*** Listen/Download Exitos 2011 Podcast *** Ahh 2011…here’s our little podcast where we look back to the grooves and sonic treats that left a mark on our ear drums this past year as we gear up for more Sonorama in 2012. We’ll look back to some very unique remixes for some of our favorite electronic [...]
Filed under: PODCASTS | Tagged: 2011, 3ball, Bolivia, chancha via circuito, cumbia, kidgusto, latin psych, murcof, podcast, ruidoson, year in review | Leave a Comment »
LISTEN—- MIXCLOUD—–”Gozamos el Baile” !!!!! Check our latest mixtape offering from Sr. Charly mixing a wide mix of vintage latin grooves to make you move your feet: rumba, cumbia, boogaloo, soul and funk, and garage rock… This dj set is a fun set where you can find the essential rhythms that make you move your [...]
Filed under: Latin Rock/Psych, Latin Soul/Funk, Mixes | Tagged: cumbia, garage, latin funk, latin soul, mixtape, rumba | Leave a Comment »
Wow, I was just jamming to vol.1 of this great series the other day and wondering why the hell this never made it to vinyl. Well it seems the vinyl gods have heard my prayers because Barbes has just released a massive 2Lp set compiling the best of the two volumes. This is an amazing [...]
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***** “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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Here’s a little trio of funky covers from the Lone Star state. First up is an obscure little record that features a wicked little version of The Beginning of the End’s funky hit “Funky Nassau”. This one been blogged about before, and yet it still remains a rather obscure record with very little information about [...]
Filed under: Latin Rock/Psych, Latin Soul/Funk | Tagged: chicano, cumbia, latin funk, soul, tejano, texas funk | 1 Comment »
So the year’s end is upon us so we’ve put our heads together to come up with a little review of some of the tracks and releases that kept our ear drums busy these past twelve months. The year again brought us a wealth of releases from all the corners of the globe, bringing us [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tagged: best of 2010, compilations, cumbia, exitos de 2010, frente cumbiero, maria y jose, new cumbia, tijuana | 3 Comments »
Our friend Carlitos (Tropicaza) recently posted this sweet footage of this classic cumbia which immediately got my cumbia juices flowing again and so here’s “El Maestro” Lucho Bermudez with a very classic Colombian song “La Pollera Colora” which translates as “the red skirt”, a song that’s been a staple of many tropical musicians for years [...]
Filed under: Colombia | Tagged: clarinet, cumbia, gaita, Lucho Bermudez, porros, tv footage | Leave a Comment »
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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Hello peeps, we’re back again this week bringing you another sonic cocktail of latin rhythms from across the globe. What is Tropi Power? Well we’d like to think of it as all those great Afro Cuban flavors and influences that of course once took Latin America by storm and the world as well, and that [...]
Filed under: PODCASTS | Tagged: boogaloo, cha cha cha, cumbia, guitarras tropicales, Japan, Lucho Macedo, samba, tropical | 1 Comment »
