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Sean Paul - Hold Ya Hand (Navo Remix)
Felt inspired earlier this week when I heard this track. I’m a sucker for melodies like these and love dub vybez, so with a few glasses of wine and a bag of plaintain chips, this manifested.
Gonna head up work on this blog thing in the near future so for now please click the link to my soundcloud.
MATI ZUNDEL - AMAZONICO GRAVITANTE
Amazonico Gravitante, translated into ‘Gravitating Amazonian’, is the title of Mati Zundel’s aka Lagartijeando’s newest album. Released on the psico-infamous cumbia-digital label, ZZK Records, there is no reason to doubt that this album signifies a digital, humanistic shift in rhythm that is happening worldwide. Mati mixes his influences from the high-altitude folkloric sounds of the Andes deep down into the underground Latino-Caribe bass-ment. The album is filled with recorded samples of birds and jungle animals, tribal shamans blowing mapacho, and the sound of river water interweaving the album into a homemade raft of digital cumbia moving down the Amazon river telling stories of each landmark passed. Once again, ZZK delivers another master piece in the outer-space-cumbia-jungle-bubble that is South America 2012.
Listen and journey for yourself here:
TED x Soweto feat Spoek Mathambo
After being introduced to Spoek’s vocals on the Schlachtofbronx “Nasty Bass” EP, he’s been on my tropical bass radar. Having caught him live for my first time at the Boiler Room day party at SXSW this year, I’m officially subscribed to his musical endeavors. His bands performance was captivating and rhythmically infectious, never letting a beat or chord go weak. I encourage everyone to learn more about his projects and hopefully grow interest in artists like Spoek that are creating works of art with soul and meaning.
Learn more:
Mala working on Cuban Album
Digital Mystikz producer Mala is working on a new album with Cuban musicians.
One of the pivotal figures in British bass culture, Mala has spent the best part of a decade pushing dubstep forward. Renowned for his deep, rhythmically complex productions the beatsmith has apparently been working on material with a Cuban flavour.
Continued via clashmusic: http://www.clashmusic.com/news/mala-working-on-cuban-album
Bombón is back April 7th! Welcoming Jae Isla ( Sines | Freshmore ) and Gerardo Arellano ( Bombasta - Acordeon Bandito ). Doors at 8pm | FREE ENTRY | 21+ | Fox Hollow 4617 Nett
Bombon con Breaks
Joining us again are Houston’s own DJ Comp 1 and Charlie Perez on percussion!
This Friday 10/7 | 21+ FREE ALL NIGHT!
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The Nat Geo Music Interview: Quantic
by Simon Calle
Through the past decade British producer, DJ, and band leader Will Holland a.k.a. http://www.quantic.org/ has been constructing a musical universe by blending sounds from Europe and the Americas reminiscing the sound quality and aesthetics of the 1960s and 70s productions.
He became popular in the early 2000s with the Quantic Soul Orchestra, which blended electronica, jazz, soul, funk, and hip-hop attracting jazz fans and dance club audiences. Later he incorporated Jamaican reggae and dub to his mix, and after a trip to Puerto Rico, got interested in hard salsa and other Spanish Caribbean music genres and styles.
In 2007 Quantic relocated his studio in Cali, Colombia where he began working with renowned local musicians like Peruvian pianist Alfredo Linares, and icon of Cali’s salsa scene. There The Soul Orchestra recorded its last album, and two new projects emerged, Combo Barbaro and Flowering Inferno through which Quantic began to incorporate Colombian cumbia and currulao to his signature sound. During his residence in the Latin American country Quantic has also helped put together compilations for Soundway records of obscure Colombian music that had been forgotten in old record stores or kept in personal collections.
Nat Geo Music caught up with Quantic to talk about his musical career and influences which are well documented in his new The Best of Quantic collection recently released on the Tru Toughts label. In October Quantic will the tour the United States performing several DJ sets across the country (click here for complete tour dates).
Read more at: http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/view/page.basic/article/content.article/quantic_interview/en_US
