Sonido Martines is busy dragging 80kilos of his life across Latin America (via bus), and Benoit has escaped the grid somewhere gorgeous in Newfoundland or somesuch, so I’m holding down La Congona single-handed.
First up, a breezy mix by Novalima, who are playing NYC’s Le Pouisson Rouge (w/ support from Geko Jones) on July 16th.
This one kicks it with new versions of chicha classics by Juaneco “ya se ha muerto mi abuelo”, Los Mirlos, etc. and afro-peruvian grooves, tasteful clubby edits holding it all together.
1.- “La danza de los Mirlos (novalima remix)”*unreleased. Los Mirlos traditional 70’s cumbia reversion by Bareto, cumbia revival band from lima, remixed by novalima)
2.- “Macaco (novalima remix)”*unreleased – Batata y su Son Palenquero , one of the greatest afro colombian artists, our friend Lucas Silva “Champeta Man” gave us the tracks of this great trad song to remix)
3.- “El abuelo (novalima remix) – Bareto” *unreleased. Made popular by Juaneco y su Combo in the 70’s, another cumbia reversion by Bareto remixed by novalima
4.- “Tumbala” (da lata remix) this is a great afrobeat-brazilian remix by chris frank whom we’ve known since the “afro” sessions in london back in 2004, with additional vocals by da lata’s nina miranda. This track digs out cotito’s “lost verse” from tumbala which somehow didnt make it into the original version in the album
5.- “el niche” sabor y control. Our favorite peruvian salsa dura band, led by bruno majer (who sings mujer ajena in coba coba) and constantino, novalima’s timbales player
6.- “bandolero (kv5 remix)” great remix in a jamaican stylee by marc lee from london based kv5. Previously unreleased
7.- bomba (coba soundsystem) this track was the last track we finished before releasing coba coba, coba soundsystem is a.k.a. novalima dj’s rpp,rm,gs. Bomba plena an electro latin dancefloor groove
8.- tumbala (oreja remix) seiji’s house rework for tumbala.
y algo de tribal cumbiambero. by Mexican tribal standards, this track has sky-high production values and intensive editing work. Most tribal embraces extreme repetition, brutal druggy minimalism made with Acid music software:
remix produced by Toy Selectah, our broder en Monterrey, who’s hitting Manhattan tomorrow inna sonidero-raverton style. Listen to my radio show tonite (7pm EST) for ticket giveaways!
Hace tiempo queria subir una seleccion de ripeos de instrumentales de artistas que inspiraron a toda una generacion de tecladistas cumbieros en el continente:
Tulio Enrique Leon, de venezuela, el organista no vidente que supo girar por toda sudamerica con sus composiciones:
Cumbia Algarrobera – Tulio Enrique Leon
El chin chin – Tulio Enrique Leon
El boliviano Guillermo Butikofer, quien interpretaba ritmos folkloricos y tropicales por igual
I’ve heard about this group a couple month ago and Just recently got the album. Really interesting formation from Colombia. They took all the influences of the Caribbean part of Colombia (Cumbia, champeta, dancehall, etc…) and collectively mix all that stuff. I could talk more about it but I think this mini-documentary about them worth the view!
I brought down the bitrate on this one (I’m generous, but not THAT generous). A special Cinco de Mayo Kumbia!!!!!!!!! DEADLY. Even deadlier is the version from Sonido Condor, which we blogged over here .
les presentamos este nuevo blog en el q nos encargaremos de difundir todo lo q podamos sobre nuestro gran pais pantropical llamado cumbia. a bilingual blog dedicated to our great pantropical country: cumbia!
