Un año ha pasado ya de la presentacion en Londres de El Frente Cumbiero, junto a Very Be Careful Un proyecto llevado adelante por el musico colombiano Mario Galeano Toro, con el colaboramos investigando sobre cultura cumbiera latinoamericana.
Aqui el primer mix del FC, colombianissimo!

Tracklist:
1. Merefunkbe / FCT
2. Dejala Corré / Hijos de la Niña
3. Pavita / FCT
4. Cumbia y guitarra / Los Mirlos
5. Cariñosa Alfabetización / Farfisa Corp.
6. Shove it / Santagold (Toy Selectah refix)
7. Jaley-jaley / FCT
8. Cumbia Africana / Son Pelenke
9. A ti te adoro / FCT
10. Lorica / Ropain
11. Guarapera / Nando Garcia
12. Esperma y Ron / Pedro Laza
13. Donde estas cumbia / FCT
14. La Nena / Juan Piña y sus muchachos
15. Aurita Bullanguera / FCT
16. La Majaguita / Cumbia Baranoa
17. Blackboard Dubmbia / FCT

Huelepega sound system

My friend Guillaume (Khiasma) received this week an interesting mixtape titled Los Ojos De Dios, Todos Somos Ilegales from a group of Toronto (Canada) who do experimental cumbia remix, Huelepega Sound System!

It’s really experimental stuff. They remix some cumbia rebajadas and slow it down again! They Call it Doombia!

This might not get you on the dancefloor, but it just might get you off the couch. This music starts with chopped and screwed Colombia-via-Mexican cumbia, with beats slowed down to a spooky, unsettling tempo. Live congas and timbales reinforce the rhythms, while droning keyboards and ricocheting vocal samples open up the sound. Everything gets mixed down in extreme dub. Tempos are subdivided and multiplied – folding the grooves inward and outward, messing with your expectations. The flow rambles and lurches, with dissonance buzzing throughout. To paraphrase the motto of Putumayo Records, doombia is “music guaranteed to make you feel stoned”. There are many different tangents in contemporary Latin music, but few explore such dark territory. Huelepega (named after the glue huffers of Monterrey and Caracas) bring an aggressive lack of polish to their sound. But don’t think that the Huelepegistas don’t know how to play – all four have channelled decades of DJing and performing into creating this startling new sound. Their forthcoming CDR “En Los Ojos De Dios, Todos Somos Ilegales” will be released in March 2009 on Toronto’s acclaimed noise label, Inyrdisk. It’s a natural partnership – Huelepega takes its place alongside such Toronto experimentalists as Women In Tragedy and Disguises to build a greater overstanding of just how alternative Latin music can get. Huelepega Sound System is a reflection and abstraction of the many sonic forces at work in the Latin diaspora in North America. Huelepega isn’t the music you heard in the resort on your last vacation, on the contrary, Huelepega is music from the gutter, inspired by the dark places of Latin America that the consulate warned you about. Huelepega is for ‘los desplazados, los olvidados y los desaparecidos’.

Do Ya Think I’m Freaky – Huelepega Sound System

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I’ve just recorded this weekend a small mix inspired by the cumbia sonidera.
I really enjoy the 70-90 sounds of that mix. There’s clearly a big bass present all the way long that I really enjoy too!

Some of the track are from disc that I’ve bought in Tepito Mexico DF.

Put it loud!

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Cumbia con Bass tracklist
Las estrellas de baru – Lucerito
Dragones Rojos – Cumbia pa’oriente
Cumbia Disco – Los Telez
Cola Lex – El Remolon
Cumbia Galactica – Los Telez
Solo quiero bailar – Prede la vela
El Pibi Milli – Gianko y su sondiero de limpia (Lil’ wayne VS Damas Gratis)
El llanto de la tortuga – Karol y su Amor Gitano
Los piratas del Zanjon – Fauna (Zurita remix)
Cumbia sanajacintera – Lisandro Meza
Fantasma con 3 deseos – Fantasma
Mr. Yoso – Very Be Careful
Cumbia para recordar – Chane Meza
Suegra Buena – Andres Landero

First of all,

I’ll present myself. I’m Benoit and I’m doing with Khiasma and Jeune Premier the radio show Masala Cism 89.3 in Montréal. I’m really happy and proud to have the occasion to write on La Congona! I’m harvesting a lot in cumbia and I’m really happy to share what I’m finding with all of you, cumbia aficionados.

For my first post, I want to share 3 tracks from Karol y su Amor gitano remixed that sound terribly deep and intense. This Cumbia rebajadas is made essentially in Mexico where they slow down the beat to adapt to a typical dance and to get more bass.

Karol y su amor is quite famous in Mexico. I’m not a big fan of the original track.

I really prefer the version made by the sonideros and believe it or not, the voice in those track is originally a girl voice.

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Karol y su amor gitano – Cumbia Cartagena

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Karol y su amor gitano – El maldito acordeon

And a classic track, Llanto de la tortuga, but with a different mood:

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Karol y su amor gitano – Lllanto de la tortuga