Chanca Via Circuito’s remix is so simple and perfect.
Posts Tagged ‘cumbia’
Feb
11
2011
órale!
via Peligrosa blog
In other Texas news, looks like I’ll be attending SXSW for the first time. There is a ton to do obviously, most of it not worth anyone’s time, but if anyone has any recommendations hit me up!
Sep
27
2010
tormenta tropical
It’s been awhile since I’ve gone to the Tormenta Tropical night at Elbo Room, but this upcoming one promises to be great. El Hijo De La Cumbia is one of the greats!
Sep
01
2010
san francisco summers
Summer is here in San Francisco, lets keep it sloooowwww.
P.S. Thanks to the magic of smart phone technology, and corporations desperate to find new ways to reach consumers, I managed to score a free flight to Mexico, so I should be getting into Cancun sometime in January. Anyone have any recommendations in the area for scoring some Rebajadas?
Jul
05
2010
in your lands i’ll dance
Squelching acid-y bass set to lyrics about how beautiful a place Israel is, the kind of place where you just might want to dance. Video has the Anglophone world guessing, and guessing, but while people play the frustrating and unproductive speculative-irony game, little attention seems to be paid to, you know, the actual music, made by Gaby Kerpel, part of the Buenos Aires Zizek collective, much respected around these parts.
Jun
27
2010
yesterday’s news: uruguay & ghana advance
Uruguay, a country I basically know nothing about, advanced. Anyway, sick beat.
Ghana beat the U.S., they were totally a class above the U.S. players, so congratulations are in order to the only remaining African team in the World Cup. Ghana has so much great music, and this hit song is a perfect example of perfect summer lounging around music. Highlife indeed.
Jun
27
2010
germany & argentina advance
England’s team was bad. English soccer seems to be perpetually trapped in memories of past glories, stubbornly refusing to adapt to a winning style. They were out of their element against the young men playing for Germany who are redefining the winning style, and quickly making a name for themselves.
The Argentina and Mexico game was tough for me to watch, I like both teams, but ultimately Argentina will no doubt result in more interesting matches. Oddly enough, this was the first cumbia track I heard where things clicked, and I decided I wanted to learn more. Dubbed out space percussion, and chill singing. Listening back to it now it seems relatively tame, but everyone has to start somewhere.
Dec
15
2009
definition of cumbia
Describing and distinguishing genres is frustrating, especially when you’re still learning. Recently, I’ve had people ask me about what cumbia is, how it differs from other types of music from Latin America, why one song is cumbia, and another isn’t, etc. And it gets difficult because I had never heard of the music until I moved to SF, so it’s relatively new for me as well. I know it when I hear it, but trying to explain its nuances, or talk about it authoritatively, well, that’s beyond me.
But this article is pretty great, and is both deep and accessible.
Oct
21
2009
cumbia non stop
Now this I absolutely love. Kraftwerk receiving the cumbia treatment. I have no idea where I downloaded this from, or who is responsible for this. Such are the perils of the digital distribution network, but the awesomeness of the song remains intact.
Aug
10
2009
post-cumbia
If Burial existed in the cumbia world instead of the dubstep world, I would imagine something like this:
People use the post prefix pretty casually in their music vocabulary, post-punk, post-garage, post-minimal, etc. But the idea of making music based around the stuff echoing in your head after you leave the club is worth exploring more. What is it supposed to sound like? What details collapse into each other? What gets lost? What is remembered incorrectly? Listening to music becomes a quest to distort it.