So it’s the weekend and as you decide what to do in the city, I thought I would share a little batch of latin disco groovers to get your weekend off to a sweet start, plus most of them clock in over five mins so they also work as a little background music while get [...]
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Hello everybody, we’ve once again dusted off our records to bring you another hours worth of grooves for your body and soul, this time bringing you a serving of tasty funk from Latin America and beyond. We start things in out in Colombia with a twisted reading of the Fatback Band’s “Wicky Wacky” , next [...]
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Given the recent explosion of Colombian rhythms and interest in cumbia, I decided to explore elsewhere so I’ve put together a little set of tracks by leading ladies that both helped pioneer another cumbia explosion that took place in Mexico in the mid 60′s. Acts like Carmen Rivero y su conjunto, Linda Vera, and Sonia [...]
Filed under: Mexico | Tagged: Carmen Rivero, Chile, cumbia mexicana, Mike Laure | Leave a Comment »
In the last couple of years there’s been a great amount of fusings of musical traditions with new technologies and electronic rhythms around the globe. Take the “Nortec” soundz from Tijuana, baile funk in Brasil, “Balkan” beats from NY, or the bhangra beats sounds in India, no genre or rhythm has been excluded and these [...]
Filed under: PODCASTS | Tagged: Argentina, chicha, digital cumbia, Peru, Sofrito, Sr.Coconut, sssonorama | 3 Comments »
Watch out! Sonorama brings you its seventh podcast! This week we’ve let the week’s current events dictate our theme for this week; given that May 1st just passed, along with Cinco de mayo, as well as the ongoing situation occurring in Arizona, we’ve dug up some socially conscious artists from the around the globe and [...]
Filed under: PODCASTS | Tagged: afro-beat, Cuba, funk, protest, revolution, trova | 1 Comment »
