This quite new sound from Mexico has been referred to as “Tribal Guarachero” on Dutty Artz and other sites, but when I asked around the CD sellers in D.F./Mexico I just saw question marks in their faces. They just called it Tribal. But maybe the problem was my Spanish… Anyway, Paul Devro who posted a great Mix of the stuff on Mad Decent isn’t sure either how to call it. For me it’s Technocumbia or Tribalcumbia!
01. Danza Azteca
02. La Culebrita
03. DJ Retro – Babaninko
04. Chango
05. El Ballo
06. DJ Retro – Guarachosa
07. El Ritmo De La Petaka Tribal
08. DJ Gato – Topota Madre
09. Danza
10. Damas Gratis – Se Te Ve La Tanga
11. A Ritmo De Los Manos
12. Cumbia Tribal
13. Vamos A Bailar
14. Vive La Fiesta
15. Prehispanik
16. DJ Sobrino – Automation
17. Oaxaqueño
“Coletivo Rádio Cipó is a media hub for the production of sound, combined with the homemade digital audio technology in the production of sound experimental research. The objective is to this production for Brazil and abroad. The core of the CRC has been producing music in this project the authors of the Master Laurentino, Ms. Onet, Master Bereco group’s own stamp Sancari and Collective Radio Cipó. Music through partnership with the community, including the popular and modern and the urban and peripheral, including among them the process of growth and expansion of free digital communication. Allied to the thinking of the community, the project Collective RC has gradually been successful in the case concerning the change in quality of life and its better relationship with its own means. The CRC held in the experimental stage, testing with the free community (with tests performed on the streets of the neighborhood’s Quarry), inserting the edge into a channel of intercommunication to produce social, cultural, sound and entertainment. Musically, we can define this project as a merging of attitudes, Brazilian rhythms and regional (hill of funk, samba, points of terraces, stamp, batucadas, etc.). Experimentations with sound of hip-hop, dub, breakbeat, jungle, ragga, rock, Jamaican reggae. The design of the core of musical production is to achieve collective interference in the regional culture with the universal language of electronic music. The Collective Cipó Radio has a responsibility as this project, the importance of culture to contemporary Brazilian music. The project unites the culture of persons from the interior of the state of Pará, unknown by the media, by the people and culture of their own half. These artists have the opportunity to RC Collective to add their experiences and contribute to their art is recreated, resulting in the production of new cultural expressions.”
Mexican musician Celso Piña is a pioneer in mixing cumbia with ska, reggae, rap, hip-hop, dub etc. working together with guys like Toy Selectah and Chic Sonido. His hit “Cumbia sobre el rio” is a milestone and was for many people (including me) the introduction to cumbia.
This is from Lucas Santtana’s second album called “Parada de Lucas” released in 2003.
Lucas Santtana – Tática de Machine (Remix) (Listen or download)
His third album that deals with Dub, Brazilian Styles and Rock can be found free to download on his website Diginóis.
You can buy here his fantastic new release “Sem Nostalgia” that redefines the concept of “voice and guitar” adding ambient sounds and samples.
When I was showing my friend Maga Bo the CDs I bought recently in Mexico City and asked him which one he wanted to check out he selected straight the one with the cyber chicks on the cover. We both had no idea what will be on that, but were quite surprised. Check it out too!
My neighbor Bebel Do Guetto from Morro do Cantagalo was born in the state of Maranhão. She started to sing and to rap by the age of 12 and to write their own lyrics by 17 (she is 23 now). Bebel says her main influences are Elza Soares, Snoop Dog and Bob Marley.
The foto was taken after we and MC Gringo watched the final of the state soccer championship. During the game she went totally crazy throwing hand-made fireworks/minibombs on her own veranda! Fortunately, her favourite team, Flamengo, won…
Cumbia Villera (from the villas, as low income settlements in Buenos Aires are called) is the Argentinean “ghetto” version of Cumbia, originated from Colombian Cumbia and was brought to Argentina by immigrants. In the late 90’s it got more and more played with and transformed by electronic music equipment. The vocalists started as well to sing lyrics about about sex, drugs and crime. The result is a stumbling and laid-back beat with straight bassdrum and crazy, twisted and bended keyboard lines.
01. Dany Lescano – Cumbia Cabeza
02. Repiola – Danza Repiola
03. Gran Hermano – El Beso De Osito
04. Meta Guacha – No Te Bongas Brava
05. El Gasty – De Izquierda A Derecha
06. Monoblock – Los Cumbieros
07. La Repandilla – Traka Traka
08. Los Pibes Chorros – Gatillo
09. Yerba Brava – Activando Cumbia
10. Los Pibes De La 2 – Muevelo, Muevelo
11. Suena Rototón – El Pelotero
12. La Peluca De Mirta – El Pasito Del Avión
13. El Perro – Floggers
14. El Tecla – El Baile
15. La Liga – RMXS Lalo DJ
16. La Banda De Lechuga – Mi Chiquita (Remix)
17. Damas Gratis – Se Te Ve La Tanga Feat. Reyes Vallenatos (Cristian Dee Jay Remix)
18. El Original – Pégate A Lo Mio
19. Cumbieton – El Cuchulum (Remix)
20. El Polaco – Para Que Lo Muevas (Remix)
21. El Empuje – Pito chiquitito (Marcela Baños Remix)
22. Altos Cumbieros – La Cola Less
23. El Baile Del Oso – Baila Baila
24. Eh Guacho – Apreitato
25. La Base – Alta Gira Por La Matanza
26. Sonido Básico – Sabes Quien Soy
Got this CD with macabre title on a street market in Mexico City. It’s mostly crap Pop stuff, but some interesting Tribal/Technocumbia on it too. They use to put a minimix of some of the tracks as first track on the CDs.
So this is that Intromix giving an overview and one more track.
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
