

Wilman de Jesus – Walk Like An Egyptian (Pytter mix)

plus, the only neo-whatever WTF clubb jam that’s more now thing than Crookers’ Kid Cudi remix is a new top secret Jah Dan exclusive i will be airing at all available soundsystems, prod. by Matt Shadetek, the only producer i know whose music has gone full viral in NYC black youth culture.

EL TIEMPO TUYO YA PASO

Miami rapper Pitbull wrote this song nearly 2 years ago, and Castro hasn’t left the planet yet.

Regardless of how you feel about Fidel Castro, Cuba, Guantanamo Bay, totalitarianism, 24-hr supermarkets, “boat people”, neoliberal economic policies, santería, neoconservative economic policies, cigars, Coke vs. Pepsi televisual democracy, and/or crunked up salacious Pitbull, this beat = pure Afro hypen madness and he is spitting political on it.

Nu World Club Syncretics stand up!

Pitbull – Ya Se Acabó

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I HAVEN’T GOTTEN MUCH FURTHER WITH GOOGLE DOCS

2:30 PM me: esta noche refieres?
esta noche refieres?
o manyana?
o manyana?
has podido poner info nueva en GoogleDocs?
has podido poner info nueva en GoogleDocs?
sonido: a las 11 pm si estoy seguro q puedo venir
a las 11 pm si estoy seguro q puedo venir
esta noche
esta noche
me: ok cool!!!!!
ok cool!!!!!
sonido: no he avanzado mucho con google docs
no he avanzado mucho con google docs