***** “Sabor a Costa” Mystery Track “Melao” Mystery Track “Chunga” Mystery Track “Compa” Here’s a batch of tasty Colombian treats that I stumbled upon by chance and that for a while had me scratching my head. See a while back I had picked up this Lp mislabled to the artist Jose Maria Peñaranda titled “Muchachita” [...]
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This week we point our ears just a little south of the border to check out a little slice of norteño sounds from Mexico’s northern regions from the 60′s and 70′s. Fusion has been as much a part of norteña music as much as any other genre. The technobanda sound and Nortec collective’s recent fusions [...]
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With summer in full swing, I put together a little mix of heavy tropical soundz that have been shaking my up my ear drums lately, there’s some French Caribbean sides, new tracks from recent travels, a lot of heavy Afro-Colombian grooves in various forms: champeta, porro, cumbias, Afro-funk; (plus we’re in the middle of Chicago’s [...]
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