Lisandro Meza is one of Colombia’s most recognized Cumbia artists and played an important role in the evolution of Cumbia. He plays accordion, sings, and composes and is a master of vallenato sabanero, an accordion-driven style of music that originated in Mexico. He is one of the founding members of one of Colombia’s most popular bands in the 1960s, Los Corraleros De Majagual, but later focused on his solo career.
I rather post this tune because of curiosity than quality, it’s very cheesy. ;-)
It’s a Tecnobrega Remix of a Funk Carioca track that uses the Tamborzão beat.
Very nice technoid mashup from my buddy Åsmunds Copyfokking project. I like this because it uses the tamborzão beat while most of the western funk carioca remixes/mashups just use the vocals…
Copyfokking – Rio Funk Fixing feat. Claude von Stroke & Dede + Langho Dj (Copyfokking Refix) (Listen or download)
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!
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
